New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-06


Of l43 Feet intersected by an adit level tl63 feet
long, at depth Of 63 feet, and by another level
co feet below the adt. This Company have ship
ped FIVE tuns Of copper this season, and have so ne
50 tuns Of and barrel work out and in sight
at the mines, besides large amount Of rich stamp
work. Near the bottom Of the main shaft, Capt.
Davis has found an immense mass Of pure copper.
IL has not been entirely uncovered yet, so that
nothing like an accurate estimate Of its weight
can be made now but Capt. ID. and others who
have seen it. estimate that there p to 80 tuns
of it in sight. The Norwich Company have seye-
raj buildings up, and will erect eight or ten more
| during the present summer; have 10 acres OF l'nd
under improvement, and a natural meadow Of wild
grass which supplies hay for the horses used at
| the mines. The Company commenced operations
| in the summer of 1850 Their stock is divided IN
TO 10000 shares, and is owned largely in New
| York.
| The Windsor is a new nine, on which very Ut
| tie work has been done yet IL adJOns the
Norwich on the east, and is supposed to be con-
| tinuat0n of the same vein.
| The Forest Co. have worked, 30 TO 30 men,
| during the winter and have shipped - tons OF
copper this season. The mine is working well.
| The Adventure has shipped about 80 tons TINS
season.
The Farm and Taltec have well-deined veins
and are turning out good deal of copper for new
| mines. They have made no Shipment yet, and
| probably will make none this season.
| The Ridge, Astcc ONO and PtScdtaqu'S are
| all working in the same range Of bluffs, and are
| working through bed Of rock which yields more
| or e.s copper, but they have found nothing like
well defined veins rs yet.
The Ohio Trap Rock Go. abandoned their
old works and commenced new diggngs in Sep
81 f.fF rttasr 60 4.
rte Douglass HOughtoH Co. have done con
siderable work on their location and the vein is
| said 10 look so so.
The Peninsula. Oat0RagOR, Algonquin, Fire
| steel and Eogie are new mines and have not as
yet been able TO show any thing calculated to as
! tonsh the natives.
There are many explorations going forward in
| the Ontonagon District, and large quantities OF
| land sunposed TO be rich in mineral, have been
| entered here TINS season.
Several attempts at copper mining have been
made on Isle ROY al, all of which have been aban-
| doned except the SiskOwit Co. They still hold
out. but with what prospect OF ultimate success
have not been able TO learn. | understand that
about 100 persons-men, women and children
wintered on this bleak island. They must have
| had Jolly time of it. as they were entirely shut
off from communication with the rest OF the world
for six long, dreary months.
The Bruce Mines are on the Canada side, near
! the head of Lake Huron. This com Jany COM
menced work in 1913 and have tract Of ten square
miles. They have sunk eight shafts and run three
! levels, the deepest shaft being about 100 feet.
They have besutiful engine, 40 horse power,
English which drives their crushers and stamps.
/ They have also n smelling works and refinery, but
are not smelling at present. the dres 'ed ore being
shipped instead. Their lode is from to feet in
width, bearing elbow sui phuret of copper, with
sprinkling OF gIey. They have shipped up to the
| present tire about 800 tuns of refined copper
Two hundred miners would take out now fro n 300
! to $50 tuns of ore per month"; which whe dressed,
would yield ID to Is per cent. of copper The
! greatest population at the mine I'm lSil) num-
beIed COB, men, women and children The present
population is 32t-l4 of whom only ara on the
| CompaDy's pay list The capital of tins Com
pany is E3OO,OUO, large proportion OF which has
| been paid in
Everything in the way Of mining on Lake Su-
perior is at present carried on at great dsadyan-
tage. The country lsnew-the business ofmning
for native copper s new-and the best modes
OF obtaining the metal have to Re asct rtained by
experience, whsh is expensive. Labor is high
For the want Of canal at Saul Ste. Marie reights
are dear and consequently supplies, which are
brought from below, are very high. The hay
which is required tor the teams used at the mines
costs from $50 to so per tun, depe nding some
what on the distance they obliged TO transport
it 10y land. Potatoes are now worth - per bushe
here, and other vegetables in proportion. Some
OF these disadvantages may be easily overcome.
For instance, horse feed, (hay and oats) potatoes
anG other eeetables may be raised here. A large
proportion of the land in the vicinity of the mines
is well adapted to the growth of hay and potatoes,
and am surprised that farmers do not come here
and cultivate these crops ut cost. Indeed, do
not know of any portion of our country this side
of the Rocky Mountains which holds out greater
Inducements to the agrlcuturist than the south
shore Of Lake Superior. have had some expert
ence in clearing and tilng land, and am quite con.
6.la fhof and nfa
farmer who should come here and clear up a good
farm, might receive back his entire outlay for the
cost OF the land, the clearing and the labor of
planting, sowing and harvesting, from the pro.
ceecs of the first two crops. But if farmers
will not come here the mining companies should
grow for themselves whatever they need, that is
natural to the soil. 1t is absurd to pay $35 per
tun for bay which may be raised on the spot for
IS o. So, and 81 per bushel for potatoes that
may be grown for two shllings The fact is, peo-
pie think of nothing do nothing, but prospect and
dig right down into the LOwels of the earth, when
they might find some Of the things which they
most need nearer the surface. But they will be-
come wiser BY -and-by, and when the construction
Ofthe Saut Ste Marie Canal shall cheaper trans
pertation and travel to and from the Mines aud
when they shall come TO produce at home the
great bulk of their supplies, and when improved
modes and machinery shall have cheapened the
expense OF getting out the copper and separating
il from the rock the annual wealth produced from
these ragged bluffs will astOnlsh the world.
After the completion OF the Saul Ste. Marie
Canal, the next great improvement tending to the
rapid development of the great mineral resources
of this region should be the construction of a rail-
road to Chicago, via Green Bay, thus opening
winter communication between Lake Superior
and the rest Of civilization AT present the mine
raj region is shut of from communication with the
East except by dog trains, which bring monthly or
semi-monthly mails, for about six months in each
year. A railroad has already been commenced from
Chicago to Green Bay, and there is project for
continuing it via Little Bay de Noquet, to Carp
River or Lake Superior; and thence running
through the Iron Mount aims in western or north
western direction to LAnse, and so on TO On
tanagon. A short railroad for the special benefit
Of the iron mi.es is now in course Of C instruction