Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-11-21

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Forthe Grant eoanty Herald.
/ New York Correspondence.
| NEW YoRK CRY, Nov. 9th, 1853.
4 Mr.. Editor: have been absent from
the lead region some months, and spent
Ia portisn Of the time examining tho gs.
olegy of vaIious mines and mineral dis.
coveries in the vicinity Of this city,
The mining business in ths city is get.
ting quite systematic. There is about
fifty offices here for the transaction of
the business Of mining, and the transfer
Of mining stocks. These ompanies are
Operating in California, Mexico, the
West Indies, and number of the cas-
tern and Western States. The bust
ness is conducted somewhat as follows
Tbs ciscoverer of minerals in the coun-
try, collects specimens of the ores and
rocks, boxes them up and sends tn EN- by
express to the mining broker he sends
them to chemist and has them anali-
zed. If they contain metals of value,
he then employs geologist TO examine
and report on the district, if the report
10 favorable, a moderate amount of ca
pital is advanced to explore for or Is,
and if found in quantity, a stock com pa
ny is then formed; portion of the
stock thrown in market and sold to raise
the necessary capital to open the mine
a certain class of the New York capi-
talists make it business of buying this
kind of stocks. The Ulster Lead and
Copper mine is now attracting 4 consid-
cradle of attention. This discovery was
made about two years ago, land is near Ell
lenvills, Ulster ounsy,N.Y. The vein is
vertical and cuts hard white sandstone
at the eastern base of the Shawangunk
mo untain. The sandstone has q dip Of
45o and in this position TANKS the side
of the mountain for veral miles a
drift has been drove on the course of
the vein about three hundred feet in the
mountain, and the ore found in places is
in solid masses the ends four feet thick.
This company have about sixty msn en-
lployed, have blast furnace, wash hsu-
ses, SC. Capital stock 100000 shares,
OF $5 each-500,0 900. The stock is
now selling at two dollars per share,
making the value,of the company's lands
and mines 100000. To find vein of
lead and copper cutting vertically thro'
hard white sandstone, and no igneous
rocks in the district, is something new
in the geology of mineral districts, and
m ay throw some light on the nature of
the are veins in the Wisconsin lead fields.
The upper magn esian limestone or lead
bearing rocks Of the west is underlaid
by thick bed of swad rock and it may
not be impossible that after the lead
veins cut through the upper beds of
nsst tons that thsx mar INCREASE il rich
stone. Al Bethlsham, Lehigh Co., Pa,
the Lehigh Zinc Com. have valuable
mines, and are successfully smelling the
ore. The zinc veins are vertical and
filled in crevices in metamorphic blue
limestone, the ore is called electric Gala
mine or piire carbonate of zinc. The
mine is flat valley surrounded by rid
gss of granite, and was discovered by
what the Wisconsin miner calls dry
bone blaze. This outcrop of the zinc or
blaze vein colored the soil for about a
quarter of an acre and could be seen for
considerable distance. This company
have lately erected furnace at cost
of $4,000 and are said TO be netting
$500 day, smelling tbs ore. The
smelling process is somewhat like distil-
lation. The oreis burnt in small hearths
with coal, and passes off through TIRES
different apartments, and collected in the
form of -four. The first room is called
the cooler, is circular building seventy
feet high, gas passes into it near the bot-
tom and out near the end, 10 conveyed
down a short iron pipe into another
building called gas house, passes from
this through ten iron pipes near the root
and in another room and by the blast,
j (Which is made by an engihe) through
water, the zinc is cooled in the three
rooms, in what is called No. l., 2 and 8,
zinc paint. Near Lancaster, Pa, is a
Minis of zinc and lead ore. This dis
covery is in wide flat valley which
somewhere resembles in physiogno.
my the cut of the lead and coal ba-
sins of the west. The veins are filled
In crevices in the blue limestone, and
was discovered by the outcrop of zinc,
a dry-bone blaze. Several hundred tons
of ore are here on the ground. This
mine was worked few years ago by a
company and was partially abandoned
for the want Of success in SINE lting the
ore. At Allentown in Lshigh Co. is
, some of the largest iron furnaces in the
state. The ore founu in the district il
what is called hematite or pipe iron ore
There is extensive iron fields in this
district; the ore is delivered at the fur
mace for $3.50 per ton. The dynam.
les or geological forces Of the iron and
zinc fields Of Pa, are the sane as in
the Wisconsin lead region. The prin-
cipsl difference being in the intensity Of
action Of the elevating and denuding
process. The moro see Of the miner
: ale east of the Alleghanies the frmsr
am convinced that on our regular mi