The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-09-19

whom our nclc was supposed to be "cnga-
-ed TO" until they had a falling out about
piece of bis farm. called KANSAS" which
was not managed according to Ter notions it
is Said-and accordingly ~ a new coin of S,na..-
cr size with 4 Shanghai on 1t, "yoiny hea5
G,@f." has been substituted. but to which
eve &c not now refer. Somebody's calcu
lations are. that allowing fifty Old fashioned
cents to the pound. this Father of Coppers
would enable forty millions of little children.
if duly distributed, to run to the store and
buy each cents worth of candy. This by
making them good naturcd. would relieve Il
like number Of mothers, 'ant-but the sub
lcct grows too fast for this paper to suffice for
the figures.
On our w"E out we went son all tours y Il
short space. He who visits copper mines
will learn lessons of humility 50 far as al
titudcs are concerned. Emerging again into
day light we paused for few moments to
view with surprise the immense quantities of
rock which have been taken from the mine.
and when found worthless "duInpcd" into
the valley beneath until an embankmcnt has
been raised for q long distance from one hun
Gred to one hundred and fifty feet in height.
rs near as tre exc could measure. But this
only looked noticeable as Il work Of man. for
when We ylanrcd from this hi.l. cminencc to
the westward, seem" peak after peak Of the
"cycra>tng kills rising to the skies i'll tie
blue distance" and then turning northwurd
catching glimpse rt tht placid surface ofthc
Ocean Lake" living eight hundred feet he
low hira. the mental exclamation" was" " hat
is man. that Thou. the Omnipo.vnt Greater,
and Master Builder. art mindful of him :,
But such thoughts Is these. unfortunately, in
this >cnSuou> world are apt t. hr c!cc,rita!
flashes on the mine! rather than the coHlin-
ucd mcllovrI EIGHT ,ilt they .!lou'd be-
so voui "rca'nr found. for soon H. Vas in
the company~ Office in a chair. tinpcy. back
aSain>; thc wall. happy in having been suc-
cc>>tul in drawing ont from the A.cl; 4
full and ,.;nnccttd history OF the discovery
and development rt the mine. hide he was pa
ticn,lv wa,in. for the dinner hour. This
having passed. Ne mounted thrt ho.E,. vhu~r
peculiar mNtione heretofore mentioned kept
him busy for som. three hour; in d'l%ina
>tump> and branchc>.a., he t OK the direct
woods trail which in distance Of II miles
brought him 70 tins place. where, thank for
tune hnt h"lSr and lis rider Will part prob
ably forever with the hearty VIII ''hc part;
ncr of its late tolls that is =" my
be prolonged in some ones OK, field.
where it, shadow not "rn-;ng lc>>.
it, riding bones will no. 81 Sharp
cr N"ror Cr,i,r himself wo,lG hardly need
to take the li.r of such a specimen to iAcii-
ita,c the illustration of its anatomy. Tiu>
closed pilgrimage to see sight Of which
there is no reason to think the wo.l,. has
c>crsrrn its Ike before.
And now perhaps . few remarks on copper
mines in this region i'll general, and tie
"Ninncsota in particular. will be appropriate
Is L sort Of appcndix to the above rambling
lin subject and stIrl letter. Ten Years az"
next December. i>i.). tn" prc eat a-c'.t O:
the "Minnc>ota Co." Mr. Townsend. first -;I'7
the location which was then of course COVERED
with alcns, forest. He with others had br, y
sent to another place. which they became sat
i>n,d had no mineral. and in their travels
came across this spot Nii;"ll had been slightly
explored and abandoned hy its claimants who
were mo>t, residents OF Detroit. One
">iatt had been sunk on what HON p,"r's 70
he the 1!eG r.iu without finding much copper
and the work had been suspended. They
barHaincd for some five square miles OF land
for Sl2U1 with the privilege of having il or
not atthat price for six months during whicf!
time they explored it. Some remarkable de
prcssions in the ground having attracted
their attention. they dug down to see what
caused them. as tie rock had evidently been
taken out and dirt or soil replaced to fill the
vacancy. They cxcavated down some 20
feet and then came upon cart loads of rude
stone hammers which were battered evident
" with hard wear. Removing thcSc-thcy
were astoniShcd hv finding great mass Of
native copper "hriyht as a cent. weighing
several tons. in the bottom of the pit, and
raised up on wooden skids 1t had been
hammered on all sides but evidently could not
be moved out or discovered by the ".AnclcntS'
who a thousand years or more ago piled II
with their rude contrivanccs. This piece
having been removed the mouth of the won-
dcrful minnesota Copper Vein" was diScov-
cred and has been followed down into the
DEPTHS below near 100 feet. This vein was
con siderable to the NorthWartl ofthc vein
in which the first opening was made. Tie
nortl, VEN paving so well. nothing further
was done with the south one for several wears.
Some two or three years ago, however, some
attention was given it, and the agent by
way of experiment, set his men to opening il
farther down. On doing this they struck a
mass weighing 100 tons. and others of great
size and found the vein as they went downto
be vast deposit of copper until this last
discovery Of a mass weighing 400 tons, is the
climax, but whether it will be cclipsed b.