Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-12
Canada Gold Mine.

The following article from the Toronto
Globe of the 18th ult, in relation to the
Richardson gold mine Of Madoc, Hastings
county, G. W., may not be uninteresting
10 our readers:
The suit in reference to the Richardson
mine was brought to close in Coburglast
Tuesday, just as the case. was called for
trisl--the parties agreeing upon the terms
which were entered in decree, as follows:
''1st. The Belleville company were to
pay to Messrs BENZ. Lombard and Seth W.
Hardin, jr., of Chicago, Called the Chicago
Company, $4,000 in gold. s
I'D The shaft now open on the Rich
ardson mine, with land 800 feet wide and
1000 to be put into corporation in Cana
da, with capital of 100000; $4,000
Of the stock to 60 to the Chicago company
and the remainder, $4,000, to the Belle
vile company.
"3d. OF the remaining joint stock of
the Richardson mine and land, the Chicago
company to have 67 acres, and the Belle
vile company 81 acres. Each party's land
being described in the decree"
hUOuL LUG lllSt VI IfOVCliiOCi ioosj oiOieiJ
after the mine above referred to was dis
covered, two gentlemen from Boston con-
tracted for it for $35, GOO in gold, to be
paid by Dec 10, 1866. As they failed to
make the payment at the specified time,
Mr.. Richardson, the original owner, sold it
to the Chicago company for $50, 900 in
gold, which was paid down. The. Boston
company claimed that time was not the
essence of the contract, and company OF
merchants from Beleyille and vicinity.
learning OF the extreme richness Of the
mine, purchased it of the Boston comp any,
agreeing to give them one-tenth of all they
realized, and to pay all damages and ex-
,penses incurred in the suit. q.
After the purchase of the mine by the
Chicago company, in order to secure the
mineral, the shaft was filled up with cord
wood, sstones, snow ana ice, all held to,
gether by water being thrown upon it and
frozen. They opened it in April, and
worked four days, taking out some twenty
tons of mineral, and four barrels Of eight
Z different samples of the rock, when they
were ,enjoined from further work, or from
taking away any Of the mineral The four
barrels had already been sent to Rochester
and the balance was returned into the
shaft, the latter being filed up with cord
wood, the government detailing eight men.
to guard the property The Belleville COM
pany also enjoined the Chicago company
from removing estho four barrels from
Rochester. The barrels were opened by
the collector, and three assays made, with
the following results: $3.50, $4,000, and
$4,000 per ton. .a. Gs
Il By the decree referred to above, the
Chicago company were put in immediate
possession of the four barrels Of ore, and
they will have it examined and assayed
before a committee of Rochester gentlemen
and then take it to New York as was
originally intended, and there have it
worked regularly, and have it tested chem
ically, and mechanically for the purpose
Of ascertaining the best method of rcduc-
ton. Some Of the decomposed mineral
from small pockets has yielded at the rate
of from $50, 900 to 100000 per ton, and
rock from the shaft from 5000 to 10000.
Eight different specimens ofrock were
selected from the property-not from the
richest, but from different parts Of the
mountain, all within three hundred feet Of
the shaft, and assayed by DR.. A. A. Hayes
Ol DOStoI ttic 6fcitSS yiSia uStiiS @itoov,T
II per ton, and every sample proving rich
enough to pay largely for working. As
soon as the mineral can be fully tested, and
the best means for working it ascertained
mills and machinery will be commenced,
and the work pushed forward in earnest.
From the Madoc Mercury of June we
learn that there have been discoveries of
gold on the Moore farm cornering on the
Richardson mine; also that gold in coasid-
cradle quantities had been found in lot %
of the 4th concession of Madoc, about three
miles northwest of the Richardson mine.
Prof Michel, on the staff of Sir VIM.
Logan, Government Geologist, in his re-
port of juno 30, 1867, says that "the dis
coxery Of a deposit Of gold of extraordin-
AIRY richness on the 18th latitude of 9Th
concession of Madoc (thc Richardson mine)
was, in my opinion, an established fact,an
one that could hardly beexceptional in the
region. x TO show the rich
ness of the Richardson mine. it is sufficient
to say that the ochreous and carbonaceons
matters extracted from the crevce, have
yielded from fifteen to twenty dollars in
gold to the pound" y-gaa>