Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-11-05

| AfSA W es&t I'll thO nalOl ShSit
mines, between two and three thous-
and feet; have drifted in various di-
rectlons use an iron track running
from where the dirt is thrown out
and are raising about sixty thousand
pounds OF mineral ner month.
The Galena Mining Company have
sunk a shaft and taken out several
thousand pounds of mineral. They
arc now running a tunnel to drain
their land.
The Shnllsburg and New Diggings
! Company commenced several years
ago To run a level to drain their lands,
and have tunneled about half mile.
The Silverthorn Mining Company,
five miles west of the town, own 800
acres of ground. They commenced
a tunnel last fall; run about FIVE hun
dred feet, and are now working with
fair prospects. They have leased
portions of their land to prospectors,
who raising considerable mineral.
The Mount Hope Company, two
miles north of the town, have about
two hundred acres of land; have
raised some mineral, but owing to
water, have not done much lately ;
are now putting in new machinery
for pumping. This Company, by
boring with an artesian drill, have
struck two veins OF lead, about hun
dred feet from the surface.
The Stop Line Digging Company,
SIX miles east, have raised about q
million pounds Of mineral.
In addition to the above there is
the Day Boun ranges, so>called from
the fact that the lead ore is mixed
with day boun and black jack FUSED
in the manufacture of zinc). Several
companies arc doing we'll there, and
besides numerous private firms and
individuals are doing we'll.
About eight miles west of Shulls-
burg lies the town of
NEW DIaGINGs.
Here the famous Champion Dig
gings Company have turned out
several million pounds of mineral and
are still doing well. A few years ago
Mr.. Champion had mortgaged his
lands, raised and spent his last doll
Tor, and, his men becoming clamorous
for pay, had determined on certain
day to stop work that night; but
before night the big lead was struck,
and now. after spending vast sums
to develop and improve his lands, he
is worth over half million dollars,
and is still adding more, for his mine
seems to be inexhaustible. Leaving
BENTON,
where little is doing at present, ex>
cept by Individuals, as | travelled
west, the noxt town reached was
HAZEL GREEN,
a healthy, thrifty little settlement,
in Wisconsin, just over the Illinois
line. And here is perhaps the best
field for the operations Of large
stock company that exists in all the
rigion. But she present proprietors,
[ believe, decline to part with their
interest. Three years ago, Messrs.
Crawford, Mills & Co., of this place,
who own eleven hundred acres of
mining land commenced a tunnel two
miles long for the purpose of drain
ing their lands, and day and night
the work has progressed ever since.
[ visited the works and was con-
Quoted down a shaft to the bottom
of the level by Mr.. Magyar, one of the
proprietors, and manager of this part
of the company's opertions, man of
large experience in mining opera.
tons, and one eminently fitted, |
should judge, for such gigantic opera
tons as they have undertaken. A
deep ravine runs down the center of
their lands, near the foot of which
the tunnel starts on o level with the
surface but when completed it will
require shaft two hundred feet deep
to reach the level at the extreme end
which will be directly under the tow
err. About three>fourths of a mile of
the work is now completed. Several
very good veins of ore have been
struck, ank already several thousand
pounds of mineral are being raised
daily. Surely here is large field
for the outlay of capital and enter
prise, promising a rich reward in
years to come.
A few miles west of Haze, Green,
and in q deep canon lies the little
mining town,
FAIRPLAY.
All the lands in this vicinity, like
those in many other localities, have
been worked to the water level, and
over 60,000,000 pounds of mineral
have been raised, and sold at this
point alone. The Fairplay Level and
Mining Company now propose to
drain their lands, so that the depos-
| its, veins and crevices below can be
reached, and have commenced a tun.
mel mile long.
Three miles east of Fairplay are
the Shawneetown Diggings, owned
by Stevens & Vandervort. They are
raising about 5000 pounds of mine
raj per day, and do their pumping by
steam.
The Great Eastern Mining Compa-
ny, ownedsby Mum, Scott & Co., of
Chicago, use also steam power, and
have good prospects, but as yet are
raising little mineral.
Langworthy & Williamson are
working what is called Sparks Cave,
1 and also use steam power. This cave
is sixty feet under the cap rock is
from ten to sixty feet wide, and has
been explore about halt mile. A
pleasant pla, e, surely, for boat ride
sixty feet under the earth, but these
subterranean caverns al no uncom.
mon thing among the lead mines.
Seven miles west of Fairplay, and
across the Mississippi river, lies the
city of
DUBUQUE,
destined to be one of the first cities
on the river OF this place and the
mining operations in its vicinity |