The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-02-25

And can she fairly ask more than this at the hand:
of Congress Must the United States governments
intervene to protect Duluth from the rivalry of Supe
rior? Must new route for vessels be opened by the
government at enormous cost and that without seeur
ing any additional conveniences for the commerce .o
Duluth ITSELF and the imminent hazard of destroy
ing the old route, in the integrity OF which immense
vested rights Involved for the purpose Of Keeping
lake vessels their wayto and from Duluth from
coming within the Influence of the attraction Of Supe
rior - o..- .94Poe j"
We use our Yankee privilege to guess not; and to
guess further tonly the corruption ignorance OF
Qoifgresnen is counted upon accomplish. any such
end Let US have no more such nonsense the4ls eas
that the improvements in progress at the entry
for the ehoof Of Wisconsin only They just as
much in Minnesota as in Wisconsin Indeed the far
larger part of the work hitherto has been dong on the
Minnesota sider And the attempts of Minnesota Rep
resentativesin Congress to get special appropriation
for Duluth on the assumption that Superior and wis
cousin exclusively concerned in the improYemegts
now going the entry, are, to draw it mild, most
unworthy and disiRgenuous. IgI a5In -ta svnd e
Latest from the North Shore Silver Mines. q
CONTINUED RIenNEss. oE THE oRE-PuRE SILVER BE
-ra.a ~. Lag TAKEN OUT BY THE POUND. - .,-tr,
The ontonagon Ni,er has news from these mines
up to Jan 9th It says that at Silver Island the
shaft is down 20 feet; the nine is looking as we'll if
better they go down. and they are taking out
some very rich rocks" 81. .-g. 80 a5551 s.
A citizen of 0nfonagon has received a letter from
Capt John Beck, the superintendent of the mine dis
covered last fall on Thunder Bay, from which the
Niaey makes the following eztracts:e. 10 rs1~a (
The location is situated on Thunder Bay and east of
the Tunda Bay mine; they working several men
aud have sunk one shaft II feet. They were taxing
out chunks of solid silver from half tora pound
weight and the mine is getting richer every day in
solid masses of silver. They have erected some seven
buildings which looks as if they mean business The
mine has been visited by Mr Grfths who says he
never saw richer mines the Pacific coast They are
in want Of eight more miners.
One Of our citizens has received letter, dated Ian
sing Feb 49, from an old Lake Superior mining man.
nov member of the Michigan Legislature from which
we have been permitted to make the following ex-
tracts It is reported here that the amount Of silver
being raised pei month SILVER Island is 100000.
This information comes through Detroit sources E.
B. Ward of Detroit is building furnaces treat al sill
yer Of Silver Island and from other sources from
the North Shore, and he N have them ready to run.
in the spring So YOU sec the ball is rolling.na t
These are the mines which we referred to in the
TINES several weeks since. 1t is stated that the Sill
Island mine has lately been purchased from Can
ada Company by Detroit Capitalists The first eighty
tons of ore from these mines yielded 81 600 per ton
and assay of an average specimen made by DR.. S.
WaIb9rI of this rlacn Welded 81 2O3 60 10 the for
There viii no doubt bea great emigration of people
to those mines in the spring, and we would not be
surprised if other veins equally as rich as
those above referred to- would be discovered oa more
thorough exploration Of the country. 49,.
LArER-The Duluth Morning CAL Of to-day, says
We learn from private letter from Silver Island
that the lest Of taken out on the 9TH inst
riclded nyer 80 90 TO the TOM -L.. - -----