The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-11-18

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ruh fhs ontonaeon Minsr, Al. n
NJ: John McKellar has Just returned from
me NORTH Shore, and from him we obtain the
LATEST Information nom that section. TIE
vein at Silver Island is looking as rich q evef.
and does notseeIn to show any sigma Of de-.
crease In yield The Beck mine hes Rassesl
INTO the hands ef some Bnfzilo capItalisa, who
wiil prosecute the work systemstfcally. Thsy
nayeN very good ehow % silver The Ghnnia
Mme y looking Remarkably well, and h.isthe
inteutiDn Of the company 70 keep force Of |
meA working through the winter openine up
sass bs~orf osTs On SPfH WI Z kno~I s1 w ss '9 =
Is ~ sa,ss.s7 - 4 = 80 sl5Aa l| ~.
discovered in that district. The Lake Supe-
Nor Mining Company, of which Capt. VIM.
Harris is President, have also found native
silver in vein which they have opened on
their property. Native silver has also been
found in veins near Pigeon river, the western
boundary OF Canada. The prospects are now,
that several legitimate mining enterprises
VIII be carried on during the winter, that will
prove up the property on the main land.
" the newly discovered gold fields, Mr..
Mckeilar speaks very hopefully. Himself
and brothers are the original discoveries
as they were of the silver veinl and loea-
tors OF the land and he says that they are
satished that gold exists in paying guam
titles, and themselves and American capi-
talists, have secured several miles of land on
the veins discovered. The veins are in what
is known rs the Lake Shabondawan coun-
try, about . miles from Prince Arthur's
Landing, on Thunder Bay which is the main
town or settlement in the Silver District Of
the North Shore. Lake ShabOndaWan is an
inland lake, about 80 miles long and from
one to five miles wide, and Is on the route
that used to be travelled to the Red River
an nfru lx H..
grants. II IL reached by about ~ miles Of
travel over the government road, from the
SHORES OF Lake Superior, a splendid gravel
road superior to the government roads gen
orally built on the American side On the
lake Is a small steamer, which transports
freight, passengers, etc, from the eastern ter
minus Of the road to the western,
| which commences on the western end of
the lake, making a portage across the lake
OF about . miles. II is on the
western end and north shore of the lake, where
the gold discoveries have been made The
veins are composed Of quartz, much Of which
is decomposed, and barytes or heavy spar,
and carry galena, which Of itself contains con
siderable silver silver glance very pure /; iron
pyrites lsulphuret Of iron) and free or pure
gold. The general course OF the veins is east
and west, and dip toward the north. They
are enclosed in walls Of slate the north be-
ing slate with considerable magnetic iron
ID IL, Hnlle the eOutn wall Is a LalcOse slate.
The veins are very regular and well defined
and were traced by Mr.. McKelIar for several
miles. Some of the sand was examined in the
streams, and found to contain gold, but
whether in paying quantities or not they were
not prepared to test, as their principal busi-
nsss vas &c S4es 'a VERY -sns via
and broken up, and is what is known as the
height of land, " where the waters run toward
Hudson Bay to the north and Lake Superior to
the south, and consist principally Of a series Of
bridges and mountains Of granite, with but
little timber or soil to make it an inviting spot
for habitation, or to produce much toward
sustaining mankind. We see exaggerated re-
ports circulating all over the country Of men
washing out from $40 to $40 worth Of gold
per day. These are not substantiated by Mr.
Mcclellan, although he is just fresh from the
district The season is too far advanced now
to do much toward developing the value of
the veins, but in the spring they will be fully
tested by strong American company, con
sisting OF Capt. Frue, A. II. Sibley and other
well-knOwn Lake Superior men, which Of itself
Is sufficient guaranty that the discoveries
are no humbug, but a veritable reality.
For several years reports have been circu-
lated that the Indians knew Of both gold and
silver back in the interior of the country, but
the Mckellars were the first white men that
ventured out to explore for it.