Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-21
tHEEAID Correspondsnce.l
Hazel Green Mining Matters.

EDITOR HERALD knowing that
your columns are always open to
items of information from any part
of our State and county, and being
aware that Hazel Green is o town
whereofa great many of your numer-
GUS readers have already something
heard, methought that l could not
do better thing for the cause of
general intelligence than to write for
the Herald something about the
present condition of mining affairs in
and around our village.
This town, as is well known, is
situated in one Of the richest mineral
bearing districts in the county. For
some time past, however, mining
hereabouts has been on the decline,
all mining communities being subject
to periodical ups aud downs vet, on
the whole, think that interest ia
now reviving, more men being at
work this winter than last, with fair
err prospects of profitable results.
Crawford, Mills & Co. are engaged in
drifting their main level. They have
'run" this work for more than half
mile have already drained large
tract of land, and will be able to
drain much larger when the under
taking is finished. Few mining COM
panies have been more persevering
than the one in question. For many
a long year, both night and day, has
work on their level been going on !;
and although great difficulties had to
be overcome, and greater obstacles
to be surmOunted, the undertaking,
has been carried steadily forward.
A very large stream Of water flows
from the present drift, which is drain
ing some of the best mineral ground
this country affords. Millions of
pounds have already been raised on
this land and my candid belief is
that the company will yet be amply
repaid for all its labor.
Several other parties are taking
some fine mineral from ground drain.
ed by the Company's level. A short
time ago VIM. Jacka and partners
struck a cave, thinly lined with min
eral, and large enough for man to
walk in it erect to a distance of 80 or
40 feet. Mills and partners are work
ing a strong crevice. They have
taken out some rich mineral, and
prospects for something still better
are by no means dubious. Other
parties are engaged in mining on the
land of Mr.. Ed. Williams. Their
work yields paying quantities Of ore.
The well-krown mills Diggings'
whence so much good mineral has al
ready been taken, and which have
not been worked for SO long a time,
have recently been let to a party Of
men at q certain rate of rent
From one of the stockholders of
the Coon Branch Mining Company,
La Fayette Co, | have lately receiv-
ed the following report, which | sub
nit without apology to your readers
This company was organized in
May, 1870 They began operations
by open cutting a distance of $50
feet north, and thence turned in q
westerly direction. Since that time
a close drift has been run to q dis.
lance of about 100 feet. At present
four men are employed in drifting,
and they carry the work about &c
feet every month. The calculation
is that it will take at least five
months from the present time, at the
present rate of drifting, to strike the
first north and south mineral bearing
range. The bearing ranges are from
ten to twelve feet apart, for hun
dred yards or more, and all of them
have been very successfully proved
to water. The well-known Ingley
Sawyer, and other valuable ranges
run through this ground. These
have been carefully surveyed from
Now Diggings, at which place they
were certainly second to none.
This company has leased the we'll
known property of the late Capt
Shaw, the Blackjack property now
owned by Mr.. r. Mason, and the
property owned by Mr. Gotham
comprising about 100 acres of very
valuable mineral land. The organi.
cation consists of twenty stockhold
ers who are determined to prove the
ground thoroughly, and hope to soon
see old Coon as Furnishing as it was
twenty-five years ago, when "sover
G gns" were as plentiful az potato
bugs in summer, and when our late
OLD friend Tethers would change one
any time for five cents and give a
drink of "the animal" to boot.
Yours Respectfully,
Hazel Green, Feb, Il, II. HAYES i. GREEN.