The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
JOURNEY FROM SUPERIOR CITY TO THE
COPPER RANGE.

| COPPER RANGE
Editor Of Superior Times:
In imitation of travellers who visit distant lands and
furrin parts" give sketches of travels 1t is
pity that artist had not photographed party
on its exit and entree from and the city.
Our travels begun, we reached the Nemadji river,
where /" Gus" finding Charon to ferry us over
and having read of Leander and Byron swimming the
Hellespont and Caesars dare Cassius plunge into
the chatting Tiber, bravely plunged in, to bring the
ferry boat from the opposite side NJ fshermans
daughter lived opposite to him" to tempt him to the
| waierv food.
| The road beyond did double Office. The scythe
moving from it crop of grass, whilst enjoyed
| it as highway.
| In miles reached the copper range, where Ed
wards had committed Kari Kari" operation to dis
embowel Mother Earth of her minerals. Some copper
in amygdaoid trap with minerals of the zeolite family,
were found
| We Travelled on by the Wisconsin "diggings" to
Copper Creek Here tested ourselves; it had
rained we put ourselves down as usol,tJle. As
posed our saturated garments and persons to heat
detected waters-whether of crystazation or not
g this deponent sayeth not"-with some suphuretted
| hydrogen. We tried Larder enriched with pick
led pork crackers and cheese, and neutralized the
basic hunger, and wooed old Morpheus, on the plank
floor of the blacksmith shop. Morpheus would have
lit upon eyeds and given Natures sweet res
tore but for the soft and delicate music Of the egons
of mosquitoes, and their sharp bayonets with which
they transit xed Whether they deeply incensed
| invasion of their dominons, were simply
| bloodthrsty, leave question for naturaists
better acquainted f any there be with the habits Of
this venomous insect
| We found small veins of copper at Copper Creek,
| resembling the "Stock work" veins of the German
mners-epidote and calc spar with the copper.
Much of the matter thrown had crumbled under
the atmospheric agencies.
The next morning we reached the falls and daes of
Black river, where our disgusted mule deserted Our
"Gus' who had the wonders of the Colorado,
heard the of Niagara, stood "wrapt" and dis
titled into poetry the 40 feet fall of Black river.
He gazed upon the distant hills beyond the Lake and
fell to brushing off mosquitoes and lame and impo-
tent conclusion) to frying pork
| This region has been much convulsed, the rocks
tilted angle of deg and consist of rocks
that ought to bear-and do bear silver and copper
Greensboro dykes, granular, compact and amygdalod
traps the amygdules generally small and hornblendc
states are found around and above the falls with The
characteristic minerals of the copper prehnie,
limonite, Gale spar, epidote &c. We found two
VEINS both of which well worth expenditure of
money to their richness. At miles distance We
found what supposed a continuation of one of
the former veins We have not yet analysed
specimens for silver but know they contain copper.
The rocks here very similar to those described
by Owen, about Pigeon river and Thunder bay. Tie
transverse dykes of the latter found by me in
the Black river egon These if protruded at different
epochs would intensity the chemical action, which seq
gregates the minerals. | omitted to state that
glomerates also found the falls with much jasper
through it, The conglomerate indicates ancient waite,
courses, and these metals supposed to have been
precptates from their solutions. As iron will precil
tate "copper" and copper will precipitate silver from
some of their solutions is it not probable that this
the order of their formation to age?
Will you allow me to hazard the prediction, thai
when skilled explorers have hunted every creek ard
river hill and bottom in the Lake Superior region,
they have done on the Pacific, that this region will be
found richer in mineral wealth than any section of
that, of the same area. w. w. NJ.
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