Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-03-26
Correspondence Of the HERALD)
The Mines about Hazel Green.

Dir. EDITOR Seeing in a late
number of the Herald republished
article relating to the lead mines of
Hazel Green for the time that is past,
it occurred to me that few words
about the diggings of the present
might not be entirely uninteresting
to many of your readers
Mining is more active here at pres
ent than it has been for several years
past. The Level Company are still
actively carrying on their work
Since last1Fall they have been using
nitro -glycerine with good success
BY rightly employing this COM
pound, two men can do as much min
ing work in a given time as can be
performed by nine men using pow>
der. During the Winter the labor
ers in the employ of the Company
have struck some of the principal
arteries which drain the country for
more than "a mile from the main lev.
ell, leaving more than a hundred feet
of "backs."
The water being low in the earth,
the miners all, even those Of mini
mum means, not to say indolent in
clinations, are working busily and
meeting with rewards proportionate
TO the amount Of energy expended.
New shafts are being sunk and old
ones cleaned up, and from some OF
the latter mineral in large guam
titles is being hoisted. In the win
ter of 90, Mr.. w. holland & Co. sunk
shaft over sixty feet deep, striking
an opening of considerable promise,
but which, owing to the presence of
too much water, they were unable
to work. This winter, the water be-
ing some fifteen or twenty feet low
er than it was three years ago, they
have resumed the work, and are now
doing exceedingly we'll in the way of
taking out treasure.
Just south Of this mineral promise
is the claim of Mr.. A. Gribble and
partners, who have taken deal of
ore therefrom during the past few
months, and who arc still refreshed
through the same medium at the rate
of 500 to 1000 pounds per day.
Still farther south is the "New
Rush." where windlasses do plenti-
fully abound and where wind breaks
are as numerous as sails in q harbor
at evening. Men here are engaged
in cleaning up old shafts to sink for
the bottom openings, some of them
being already struck with the pros.
pect of proving renumerative.
On the land of Mr.. L. Williams sew
eral parties are working fair pros
poets and have indications of the
most pleasing nature. All these
works are in the immediate vicinity
of our town, to the south and south
east.
On the Badger Lot, about mile
to the east, several parties are min-
ing with the most fattering success.
The Coon Branch Level Company
are still running their main level
They have had some hard rock to
worry through, but recently they
have struck some crevices from
which water flows in such quantities
that the ground will soon be drained
enough to enable this spirited Com.
pany to prove their valuable piece OF
mining land.
Around Buncombe, two miles 10
the southeast of the village of Haz.
el Green, several fine prospects are
being vigorously worked. The most
prominent and productive of these
are, the Mills Diggings, the claim OF
Fiddick, Edwards 4 Co, the Sheets
Diggings, and those of the Jefferson
Company.
From the above it will be seen that
the mining mon in this locality are
sparing neither money nor labor tc
develope its mineral resources.
A MINER.
HAZEL GREEN, March o.