, 1873-03-05
THE BREEN MINE.

AIEsoauSEE, Feb. %, 1873.
| To the Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:
SIN: notice in your issue of Feb, 81, an arti-
Gle in relation to railway extension and tho Lake
! Superior mining regions. The article in the
main is correct, and conveys just views
on the subject OF our iron resources !;
but there arc some slight inaccuracies,
that, if amended, would convey 8 more correct
idea to those who are not familiar with the sub
! ject.
First, you class the Breon Mine and Brei-
| tungs Mines, on Secs. 6 and 10, Town 80, Range
| 29, among the Lake Superior mines. whereas,
! in fact, they are in the Menomineo iron-ranges,
long distance from the Lake Superior IRON
| ranges, and nearer the waters OF Lake Michigan
| than Of Lake Superior, and not oror 20 hours'
travel BY rail from Chicago.
| There is paragraph in the article commencing
as follows: 'tIhe Breen Mine has not fulfilled
expectations. It is mainly owned By citizens Of
Green Bay, who hoped to realize handsome
fortune. EARLY last year, "a branch road WAS To-
Gated to it, but the prospecting operations have
scarcely warranted railroad solely for it's de-
ve1opment." The article does not state whose
expectations have not T. been fulfilled. II
the writer mems the expectations Of
the owners, he is laboring under
Breen Mine, so fer as made, does fully meet
their expectations, and shows that the quality
OF the ore of that mine ia equal to the best in
the Lake Superior region, or anywhere else;
mine min ean promise until It is worked out. 1has,
| ~ well as all mel1 who know anything about
| mines, know that the amount of good shipping
ore II mine can neSer %+ be determined
! the size of the rich-paying basis nov
| exposed, they do not believe this or the next
generation will see all of the irst-class ore mined
out of the Breen Mine, let the work Of mining
! be prosecuted as energetica11y as it can be.
| 1t matters little to the Company what any per-
| aon may think OF the mine, as they are not in
the market to sell stock, and do not desire to sell
| the mine, but do intend Immediately to COM
| pleted to that point, they will have stock
pile Of ore ready for shipment; but such dis
paraging statements are injurious to tho Me-
nominee iron-ranges, by carrying the idea that
pectations Of the value OF the mines hare not
been sustained; whereas all the explorations
made have proved that those expectations rest
on solid basis and, further, that there are
equally as good as those which have been brought
to the notice Of the public, which as yet hare no
name; and this branch railroad referred to, in
stead Of being built to open 8 mines referred to
in the article Will furnish transportation for
over 20 good mines.
The Bceen Mine is owned By the Breen Mining
Company, which is an Incorporated company.
The stock ia all owned BIZ persons living at Ne
nominee, and none of it is owned by persons
living at Green Bay; The stockholders still
hope, and hive full faitb that they shall
realize fortune from the mine; and they
fully helieve that they will mine from $50, 900 to
$4,000 worth OF ore during the year 1878 and
they have no doubt but that tho Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Company expect that the
transportation Of ores from that mine will add
materially to the business and profits Of that
road.
Tho railroad was not located to tho Breen
Mine early last spring, but the survey OF it Was
commenced. in November, after all work had
ceased on the Dreen Mine, and was not com
pleted until Jan. IL, 1878, and was locat-
cd to the Breen Aline, and no farther.
The work Of construction on it has commenced
on the part located, and the engineers have been
sent on to commence to survey beyond. the
Breen Mine, to tho minos in Town SO, Range %.
In extending tho survey, they will run near
another valuable 1nine, which has never been
brought TO public notice, at tho foot Of the
Little Sturgeon Falls, On Sec. 8, Town 80, Range |
28. This mine is micaceous apecular ore, un-
Ike the others named, which are brown aud t
slate hemGtites. MESol.1sEE