Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-25

WOulu seem TO Justify the large 6Xpenol-
| ture that has been and must yet be made,
| before any return can be had. That the OPP
erations of the two companies, as men
toned, will be followed by still others is
understood, so that in the very near fu-
ture that whole north shore region between
Grand Mareis and Vermillion lake will be
one great mining camp, rivalling IN its
output the great mines of Pennsylvania.
COPPER.
In the past few years, too, some most
important discoveries of copper deposits
have been made in the Lake Superior
country outside the world famed
copper region of northwestern Michigan,
establishing the fact beyond
question that tbs rich copper veins of
that section also exist in northeastern Min
nesota. One of the most pronounced of
| the new discoveries was made some two
years ago upon one of a group of five
islands in Lake Superior, some 40 miles
from Duluth, and about a quarter of a
mile from the north shore of the lake. The
island is known as island No. 5. The island
contains 125 acres, of which the company,
st. Paul organization, by the way, has
purchased 4215 acres. The copper vein,
which was but three inches on the surface,
increased to three feet at depth of 100
feet, while the ore increased in value, as
shown by assays, from $97.62 to 1922, the
general average of the ore having advanced
$28.07. Last year the company built a
dock costing $4,000, an engine house. shaft
house, blacksmith shop, boarding house;
bought an engine, pumps, tools, etc, and
altogether have expended some $4,000 in
getting the mine in working order and are
| now ready to go on with the working and
| development of the mine.
Another important copper venture is be-
ing made by company of Philadelphia
| capitalists with couple of st. Paul gen
tleman,at Chengwatonna, Pine county, al
most at the very doors of st. Paul. The
| superintendent of this company is now
| absent from the state, SO we were unable
| to get reliable data as to the present status
of the mine. From other sources it is
| learned that the vein has been developed
for nearly 100 feet, the ore steadily increas-
ing in amount and quality as the develop
ment has progressed, and that although
the company has already spent over $780,
600, the outlook amply iustifies a continu-
| ance of operations.
1t is also reported that Hon. Isaac
Staples, of Saltwater, has struck rich
copper lead at a point northeast of
Chengwatonna, which he will at once pro-
coed to develop. There are also num-
Der of other mining projects in progress of
incubation, not, however, sufficiently ad-
vanced to warrant detailed mention at
this time, but all going to show that the
recent thorough and practical expIora-
| tons of the country along both shores of
Lake Superior, extending many miles
back from the lake, has conclusively
demonstrated to those who have followed
these operations, that large bodies of rich
copper, iron and silver deposits not only
exist in the upheavals Immediately about
the lake, but are much more widely ex-
tended than was before conceived of, ex
cept by a few enthusiasts. One of the SEN
| sations of few months ago, it will be re-
membered,. was the striking, some sixty
feet down, of what appeared to be
rich voin of iron encountered in. sink
ing well at the st. Paul Harvester
works, SO solid that an ordinary drill
could not penetrate it. An attempt to
| sink the well at another point encountered
the same obstruction. The borings in both
places indicated that the obstruction was
| an unusually rich iron deposit So pro-
nounced and promising was the deposit
that gentlemen connected with the Har-
vester Works company, careful and shrewd
business men, went to the expense of pro-
curing diamond drill with which to test
the extent and character of the vein or OBJ
struction encountered. Unfortunately the
diamond drill had sonly been started
when it was broken at the bottom of the
hole, and the value of the depss:. remains
unsolved. But it il understood that the
gentlemen interested are not the least dis
heartened, and that another drill will be
secured and the exploration continued.
All this goes to show, or at least TO indi-
cate most marked increase of interest in
mining ventures in northern Minnesota
boom it may be that will equal, and per-
haps surpass the land boom of the past
four years, which has resulted in turning
the tide of emigration largely in this di-
rection, and also attracting to st. Paul
and Minnesota millions of money in the
hands of capitalists in the Eastern states
| and the old world, for Investment.
SMELLING WORKS AND ROLLING MILLS.
The opening up and operation of these
mines will necessarily result in the erection
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works to reduce the ore, and roller mills
and furnaces to use the product. The nat
ural most available point for the location
of these important works is at st. Pau, the
focus of the great railroad system of the
Northwest. The railroads which are SO
vitality interested, can safely be left to
look after the roller mills. But not so
with the smelling works. These must be
the creation of private capital, and that
locality will secure the benefits OF their To-
cation which first moves with the most
energy and determination. There are
now in the West smelling works at Detroit,
Mich, Chicago, and Omaha, Neb., but no
one of them is constructed for the reduc-
ton of iron ore, which requires much
greater heat than either silver, copper or
gold, the relative degree of heat required
forthe four metals being: Silver, 1900;
copper, 1900; gold, 2,100, and iron, 300
degrees, In round numbers. Such works
cost large amount of money, en-
pIoy q great number of men, and
return a large profit on the Investment,
three very decided acquisitions for grow
ing city like st. Paul. The opportunity TO
secure these ADVANTAGES now confrOuts our