Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-02
A REALLY MERIT0RI0US MINE.
A Strictly Business and Money. Making
Institution.


of Lake Superior. We have been trying
to find out for year p asst, but putting it
off won't do any longer. 1t is well enough
to work under cover, but the readers of the
GLOBE are anxious for you to shed some
light upon this dark, or rather secret, sub
ject"
Such was the language addressed to one
of the stockholders of the Silver & Copper
Island Mining company as he sat
calmly in his Office toying with piece of
rock which he pronounced the finest cop
per ore in the world,
"WelI, don't believe the public care to
know anything about our business. We
have been neaNy three years in bringing
our enterprise to what it is at present, and
if ne are satisfied the public ought to be-"
Eyes, that's very true, but
after all, whatever interests all of
Minnesota, Is matter OF i'm
portance to the GLOBE, and knowing you
are better posted on mines, minerals and
metallurgy than any other man in the
northwest 1 naturally come to you for in
formation"
"ThaFs all we'll enough, and appreciate
your compliment and your kindness, but
don't you know that good many we'll
meaning men think i've are simply fools
because we are engaged developing cop
per mine? and don't you know, also, that
in view of that fact, it is qute natural that
we should keep our own counsel, and man
age our own business in our own way?''
eyes; that's very true Bat nov that
your enterprise has assumed 4 tangible
and solid form, you can afford TO let them
laugh, for you we'll know he who laughs
last laughs best and just now you
seem to have the neither end of the laughing
tube"
"Well, personally don't care SO much
about our matters, but if this little circu-
lar will do you any good you can make
what use of it you please. Public senti-
nent does not affect me one way or the
other, but when we have all made money
out of our enterprise then the great pub
lie will lift up its little hands and cheer
rs to the echo; if we fail you know how it
can kick. So, disregarding the public, we
propose to do just as we please, and that
is just as we have been doing, and that is
opening rich copper mine in business,
Legitimate manner, for the express pur-
pose of making money for ourselves and
our friends. You will find some good ad-
vice in the circular, and what is more, it
is true"
You are a sort of an independent cuss,
any way, amt you, but tell me who are the
men engaged with you in this enterprize?"
sob, well; the officers are as follows:
Rresident-Dr. j. H. Stewart, ST. Paul.
Vice President-W. A. Kindred, Fargo.
2Secretary-R. L. Kelly, Minneapolis.
Treasurer-A. S. Cowley. - Paul"
What do you hold the -,.., -"
"One dollar per sherr
when do you expec j ~, -
swell, we have good . -. al the
dump which we can soon IL. 49,, LEY"
Good day SIR" and tue repor,or left
pretty fully satisfied that the stockholder
knew just what he was talking about
and good deal more. Before leaving,
however, he allowed me to copy the fol-
lowing letter.
"a BIG THING"
CHICAGO, May %, 1888, Dear Sir: We
have assayed your sample for copper, with
result as shown by enclosed certificate
-34l4 per cent. We are testing it for the
presence of arsenic, which would affect its
market value very materially. This test
we make for our own information. In case
the ore is free from arsenic and anthony
we should like to make arrangements to
smelt and refine it, or buy it from your
company. If you have mine which will
hold out, twenty-six inches pay streak like
that, it's ''big thing" and in a ive-and-
one-half-foot vein could be worked very
ohn 7 LOT L Il.
ing. Yours truly, W. R. RoNEY,
General Manager Chicago Copper Co.
NO Arsenic OR ANTIMoNY-''A DESIRABLE
ORE"
Another letter from the Chicago Copper
works, dated June 4, 1888, reads as
follows:
DEAR SIB:-Y Your favor of May &c re-
cei7ed. We proceeded to make thorough
commercial test of sample of ore sent US
as requested by you, and find it a very
desirable ore, easily smelted, and free
from anthony and arsenic. The per
centage of copper 1925 contained is
excellent, when base metals such as
arsenic and anthony are absent, and
render it very desirable ore. With a
vein the width you describe, it will surely
pay you well to work, as the ore, if it
continues of the same character, will find
a ready market. When you are prepared
to ship we will be pleased tonegotiate with
you. Yours respectfully,
W. R. RoNEY,
General Manager.
Renewing his pumping process the re-
porter asked
''What is the condition of your mine
now"
''Well, we have two shafts, one 10 feet
deep and the other about $50 feet deem.
The vein in one is five feet wide and in the
other five and a-half feet wide. In one
the pay streak is about twenty inches wide
and in the other twenty-five inches"
'What does your ore average?"
about $130 per ton, although a good
deal of it goes higher"
Would this pay?'
Certainly, it will pay big, but, my dear
fellow, don't ask me any further Questions
but please read the circular I gave Won.
and that will give you all the information
you DESIRE"
ZHe sitter and Copper Island Mining Conn
pdny, of Minnesota,
DISCOVERY OF MINE AND WHERE SITUATED
Some two years ago mine was discov.
cred on an island in Lake Suner;or no.,