The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-05-15
NINE. MINING, MINUS.

cry cost S2O,uUU. so those Ill charge SAID, Dut
the mine proved a failure, and now the costly
crusher, etc, are to be sold for old junk.
''There is plenty of silver there, think" con-
tidently spoke up the captain of the vessel, |
"but this machinery wasn't the right kind to
get it out" 1t is not likely, according to the
lesson of experience, that any machinery ever
made could extract enough of anything from
the best ore in Maine, except iron, to make ii
pay AS a business. A few years ago there was
a great fever over copper, silver and gold.
Blue Hill. Sullivan and, indeed, all Hancock
county seemed in the excited vision of the I'M
lucky ones who invested to be second Sacra-
mento or Ballarak, and soon the whole country
round about was dug full of holes and dotted
with shaft houses, while army of men dis
turbed the earth with pick and shovel and
threw it out in unganly heaps upon the sur
face. Machinists and laborers and the stock
of the inner ring pro1ited by the
operations, but the small and large buyers of
stock who were green" lost enough to make
them rave when Maine mines Were mentioned,
while to this day the shafts are cursed by farm
er> whose sheep and cattle fall into their lone
some depths. At Bangor, in that time of eN-
element many absurd things were said and
done, and to IA sober, sensible person the furry
afforded much amusement Farmers whose
has stood ready for the cutting and whose
potatoes went unhoed woke the echoes round
about with blasting great Lodges on their land.
and then fastened to Bangor with gripsack
found. to have it assayed. To read signs about
Bangor one would think himself in Colorado
city, for here one reads Rising sun Silver and
Gold Mining Company. capital 81 ,U00,00O, or
Andes Gold Mining and Milling Company.
capital $500. 600" while there were assavors'
offices without number and two mining eX-
changes. There was a stock auction every
Saturday forenoon. and everybody who attend
ed, and there We're many, bought more or less
Of the alluring and handsomely printed stock.
The prices were from cents up to s. % per
share. and lIany purchased the cheap simply
because it didn't cost very much and might.
they felt. suddenly develop fabulous value and
make its owners men above the common things
and pursuits of earth. in fact, self-nade men OF
their times. But then came assessments and
delinquent sales, and failures and engineering
difficulties. The head stock manipulators got
out from under and the innocen> felt the crash.
Some few mines are still feebly worked for
copper, but dividends there are not. and the
principal evidence of the golden age in Maine
is the yawning shafts which disfigure the
country face. The assayers are gone, the Ban
gor mining exchanges are occupied by cloth
ing shop and sailor boarding house, respective.
", and the mining papers, those of them that
hive have become interested in general indus
tries; While there is a lonesome look about The
bitten ones and the husbandman hoeth careful
ly his potatoes. nor thinks more of being a
Mackey or Il Flood. Bangor Cor Boston
journal.
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VI y - 7"' ~
The next semi-annual meeting of the Maine
Pedagogical Society VIII be held al Rockland.
FRIDAY and saturday. May 10Th and lith. The
general committee Will meet, Thursday even
my, AT the Thorndke Hotel. Fridays exercises
WIFE consist OF Il paper ON "GeoSraphy' BY
Il. a. Robertson oil Augusta, final report of
committee on geography and general discus
sion; paper on "Molal instruction" will be
read by a. l.. Lane of "terNlile and the final
report Of the committee viii be presented. In
the evening Hon John 5. Case OF Rorkland
viii give the Nv ords of welcome to which
the president OF The society VIII respond. and
an address on "ey numerical Development
VIII beglVen 10y Rev. Dr. Pepper OF NaterNie.
saturday paper ON "Sclence III Elementary
schools VIII he read by Arthur Is. Morrill, Of
Portland, followed by The fna report of the
committee on reading and spelling. The meet
ings during the day Will be held in the High
School room, and Friday evenings meeting, IN
the Baptist church. on Main Street. The COM
mittee OF entertainment at Rockland will be
Rev. ii. A. PhllDrook, Mr.. John LoNtloy,
Mr.. /. ii. McL"in, Mr.. y. l.. Tyler. Ladies
wishing entertainment should address some
member OF the committee al the earliest posi-
bic moment stating at what time and by what
conveyance they Will arrive. Half fare on
boats and trains.
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The annual meeting Of the Maine Loyal IT.
gion Was held at the Falmouth Hotel. Portland