Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
A WONDERFUL MINE.
Gold, Silver, Iron, Sulphur, SuIphuric Acid, Fire, Water and Manure, all Found in One Mine at Ca-
 naan Valley.

' viously sent you an article describing our silver mine and its locality, and as we have been making some new discov- cries, I thought another might be inter. esting to your readers.
 We have many visitors, some from sheer curiosity and some that have some pretensions to science. Iwant one more visitor and want him to be posted upon rocks and ores. l have my ideas about the geology of our part of the country and would like to have real live man of science go over the ground with me.
 The large body of land of which my farm, and several others form part, is all drift or made land and it has come from the north. From the Whiting riv- CT on the east to the Konkapot on the west, 1t is all made land and is the tract of land I have specified. The hills around this tract are mostly limestone and granite. From many and repeated tests, iron, gold, silver, copper and lead have been found and all these metals can be showed to doubters of these facts. The iron ore has been found to be so full of sulphurous matter as to injure l the metal.
 The mine on Cleaveland hill has been prospected and some work done at odd times for the last three years. At the beginning of the work in this mine and at every new appearance of the ore, we had tests made, and to prevent mistakes and impositions I went with some of the ore to the parties who analized 1t. Many such tests have been made, but not all of them under my supervision. The results were most satisfactory. The same fault was found about the sulphur and it was told us that the ore was SC rich in sulphur1c acid that 1t would be a paying business to work it for the acid.
 We have had so many discourage. ments to contend with, that the pros peeting has gone slow and after all the experience we have had, have come tc the conclusion that we must put uI works that will save the acid, and also the metals that the ore contains One party that has tested several samples ot our ore, sends word that if there is (
 body of size to warrant tine putting ur an acid works, that he will start the en
 terprise.
 The difficulty with us in getting tht
 ore now is, it is too hard for common
 drills to cut, and it is also the same witt
 the powder; 1t wants strong explosives
 to break the ore.
 We have put down a drain to clea
 the shaft of water, and are already t.
 form our company, or make contract for working the mine, or receive propo l sitions from parties with capital to car , ry out the enterprise.
 We have gone down three feet thi last week and the samples of ore takel l out are the best we have seen yet. I , grows better as we go deeper. Thi ' mine is in the south part of New Marl boro, Mass, two miles from Clayton, i
 straight northeast line.
 3 Now as we are not ready to doubt t mine as being of value in the far west 5 we are willing to do so if it Is located i 3 Massachusetts.
 : I have worked in placer mining di: ? tricts, in California, in my younger day
 and the traces of volcanic agency wer
 evident, and none of LIS doubted 1t. 5 wintered in the extent crater of volci
 no, in Calayeras county, in 1850, an U here was where I took notice of sue
 things. The hill or mountain that tn a mine is on has been subject to the sam
 agency, but not enough to show mol than explosive eruptions and not to th' extent of violence that the Sierra NJ
 vadas have experienced. The earthl 't covering of an eastern mountain hide e the treasures they contain and the r. IS verse is the case in our mineral lands i
 our great southwest.
 'I With our facilities of transportatio T. and nearness to market of all kinds, Il mine of low-grade ore IS of more n, 5 value than some of our very richest l. the far west, and it is here at home an 'I it Is accessible and handy to work ar 10 easy to drain.
 'l We cut drain from the shaft dow r' the hillside to the south and here W l. made discovery. The dirt and stol
 were thrown on each side of the ditc s until the cut grew deep and the re r was taken out with wheelbarrows. Or A would suppose the grass on the edge q the ditch would be dry and short, bl If such is not the case, it is as high and l. dark in color as though it grew arour
 manure heap. It IS fertilized by tl
 rotten stone and earth from the min st It is the best grass on that farm. I hay ,i ?, brought home some of the rubbish fro
 the ditch and spread it on my meadow