Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-22
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

--owosso's works are now in fullop-
sration.
Severe frosts have done much damage
n Emmet County.
-Owosso is to have new bank, with
capital of 100000.
Marshall Catholics have formed
Catholic Union to be incorporated for be-
nevolent purposes.
Martin Glass, 80 years old, threw him.
self in front of train in Saginaw City,
and was killed. He was insane.
-Manistique is to have new Catholic
church, which will be the largest and hand
soonest church building in the place.
Mrs. Hannah Perrine, who died ie-
Gently at Battle Creek, aged SO. left five
brothers whose ages aggregate 375 years.
| "A sister of the famous Indian Chief,
Ignatius Petoskey, who died last spring, is
now at Harbor Springs, and claims to be
115 years of age.
"A private banker at Vulcan, known by
the names of Guild and Basset, has disap-
peared, leaving depositors in the lurch TO
the extent Of $1,000.
The Menominee River Boom Company
expect the product handled this season will
reach 1868 500, 900 feet, and that AZ, 10000
feet will be carried over.
Miss Morris, who was first bridesmaid
at Mile. Nevadas wedding in Paris, is a ma
five of East Saginaw and daughter of the
late l.. r. Norris of Detroit.
1t is more than year that fhe city Of
Detroit has gone without street signs, and
the Free Press says it could much better
have gone without its Aldermen.
There is a vacancy in the postoffice at
Carleton. Miss Emily Begel, postmistress,
attended the skating-rink and was seized
with illness while there. She was taken
home and died two days later.
Thirty men are now employed at
the Michigamme Mine, these being worked
on the stock-pile chiefly. The force will
be increased to about seventy men ere
long, and the mine will be wrought stead
lily with that number of miners during the
winter
The East Saginaw Board of Water
Commissioners has, during the past season,
done good work in the way Of laying water
mains. and thus affording fire protection to
portions Of the city which have heretofore
been inadequately protected. The pipe
laid this season aggregates over ten miles
in length and the material and labor will
cost the Board in the neighborhood of $75,-
600 or $50, 900.
ExPrUrIng OOPpcr
fisherman Stevens in Detroit Free Press.I
In 1847 ! made two trips to Lake Supe-
rior in search of copper mines. number
of Detroit gentlemen had procured Gov
ernment permits to locate ground for min
ing purposes, and John r. Grout and my
self were employed to explore the copper
region and locate them. Up to this time
but little mining had been done. There
was military post at Copper Harbor, and
on Keweenaw Point, near the mouth of
Eagle River Boston company were sink
ing n shaft, and near there Pittsburgh
company were opening what they called
the Cliff Mine. We landed from little
schooner, the only one on the lake, at Cop
per Harbor, and from that point made
excursions into the interior in search
OF prospects. We spent u month in
that vicinity, but could find no indi-
cations of copper except upon lands COW
cred by permits of one or the other of
these companies. We then chartered O
birch bark canoe and couple of Chippewa
indians and coasted along up the lake as
far as the Porcupine Mountains, stopping
Nor 1ox fxvr OF tha ~ oil
streams and searching diligently for some
indications of copper. We saw in the On
tonagon country the big copper bowlder
that Mr.. Eldred afterward, at big expense,
brought down to Detroit, only to have it
taken away from him as Government prop
erty. This bowlder was the only evidence
Of copper we found after leaving Kewee-
nav Point. We returned to Copper Harbor
without having made location, and there
fell in with Col Chas. Gratiot who was the
agent of the Boston company, who had 10
Gated six sections. He offered to sell us one
of them for $4,000, but we were not au-
thorized to purchase claim. The section
he offered us adjoined the ground on which
WAS the cliff vein, considered the banner
mine of the country, aud the course of the
vein would carry us to the section he Of
fered us in about 100 yards. We hired
Cornish miner and sunk some pits along
the line of the vein and found some speci-
mems of native copper. and came to the
conclusion il was q valuable claim. finally
contracted with Colonel Gmtiot for the
property, intending to offer il to the COM
pany who had sent us if they wanted it,
and, if not, keep it on my own account.
On returning to Detroit we made out our
report, stating our inability to discover any
ground on which we could find evidence of
copper sufficient to warrant the expenditure
of money save the section l had bargained
for l told them that as we were in their
employ this was theirs if they chose to
take il. They concluded to take il and organ
lied the North American Mining Company,
of which Gurdon Williams was President
and j. Bacon Superintendent. They issued
5000 shares, and before any assessment
WAS levied save for the purchase money the
shares sold for from so to $25 each. My
quota of stock was issued 10 me- and al
though had great confidence in the ulti-
mate value of it wns confident il would
require heavy assessments before dividends
could be made, aud therefore parted with
my stock while IL was in good demand. Mr..
Bacon went on to the ground and before
testing the mine to any extent built fair
sized village for superintendent and ore
men and laborers to occupy. A large sum
wns expended at the mine, but never
heard of any dividends. Mr.. Grout, my
companion in exploring, continued to give
bis attention to the copper mines, and even
lually erected smelling works near Detroit
and accumulated fortune.