Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-09-12


Franklin should soon acquire new
and productive ground that the life
OF its productiveness is limited. The
next mine on the range now being
worked is the old Albany and Boston,
now called the Peninsular. IL has
been worked TO a considerable extent
upon a rather coarse congloinerate
and has produced considerable copper
but still has never made its owners
happy with dividends. At present In
addition to their regular working
they are exploring upon the Pewabic
vein, the same vein worked by the
Quincy and Franklin, and have a
fair show OF success. They are also
running horizontal cross cut at
depth from the surface OF about five
hundred feet, toward the Calumet
and Hecla lode which they expect to
reach in about year from now, at
distance OF about fifteen hundred
feet. or course, in this cross cut they
cut all the belts and lodes IN that
distance and show their condition at
that point, but 1t is not conclusive us
to their condition at a distance on
either side. The next mine OIL the
range now being worked is the Osceola
and next that the Calumet and llecla.
the Tamarack, the Centennial, the
Tamarack Jr., the Kearsarge and the
Allonez Beside these are numbers OF
locations called mines, with an ipcor.
poration and high sounding names,
but so far OF no value, but on every
boom and now, these stocks are trot'
ted out with hook carefully baited
with strong and tempting words, to
attract the unwary lamb who has
money in his control, much as the
angler in your streams and ponds
tempts the trout with worm and fly.
The several miners owning land
across which the Calumet and llecla
lode is supposed to run, are many OF
them busy now In an attempt to find
1t, hoping it NAV prove, when found
4 bonanza to them, but so far there
is no promise OF but one Calumet aud
Hecla mine in all the world. 1t is the
theory OF scientists that these copper
bearing strata form u great synclinaI
and are the bed OF Lake Superior, but
underneath the sand stone. because
on the Michigan side they dip away
to the north while on tho northern
side as at Isle Royal and Michipicoter
island. the dip Is TO the south. 1t IL
considered that the trap rock is igne
Gus In Its origin, but 1t is generally
J thought that the metal deposits O
, this region are the result OF electrical
currents and may be OF quite recent
r date and Us changes in the formation
, would seem to have been made ever
; since the deposit OF metals, 40 Their
are reasons for believing that change
are constantly going on, one forma
, ton or deposit giving way to anothe
/ and so on indefinitely. Cavities ar
3 found in the amygdaloid mines, TIN
walls Of which are covered with crys
tails, and in many instances inside tn
= crystals is a deposit OF copper, bu
generally or always attached to othe
copper at the base OF the crystals, ant
giving bright copper color to VIVA
would otherwise have been a whit
crystal. A cavity OF this kind wa
0 found few years since where til
D crystals, glistening with the brigh
{ color OF the copper. were beautiful
d arranged In the form OF rosette'
y The color OF many OF the specimens {
copper from the various mines is beat
n tiful and varying from the tan brow
q usually called copper color, to Greu
4 variety Of high and fancy colors an
in rare instances even to q black. an
while copper when exposed to the u
generally oxidizes rapidly, and b
= comes a deep, dark brown, many
% these specimens retain their brilliaI
i colors, unchanged by time or eyposur
% The Huron mine located little wa
u from this village, although never
very productive mine, furnishes mar
" most beautifully colored specimens
d the green trap or epidate, while Il
old Phoenix mine forty miles or mo
away on Keeweenaw Point furnish
h many specimens OF fantastic form
ID and the ash bed formation $50 Gale
that runs along the northern side
the mineral range furnishes specime
peculiar to itself and quite difrere
from all others. It is often asked
-. these deep mines are very hot In {
bottom, but they are not, the mercu
ranging from 500 to $50 the ye
through after you get down lit
below the effect OF the surface air
-, this respect being entirely diffsre
from many OF the western mines.
= am afraid have spun my yarn t
" long already and close here. but p,
10 haps at some future time | may 81
ID you some description OF the stan
or mills OF this region where the rock
nc stamped into "sand" and wash
b. away leaving the copper ready
"a smelling. bAdAR
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