Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-16

vein afterwards worked by the Yer
mont Copper Mining Co. Among his
purchases was the $50 acres of land
now owned by the Elizabeth Mining
Co. Having large interests in other
States, Mr.. Tyson did little more than
enough work to protect his mineral
rights here, for many years. About l3
years ago, an adit was run in from the
eastern slope, and the vein now being
worked was struck, a short distance
from the surface of the ground. Cop
per ore assaying IA per cent was
mined, and at the very outset the mine
was profitable. Later, the Elizabeth
Mining Co., composed of heirs of Isaac
Tyson, Jr., was organized. Sharon
being the nearest railroad station, the
smelling works were erected upon a
small level on the southerly side of the
hill. A perpendicular shaft was sunk
short distance from the opening of
the adit, steam hoisting apparatus
was put in, and large quantity of ore
was taken from the mine. From the
mouth of the perpendicular shaft,
tramway was built to the breaker, from
which the ore goes down into the cob
bing house and then down a hill to
the roast beds, from which it goes to
the furnace. When the price of cop
per went down, work was suspended /
and the product OF the furnace was
stored. In 1888, Geo. w. Dow was
employed as mine superintendent, and
under him the work in the mine has
since been prosecuted. When the i So
foot level, the third level of the mine,
was reached, it was supposed that the
bottom of the vein had been reached
but in the past year the miners have
been working upon an incline of 40
degrees and are now working at a
depth of 2S0 feet. Here ore is now
being mined which carries from 80 to
35 per cent of pure copper. The vein
is 280 feet in height now and has va
rying width of from 8 TO GA feet. How
much lower the vein runs can be learn
ed only by mining. The hanging wall
is self-sustaining there is but little wa
ter in the mine there is no arsenic or
antimony ia the ore, which carries its
own hux and is OF the best possible
quality for smelling. The mine is near
the summit of high hill SO that the
ore, as soon as hoisted from the shaft,
goes upon descending grade to the
furnaces and to the railroad station.
The natural outlet appears to be down
the southeasterly slope, and forty acres
of land with the Rice mill privilege, two
miles southerly from the mine, have
been purchased. A gravity road of
light grade will carry the ore from the
mine to the works to be erected upon
this new purchase. Mining experts de-
clare this to be the most valuable cop
per mine outside the Lake Superior re-
gion and that its product can be smelt-
ed at minimum cost. There is but
one drawback, it is said-the distance
of the mine from a railroad. With
proper railroad facilities the lean ore, I
that carrying 5 to Z per cent of copper,
would be shipped away as hux for
ores that cannot be smelted without a
fiux. The richer ores would be smelt- |
ed here. c
sTRAFFoRD MINING co. /
Upon the eastern slope of Copperas !
Hin are the works ofthe Straford Min a
ing Co., where, from the discovery of S
the bed of iron pyrites in 1909 until t
within few years, ,copperas was manu- f
factured. The present owners with ]
their predecessors have at various times 9
mined and smelted large quantities of v
copper ore that was found in pockets or e
in small veins in the great bed of sui I
phuret of iron that belongs to the COM b
pany. Running southerly from the vein o
Of copper owned by the Elizabeth Min n
ing Co. is a large deposit of copper n
hat. when uncovered, will, probably, u
prove to be nearly, if not quite, as val :
1abIe as that in the Elizabeth mine.
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