St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-30
RAINY LAKE GOLD FIELDS.
ProspectOr Martin Says They Dis
count Cripple Creek.


G. A. Martin, an old mining pros
pector, who for the past two years has
been in the collaborating belts north Of
Rainy Lake, was at the Clarendon
yesterday, and left last night for Grip
pie Creek, in company with NJ. H.
Lynch, of West Superior. Mr.. Martin
carried with him a sack containing
over fifty pounds of rich specimens of
gold-bearing ore from the Seine river,
Manitou, Rat Portage and Port
Arthur gold fields. One Of the surface
specimens he showed the G / 0 e re-
porter was encrusted with free gold
and Mr.. Martin said 1t would assay
$4,000 to the ton. 1t was a rare speci-
men, and, said Mr.. Martin: You
would have to hunt a long time in Col
orado or any other country before find
ing such rich piece of rock"
Speaking of the gold fields where he
has been for the past two years, he
said there was no question Of their de-
velopment. and that the only draw
backs to the opening UP Of the coun-
try have been the lack of capital, and
the fact that but few Of the people
who have been prospecting there have
had any practical experience with min
{. ing properties. 1t was his opinion that
there was no occasion for any one who
desires to prospect or invest in gold
properties going to Cripple Creek or
any other place West, for there are as
rich veins in the northern country as
in any part Of the West. He has been
engaged in prospecting all his life and
has been in the gold fields of Utah,
Idaho, California, Mexico, Colorado,
Wyoming and Montana his home be-
ing at Monarch, in the latter state
Mr.. Martin said several veins of free
milling ore had been discovered on
Sawbill like, seventy-five miles north
of Fort Francis, and that nearly all of
the ore in the Manitou country is free
milling. A thirty-foot vein of free mill
ing ore has been found on an island in
Waubegon lake, and a ten-foot vein,
also free milling, on the main land at
Shebandwin lake. The latter point is
about thirty miles south of the Ca
madam Pacific railway and is reached
either from Finmark or Savanna sta
tionS on that road midway between
Rat Portage and Port Arthur Wau-.
begon is two miles from the Canadian
Pacific and is near Elm bay.
He said a crew of forty men was now
at work on the Mcclellan property on
Whitefish bay, sinking shafts and MAX
ing preparations for MILL which will
be built in the spring. Mr.. Martin said
there was some talk of a smelter being
built at Port Arthur and that several
stamp mills would be built in the
Manitou and Seine river countries, be-
sides additions Of five and ten stamps
to number of the mills already built
The ore from the Waubegon and She
bandwin properties, both of which are
being worked now, will be shipped to
Rat Portage to be treated. There is
now plant at that point, consisting of
a stamp mill and arrangements for
oharnioa1 haf will
any ore, either refractory or free mill
ing. In the Seine river country which
is the nearest of the Canadian gold
fields to the United States, an English
syndicate is working three properties
and the Wiegand and Foley mills are
also being worked. These are only a
few of the principal properties, but he
knew that work was being carried on
at several others. The Lucky Coon
mine on the Seine river, also known as
the Hillyer property, he said, was a
good paying proposition, but the work
has been suspended because of some
difference between the several owners.
Mr.. Martin said there was no ques-
ton as to the future of this country,
for there are rich veins in the vicinity
of Rat Portage and Port Arthur and in
the Seine river and Manitou countries
All of these belts extend north to the
veins are found between granite-and
slate, or granite and porphyry there is
no question of their depth. These are
known as gold formations and an ex-
perienced prospector is sure that his
vein will not run out when one is found
between these walls.
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