New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-07
VAWA CITY RISES BY MAGIC
r,.r FUTURE METROPOLIS OF THE
MICHIPICOTEN GOLD FIELDS.
A SHORT AND SIMPLE CEREMONY IN NAMiN" IL
PROSECUTORS ENTHUSIASTIC OVER THE
oUTIooK-DIsPUTEs ABOUT PRl-
oRITY or CLAIMS.
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oRITY or CLAIMS.
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r,,u.. C,,v NicbinIcoten Toll Road Algoma
D,str,ct Canada. Sept / (via Sault ste Marie
Cent 6)-A CITY with only a log hut ana a small
,vrobor of tents has arisen by magic on the
,or,bvost angle OF Lake Wawa by act or civil
Engineer Joseph COZens. who came mere !es'er-
dav as q representative Of the Canadian Gov
eminent and with his theodoli'e ana axmen ana
cbainmen laid out what the enthuS'ds'Pc pros
motors believe 10 be the future great Guy oI inc
gold field The spot was selected by Cap'aIi
Joseph Ganley. OF Alnsworth & Ganiey whose
extensive interests include fishing camps scat
tered for three hundred miles along the north
shore OF Lake Superior
The reason why Captain Ganley selected this
snot is easy to perceive. The lake Is surrounded
nv steep walls of rock covered with moss in
many places inaccessible from the shores OF the
lake There is only one exit or entrance oy
.o,or and that along q small creek which iloWs
-. ,he nov, CITY and Captain Ganley owns most
-. ,ba land on which the docks must be Duil
,,,sr mining opens in earnest and marhlner!
.rd sunnlies are 10 be shipped to this sec'loh'
while the Indians aege that this creek ana It's
connecting rivers are navigabe by snah poat
nm tn Massanaba, on the Canadian faCulc , na
road vet there is no certainty thal th's ttN, Sc
mani true, and the OnIy way u" -
bare now IS by the way of the Mlcnlp!co'eh -n ,.s
sinn and thence overland six miles u! d ul
ecult mountain trail to the new toWh -.
Every one of the hundred prOspectoiS hoM noi
cotbared To witness the formal chrls'ehiiis oi
Tawa CITY on the hills around gIeaiyu 'he
camp fires. over which the miners Woulu sonia o
oonr ,heir evening meal The ceremony was
very short, and when ii was over ever! II,'.I ne,
rnshed TO his tent 10 cook ard eat MS rasheI
Of bacon and stale bread. that he might soon pe
asleep and all the more ready to arise al sun
IN to continue his work of prospecting. A size
has already been selected for the hoteI, WhlCu l.
10 be stuat ted on a blum oNerioohlhS tht an an
and to be built as soon as lumbcr arrives. me
owners of the land in the rear OF the holtl naH
decided that the pleasant grove mere sha'I DC
a city park when the city is established
CAPTAIN James Ganley, of the steamer Ieie-
gram the only vessel running regularly 10 thls
section from the inhabited world mas Stdhsu Tut
a claim which is supposed to be very rich lie
said TODAY: "As to the gold discoveries develop
ing TO anything like what the indications give
hope for ii can be authOritativcly stated tha'
quartz has been found not IN one section onIy,
but in different places extending over lhouSdhus
~ acres that ASSAYS over 5000 a ton.
Joseph Dickerson. the editor OF paper at Port
Arthur. has the richest claim Of ALL ana ms IS
located at a point over two miles from w ava
CITY Free gold has been found in the rotten
white ouartz. in which this section abounds in
chunks as big as kernels OF wheat II - HHs",
gold in its purity. and needs not 10 ne SuoJeCltu
n any chemical process 20 free II from the rock.
Every day prospectOrs are nndlhs SPes M.
have ALREADY been claimed but there are heari!
as many disputes TO the priority OF Ian I'M
and nobody can tell who Will get a patent H0''
the Government. ~ . ,oro 60 c,v
The only way TO get a letter IRON, ny ee..o-,ord
u,zat,on is 10 send II seven miles oNeridnu
.h~onsb tho mud and UP and down mountains 10
,1;ohinicoten Mission where 1t must await the
fishing tug