The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-18
That Is About All the Great
MichipicOten Gold Scare
Amounts to.
MANY ARE DISAPPOINTED,
Part With Many Hard Earned
Dollars and Return Sad
der But Wiser.

The great rush to the Michipi-
coten gold fields is gradually di-
minishing and hundreds of people
who were seized with the craze and
hastened to the "diggins, actually
believing that great fortune await
ed them, have returned to their
respective homes, and perchance,
have few rock specimens as
souvenirs, upon which, by the aid of
strong magnifying glass may be
seen an occasional speck of gold as
large as grain of fine sand. There
is no disputing the fact that there
is gold in the Michipicoten region,
Git also exists in numberless other
portions of the country but unless
it is found in paying quantities it
might as well be at the bottom of
the Pacific ocean.
A number of conservative busi-
ness men of Sault Ste. Marie have
been to the Junior klondike and
made thorough investigation, but
returned fully satisfied that more
money could be made by letting it
alone. Aside from the Dickinson
Mackey claims, nothing has been
discovered of any account, and it
even remains to be seen whether
the above named claims contain pay
ing quantities of the yellow metal.
Mr.. Dickinson has been an invalid
for a number of years, and but q
short time ago recovered his health
sufficiently to get around. He is of
a nervous temperament and the eX
citement over his find is said to have
completely prostrated him, 1t is
learned that he has sold his claim,
but as no tests had been made it is
like buying cat in bag.
The party of fifteen or twenty,
composed of men from l. 'Anse,
Baraga and Pequaming, which was
organized last week and anticipated
leaving Monday by boat for Michi-
picoten, has abandoned the trip, as
it has been definitely learned that
il would be simply time and money
wasted.
The following communication
which appeared in the Mining Jour
nal Of recent date. covers the facts
nicely, and we take the liberty to
re- print 1t:
ALL NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS.
To the Editor Mining Journal-Another of
those periodical gold excitements has started
on the north shore of Lake superior, and our
make the most Of IL. What is called "a new dis
covery is not new by any means as the state
ment published in yesterdays number OF The
( Mining Journal showed. Detroit people have
! dropped a great many thousands of dollars in
! prospet ting for gold in the Lake Wawa dis
! trict. 1t would be well forSpeople TO 'go slow
I on this socaled new gold discovery, and re-
member that distance lends enchantment to
! the view
/ l venture the assertion. and ask but for time
| to prove IL, that Marquette county contains
| better gold veins than can be found at Lake
+, Wawa, or any other known part of the north
shore. There are well-deined quartz lodes al
| assay from eight to twelve dollars per ton,cer-
tainly enough TO pay after the mines are
J opened and equipped. The celebrated Home
I stake gold mine yields but two or three dollars
per ton in gold; the Treadwell mine in Alaska
! one of the most profitable gold mines now
worked, yields but three dollars per ton In, gold
These periodical gold, silver and copper ex-
! citements on the Canadian north shore break
! out every year two and die away like the
storms that sweep over the lake. We all can
remember them-the silver excitement around
Thunder Bay; the Shebandowin gold mines
the wonderful deposits of gold and silver IN
1 the Rabbit mountain distrlct,in which General
| Alger and so many other Detroit people sunk
80 much money; the Jacktsh Bay gold dis
f, coveries; the second Calumet copper mine on
| Michipicotep islands; the big caves and de
| posits of copper found in the Michipicoten dis
trict last summer by an excited Sooite; all. al
failures. fzzles. Therefore my advice to all u
to Ego slow" Let the excited, eager Sooites
lay out their town site. and lay bare the gold
en- metal II will then be time TO rush in. IL
/ the meantime IL might be well tn examine the
deposits of the precious metals that lie close
Ia our own doors-god, silver. lead, copper
and iron I'm abundance NJ.