The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-09-24
MICHIGAN MELANGE.
NEWS OF GENERA. INTEREST TO our
READERS.

Important Happcnings IA the State During
the Past Few Davs Reported by Tele-
graph Matter Selected for the Benefit of
Our Own People.
Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Sept. 20.-The
information brought down by the North
Shore steamer Telegram from the Lake
Wawa and Michipicoten gold district Is
by far the most promising received yet.
and the steamer would have taken very
many more prospectors UP with her sat
urday had there been accommodations
The dozen passengers who came down
from the district all had claims. and
were enthusiastic over the prospects.
BY the boat the railroad syndicate re-
ceived letter from its expert pros
pector which states that free gold had
been discovered in vein on their prop
city on the south shore of the lake,
and that another free gold bearing vein
had been found on the north shore.
Will Turn Out Well.
j. l.. Claverhill. the Montreal capital
list. in whose interest Professor Nc
Kenzie visited the district, paid $4,000
cash for one share less than a half in
terest in the Dickinson Mackey claim,
and also agreed to erect the necessary
crushing machinery. N. T. Vanve, late
OF Colorado. who has had thirty years
mining experience, was interviewed and
gave 1t as his expert opinion that all
the finds in this region would turn out
well, as he believed the deposit was an
extensive and not an isolated one. He
has assays from the Canadian govern
mi wi ~ 70
a ton. the specimens sent being from his
claims. Others go over $4,000 to the ton.
1t was at first thought that nothing but
quartz mining would develop in the dis
trict. but c. I. Amey Of Ottawa, who
explored the district from Lake Mani
toult to Lake Wawa, brought here
with him specimens of washings which
he obtained from rivers emptying into
Lake Manitoult and Dog lake.
Forty Cents to the Pan.
In these washings he found free gold
from the gravel which yielded 40 cents
to the pan. He had four bottles filled
with these specimens, the nuggets vary
ing In size from mere speck to a grain
Of wheat He refused to give any in
formation as to location of these rivers
until he could perfect his papers with
thS SaHduidu 6ONeIuHicut. LIE SONeTu-
ment has evidently recognized the value
of the find, and has caused Crown Sur
veyor CozZens to post In the district
notices to the effect that the ordinary
land claim laws, allowing the settler
to claim 800 acres, Is no longer in eff
feet, but that the mining act now rules
and no one person can take UP more
than twenty-five acres. Some of the
miners who came down the trail from
Dog lake also report having found
placer claims at considerable distance
from Wawa City, but none of them will
talk concerning the location Of these
claims until they can protect them
selves.
Statement Utterly False.
1t is now definitely settled that the
statement made by one Johnson of De-
troit to the effect, that his father and
a Detroit syndicate spent 100000 in
sinking shafts in this district in the
early COS, is utterly false, as no shafts
have been found within ten miles of
Wawa City, the only one extant being
in unpromising territory near the mouth
of the Michipicoten river, where the
formation is very different from that
has ever been spent in this district by
all previous prospectors. 1t is noticed
that the crowds now going up are ex-
perienced miners, and the tenderfoot Is
not In evidence. The excitement is
greater than ever before, and the next
arrival of the boat is anxiously watched