Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-03

er's treasures an old coin much like the
| one described. She got 1t out, saw that
| the Inscriptions and other markings
were as described and now they Will
| take steps to find out if the coin is
genuine 1t has been in Mrs. Fonseea'
| family for several generations.-Glob
Tuesday evening, the 2Sth ult., was
200 skaters being present
| Miss Alice Wetmore, daughter Of j. Il.
Wetmore of the T. c. r., is home, at
Moncton, for the Christmas holidays,
Miss Wetmore Is studying under one Of
Bostons leading instructors of music,
and, according to the Boston Home
Journal, is a student of much promise.
A large bear was killed on the Charlo
road, near Campbellton, a day or two
ago, by young man named Diote. The
animal was hidden In the hollow of a
tree and was dispatched with an axe.
In the beds of 'wad" or bog man
ganese which are known to exist In
large quantity in two places, and may
no doubt be found in others, New
Brunswick has mineral product not
found in any other country IN any
quantity. Hard manganese ore is got by
mining in the rock formation. To find
the material in a bed varying from five
to thirty feet thick, Immediately under
the turf or first layer of SOL and so
soft that it can simply be shovelled up
without the aid of a pick, is quite a
, novel occurrence in manganese mining
experience.
Such a process of treating the man
ganese bog ore has been discovered and
has stood the test and is now to be
applied by the Mineral Products Com
pany of New York at the great bed of
this ore found at Dawson settlement,
half a dozen miles from Hillsboro, in
Albert county The owners are satisfied
that they can succeed. Theirs is the
only process known which has proved
effectual. 1t involves a large expendi-
ture and a complicated plant, and their
works in Albert county are the only
ones of the kind in the world.
The market value of ferro-manganese
today is SAG. so per ton. Two tons OF the
bog ore will make one ton of ferro-
manganese, which is the only material
that will successfully purify steel.
The company purchased the furnaces
at Bridgeville, N. s., which along with
fine belt of hardwood happened to be
on the market. The briquettes will be
taken by rail to BridgeVille, convert
ed into ferro- manganese and from
there shipped to steel works in any part
of the world. The company is incor-
porated under the laws OF New York.
Hon. F. C. Sayles of Pawtucket, R. l.,
is president, F., c.. Sayles Jr., of Prov
idence, r. l., treasurer; DR.. Edwin f.
Ward of New York, secretary; Russell
P Hoyt of New York, general manager;
N. M L.angdon of New York, superin-
tendent of works.
The company began operations in
Dawson Settlement six months ago,
and have spent about $4,000 in pur-
chase of land, clearing 1t up and erect
mo Ihail, rN1l
hundred acres of land, on seventeen of
which the ore is found under a thin
coating of soil or vegetable matter, and
extending to a depth of FIVE to thirty
feet of the ore, which can lie got out by
merely shoveling it into the cars.
Considerable success attended the
efforts of the Havelock mineral
springs people to introduce their prod
ucts in Boston last summer, and now
other foreign markets win be developed.
Two of the owners, ]. C. Mahon and j.
w. Y. Smith, are going to Bermuda
and the West Indies this winter to see
what the prospects are there.
GENERAL DOMINION NOTES.
The treasury department has received
notice of a seizure Of 1900 pounds of
struggled New Brunswick turkeys at
Houlton, Me- The duty on turkeys is
five cents a pound.
Postal revenue for November shows
an increase of $4,000 over same month
last year.
Prof. e. Odlum, agent for the British
Columbia government in Great Britain,
says the people over there are begin
ming to be awakened to the vast re-
sources and splendid possibilities of
western Canada The influx of Brit
ish capital will before long render Brit
ish Columbia an important mining and
manufacturing country.
Hon. Dr. Borden, minister of militia,
had an interview with Lord Lansdowne,
imperial minister of war, who promised
him every possible consideration and as
sistance in promoting the welfare of
schemes affecting Canada. Hon. DIR.
Borden also interviewed the comman-
der-in-chief
French capitalists have put in a ten
der with the dominion government for
a 100000 subsidy for a Franco Canadian
steamship line
Edward Blake has left for Ireland
Among the contributions received by
him for the Canadian Irish parliament
airy fund.- of which he is treasurer, are:
Toronto, $4764; st. John, $780, The total
is $7093.
Sir Wilfred Laurler is having some
trouble with his friends. There are not
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