The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
PORTAGE Lake News.
.,;be Presents a Few
o. U.;nters on though
tons Klondike.'
,,... Rock Hoisted BY Skip
,, In No. shaft-ssopins
Las, viii Not Yesin Until spring
W." ..s stock TO BE Treated.

.gs stock 60 BE Treated
- afternoon the NEwsrepreEen-
i've visited the Baltic mine or n ..a,ss
ave Tlondike," as it is Familiarity called,
,OS from what we saw there we should n,,
i md the mine to be verl."o'e MOI
l ,'s On our arrival at the mine we
, r'a superintendent Stanton on the
'Ouuu .as We found him a most courte-
Gentleman and he kindly showed US
s sSost the workings. The No. 1 SHAFT OF
49, ~ s,st uit opened up and known az the
a., Mile strike, is now down about
Oh Acc teet The miners in this shalt
u~s hseo busy the past week In strip
,.s the shaft, widening it and laying
p ,';aoers for the skip road. aud yester-
work had SO far advanced as to al
,ow the hosting OF the first rock by SKID
10, NIGHT. The lode, which IN this shalt
s.. hsen proyen to be fiIty-one feet wide,
sios n the west at seventy-iour degrees,
81, 10 allow working to better advant-
.ss The skip road has been built at an
angle Of seyeuty-two degrees. AS lar as
,hs development has gone no mine IN
,bis a,strict with as little work done
has ever shown up to the advantage
ths vein in this shaft has, not even the
,reat Calurnet and Hecla. The DRIFT we
went through runs from the hanging to
the foot fall and all along this driit can
be seen large masses OF copper protrud-
ue from the vein, and rich stamp rock
can be also plainly seen. A neat shaft
bouse has been erected over this shalt
and now that everything IL ready for
hosting, work will be pushed to the ut
most to deyelope the lode by drifting
both north and south. No stopping will
be done until some arrangements can be
made IN the spring to treat the rock.
The good rock hoisted from the drifts
will be put In stock piles and there is al
ready several tons OF copper and rich mill
rock on tse stock piles ready to be
treated.
More development work is being done
on surface and at No. 2 pit the vein haf
been struck at depth OF about thirty
feet. At this point the vein was found tC
be forty.eight feet wide. Considerable
mass copper and stamp rock was en-
couutered here, and the lode has proven
immensely rich wherever it has been
opened up. That the Baltic is not q
deposit. as some men (of course thos.
who have never visited the diggiDgs'
claim, has been demonstrated by th,
striking OF the vein in the pit started 9
couple Of weeks ago at the depth ofeight
cen feet. So far the lodein this pit hal
only been entered about six feet, and al
ready considerable mass copper and mil
rock has been taken fro N it. The lode IL
practically now developed for distance
oil 300 feet running north from the frs
opening, and that it is rich no one wht
has visited the mine can deny. 1t is SAT-
topredict that the shareholders OF tn
Baltic have good thing, but whether j
will prove second Calumet and Heel,
time alone can tell. One thing is certain
no mine has ever started with brighte
iuture before it than has the Baltic.
There are at present thirty-fiye mel
employed on the development work ant
more will be put on az soon as the open
ing oil the mine demands.