The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-24
KEWEENAW co.
EAGLE RIVER.

EAGLE XIV Ell.
The Boston Financial News OF the 18th |
inst, relieves itself OF some OF it's super
abundant knowledge OF this region, as
follows:
1.-The boom in the copper shares and the
strength OF the copper market could not
fail to bring out numerous small mines
which have been idle for years, having
been abandoned as Improbable and un-
productive, but which the stock market
boomers think they can make to sell high
enough to attract new capital. Until
some new method is invented forextract-
ing copper from low grade rock, which
will reduce the cost materially, most OF
the abandoned mines will never amount
to any more in the future than they have
in the past.
A bull market in the copper shares and
stock assessments will not put copper
ore INTO ground already barren. There
il little doubt. however, but what the
fairy tales OF the spectators will answer
the same purpose so far as booming
prices and obtaining money from verdi
an investors is concerned"
For the edification OF the gentleman
from whose fertile brain the foregoing
dubbed forth, we beg leave to say that
there has been few improvements made
in the methods employed in the extrac-
ton OF copper from low grade rock, since
any OF the mines which they now propose
to reopen, were worked. There is an
other fact connected with our mines that
possibly is news to the same brilliant
mind-that is, that Keweenaw mines at
least, have copper bearing belt that
runs materially higher in the percentage
OF copper to the ton than does some oil
the dividend spayers OF the adjoining
county OF HougT ON, and the scribe has
no less an authority than one OF the
leading mining men OF the COPPER dis
trict, and who by the way is today man
aging several OF the successful mines o
, Roughton county, one OF them at least
destined to be the largest copper pro
ducers on Lake Superior in few years
that the Ashbed OF this county will be
D come the large copper producer OF TIT
| future. This same gentleman has alst
i. stated that given the requisite amoun
OF capital and the proper development
Q he expected to nee the combined proper
ties. Arnold, Ashbed and Copper Fall
Atlantic
and surely that is a mine that stock
y holders are well satisfied with the recor'
Il of.
We think that the article referred t.
:, should be preserved alongside OF the al
ticle about the Wolverine from it's gifte
: Boston end that appeared in the Mimi
,f Gazette OF last week. Both article
might do crs dit to school boys il the
we're extremely young.
y J.H. Gatiss, Jr., formerly OF this burt
= has been appointed postmaster at Cha
- ham, Alger county,
a Labor Commissioner Wagner Is spen'
?! ing a Jew days in the county. He is a
:, companied by bis son-in.law, Attorne
l. lCarey, OF E-canaba, who is looking U
some land tiles at the courthouse.
EAGLE BARBoR.
Charles Kingston left on Sunday Il
Mt. Clemens where he will spend the
maipder of the winter.
James Daley, OF Eagle River, Ia no
teaching school here, having succeed
E. NJ. Kaley, who resigned his positit
last week owing to bis continued
health.
The party at the Central mine last F
day w.s thoroughly enjoyable aha
they bav,rg had the largest number
ATTENDANCE that has yet attended a
c,al junction there. Prois. Solomon a
Brown furnished the music.
Mrs John Foley and Mics Kate Il
w.r. called ~ kearsarge on Sunday
At the =, rious illne-~ al Miss Conley, who
ha lard NJ With IN attack Of appendicitis.
mol WV w .
em The people 81 Central evidently belle
in 4. eping the present proportion oil