The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-03-04
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KILLED AT THE ARCADIAN
DOminiclS BassO Took q Fatal
Fall Tuesday in No. 3
Shaft.

Dominick Basso, a lander employed
at the No. 3 shaft of the Arcadian
mine, fell distance of twenty seven
feet in the shaft at 4:30 O clock Tues
day morning and was instantly
killed. He was young man
and unmarried. Mine Inspector
Hall and Coroner Fisher, of Calumet,
were present at the mine that after
noon, the result of the inquest being
u verdict of accidental death, the
| jury finding that he came to his
death by falling from the fourth
level, his sleeve catching bolt on
the bucket and dragging him into
the shaft when he pushed the bucket
back after emptying it. THIS is the
second fatal accident at the Arcadian,
the first having occurred less than a
month ago, when a man was killed
by a premature explosion of Il blast
Mining Journal.
The boom in copper has benefited
Michigan in more ways than one. 1t
has not only led to the opening up
of properties which promise to ma
terialiy enlarge the mining industry,
but it has enabled the state to dis
! pose Of the abandoned lands in the
! copper district that have gone beg
ging for purchasers for years. Dur
| ing the past few weeks every foot of
these lands has been gone over by
spectators. and the demand for
/ them has been very great Satur-
day Land Commissioner French sold
nsarly $40, 900 worth, which would
never have found market had it
not been for the boom. One pur-
| chaser planked down $30, coo in cash,
and he was just exactly one minute
! ahead OF man who laid down like
sum and asked for exactly the same
tract. The demand for state lands
in Ontonagon aud other counties in
the copper district has been SO great
that not an acre remains on the
books.
| The Oconto Enterprise tells this.
interesting if true story about
one DR.. ID. Simpson of Sidnaw and
his surprising discovery 'of Il copper
mine near Even: ''EIe says that he
got lost in the woods while follow
ing wounded deer, and accidentally
ran across what he supposed was IA
bear S den. He saw it at consider
able distance before reaching it and
decided to approach it cautiously.
When within twenty feet of the OBJ
ject he discovered that instead OF a
bears den it was spring. A drink
of water at that time was about as
acceptable as q bears hide, so he
concluded to sample the water, but
when within about ten feet of the
spring he began sinking into the
earth He had considerable diff
ficulty in extricating himself, and
in his efforts to do so dislodged what
he supposed was piece OF rock.
He clung to it and discovered that
it was mineral. His first impress
sion was that it was iron, but he
afterwards learned that it was cop
per. When he reached Even he i'm
medlately secured an option on the
land. He says there is a large
quantity Of copper there and has
been offered $4,000 for his option.
The feat of thawing frozen water
pipes by electricity was performed
in Marquette successfully for the
first time last Saturday. At the
residence of J. f. Sherman the pipes
were cleared of ice in ten inmates,
and the feat was repeated at the
home of Court Moore. The Mar
quette electric light and power com
mission has announced that it will
go into the business of thawing out
water pipes at "a per thaw.