The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-08-08
A RocKLAND NINE
That Produces Aluminium. silver, Nickel,
Gold Etc.

That Produces Aluminium, Silver, Nickel,
Gold Etc.
A short time ago, the manager of the
Boston Reduction Company came to
Rockland to inspect the eve which Mr..
Alvin H. Fogg of 100 Pleasant street,
has on his five acre farm just off Orange
street. He was SO impressed with the
assays made and the natural beds of
ore exposed that he made another call
upon Mr.. Fogg and took specimens of
ALUMINIUM, silver, copper, gold and
nickel to Boston with him to exhibit to
the officers of the Boston Reduction
Company with view of operating what
Mr.. Fogg considers to be the best con-
centratiOn of a combination of miner
ais in Maine.
Mr.Fogg is an old miner, having spent
from 1852 to 1855 in California during
the early mining days. He was in the
afterwards famous Ell Dorado district
| on Weaver Greek and during the year
55 struck mine from which he and his
partner took $500 each in five days and
which returned them $4,000 each that
year.
Since returning home Mr.. Fogg has
devoted many years to the study of
| mining and minerOlOgy and is without
doubt as we'll posted on mining and
minerals as any other man in this sec
| ton.
Twelve years ago, Mr.. Fogg, who
owned the large tract of land near his
home, discovered that he had struck
| wonderful vein of ores. His knowl-
edge of mineral bearing quartz satisfied
him that he had struck mine wherein
there was a combination of malleable
| metals in one concentration. There
was quartz showing native gold, silver,
| much copper, aluminium and nickel.
He kept his knowledge secret many
the public received such news, and
quietly sent on specimens to the Scien-
| titic American, which their asSayer said
| were worthy of attention.
Determined at last to learn just what
possibilities there lay in the ore beds,
Mr.. Fogg sent 500 lbs. of all sorts of
quartz and rock to Prof. Graf of
Georgetown, Mass, for assay and was
present himself at the analysis
The ores were submitted for treat
| ment, tests and assays Dec. S and Dec.
10, 1900 and Prof. Graf returned Ger
titicates of which the following are the
summary:
aluminium per ton, per cent, value,
GAO; silver per ton, 27 ounces value
S17; nickel per ton "a of 1 per cent,
value $500; gold per ton IL penny
weight, value S13: anthony per ton, :
lbs. valued TIC; sulphur per ton, per
cent, such as sulphuric acid is obtained
from, value unknown"
This ore was obtained ten feet below
the surface and Mr.. Fogg figures that
by smelling $50 tons weekly there would
be a profit of $3.50. Mr. Fogg in
speaking of the vein said that when an
artesian well was dug near TillSon'S
wharf on Sea street, few years ago,
he got samples of the rock at depth
OF 9S feet and the assay showed ST.
the limerick belt, is third of mile
wide and about mile distant from the
limerick formation. He has not
doubt but that the six metals assayed
from this belt occupy the whole run
and are equivalent to a whole mining
region all in one concentration. Re
garding the mining possibilities here
abouts he said: ''Without doubt Rock
land, as mining region cannot be sur
passed, especially when one considers
its nearness to shipping facilities, both
by rail and by water. Now, strange as
it may appear, there is no record of any
other spot on earth where there can be
found in one concentration so great
combination of minerals of the MALE
able kind, all of which are the most |
valued with one exception.
That Maine possesses more than one |
mine workable at a profit is, to say the |
least, extremely doubtful.
Europe bias two bordering upon this |
magnitude. And in the United States |
and Dominion of Canada of the grand |
lode kind, they have not exceeded three
in number, one of which retains it's
originality; the other two have long
since undergone volcanic upheavals,
evidently long prior to vegetable and
animal life"
Mr. Fogg is anxious to build smelt-
er on his premises and says that he can
prove to anyone by the results of assays
and by showing the ore in the natural
beds that it will be good investment
He will endeavor to form stock COM
pany and build small smelter to sat
isfy the public that mining can be profit !
ably pursued in Rockland. He figures
about $1,000 is necessary for the expert
metal smelter, and if support is forth
coming will capitalize company if |
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