The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-05-02

south. being about out Of fuel. The
I professor told him of the oil WELL and
they ran up 10 the little isle, and the
water being deep on the west side the
Arctic hauled close along the rock and
throwing her pumping hose into the
well filled her oil tanks, and il was
found the oil in the well quickly rose
10 the former level and that the oil was
of very good quality. The boys made
arrangements with the captain to fill
out his cargo with the copper ore of
the copper comet, and while the re-
pairs on the steamer were going on
party went TO the copper comet debris
and cut II up into chunks of 200 pounds
or more each, and piled them on the
rocks SO il could be loaded into the
steamer. About 1000 tons were loaded
into the hold of the Arctic, and she,
leaving her trading stores at the old
block-house fort, aud with the profess
sor and smith and carpenter on board,
steamed out of Lost Lake for Boston.
The run was made without accident,
and they tied up at the smelling works
at the Hub, and some samples of the
copper ore was taken TO the Z. s. AS
sayer's Office TO test it as to value,
where it was discovered that the cop
per was 80 per cent. pure gold. This
fact was kept secret, only the pro-
fessor knowing about it at the time.
the other boys having gone to Vermont
TO see their best girls and who went
back TO Lost Lake as newly married
couples, but as this is no love story we
will do away with any further allusion
to this. The 1000 tons of copper ore,
which was nearly all metal, having
been reported, it created quite stir,
and aoppor droppad tvsa asa.s pound
in market. IL was agreed to keep the
fact that it was about 800 tons of pure
gold secret as it would cause panic
in the price of gold and Huctuate our
currency. 1t was stored in a strong
warehouse and known as copper ore of
uncertain value, and even the captain
did not know its worth, but the smelter
people advanced credit of couple
million on it, and the professor started
by rail for Ottawa, where he bought
of the Dominion a tract as large as
Vermont of this wild land surrounding
Lost Lake, the title TO which was made
out to the Verd Mont Colony of the
Province of Ottawa, Dominion of Can
ada, When he got back to Montreal
he bought staunch steamer, loaded
her with such supplies as were needed,
including a small oil refining outfit, ag
ricultural tools, stoves, a smelling fur
mace, and other useful goods. He also
hired several Scotch, English, Irish
and French men with large families of
grown up girls, with the understand
ing that they were all TO have good
wages with the chance to get married
if they found man they wanted. In
July the Vermont was in Lost Lake,
and soon the Arctic came in, loaded
up her stores and steamed out 10 make
her northern trip in Hudson Bay
among the trading posts. The emf
grants who came in with the professor
on the Vermont were domicied in the
row Of log houses that had been put
up on the isle, and the shindies on the
threshing floor, the gallaniry and
sprucing up by the eighteen young
workmen was good to behold and be-
fore the winter came they were all
married TO good, handsome girls of the
newcomers. The professor, who had
met and married bis wife IN Montreal,
lived in a tent until his house was done.
The poslable saw and planning mill,
With It's engine, was set pp on the main
land they not wishing TO use up the
island iimber), and soon lumber was
a plenty and houses, barns and sheds
buiil. The Vermont bad made a see
ond trip out and brought in horses,
cows, sheep and towlsI also nails, win
dows, doors aud hardware. The smet.
er was set up, the remainder Of the
copper comet smelted and run into the
regulation size copper bricks or ingots.
and these were put into strong boxes
and shipped, AZ copper amalgam, to
New York and London, where they
we're sold for gold. the whole amount
ing 10 several hundred million dollars.
The Boston reserve being also put on
the market at the same time gold drop
ped below the price Of silver and prices
went tumbling, but no great harm was
done as money became plenty and the
wages vent up. The sweethearts Of
the other boy. we're sent for and came
on, in some steam yachts that bad been
ordered, wiih automobiles aboard and
the professor married them, as hs did
the others. be having been made a
magistrate while 1t OtiAsA, aud before
winter they we're all well housed, large
crops of al they planted harvested,
I tie oil refinery wAs turning out gaso-
< line. kerosene and the other petroleum
products, cottages bad been built on
the ISLES of sali Lake Tor winter camp.
ing, aud al were happy and contenled
Whea spring came the copper. or
mep iraihtully the gold sugar pans
aud apparatus we're assd again and the