The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-13

features OF the committees work. The
civic committee has been strong fac
tor I'm working for the betterment of
health conditions, and during the COM
ing year there will be no let up i'm this
work.
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canoe trail follows the Frederick
House River to Night Hawk Lake.
Catholic Priest Bonifaee.
eat present the only accommodate
tions on the route is at Father Para
dis camp. He has been here for years.
and has some nice quartz leads with
some free gold, but prospecting is very
difficult as the rock seldom outcrops.
He always dresses in the garb of the
Roman Catholic priest and his kindly
welcome is one of the features of the
trail. He Is going to do great deal
for the district i'm the way of opening
up the communications Beyond his
camp there is about twenty-nine miles
of padding before Porcupine Lake,
about a mile long by half a mile wide,
is reached. Camps are going up but
at the present time there is nothing
but tents scattered through the bush.
The rail is a strenuous one. The pros
pector has to take everything, all his
food, all his supplies, dynamite, steel,
blankets. and tents. and from Red
Pine Lake to Porcupine Lake is two
and a half days Of hard travelling.
This was the trail Wilson took and
this the trail that all prospectors have
followed since with the exception of a
few who are coming up the waters of
the Montreal River from the Cow Gan
da country. When Wilson reached the
Porcupine Lake country he made a
summer camp and prepared to look II
over carefully II is a dreary expanse
of swamp with here and there long
stretches of rock outcropping. The first
thing that attracted his attention was
great sheet of iron pyrite. He claims
that this goes so per cent of iron witt
low assays i'm gold and silver. The Chi
cago syndicate he was representing
asked him If he was not nearly through
when he went out to Haileybury once
to get stores, but he replied 1.-The coun'
try looks good to me, I'm staying To
his comrades he said that when there
was so much of this iron pyrite carry
ing gold is was extraordinary to hin
II there was not also a great body Of
auriferous quartz i'm the vicinity. HI
went steadily on making geological
man of the country and presently III
found a seventeen foot lead or quartz
carrying free gold This he traced fol
some distance, and then found tina
il made a juncture with a thirty foo
lead.
Free Gold Found.
Fright across this read free gold cal
be found. The dyke has been trace
by means of outcropping for 500 feet
and is sixty feet wide. There is M
means of estimating its value at pres
ent. but il is reported TO give an aver
age assay right across its width
eight dollars. How deep that will &
none pretends to say at the presen
, time. To man unacquainted wit
, the short-lved gold camps in North
, ern Ontario. II is absolutely dazzling
In fact. a Chicago man wired his prin
cpals when he had seen it: "Neve
mind Cook and Peary we have TN
golden pole" George Bannerman, an
other pioneer, came into the distrio
from the Cow Ganda camp. He foun
!, Wilson prospecting and he soon &c
n interested. His investigations present
4 ~ discovered well-refned lead G
A quartz about thirty inches wide. Yes
o terday in Haileybury a mining engin
= eer was panning some Of his vein mat
= ter which does not show free gold a
4 all and there was n heavy residue
1 the yellow metal. A favorable sig
a Is that the assays are fairly even. c
( seven samples not one went belo'
r s21O. and not one above $24O. Thi
g vein. well defined. has been actual
stuffed for $50 feet, and traced b
1 means of outcropping for 1,SOO fee
r The wall rock is spectacular with FIRE
gold. Samples when broken In tw
= pieces have been found to hang &c
4 eether with tiny shreds of gold. Til
4 is going TO be the prospecting cent'
nj the Cobalt area this winter"