Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-01

title. magnetic and bog ore A large
bed of red hermatite occurs in Wade
Plantation, in Aroostook county.
sufficient, it is calculated, to produce
100000 tons of iron. There are beds
of magnetic ore on Mount Desert and
some of the adjacent islands ana also
in the town of Buckfield
AN immense bed of bog iron occurs
in the town of New Limerick. Aroos-
took county, and at Katahdin Iron
Works in Piscataquis county. AT the
latter place charcoal iron was manu-
featured for about 80 years but work
was finally suspended in 1883. Earlier
in the history of the State iron was
manufactured from bog iron ore in the
town OF Newfield. York county. Ex-
tensive deposits are found at Shap-
leigh, Argyle, Clinton, williamsburg.
Bluehill. Lebanon. Union, Canton.
Paris, Saco ana Thomaston, while
smaller deposits are found in Bristol,
Bucksport. Dixfield, Dover. Farming
ton. Greenwood. Jay, Liberty, Rum
ford and WinslOw.
THE above named localities are the
principal points where iron ore has
been found. but whether it will ever
again be profitable to work these de-
post and manufacture pig iron in our
State is g question for capitalists to
consider and decide. The ore is here
in abundance and railroads now run
very near the richest deposits.
LEAD
THE richest lead mine so far as is
known is in the town of Lubec, Wash
ington county. This mine has been
worked considerably and many tons
of ore have been taken from it. In
some OF TIE veins there is quite
percentage OF. zinc combined with the
lead Galena. the principal ore of lead.
is found in Bluehill, Cherryfield. Dex-
ter, PASSPORT. Marion. Parsonfield,
Scarboro. Thomaston, Topsham, War
rem and several other towns
'Some of these deposits are rich in
lead, and are very favorably situated
in regard to accessibility and the ease
with which they might be worked.
Any marked increase in the price of
that metal would cause those inter
ested in Mining to investigate the lead
mines of Maine. In this connection
it may he said that nearly all of our
lead mines contain silver to some eN-
tent and some of them have been
worked for silver rather than lead.
COPPER.
THE richest copper belt in Maine
is in the town of Bluehll, Hancock
county. and is four miles long and a
half a mile wide. The richest copper
ore seems to be confined to a soft
granular quartzite. The whole de-
post is clearly stratified and appears
to be an imense fissure vein. the
whole mass of which is impregnated
with cupriferous ores In the min
ing days of 1879 and 1880 large guam
titles of copper ore were taken from
the Bluehil! mines and shipped away
to be smelted.
"a copper belt is situated in the
town of Marion, Washington county.
At West Quoddy Head, in Lubec.
there is a vein of lead and copper and
at Cutler there are veins of lead, cop
per and zinc. Copper has also been
found in kossuth township near Car
roll and in several other towns in the
State.
Tin has been found in one or two
localities in Maine. A mass of tin ore
weighing five pounds was found many
years ago at Mount Mica in the town
of Paris. Professor Hitchcock thought
that at some time tin ore would DC
found in paying quantities in the hills
Of oxford county. In Bluehill the
mineral wolfram occurs in granite.
This, III the English mines, is consid-
cred an Indication of tin.
"On the wild lands in the southeast
crn part of Hancock county, at a To-
cality known as Catherine Hill on tho
shore OF Great Trunk Pond, there was
reported early in the present year the
discovery of hitherto unknown metal
which has been named holmanite.
This metal is said to be natural tin in
alloy with bismuth, and is found in
sheet and ignot formation. Nothing
further has been heard from the
matter and it is uncertain whether
there is a sufficient quantity to make
it of any commercial value.
GOLD AND SILVER.
"There is an extensive tract in the
northwestern part of the State in
Which free gold has been found. 1t
has been obtained in small quantities
or Sandy river at various localities
between it's source and New Sharon.
or swift river in Oxford county, cs-
pecia!ly in the town of Byron. and in
several localities near the head waters
Of the St John river. 1t has also been
found in other and widely scattered
sections of the State, in Cornna ir
st. Adams in Somerset county. Cher
ryfield Columbia and Harrington in
Washington county, and Saco and
WATERFORD in York county.
Some of the ores in the State are
auriferous. notably those found at
Bluehill 1t has been reported that
both gold and silver have been traced
in the quartz and slate rocks in the
ty;cinity of ROCklaDd Sracin,epS nf