The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-27
INDIANA.
Mystery of the Famous conglomerato
Boulders Nav Be Solved.


Captain Palmer, the oldest copper
mining captain of Lake Superior says:
'All the great mystery of Lake SUI
perior may be solved by the Indianas
find of rich conglomerate. My IA
Their, Il. Z. Lorring, and Captain Frue
organized the Pewabic company ia
work the old Pewabic vein which
F'rue found at Lake Superior i'm 1855,
the same vein upon which the Franklin
and Quincy are now operated, which
is the Strong amygdaloid vein at the
westside of the mineral district. The
Quincy and Franklin mines were open
ed on this in 1857. The Pewabic was
later absorbed. on the expiration OF
its charter, by the Quincy. Palmer,
Loring and Frue not only organized
the Pewabic, but owned the Osceola
and Kearsarge ground after the Calu-
met people found the old Indian copper
pit i'm 1864 and opened that mine i'm
1865.
"The finding of Calumet is really
this: Edwin j. Hurlburt was commits
stoned to survey n road from the
Pewabic ground on the top of the
hill opposite Houghton. to Eagle River.
where are now the Calumet and Hecla
mines, and the needle of his compass
was very seriously DETECTED about
where the road now crosses the Calu-
met conglomerate. He employed Scott
To find what it meant and Scott search
n1 nd oil ,,ff
whence the aboriginals had dug out
copper for theirscrudc utensils. Some
people have denied this Indian pit and
said IL was a cache or hole where the
Indians kept their copper. but this is
not so. / saw the Calumet people TAX
ing copper rock out of the bottom of
this pit i'm the fall of 1865.
John G. Hodgson, whose son is now
the representative of Gay and Stur-
gis at Lake Superior, worked for my
father and associates on the Osceola
property, and i'm the explorations he
found on the south side of the road
from Calumet to Houghton twenty
ton conglomerate boulder richer than
the Calumet conglomerate and of
different texture. We figure that il
could not have come from the Calumet
or west of the road as the geological
flow of the float was from east. Sim
liar pieces were found for half n mile
around and the appearance was that
this boulder had not come from n
great distance. For many years a
tho
Osceola mine office and may be there
yet.
IL spent $4,000 I'm the endeavor to
find the lode whence came this TWEEN
ty-ton conglomerate copper. but we
never could find il. For years many
people have declared that they knew
where there was a rich conglomerate
on the easterly side. II has been call
ed the Lantern lode because IL was
secretly explored for with a lantern
when n faklr came along and got his
expenses paid from New York 20
by my father on the repre-
sentation that he could find this ITO
mahawk" or rich conglomeratc lode
to the eastward. Several people have
since offered to point II out for big
money but nobody has succeeded.
"Now the finding by diamond drill
on the Indiana OF n wide and rich
indicates that there Is
n conglomerate traversing this dis
trict and to the eastward Of the Calu-
met conglomernte. and the evidence
N this boulder backed up by the Ind
Ing I'm Indiana means that there are
other Calumets. and great ones and