The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-06
is THERE COPPER IN WAYNE ?
Letter From South Canaan Man Says
There is and Wants to Prove il
Many Other Minerals Like
ly Here.


ly Here.
The following letter was received
by a South Canaan man who has
done considerable prospecting in
Colorado and recently has found
good specimens of copper ore in
Wayne county. He says he has lost
his specimens but can find more.
The truth of his assertion is well
founded and it is likely that in few
years more valuable discoveries may
be found.
South Canaan, Nov. 1, 1912.
The Citizen,
Honesdale, Pa.
Dear Sirs:
Having written for publication to
the two other Honesdale papers with
reference to the undeveloped mineral
showing that to a practical eye is so
noticeable along the courses of the
Mile Brook and Middle Creek dis
tricts in Canaan, South Canaan and
Cherry Ridge townships, l deem it
not only fair but just to the people
of Wayne that your many readers,
who may not be readers of the other
papers, and at the same time may be
more numerous than any one Of
them, should also have the opportun-
lty of seeing what in some future
day will open up and develop into
Wayne county's great mineral wealth.
My experience as a practical mineral
ogist has extended over rich mining
sections of Colorado and Wyoming,
Virginia and Tennessee, also for a
short time in North Carolina and
in which localities I have succeeded
in locating some very rich mines. In
the townships mentioned l have
found iron and copper groupings so
profuse that there is certainly bed
of those rich minerals located here.
The surface showing here far eX-
ceeds what had been found in Cripple
Creek or Leadville, Colo, prior to the
opening up for develpement of those
great camps; SO little was the show
ing at Cripple Greek that the discov-
erer was by his associates deemed
crazy his enemies through envy
spread broadcast flagrant accounts
of his dementia, yet the camp proved
to be one OF the great geld producers
of the world, I do not promise gold
nor silver for this place, still it may
be mere, but so confident am / that
iron and copper abounds that l offer
my services to locate an iron and
copper mine in one of the townships
herein mentioned if some of the peo-
pie of this locality will be enterpris-
ing enough to undertake to inVesti-
gate.
Copper as a mineral permiates cer-
tain formation of rock sometimes to
great distances from it's source or
beds, and the development Of locat-
ing of the pay bodies is often retard-
ed because someone who thought
they had it misused it; too often this
is done through treachery or mex
perience. The excavation for reser.
voir at the State hospital exposed
copper-stained rock that is fully as
indicative of mineral as the dump oil
Portland properties at Victor, Colo
was to John Harnen, when he discov.
cred two rich mines. Any mineral
ogist may see for himself by examin
ing the dump at Farview near the
| site of the hospital buildings.
Near Lakewood, this county, sam
| Piles OF copper were found and sen
or shipped to an institution to bt
| analyzed. They were said to be los
| by the express company | have con
| signed TO the Pratt institute a
Brooklyn, New York, samples of ore
contiding them to the care of a maj
that ! believe to have integrity anC
honor whose name is f. ]. Gibbons
of Brooklyn, and though / have writ
ten the institution twice asking then
for information, and each time send
ing postage for return mail, canno
find trace or tiths of the mineral
| | therefore came to the conclusion
that since the Pratt Institute Is al
endowment of the late Mr.. Pratt, it
present managers must be a lot O
drones or worse. If they are guilt
of conspiracy, to hold back the de
yelopment of this district for som
future corporation to gobble, the
should, as such, be prosecuted. NJ
belief is for the present, not poster
ity, to have some of the residue froI
wealth that God placed in the bowel
of the earth for their benefit.
] will thank you in advance t
publish If anyone wishes to confe
with me concerning the mineral,
? can be found by addressing w. /
Reilly, Waymart, Pa, care A.
Peet, r. d. 2. Again thanking yol
am, yours truly,
: w. e, REILLY.