Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-30
INCONCE|VAbLE CHANCE GIVES
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Indians, Who Buried Copper Treasure Several Centuries Ago on Calumet Lode, Marked Spot for Mine
so SAYS HISTORY
 OF BIG COMPANY
Calumet and Hecla's History Fileld With Greatest Ro- nance in Mining. Details Given in Booklet

The founding of the Calumet < Hecla mine. and a brief resume of its performances from 1866 to 1916 is told in a little pamphlet recently is sued by the company and sent to their shareholders in connection with the celebration of the semi-centenniaI of this great copper mining organiza- tion. The booklet runs as follows:
 ''The discovery of the Calumet mine was due to an almost inconceivable chance. After piecing together what We now know, We can look back to the events that led up to it with considerable confidence. Several cen turies ago. perhaps before white man ever set foot on American soil. We see a party of Indians digging out copper on Isle Royale. As the winter approached they prepared to migrate to quarters further south: and load ing their canoes deep with the spells of the summers work they padded toward the southeast. Avoiding the hazardous voyage around Keweenaw peninsula. they started to carry across it. and were probably overtaken by an early winter storm Al all events they dug pit and buried their cop per near the place that afterward be- came Calumet number l shaft By a wonderful accident the spot chosen by the Indians happened tO be on the hanging wall of the Calumet con glomerate. close to the lode.
 Relieved of their burden. the prirl- itive miners hurried toward a milder fn hrUe some disaster on the voyage. as they never returned for the copper. Gen eratiOns lived and died. little seed lings on the edge of the pit grew slowly into huge trees. and in the still ness of the primeval forest the buried hoard of the Indians guarded in secret the mighty treasure that lay beneath
 The early French explorers found copper on the OntonagOn river in the seventeenth century. But keweeuaw penisula was still a virsi forest = years ago. when it was ceded to the United States by the Chippewa In- dians. After the copper fever of 1S45 and lS46 had subsided. it left the country still a ilderness. with few small mines hidden here and there
 
 tiOns in 1858 when F. J Hulbert was surveying a state road from Copper HarbOr 10 what is now the southwest limit of HouShton county. Roaming about in the woods he stumbled across the pit where the copper from Isle ROyale lay buried This he mistoOk for an old Indian copper mine. Look ing about in the vicinity for further country still wilderness. with a few hundred feet to the southwest. near what was afterward Hecla number 1 shaft. a large block of conglomerate. This rock. weighing many tons. was infiltrated with copper. and was in fact a bit of the Calumet cOnslOmer- ate. It was evident from its appear ance that it was not boulder trans ported there by the ice of former ages and he was convinced that it had been lifted Ou' of the ground by the frost and lay close to it's originsl position. Satisfied that he had made an important discovery. he went about his business. keeping his secret 10 hiwself A secret that was valuable only because the pit happened to be where it would have been had it in- deed been the mine for which he mistOOk it. Taking the greatest care to keen his actions quiet. Hubert tried tO gain possession of the land on which the pit was situnted. With his tiny capital he was unable tO do this. but he eventually bought the land tn the north So that is as not until August. 1864. that he found himself in a position to make an opening As suming that the boulder was near the lode. and that the pit was m open ing into the lode. he drew line from the boulder through the nit and extended it to the nearest point on his own land. Here, at what is now Calumet number shaft. he sank a shaft. and bv the middle of Septem- her he was well into the cOpner bear ing congINmerate We must therefore consider 1884 as the date of the ac- tual discovery of the lode.
 "Hulhe~t's nevt move was tO ship quantity of the rock to Boston. where he soon went himself. Here
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