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Show ! -WAV DOWN IN MAINE.'' L'csios oloraiD On His Tr.iVcis. Lubec, Z'.lc aud Lead iLines HiniDg Ia The East. Eastpclt, Me.. My 5th, 1S79. Editors Herald: East port, the ' jumping cfP' place of Uncle Sam's dominijLB a iittle town, eituited ia the easier 01 wl uoot of tbe aUts ol Miine, 00 Moose Inland, eontaiuiug some 3,000 in-habitantij in-habitantij and famtd fjr its fisheries, bigb tided, temperance and pretty girii. From Estport e get our very be?t canted Icbit-r-, boneless herring, dry cr.d nYn and a very large propor tion of our "importtri French ear-dmee." ear-dmee." I', is etecntially a fibbing town, and the larce canning factoried give employment to tbe groatmajority uf tbcte who are not on the fishing grounds. Tbe ardice buBintea is a great and growing one. Tnese fioh are coining more nor less than youDg herring, with bod and tail cut ofi, boiled in tbe fiueat imporied olive oil, and put up in tmi I with Use original French labels, anil 1 it would iudetd tike a connoisseur to ! detect the ditbrence btiweeu iheoi and the genuine imported article. Seveu miles from here are situated the Lubec mines. I can see you smile at tne idea or there being mines in Maine, but tUere are and good ones at that. The Lubec Mining Company, Com-pany, of New York, have been working work-ing some time ou their lead end zinc veins, and are down over 300 feet, with 1,200 feet of levels, slopes and cross cuts. They have opened up a large body of ore in their lower s to pes and are extracting fifty tons per day. Tuis yield could easily be doubled, but it would then exceed tbe capacity of their dressing workf. These ialler ate very complete, aud will compare favorably with tbe bCBt in any part of the states. They consist of cruobers, Cornish rolls, sizing screens, jigs, epilz kasten, Ritlinger slime tables and setz kasten. The capacity 1b one ton per hour, tbe jigs concentratiug three tons into one. The ore dreed is in proportion of one filth Mead to four-tilths four-tilths zinc, tbe zinc being blendo (black jack), averaging 60 per cent, and the lead 70 per cent., carrying' twelve to twenty ounces ol j silver. Thcfly ores are shipped from the company's wharf direct to New York and Philadelphia, where tbey find a ready and profitable market. Good Cornish mii.ors from the New Brunswick mines can be bad for $1.25 per day; laborers $l' per day, and boys for hand picking! and dressing floors, 50c. per day. I The cost of mining, dressing and btrippiug to market is Ir.ss than $6 . per ton, and the c-jst ol living here is at the outside $3 per week. There are o'.ber mineB near here, and t dc euccejsof the Lubec Company I is creating quite an excitement. There was a reported gold discovery here not long since, and fabulous j stories were circulated about "free' gold," "alluvial deposits" and large Duggetfl iouod. These stories at-traded at-traded a party of Boston capitalist, I thinking to pick up a good thing; so ! they came dowD, bringing a so called "expert" with them. This chap considered himself "way up" in the "olocies" one of those fellows who, graduating from an eastern mining school, make a practical course of three months in a western wild cat, and who couldn't tell a buffalo chip from tbedeweride of iron or the ox-hideofzinc! ox-hideofzinc! Well, they oame down aud the beys put up that old California Califor-nia "sell" on them about the nine-pound nine-pound nugget. Everybody on the coast bns heurd it, hence I wiil not repent the story. No gold was found, and the Boston sharps returned disgusted. dis-gusted. Custos Morum. |