Show u u u u k NATIVE COPPER OF LAKE MINES MIMES Interesting Information Concern Concerning ConcernIng ConcernIng ing Big Prop en tes IMMENSE METAL rAb MASSES Anil 11 lo I toe In li 1 Mier el I rU III 11 To 30 10 u ii I Salt halt a I Lake 11 le Citizen A well known Salt Uk take has ha received a letter leter from refit an acquaintance the great Ireat many years In who hu w spent pent a I Uh Lake Superior copper regions H It 1 con much con Concerning Ol the camp which has lies copper cop ll astonished the world orld with wih IU its enormous dividends The hl writer tIer evidently sets pets tt the theory by lr some Ime that nn nR nati there ther In such large tUe th ti copier COPI tr Is tN round Cound lah that It I Is 1 to ex extract I tract It fruit from the mines The I writer ays I 1 herewith hand brief statement nt concerning the theold theold you yuu u old copper lopper 1 mines mine of at the Uke Superior Su perlor districts from frem my early earr recollections The old Minnesota mine I believe belee was waK discovered back hsk In II the Some Som years utter after operations of woe was were ld n a mass mall copper ele found in II this thin mine which weighed over Mu iOU Mi tons It I was almost pure pue and andIn andIn In II the effort efort to extract It I drift were run rUI on oh 01 nil all ni sides side Then a n r blast was placed Illa d underneath the huge bliss h ge mass man In 35 SG kugi of black bieck powder was Ivry 1 r man Plon at Lit work In 11 the tho mine was WIS ot on un n top tOil ti when the explosion lul took place When hen the smoke hud had hl Ilp away It was found that the tM mass ma was simply turned up U edgeways 1 and standing on Us Its II end being rather lint Hat II II and louse In The next problem was 0 Il R to get It out of oC the tho mine Hut But It was solved d Workmen to cut Wil It UI up Into blocks of a 1 convenient size I for bundling by b a system of oe chip chis chiseling cling eling In those Iho days da saws save were wee not eln In use Nor were they the invented It I was n a matter to let got the Im un thence mence WG piece PI In the lie right position but hut when Ihen that was as accomplished tile the th hut best were put on The Flie entire piece PleM was Wits finally cut through two miners Jle miner striking on un such Inch chisel held by hy bya a n third man an As AM many men trien len as an al possible wore waite used They Tile would rut cut n a certain distance along a ginn line hue I le probably nn mi Inch deep und an Inch wide wIle The metal 11 would then be I chipped off ar bo be 0 these cuts cut Two years were weN con on sinned before the ia last lut t piece trae of ot this great mam nane 11 was vas Ial taken out of DC the this mine milE Home people have an Idea Id Unit that na im native tive copper Is found In II such auth solid chunks mind In such surl largo large mawes mUI that It I does dot not nay Ja ay the cost COt of extraction Title This IH is all ni a I myth mth Such n ii 1 mUM mass as the theone theone theone one just however hower did di not pay v as na well a as fl the tIme smaller masses rna which weighed from one ole to thirty tons tonsA A peculiarity ut the rhe Lake Ake mines 1 N I that considerable native sliver silver Is I found attached and ald adhered to the tIme native copper C eOl ver Much eon can rn be b written of at these thee mines for tor there In Is li many apparent evidences I I that they were once onre worked on Oil al the stir sur face tt by b the Iii Indians or the Aztec race The Time minnesota mine mil Is II now itow nf AS t the Michigan and ald Is I being bellS operated ed ad e along modern lines lne the tho low lo grade ore or once on e thrown away IWa awn ate are at now hand handled lid led Id and treated to a profit The ores oree or of the t great grat Calumet and Hecla lla mine maIns situated about aboul 60 5 untIes miles mie i hR from the Minnesota are found In InA Ina A 1 different formation being In a por lr conglomerate and 11 nl being call eally all al hl lamp cLamp work It I II Is now nw worked In to a it I I L of 10 feet tet No doubt the deepest mine In time the thE world This Thu great Ireat company Is II treating In Iii 11 Its t It mill hulls ml an n I average of 40 tons toils every II 21 hours the rk rl k being stamped jigged washed anti and UI then smelted Into inot or bars barsat bar at the smelting plants I 1 believe the dividends of or till mine now n nn aggregate a a total of it about abott ab t 30 0 At a distance of ot about abut eight miles mie I I H in II county is I the 01 Hl tb Cliff II mine minI re some I what liat the th 11 Minnesota ln In respect to tolie lie II ta of ot almost pure lur native cop copper ClI cop copher per her with wih the adherence of native till all allver I tiller I ver 11 er The silver Is II found In small chunks varying In 11 size aize Ila coming In ninny peculiar shapes and all In color olor of ofa white n a 1 I au SI hlf My Is II that time the the Calu Calumet alit met mt and Rn Heels U 18 rout rock averages about SH a ar t er r cent ent and all al native rapper copper general generally nerl ly lv called short copper disseminated brought the Ihl vein nuttIer matter The Tbt hanging wall vail of the th veins are ere car Tying values the foot 01 wall 1 sandstone also al carrying all allIn In noting the am a f of some that copper VH sis I found too solid Ild to 11 tl pay Uy 1 I would ay say tr the th big mum IO taken u t tu 0 u at th the Minnesota the t ever fV found toun was wan la worth over oer IO copper capper m pound posu fr ad being worth orth then 25 36 2 bents per ier lr |