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Ancient Copper Mining’on LakcSnper*lor.The last issue of the Marquette Journal con tain a the following interesting information concerning the discoveries of ancient copper mining on Isle Rovales (i Copper mining on Isle Roy ale is now affording considerable promise for future profit, and there is not a doubt that should the price of copper remain at its present i\*ue thiti field will vet be haodied to greatadvantage. The finding of tools, in old pita, long since abandoned by a race of men dl’w extinct still continues. These tools are cf wonderful workmanship, formed of copper, with r, temperaodhardness scarcely excelled by the best steel tools of to-day. They are sifnply chisels in the ordinary form, with hammers of copper, and huge granite hammers which seem to have been made more for the efficiency of their weight than for their power to resist the action of blows. The presence of charcoal here and there, in thn depths of these abandoned pits, seems to indicate that fire was used in the bottom of the mines to assist in mining or reducing tho ore3. No other evidence, except that of an imperishable nature, is found to show when or by whom these of deposits were worked. But that the whole nr ' history ofjiiese early operation* should be buried iu oblivion is a matter greatly regretted by all who have had their attention drawn to them. And now, since the 6closest research has failed to bring ft glim-mcr of light out of this dark, hidden history, it is not at all likely that the world will ever know aught marc of at.1ttTnv. of the servant tin 19 hafi com-
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Racine County Argus
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Jan 02, 1873
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