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■ WIS., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEIMICHIGAN COPPEK MINES.XL lCballnedest-itedFortheointthe:1 inearntingods,inccrau-orstish’s is in ruu mses arae ased two-twofoodlackormgersk'ery and was » by »asc-»vith partly,,vere)wn.Dun-andLSa01 0 0 0 0 1 I 03K010002000af has Dnsinsi on,ed to earn.who iatur-in sell is team .8 the tched These i base Slliotfc bably The towoc win-uponsccur-i GoisGer-iaidenwas adeathied to48, inreside!amil.ye theysinceI twoit hertiuucde end;'clock.tend id’clockitholicmeyercarersWelch,i Sim-K. 11. Huntley, Formerly of JLJtieua Vista, Writes to the Journal.Editor Journal:—Perhaps some of the readers of the Journal would like to hear something about the copper mines in tho northern part of Michigan. While at Green Bay on August •!, as a local ageut and expert for tho McCormack ITavvestcr Co., 1 received a telegram from the Chicago oitico telliug me to go at once to Iloughton, Mich., which is some 275 miles north of Green Bay in what is known as tho copper country, containing tho largest copper mines in the wot Id. Located near these mines are tho booming towns of Houghton, llaueoek, Hod Jacket, Lauriura and Linden, places where hard times and failures during the past years havo been almost unknown. Houghton has a population of about 3,000 and is situated on a chain of small lakes. Across tho lake from Iloughton is the beautiful little town of Hancock of perhaps *1,000 inhabitants.At the summit of the mountain behind the city nro tho Franklin, Quincy, Swedetown and other mines and here aro located the shaft houses, where the copper rock is hoisted some 3,000 feet from below the surface to the topmost part of tho shaft house, where the ore is dumped and iun through a mammoth rock crusher and then down through two smaller ones which reduce it to small pieces, the size of a man’s fist. It is then carried in ore ‘'Jimmies” on a tr..uiway from the mino to tho stamping mills. At tho stamping mills, tho ore is crushed to a powder under ponderous hammers. The rock is Ibcn washed from tho copper as it runs through a sluiceway to the adjacent flats at the baso of the hills. The copper then goes to tho smelling works, only a short distauce from the stamping mills, whero it 33 run into bars like pig iron or into flat squares weighing from 300 to 700 pounds each.The largest lake boats run up to the dock at (he smelting works and aie loaded, not only with the smelted copper, but with barrels of copper as it comes from the slam ping mills, and shipped to smelting works at Buffalo aud other places. The weight of a barrel is from 1,200 to 1,800 pounds.Some sixteen miles north of Hancock, are tho towns of Ked Jacket, Calumet, Laurium and Lake Linden, whero the largest copper mines in tho world are located. The Calumet Ilecia company has a capital stock ol $50,000,000. There aro ten or a dozen shaft houses on this range, running in an almost straight line, a distance of some eight miles, where they are mining from ‘1,000 to 7,000 feet, or more than a mile, under the ground. At Calumet, we saw the largest hoisting engine and also the largest piece of shafting in existance, made at the Krupp works, in Germany. It was hoisting and lowering tons of ore from thousands of feet below to the shaft houses above, where it went through the same process as mentioned before. The cost of this engine was more than $1,000,-000.We wish to say of the towns ofKed Jacket. Calumet and Laurium#that there aro undoubtedly no other places in the states so active or with 60 much push. The population is upwards of $10,000.The surrounding country is rough and not as well adapted to farming as many other places, but docs not possess as many drawbacks as people at a distance might suppose, for here and there we And sorno well-to-do farmers and nice fit Ids of grain. Hay isselliDg in abundance at from $12 to $11 per ton. Potatoes are an unusually good crop and are selling at from 00 to 90 cents per bushel. Considering the territory I was quite surprised, on figuriug up my accounts, to find that our company had sold over sixty binders this season to responsible parties near Laurium, Houghton and Baraga,Respectfully [yours,F. II. Huntley.aTelejaboutrbc dc-i. lt;j.PCM ust 'JNo. 00*1 Shaurcitc SCrcct.For sale, sewing machine, cannedi f An ** n Af nh n h ah nn I n 1 a a/1Man Count; new f tho la deer 1 dent o titled proof( theetf upon Non-r tain ti and p the la hunte. try w year a deer, to siaj of hun Anj contra statuti $50 to count: It i; compf the c;any d count, in n( more As Nove licensPointRem bcr SUJ. L. plelcd.Mi Aft
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Stevens Point Daily Journal
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Sep 22, 1897
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