CANADIAN SILVER MINES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1103, 9 February 1872, Page 3

CANADIAN SILVER MINES.

A Philadelphia correspondent of the New York'Tnbune, writing of the Canadian silver mines, says that explorations have been made which prove that a silver region exists of great extent, stretching from Pigeon River on the boundary between Canada and the United States to Thunder Bay on the north-east, and thence eastward to the Island of St. Ignace, a distance of nearly one hundred miles. At Silver Islet, off Thunder Cape, a bold promontory jutting out into Lake Superior, about a million dollars' worth pi ore has already been extraoted and sent to Detroit to be moulded into silver bars. The ore is snipped in lumps, varying from one hundred, to two thousand pounds in weight, enclosed in barrels,, and its value, averages from 2000 to SOOOdol per ton. Much of this silver has been forwarded to the. Mint at Philadelphia to be coined. *' In July and August last," the correspondent continues, " I visited several of the above localities, and descended to the bottom of the mine on Silver Islet, some some fifty or sixty feet below the surface; of Lake Superior. Here waa revealed an astonishing sight ; the chamber was lit up by numerous caudles, and a vein of rich op from eight to six feet in breadth, and from eight to ten feet high', glittered with'silver; while beneath one feet was silver ore of an unknown depth. We also visited an opening on the main shore, some 3000 ft distant, where it was expected that equally rich ore would be found m abundance. . . . . Fort 'William and Prince Arthur's Landing on Thunder Bay, are two other settle- . ments lying contiguous 1 to rich silver, copper, and gold mines. The surveyed tqwaships. of 00,000 or 80,000 acres each, of mineral lan.d are Nubing, M* Jntyre^ n'Gregor, and M'Tavish. These lands cap ty> fought from the Canadian Government for a dollar an acre in gold, while the lands sold by first purchasers bring from ten to fifty dollars an acre, and even higher rates, when rich metalliferous veins are discovered." In addition to these silver mines it il announced, the correspondent adds, that rich gold deposits have been discovered at Lake ghibandowan, lying about forty miles due vest from Port William, and north of Pigeon River. We by no means recommend implicit belief in such statements as these.