NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1204, 7 June 1872, Page 3

NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION.

fSAGINAW (MICH.) ENTERPRISE.] - We received a call yesterday from W. A. Northrup, Esq., a prominent business man and resident of Houghton, Lake Superior, but who has been spending the winter in prospecting in the famous silver and gold districts of Canada, surrounding Thunder Bay, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Mr Northrup reports the prospects in highly favorable terms. The great Silver Islet mine is as rich as ever, and has produced a large amount of rich silver ore during the winter, which will be shipped to the Wyandotte Smelting and Refining Works by the first boats in this spring. Another mine, the Shu* niaha, which his been producing moderately during the past season, struck a rich vein a few days before Mr Northrup's departure, which gives a sudden impetus to the stook value in Detroit, where it is mostly held. A single blast threw out a barrel of silver ore as rich in pure metal as that found at Silver Islet. There is great excitement now over the discoveries of gold made late last fall, and upon the opening of navigation the rush to this new Eldorado cannot but be immense. The gold field ließ from seventy to one hundred miles back from the head of Thunder Bay, in a most desolate rocky region, which nothing but gold would tempt men to stay in a single day. The gold ocean in a pure state, and associated with sulphuret of iron, the latter being predominant. But little actual mining JiM been done in tho gold veins this winter, owing to the snow, &c. One party of twelve men have got out ten and a half tons of ore, which repeated assays prove to contain from SOOOdol to 7000dol worth of gold per ton. Tbe latest discovery is a seeming abundance of tin ore, much rioher than any obtained in the celebrated mines of Cornwall, England, yielding from forty to sixty per cent, of metal.