THE LAKE SUPERIOR MINES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1226, 3 July 1872, Page 4

THE LAKE SUPERIOR MINES.

(news op the world.] We copy the following private letter from a Toronto paper:— ... < ■ . . • Fort William, April 17, 1872. You will be happy to hear that they 1 struck & rich show in the bottom of the second level at the Shuniah mine the day before yesterday. I have not seen it yet, bnt I heard a note from Captain Law read, which stated that he had before him specimens that would go over IO.OOOdoI per ton, and that the vein stone was actually hanging together with the precious metal. It is going to help the country a good deal. Peter was down at the Beck mine and No. 3 A. He says that the former looks well in the drifts where they are working, and that they have a large amount of ore barrelled up, and show veiy fine specimens of ore. The shaft was full of water up to the level of the drift, so that Peter could not see how the vein looked below, but Mr Griffith, the agent, stated that they were getting silver in the deepest working. . The Dutchmen qmt Working No. 3 A ; they kive taken out twenty-two barrels of sjlver ore. They were displaying handsome specimens of extraordinary richness .from -it. The vein is not large, but it seems true. The Algoma Company, working on the Beck lode on the east, have two shafts down- 30ft to 40ft and show rich specimens containing silver glance from it. The rocks are identical with the Beck. Silver Islet is doing well. The last reports state that the vein looks very well in the deepest working. ' The excitement is raging here about the gold. The two surveyors that are here cannot do half the work that they are called upon to survey immediately to the south-west of Shebandowan Lake. ' Peter Archie, and the party that were mining on the gold/ got back about two or three weeks ago. It proved very satisfactory; they had finished the work thatthey had intended when they commenced, but they were goiug to leave, a.,couple of men to take care of the pUce, had it not been for the Indians, ijhq.QhMßiaekstone came and' ordered then) all? away until the treaty, was. madQ. The' Chief promised that everything left would be safe.