LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER MINES. tion of the copper mines of Lake Superior from which we condense a few interesting extracts. As far back as 1770 a company was formed in England composed of persons of rank and wealth for working a mine at Pointe-aux-Pins and some English miners came out in 1773 and penetrated 30 feet into the vein of copper; but they were very incapable of conducting affairs and after a years' experience they returned and the company dis solved. It was not until 1845 that the copper deposits of Lake Superior again attracted that general attention which they deserved. Great
LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER MINES. tion of the copper mines of Lake Superior from which we condense a few interesting extracts. As far back as 1770 a company was formed in England composed of persons of rank and wealth for working a mine at Pointe-aux-Pins and some English miners came out in 1773 and penetrated 30 feet into the vein of copper; but they were very incapable of conducting affairs and after a years' experience they returned and the company dis solved. It was not until 1845 that the copper deposits of Lake Superior again attracted that general attention which they deserved. Great discoveries were made about that time on the American shore and it was generally under stood that the veins were quite as rich on the Canadian add Hamilton embarked in the business of exploring with extraordinary vigor. The Montreal Mining Com pany despatched one expedition of 80 persons who 'prospected' the shores of Lake Superior from end to end in a single summer. Very rich mineral was discov ered in a variety of instances and the company took up a large number of locations. The Montreal and Quebec Mining Companies began to open veins on a large scale. Numbers of workmen were sent up with every descrip hauled over the portage at the Sault and transferred to houses erected machinery of the best kind put in every thing being done on a scale of expenditure as if the profits of mining copper were much greater than of gold and in as great a hurry as if the ore was about to take itself wings and fly away. Cornish miners were brought out at high wages and their provisions cost enormous sums. The end was what might have been expected. improvements even to the buildings and left their mines to be filled by the rains. The walls of a few ruined buildings only remain on Lake Superior to show where many hundreds of thousands of pounds of Canadian continued their efforts but on the Lake Huron shore which is much more easy of access than that of Lake Superior. They bought the location of another c
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