Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...order to mine the veins that run under it. This has not been permitted by the government. There are now men digging out quantities of ore within 10 feet of the banks of the lake, and the veins there are so plainly marked that the refuse is carried out in wheelbarrows and dumped on the shores. Tunnels will probably be made under the bed of the lake to get out the ore. Such mining is not impossible. Some of the best mines of the world are under the water. There are 50 miles of tunnels out of which coal has been taken from under the Pacific ocean, in the Bay of Nagasaki. Japan; and a vast quantity of coal is mined under the Pacific off the southern coast of Chile. I have been in both mines and have ridden for miles through the Chilean tunnels on the electric cars used for getting out the coal away down there under the sea. Prospecting is now going on far outside this three-mile radius, and some mineral is being discovered. Silver mixed with cobalt has been found 20 or 30 miles from here, and another camp is springing up to the northward. Indeed, there is no telling what minerals may not be found in this region, which seems to be a part of the great mineral belt running around Lake Superior and extending on northward toward Hudson's bay. There is a great deal of iron on the Canadian side of Lake Superior, and some of our richest mines of iron and copper are found on the southern side of that lake. A little more than 100 miles from Cobalt lies Sudbury, which contains the richest nickel deposit of the whole world, and the miners tell me that minerals exist all the way north to James bay. Prospecting is now just beginning in this region, and there is no telling what may be found. A BUSH FOB SILVEB. Speaking of the extent of the mining field at Cobalt a lively rush...
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