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Lake Superior
They were given up as a bad lot; but as the country had to fill its quota under the draft, these scalawags were induced to enlist with a bounty of $300 each offered. They filled the places of better men and were thus of some service. But that costly experiment of importing labor from Europe, at company expense,, was never repeated.
The mines of the Portage district are based on stamp lodes, or belts. That is to say, the copper found in the vein stone is, as a rule, fine, like bird shot, or buckshot, not massive, and so intimately blended with the rock that large stamp mills are required for the treatment of the output of these mines.
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