Marshfield News

 

Thursday September 17, 1908   Page 1

 

IRON AT SPENCER

 

DEPOSIT OF MAGNETIC ORE FOUND NEAR THERE

 

Spencer is not a place to get excited but if they can dig from the earth in quantities, iron ore like the sample sent to the News, there will be a time there like the beginning of a great mining town.  The letter accompaning the sample says that a deposit of magnetic ore was recently discovered near there and the extent of the deposit is now being thouroughly investigated.  The outcropping was but a foor square on the surface and at fourteen feet below spreads out to about 16 feet and continues downward.  Specimens of it have been sent to the state geologist who pronounces it is a superior quality of magnetic ore.  On a direct line with the finding it was also found at the bottom of a drilled well 98 feet deep, the drill refusing to work in it.  It is proposed by those interested to make a thorough test, the well spoken of being the first place to commence operations.

 

About every so often the finding of this mineral is reported, first in one section and then another, in this vicinity until it has become a joke.  Around Sherry, Miladore and Rudolph in the past two years two diamond drills were worked by experet miners who believed from surface indications that iron exists here and is yet to be found.  In conversation with one of these gentlemen he said he never saw better prospects and believed the time would come when a great vein of iron would be discovered somewhere in the counties of Wood, Marathon or Clark.  we hope the discovery will fall to Spencer.

 

 

Marshfield News

 

Thursday Ocotober 29, 1908   Page 1

 

NEW INTERESTS IN SPENCER IRON MINES

 

A correspondent writing from the town of Sherman to the Loyal Tribune says:

"E. E. Coon of the town of Sherman has discovered a rich deposit of iron ore on his farm and has sent some specimens away to be assayed, and some of the rock found on the place, upon placing it under a magnifying glass, was found to contain particals of silver.  Ed had some specimens of rock that are seven-eights solid iron and upon examining the rock lying on top of the ground about the place we find that two-thirds of the rocks are over half iron ore and when the well was drilled near the house, after drilling 20 feet, a two foot vein of oil was struck and those about the well drill used the oil to grease their boots with.  At fifty-eight feet they struck a solid sunstance and the w

drill would not work any more.  We understand that they struck the solid iron bed at 98 feet so we have the advantage of 40 feet in depth.  We also have one rock near the road that will weigh about 6 or 8 tons that contains iron ore.  Ed picked up what he supposed to be a flat rock on the east side of his farm and broke it and found it to be nearly solid iron.  Ed being quite a hand for suriosities has picked up several pieces of petrified wood.  He has one saw wedge of maple wood that has turned to stone, several pine chips of different sizes, a toad stool such as grow on the side of trees, several other minor pieces of petrified wood, a stone the shape of a horse's foot, a stone that looks like a baby's shoe and a square piece of petrified wood four inches wide, six inches long and two inches thick.  If Ed has not got a farm that contains curiosities then who has.  They say even Ed Coon is a curiosity himself but anyway we live to hope that all prospects are good for if Ed has iron on his farm it will help all in the vicinity and we like to see others do well also.

 

Contributor: Ken Wood.

 

 


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