the beautiful Kennebec. * * * In a course of careful surface 

 exploration from Tav'stock in Devonshire, all the way 

 through Cornwall to Land's End, in no place could I find in- 

 dications more promising for successful tin mining than here 

 at Winslow." 



Dr. C. H. Hitchcock, another predecessor of mine as State 

 Geologist of Maine, in 1880 reported that "thirty feet width 

 of vertical sheets of killas, show twelve granite veins from 

 half of one inch to three inches in width, crossed, occas- 

 ionally by stragglers. These veins are full of crystals of tin 

 ore (cassiterite) with the associated minerals, fluor-spar, 

 margarite, mispickel, beryl, lepidolite, etc. This mode of oc- 

 currence recalls to mind the tin floors and stockworks of 

 Cornwall and Germany, The mineral, geological and phy- 

 sical features of this mine at Winslow are identical with 

 those common to the stanniferous districts of Europe. If 

 Winslow was in Cornwall, this property would be explored 

 at once. Hence we are authorized to recommend the devel- 

 opment of these tin floors in Maine. 



"The ore seems to be sufficiently abundant to remun- 

 erate quite extensive outlays for mining operations." 



So much for the testimony of others. 



For myself, I can only say that after careful geological 

 reconnaissance of this locality, I regard it as the one promis- 

 ing outlook for the development of a tin mine in the United 

 States. And with that convicton, which may be born of 

 stubbornness and may result in disappointment, I have been 

 gathering up ownership interests along the line of this min- 

 eralization until I have acquired control of a sufficient area 

 to demonstrate the correctness or incorrectness of my views, 

 and am in position to go ahead at my convenience and as 

 means may allow on its development. 



Statistics compiled by the National City Bank of New 

 York in 1918, showed that the United States is now turning 

 out over $100,000,000 worth of tin plate annually and that 

 for all of this and the other industries using tin, the United 

 States is dependent upon mines on the opposite side of the 

 globe, though considerable quantities are now drawn from 

 Bolivia, which now produces nearly one third of the tin of 

 the world. "All efforts" said this great bank, "successfully 

 to develop tin production in the United States which now 

 uses about one half of all the tin mined in the world, have 

 thus far been unsuccessful." The quantity of tin imported into 

 the United States has grown from 35,000,000 pounds in 1890 

 to approximately 140,000,000 pounds in 1917. 



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