Appendix C 



To the President, 



and Board of Managers of the 



Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 

 Gentlemen: 



I respectfully submit to you fie following report of the trip 

 taken by me to the copper country of Lake Superior. I left Buffalo 

 on the steamship Juniata, Sunday, June 17th, 1906. The trip 

 up the lakes was not particularly pleas-int owin^f to the fact that 

 the first four days were marred by nearly continuous rain I was 

 therefore, unable to procure very many photographs of the boats 

 and ore docks which I especially desired to use in illustrating the 

 shipping and handling of the ore. I left the boat at Houghton, 

 Michigan. I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Koenig of Phila- 

 delphia who occupies a position as Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Michigan School of Mines at that place. I spent a very pleasant 

 evening with him discussing the geology and conditions of the 

 mines and obtained much valuable information. 



The following day I visited Isle Royal mine in the morning 

 and by presenting the letter of introduction which you verv kindly 

 furnished me before starting, I secured the attention and courtesy 

 of the foreman of the shaft who very kindly allowed me to select 

 such specimens as I desired and who gave me several interesting 

 pieces which he had gathered for his own use. I brought back 

 fr^m this shaft some pieces of the Amygbaloid and Epidote and a 

 very fine mass of Metallic copper with other specimens illustratirg 

 the nature of the ore produced at this time. Owing to the con- 

 tinual rain of this day I was unable to procure photographs of the 

 shaft or machinery. In the afternoon, the weather having cleared, 

 I visited the stamp mine of the same company and met with every 

 courtesy, being shown through the different buildings and having 

 the process thoroughly explained to me. I secured here specimens 

 of the concentrates and some very fine samples showing metallic 

 copper and metallic silver in the same piece. I secured photo- 

 graphs at this time illustrating the appearance of the buildings, 

 the cars in which the ore is carried, and the disposal of the sand 

 from which the copper has been extracted. 



