Copper Mining.

Has been carried on at Poison's Lake, where some 210 tons were taken out. At French River eight months work of twelve men produced, according to the statement of Mr. Pendergast, the manager, some 18½ tons of ore, valued at New York at $120 per ton. At Waugh's River some 3 tons of ore were collected in 1877, page 54 valued at $30 per ton. At Lochaber explorers report having taken out some 40 tons of unknown percentage (Report Dept. of Mines.)