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PROSPECTUS 
 
 or THK 
 
 NOVA SCOTIA 
 
 jinpneiei^ Ki^^^d ^^' 
 
 LAMD SITUATBU IH 
 
 TENNY CAPE, HAUTZ COUNTY, NOVA SCOTlA. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 SAM'L CHISM, — FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, 
 No. lis CoNORESs Strict. " 
 
 1^ 18 65. 
 
 
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 The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE 
 COLLECTION o/CANADIANA 
 
 Slueetis University at Kingston 
 
PROSPECTUS 
 
 OF T II K 
 
 NO VA SCOTIA 
 
 M^mtM fining ^0. 
 
 LAND SITUATED IN 
 
 TENNY CAPE, HAUTZ COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 SAM'L CHISM, — FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, 
 No. 112 Congress Street. 
 
 1865. 
 
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NOVA SCOTIA 
 
 MANGANESE MINING CO. 
 
 Halifax, Jan. 3d, 1865. 
 W. H. Richards, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir, — We beg to submit for your consid- 
 eration the following facts connected with the 
 Manganese mines at Tenny Cape, in the County of 
 Ilautz, and Province of Nova Scotia. 
 
 The property is situated at Tenny Cape, in the 
 County of Hautz, bordering on Mines Basin, at the 
 head of the Bay of 1 undy. 
 
 Mr. Church's farm, on which the mine is located, 
 comprises about four hundred acres of land, of which 
 forty acres are under cultivation, — the remaining 
 three hundred and sixty being covered by a dense 
 forest. 
 
 The Manganese was discovered some two years 
 ago, by a son of the then proprietor, while returning 
 from fishing ; and the people of the locality believed 
 the substance to be black lead, and of little value, 
 and no notice was taken of the mineral till a portion 
 of it was taken to Halifax by a farmer, where, upon 
 
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 being subjected to chemical analysis, it proved to be 
 pure Manganese. 
 
 My brother, Dr. Weeks, being in attendance on 
 Church's family, procured some of the mineral, and 
 submitted it to Professor How, of King's College, 
 Windsor, for analysis, and engaged his services to 
 visit the locality ; whereupon Professor How recom- 
 mended that the property should be secured at once, 
 which was done. 
 
 The adjoining property was secured by Messrs. 
 Nash and Mosher, of this Province, who have prose- 
 cuted the work of raining to some extent. 
 
 The hill in which this Manganese is found is about 
 three-fourths of a mile in length, and is almost 
 entirely on the land obtained from Mr. Church. It 
 extends to the distance of a few rods upon the land 
 held by Messrs. Nash and Mosher. 
 
 Messrs. Nash and Mosher have prospected their 
 end of this hill thoroughly, and with the best results. 
 With a small capital, and but few men employed, — 
 at times not more than six, — they have, during the 
 last four months, raised from three hundred to four 
 hundred tons of Manganese. No trouble has been 
 spared to obtain the most reliable information regard- 
 ing the pureness, value, cost of transportation, and 
 market of this mineral. 
 
 Peroxide of Manganese, or pyrolusite, is the most 
 valuable of all the ores of Manganese, and the most 
 extensively used in the manufacture of glass, pottery, 
 and steel, deodorizing fluids and bleaching powders, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 The value of the ore is in proportion to its per- 
 centage of purity. The average purity of commer- 
 
and 
 
 cial Manganese is, according to the most reliable 
 authorities, not more than sixty-five per cent., while 
 the Manganese from this mine averages from eighty- 
 eight to ninety-seven per cent. 
 
 The ores that command the highest prices are those 
 used in the manufacture of glass and pottery ; and it 
 has been ascertained that the Manganese raised from 
 this mine is particularly suited for these purposes, 
 on account of its great purity. 
 
 The market value of Manganese ores has shown 
 a constant increase in price for the last five years ; 
 having advanced from £5 to £12 per ton of two 
 thousand pounds. The last ores sold by Messrs. Nash 
 and Mosher brought £11 per ton, and the demand 
 has always been in excess of the supply. 
 
 The evidences of quantity we consider conclusive, 
 having prospected the hill all over, and found Man- 
 ganese scattered over the whole hill, on all sides and 
 at different elevations. 
 
 Messrs. Nash and Mosher have sunk a shaft some 
 forty feet deep, and in immediate proximity to our 
 line, showing a surface of pure Manganese of seven 
 feet ; the dip of this lode being about 70°, bringing 
 it directly on to our property. 
 
 During the last autumn, we, not being prepared to 
 open the mine scientifically, permitted a person 
 residing in the neighborhood of the mine to work it on 
 shares ; and the result was, that in about a fortnight 
 five men raised ten tons of Manganese, which was 
 readily engaged to an agent of an English firm, I. 
 (jutram, Esq. (whose letter I annex), who advanced 
 £40 on receipt of bill of lading. 
 
 Mr. Outram has since returned to England, and 
 
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 has written urging us to work the mine vigorously, 
 ond offered to advance us £6 per ton on receipt of 
 bill of lading. 
 
 The situation of this mine is in every respect favor- 
 able to the prosecution of mining operations, the 
 locality having been examined by several Cornish 
 miners, who pronounced the rock soft, and easily 
 blasted ; and judging from the works of Messrs. Nash 
 and Mosher, and what has been already done on our 
 property, the Manganese will be raised at a coat of 
 from $4.00 to $7.00 per ton, and I believe, with an 
 improved system of working, at a less figure. 
 
 With regard to the facilities for transportation and 
 shipment, the mine is particularly well situated. The 
 distance from the mine to Mines Basin, by the 
 road now travelled, is a mile and a half; but the 
 local authorities have already laid out and decided 
 upon constructing a new road, by which the distance 
 will be lessened to one mile. 
 
 It is a well-known fact that the inhabitants on the 
 shore of the Bay of Fundy and Mines Basin are 
 largely engaged in ship-building, and constantly 
 require large quantities of ballast, which is a scarce 
 and expensive article ; and Messrs. Nash and Mosher 
 have shipped to Liverpool nearly all the Manganese 
 raised by them as ballast, at an average cost of $1.00 
 per ton, and in any case at a cost of $2.00 per ton, 
 all the Manganese raised at this mine. 
 
 In conclusion, it may be observed that a company 
 has been formed to work the mines referred to, with 
 a capital of $500,000, in twenty thousand shares of 
 $25.00 each, of which number eight thousand shares 
 are set apart for working capital, which are offered 
 
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to subscribers at $7.50 per share; and there is 
 probably, at the present time, no investment which 
 offers so certain a chance for subwribers to secure a 
 dividend-paying stock. 
 
 I remain yours truly, 
 
 Wm. H, Weeks, M. D. 
 
 REPO BT 
 
 or 
 
 PROFESSOE HENRY HOW 
 
 ON THK 
 
 MANGANF.se mining COMPANY'S PROPERTY, 
 
 AND AN 
 
 ANALYSIS OF THE ORES. 
 
 Kino's College, Windsor, N. S., Aug. 30, 1864. 
 Sir, — The following is my Report on some of the ores of 
 Manganese recently analyzed for you, and on the locality at 
 which they were found. The ores consisted of good samples 
 of the mineral called pyrolusite, the kind of Manganese ore 
 sought after in commerce, and used extensively by the makers 
 of bleaching powder, and the makers of glass and pottery. 
 In analyzing the samples submitted to me, I took the average 
 of the whole as free of adhering rock as they could be pro- 
 cured vnthout washing. It is important to observe this, as the 
 
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 adhering rock was of a red color, doubtless from the presence 
 of iron ; and as the samples were not washed, there is reason 
 to believe that the iron found on analysis may have been 
 almost entirely due to the adhering rock : if this should prove 
 to be the case, on further examination of washed specimens, 
 the value of the ores would be increased ; as for certain pur- 
 poses in glass-making it is dcsu'able that no iron, or extremely 
 little, be present. The samples were collected in dry weather, 
 and appeared diy, and were submitted to analysis as given to me. 
 They all contained a little water j and had this been removed, 
 the percentage of oxide of Manganese Avould have come out 
 higher ; but as the object of the first analysis was to gain a 
 knowledge of the approximate value of the ores, the washing 
 and diying were dispensed Avith. 
 
 Js 1, A, gave 92.74 percent, of peroxide of Manganese 
 with a small quantity of iron ; perhaps, at the outside, two or 
 three per cent. 
 
 No. 1, B, gave 92.69 per cent, peroxide of Manganese, and 
 a much smaller quantity of iron than the preceding. 
 
 No. 2 gave 88 per cent, peroxide of Manganese, with a very 
 small amount of iron. 
 
 The ores were easily crushed, and appeared pretty uniform, 
 and the assays show that they are all exti'emely well worth 
 working. 
 
 The locality of the ores I was taken to last June was at 
 Tenny Cape, in this county of Hautz. It consisted of a hill 
 covered with timber, suitable for building, situated about a 
 mile and a half from the Basin of Mines. The hill was 
 roughly estimated at the time to be about sixty feet high, but 
 I have since heard that it is at least one hundred ; and it was 
 thought to be about a mile and a half in circumference at 
 the base ; its length was greater than its breadth ; it ran east 
 and west. We prospected on various parts of the hill ; and 
 from seven or eight separate places on the north and south 
 sides, and at different elevations, I saw extracted ores of Man- 
 ganese which had quite the characters of good workable ores ; 
 
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 some of them had quite the appearance of those of which the 
 analysis is given in this Eeport ; and I have no hesitation in 
 saying that I judged them to be equally rich. I observed no 
 deposit of iron ore in the hill. The amount of Manganese ore 
 taken out was not more than two or three pounds, perhaps ; 
 but we penetrated to no depth ; and it is known that on the 
 adjoining claim, where we saw tons of the ore exposed in the 
 rocks at about twelve feet below the surface, the surface indi- 
 cations were just such as we observed in your claim. The 
 conclusion I came to was that there was great probability of 
 there being an extensive deposit of Manganese in the hill. 
 
 The facilities for mining on this hill are obviously great, as 
 adits can be driven in any direction, if ^ecessary. The place 
 of shipment proposed, about a mile and a half distant, in 
 the Basin of Mines, could be readily reached by a road, chiefly 
 of gentle incline, through the woods and fields. 
 
 As regards the prices of Manganese ores in England, some 
 from the claim adjoining yours, testing 91.5 per cent, peroxide 
 of Manganese and one-half per cent, iron, brought £9 and 
 £8.10 last year; and though the glass-makers only gave this 
 price for ores of the best quality, containing very little iron, 
 there is a very large demand for bleaching powder manufac- 
 tm"e ; and I understand that such ores, even if containing an 
 amount of iron which would render them useless for glass- 
 making, would command something like £5.10 for this purpose. 
 
 I find that, in the year 1862, thirty-three thousand tons of 
 Manganese ores were employed in the United Kingdom in the 
 Alkali Works : the greater pait of this is imported, I believe, 
 from Spain and Germany, and is of various qualities ; that 
 from Spain is said to be of from 50 to 90 per cent, peroxide. 
 I am, sir, your obedient servant. 
 
 Henry How, D. C. L., 
 
 Professor oj Chemistry.. 
 
 Edward "Weeks, Esq. 
 
MR. OUTRAM'S LETTER. 
 
 Halifax, Jaiu 10th, 1865. 
 
 Dear Sir, — The lowest price at which my son sold such 
 Manganese in England as we saw at your mine was £9. 5*. 
 per ton; and he is ready to advance $15 per ton on the 
 ground, and $15 extra when on hoard the vessel, and bill of 
 lading delivered. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. H. Weeks, Esq., M. D. 
 
 J. OUTRAM. 
 
 LETTER FROM S. C. FAIRBANKS, ESQ., 
 
 8H0WINO THE MAMOANE8B ORES ARE 
 
 NOT SUBJECT TO KOYALTY. 
 
 Dear Sir, — The wording of some of the old grants of the 
 Province embraces all minerals of every description : conse- 
 quently Manganese would be included. The reservations, 
 however, vary so much in the old grants, that, without know- 
 ing the grant to which you refer, I could not, with propriety, 
 furnish you with the certificate in the form suggested ; but a 
 certificate is unnecessary, for upon reference to the 5th Sec. 
 of the Act relating to local mines, page 123, you will find 
 that the law defines the class of minerals to which the Crown 
 has any claim, under previous reservations, to be gold, silver. 
 
 
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 tin, lead, copper, coal, iron, and precious stones, and this 
 limited number is introduced into all modern grants. This 
 explanation, I hope, will answer your purpose. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 S. C. Fairbanks. 
 Halifax, Dec. 13th, 1864. 
 
 W. H. Weeks, Eso., M. D. 
 
 LETTER FEOM JAS. F. BABCOCK, ESQ. 
 
 ANALYHCAL CHEMIST, BOSTON. 
 
 Analytical Laboratory, 
 
 7 Bromfield Street, Boston. 
 Mr. W. H. Richards. 
 
 Dear Sir, — I have made an analysis of the ore of Man- 
 ganese left by you, and find that it contains, in a choice sample. 
 
 Bin q;cide of manganese, 97.20 per cent. 
 
 Adhering dirt, limestone, etc., 2.25 " 
 Silica, oxide irou (traces). 
 
 Loss, 55 " 
 
 100.00 
 
 It will be seen that this ore is remarkably pm-e, and well 
 adapted to commercial or manufactiu'ing purposes. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Boston, Jan. 20th, 1865. 
 
 James F. Bahcock, 
 
 Analytical Chemist. 
 
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 The lands occupied by this company embrace an area of 
 one hundred acres, including the entire hill in which the 
 Manganese is found, with the exception of a few acres occu- 
 pied and worked by Messrs. Nash and Mosher. The company 
 has the entire right to all minerals fo\md on this and an 
 adjoining tract, — some three hundred acres, — with a right 
 of way, for the purposes of transportation, to and from Mines 
 Basin. They have also the right to use all the timber on the 
 land necessary for the purposes of successfully conducting 
 their business. 
 
 At the suggestion of friends, I visited the mines, and exam- 
 ined them. I also examined the workings of Messrs. Nash 
 and Mosher, on the same hill ; being a part of the same for- 
 mation. 7. obtained a full confirmation of Professor How's 
 statement of numerous outcroppings of Manganese on all 
 sides, from farmers resident there, some of whom had been 
 employed in mining the ore : which furnishes to my mind con- 
 clusive evidence of the truth of the preceding statements of 
 this Report ; viz., of a heavy and reliable deposit of Manganese 
 of great purity, of which a few tons per day for one year, 
 at present prices, would pay more than one hundred per cent. 
 
 I am, etc., truly yours, 
 
 Wm. H. Richards, 
 
 5 Arch Street, Boston. 
 
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