People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — Prospectors Find a Bismuth Mine. [ARTICLE]

Prospectors Find a Bismuth Mine.

Ishpeming, Mich., Oct 3.—Weatherston and Ropes, prospectors for gold, have discovered a mine, the rook of which assays seven dollars in bismuth to the ton. Bismuth has a commercial value of about two dollars per pound. There is no point known in the United States where it is mined.