Somerset County PA Archives News.....Discovery of Nickle Ore June 2, 1875
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The Somerset Herald: (Somerset, Pa.) June 2, 1875
Messrs. Wm. Hughes and L. P. Walker of Dunbar, Fayette county have been prospecting
in the Allegheny mountains, through different parts of this county. Last week they
discovered what they claimed to be a mine of nickle ore on the farm of John C.
Burket in Stoneycreek township. One of the above named gentleman is a practical
mineralogist having at one time been connected with the Dunbar Furnace, and at
another with the mining companies of Nevada. Together with Mr. Burket, they came to
town on Friday last and secured from him the mineral right for one hundred acres of
his farm, paying him one hundred dollars cash and a certain royalty per ton for all
ores mined. If this vein should prove to be a rich one, it will be a big thing for
Somerset county as smelting furnaces will have to be put up, mines sunk, roads built
and many other things done that will bring our county an increase of wealth and
population. 

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