Paddock mine, Lyman, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USAi

Regional Level Types
Paddock mine	Mine
Lyman	Township
Grafton County	County
New Hampshire	State
USA	Country

Paddock Company. This is the largest of all the copper companies, embracing partly in fee simple the entire land and partly the mineral rights upon four of the original lots of the town of Lyman, and therefore supposed to contain 1200 acres. The course of the veins is more than three miles in length, reaching from the Titus farm upon the south to an unoccupied tract called on our map the Penhallow lot. J. H. Paddock, Esq.. of St. Johnsbury, Vt., is the principal proprietor, and the manager of the mine and mill. He has brought together several of the tracts known ten years ago as the Oro, Osgood, Osborn, New Hampshire Silver Lead Co., etc. What were formerly the Oro and Osgood openings are now the No. 1 and No. 2 shafts of the Paddock mine. Concerning these two mines, I wrote as follows in 1869:

“The next is called the Osgood mine, embracing about 700 acres of the land on the east slope of Gardner's mountain. I examined four or five openings. The first, near the south line, was ten feet deep, exhibiting five feet width of copper schists. The second shows a width of ten feet of copper schists. The third is a shaft thirty-five feet deep. Eighty feet below is a short tunnel eighty feet long, and designed to cut the vein. A large pile of good specimens of this copper may be seen near the shaft.

“The next north is the Oro mine. Here is a shaft sixty-five feet deep, a shaft house, easily seen from a great distance on account of its conspicuous position, two drifts fourteen and sixteen feet long, and a vein from four to seven feet wide, carrying more ore near the hanging than the foot wall. Sixty tons, part yielding 10.80, and part 9.+ per cent of copper, have been shipped from the mine to Boston. There are one hundred and seventy-five acres of land connected with this property, and the vein is eighty-eight rods long."