[Copy of Pamphlet Relating to the Purchase of the Lake Superior Copper Lands from the Indians by U.S. Gov't — 1800 —] [Houghton Public Library letterhead. Board of Education: J. T. Reeder, President; W. F. Miller, Secretary; W. T. Gray, Treasurer; J. T. Finnegan; H. W. Pesing; A. O. Goodale, Supt. Harriet L. Allen, Librarian.] M^r. Walter C. Wyman. New York City — Dear Sir— Houghton, Mich., Jan 13, 1921. I am enclosing the copy of a document belonging to the Keweenaw Historical Society which you wished to have — and which we are pleased to give you. Very truly yours, Harriet L. Allen. R E P O R T of the C O M M I T T E E Appointed on the 5th instant To enquire into the expediency of authorizing the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to appoint an agent to purchase of the I N D I A N S, A T R A C T O F L A N D On the South-side of L A K E S U P E R I O R which shall include the GREAT COPPER BED. 17th March, 1800. Committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. Published by order of the House of Representatives. R E P O R T The Committee to whom it was referred, to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the President of the United States, to appoint an agent to purchase of the Indians, a tract of Land on the south-side of Lake Superior, which shall include the Copper Bed-- REPORT-- That extensive copper beds exist on the banks of said lake, within the United States, of which the Committee hath obtained samples, and got them examined by the assayer of the mint, who reported it pure malleable copper, fit for the manufactors;--the Committee hath further inquired into, and found that the following prices for transportation, are now paid to public carriers, from Michelemachenac, to fort Erie, seventy cents for one hundred weight; from thence to Queenstown fifty cents; from thence to Oswego twenty five cents; from thence to Utica one hundred cents; from thence to Albany fifty cents; which compleats the rout, except over the Lake Superior, and the Streights of Saint-Mary, which the Committee suppose one hundred cents, making together three dollars and ninety five cents per hundred, being less than four pence per pound:- the Committee are therefore of opinion that the House come to the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to employ an agent, who shall be instructed to collect all material information relative to the copper mines, on the south side of Lake Superior, and to ascertain whether the Indian title to such lands as might be required for the use of the United States, in case they should deem it expedient to work the said mines, be yet subsisting, and if so, the terms on which the same can be extinguished: --and that the said agent be instructed to make report to the President in such time as the information he may collect may be laid before Congress at their next session.