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38 Document No. 27. [Session
The gold of these placers has evidently been derived from the
numerous small veins in the slopes of the adjacent hills and
mountains. The gangue of these veins is usually a granular
white quartz (saccharoid). They are small and have not been
mined hitherto. Machinery has been put up however near
Brackettown for the purpose of working one of these saccha-roidal
veins, which seems to be nearly a foot in thickness.
The third gold field referred to is in Caldwell County on
Lower Creek. Operations have been carried on here on a
considerable scale on both sides of the creek, but mostly on
the north side, along the beds of the tributary streams which
come down from the terminal spurs and ridges of the Warrior
Mountains, which divide the waters of Lower Creek from
John's River.
There are man}' other places where gold has been obtained
from " gravel " in considerable amounts, as in the beds of
some small streams on the slopes of the hills three to four
miles west of Morganton, where gold washing is still carried
on profitably ; in the waters of Second Broad in Rutherford ;
on Pacolet River, Polk County, and in several parts of Cleve-land
and Lincoln.
The Shuford mine in the eastern part of Catawba, which con-tains
both placers and veins, is situated on the King's Mountain
belt. It has been worked for a number of years with very sat-isfactory
results, and operations are to be resumed shortly.
These are " dry diggings " and the difficulty is in procuring a
supply of water.
Vein-mining has never been extensively carried on in this
region. The Mountain Mining Company were erecting ma-chinery
during last summer to operate the quartz vein near
Brackettown already mentioned, and were about to re-open a
mine some four miles south of Shelby, which is neither a vein
Tior placer mine. The gold bearing rock is a heavy ledge of
brown ferruginous mica-schist, which is impregnated with
iron pyrites in a state of minute subdivision and abounds in
garnets. There is no semblance of a vein proper. Dr. Em-
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| Full Text | 38 Document No. 27. [Session The gold of these placers has evidently been derived from the numerous small veins in the slopes of the adjacent hills and mountains. The gangue of these veins is usually a granular white quartz (saccharoid). They are small and have not been mined hitherto. Machinery has been put up however near Brackettown for the purpose of working one of these saccha-roidal veins, which seems to be nearly a foot in thickness. The third gold field referred to is in Caldwell County on Lower Creek. Operations have been carried on here on a considerable scale on both sides of the creek, but mostly on the north side, along the beds of the tributary streams which come down from the terminal spurs and ridges of the Warrior Mountains, which divide the waters of Lower Creek from John's River. There are man}' other places where gold has been obtained from " gravel " in considerable amounts, as in the beds of some small streams on the slopes of the hills three to four miles west of Morganton, where gold washing is still carried on profitably ; in the waters of Second Broad in Rutherford ; on Pacolet River, Polk County, and in several parts of Cleve-land and Lincoln. The Shuford mine in the eastern part of Catawba, which con-tains both placers and veins, is situated on the King's Mountain belt. It has been worked for a number of years with very sat-isfactory results, and operations are to be resumed shortly. These are " dry diggings " and the difficulty is in procuring a supply of water. Vein-mining has never been extensively carried on in this region. The Mountain Mining Company were erecting ma-chinery during last summer to operate the quartz vein near Brackettown already mentioned, and were about to re-open a mine some four miles south of Shelby, which is neither a vein Tior placer mine. The gold bearing rock is a heavy ledge of brown ferruginous mica-schist, which is impregnated with iron pyrites in a state of minute subdivision and abounds in garnets. There is no semblance of a vein proper. Dr. Em- |
