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Mr. K. W. Strickland is fore*
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Castleberry has
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; is building him a
lot rifcar Marshal
just had I
some improvements completed on man of the grand jury
his residence.
Mining Notes.
!THE JUMBO Q0U)M1NK
Fair at
weeks
Texas.
Mi>- •
.« day'
nr II. Moore, alter;
Lit totLiitiesvi'le, re
Sunday.
irued last
i; v .1. F. Blackburn occupied
,{ 1( it at the Baptist ehureh at
i-t Sunday.
mi need any shingles,
beson Bros. All or*.
)tly tilled, Freda, da.
tf
the pi
iis jdace I
When y
write Hub
ders prom |
Mrs. W. W. Murray of Hnnf-
Dahlonegtt j ingdon, Tenn., is in the city.
Rev. J. C. Higgins will preach
at the Baptist church at this place
next Sunday.
Mrs. W. If. C. Tati has gpuc
to Atlanta to be with her hnsbrtnd
till ho gets so ho can return.
We regret to learn of the death
of Mi'S'. Millard Dowdy, which oo*
cur red in this county last Satur-
Being on the jury this week may j day.
Only a few of the
! college cadets visited the
1 Atlanta last week.
A three line ml. a few
ago brought os a job from
It pays to advertise.
The chahgc in the wcnthei causes
some of the wood haulers to carry
a big broad smile and a little load
of wood. ■
The mining outlook in this j judge John Huff Interviewed
Interesting History of the
Property by Col. W,
P. Price,
I county is very bright now.
I Owing to the numerous rich |
j strikes on Jumbo we understand!
that the price of stock will ad
vance booh.
j We understand that a number
i of gentlemen living in Colorado |
All our people know that the
Jumbo Hold Minn is located six
purchased good blocks of Jumbo and one-half miles Northeast of
utook last week.
Dahlonega on a tract of land con
(Vl Baker will leave for Macon., :
; ,,,-xl Sunday where he goes j
J,i’ll,aid the Brand Lodge of Ma-
jOnS,
\ link' rain fell here Friday
■ lit.,!!,[ Saturday morning but
mil enough to he of any benefit to
turners.
q,. v. I!. IIix has gone down
into Jackson
cause a little delay in some of our
job work, but we will come to see
you later on.
The cil v marshal requests us to
state that eases will be made
against persons of Dahlonega not
using disinfectants in their closets.
The boys down at the Lockhart j talning two hundred aurcs, and
are still busy taking the yellow j that this property has recently
metal from this celebrated mine I beoome celebrated by the wonder-
county to teach,
hiving been elected to the Bollvicw
school. '
Dr. 11. C. Whelchol,"after being
confined lo his room for several
More than half the grayes in the
cemetery have been covered with
sand and white rock and the others
will receive attention right away.
Don't borrow your neighbors
Nugukt and be so stingy. Send
) j in a dollar and get one ot your own
so you can sit and read it wRh
out feeling bad.
Messrs. Breen, Dr. Johnson and
Roy of Nashville, were here yes
terday looking at the Jumbo Gold
Mine.
The proposed daily mail route ' completed last week. Me
from Dahlonega to Stay has notj^rstood our informant
been established yet. The bids
were not recognized.
in paying quantities.
We stated in our last issno that
i the hauling of the machinery to
,the Gorge would practically be
misuns
It was
this week.
The Yahoola Lifting Co. down
In returning home last. Toes- 011 ^tanilard property below
John Chatten was sentenced by
days, was
able *<> l1 f) into M hi.c Judge Newman last week to two
years in the penitentiary and a tine
of s.-jO;) for breaking into Wier
county last Sunday.
Do you want the Atlanta Daily
Nous for *3.00? If so let us send post office in this county,
for yon and relieve von of any
j trouble and expense.
AH wlio are indebted to T. .).
[Smith, 11. B. Smith or T. J. Smith
U Ill'll., either by note or account.,
rc notified to settle at once, tf
Services were held at all three
[of the churches hero Iasi Sunday,
[anil those who desired to attend
A certain person went into Ihe
ordinary’s office the other day and
settled off a debt lay letting bis
wife schedule. Both may need
assistance some time again and
where do they expect, to get it?
day Col. Howard ran his buggy
against Tom Clark’s wagon down
on the road and broko three
wheels.
Wanted.-r-By B. It. Menders
& Sons ten or fifteen hands to
work on*the Dahlonega and Daws
sonvillc telephone line next Mon
day, beginning at this ond,
The stockholders of the Gaines
villo & Dahlonega Electric Rail
way Co. met at Gainesville yes*
torday, hut we have not yet learn
ed what was done.
Col. Farrow of Gainesville was
the Singleten, have things in good
shape now for operation and the
prospect for a big yield of gold is
good.
Down at the MoAfee-Lind Gold
Mine the timbers are all out ready
for the erection of the mill which
has likely begun by this time. The
veins still show up fine and we
bespeak for this company a »l«h
harvest when the mill begins to
run.
fill disooveries of gold made there
on by Judge W. W. Murray and
his associates. Fourteen years
ago Judge Murray began to pur
chase various tracts of land which
now constitute the Jumbo Mipo
and it was a happy little conceit
of his to cal! this mine Jumbo.
Every one at all acquainted with
tho locality know that nin,ch de-
posit gold had boon taken out of
all the branches gud branch bot
toms in that vicinity for more
than sixty years, but during all
that time veins from which the
gold was washed into the branches
and branoh bottoms below them
had never beep found. So Jumbo,
after he was christened, slept for
years. But Jumbo awoke at, last
like Rip VanWinkle and found
that Judge Murray and his afso
ld Barlow is certainly ! Mates, by persistent and intelligent
We saw some development work had oj
rich veins which lmd fed gold in
to the branches and bottoms lie-
From a letter received by Mrs.
Phillips last week concerning her
husband who is in the lunatic asy*
The
showing up tine,
ore this week taken from a vein
discovered by Joe Bonner some
among the many visitors here this , few weeke flg0j w hile placer min* j low and found o, ' e0 containing the
ing, that was excellent. The gold j precious met*l, which for quality
could easily he seen in the rock j and quantity had scarcely ever
with the natural eye. In the | been seen in Lumpkin County or
[church, got their choice of preach- j.i t1 in, we learned that the gentleman
lor*.
was more cheerful and seemed to
Dahlonega be improving, so said tho author
ities.
This compliment comes from
Every citizen of
Ishoulil see ilint their chimneys and
[stove flues are safe and no danger
iii' . Burn out your chimneys j j aekson Qouhty Herald: The
Ivdon it rains so as to lesson the i dahlonega Nugget contains each
ilanger. I vveek, besides all the local
The progress of the drill by the j news of Lumpkin county, more
ballots is certainly very compli
mentary to Maj. Tdlson. The
(boys have become proficient in the
Various exercises in the manuel
pf arms and also in marching.
Dr. Whelchei was up at Capt.
isbury’s last Sunday afternoon
[ml reported that the Captain was
improving and would get up again
If lie bail no back set, which will
F good news to his many friends
pry where.
1 ho way Unbuild up Dahlonega
do talk for it and spend a little
|hango when it becomes necessary
1 Jo something that will add to
advancement. This is one
eason why Atlanta is constantly
I' 1 rising ground.
j I here are just a number of peo-
|lc in Lmnpkin county who have
^turned their household and kitch-
['furniture at live dollars, and VV'C
pticoil one who gave his in at a dol-
r' ^ e a re afraid some of them
id freeze to death this winter.
•V gentleman writes us as fol-
“1 send you a dollar for
f lln 'val. 1 don't want to miss a
h'V l ' ! Die Nugget. I do not in
wit and originality than any paper
that reaches our sanctum. Wo
thought the editor would have ex-
austed his supply of wit and wis*
dom long ago, hut like the prover
bial perennial fount, his spring
of bright sayings never runs dry.
There is no excuse for any per
son attending tho N. G. A. College
not learning now. They hayc a
study hall at the dormitory and
when a young man gets behind
with his studies, matters not where
he boards, he is required to go to
this hall where he can haye the as
sistance of two professors. This
a much better plan than giving de
merits. Occasionally onegoeshome
rather than to do this, but it is bet-
j ter for the college, faculty and boy
i if he does not aim to learn anything,
j to return borne and go to work be-
; fore spending a whole lot of time
land money for nothing.
Wo understand that Rev. Mr.
Mark, pastor of tho Methodist
church at this place, says he is go
ing to have Mr. J. h . Broach, a
student of the N. G. A. College,
“brought up.” For what? Be*
cause Mr. Broach wrote an article
week. The Colonel closed out his
hotel at Porter Springs on tho
lo'h inst., after having a good
crowd-all the season.
Tho visiting bar here this week
are: Cols. ,1. W. II, Underwood of
Cleveland; H. IT. Dean, F. M,
Johnson, W. F. Findley, Howard
Thompson, B. 1*. Gaillard, G. K.
Looper, Gainesville.
Our esteemed friend Mr. W, H.
Courtney of White came down this
week, and reports everything all
l ight now, hot he says that Solici
tor General Charters “skinned tho
boys” op there last week.
A gentleman who is interested
in the land deal in this county whs
here this week and reported every
thing all right. He says all the
land where tho titles are good will
be taken beyond a doubt.
Hon. F. C. Tate has been here
placer work many nice nuggets
have been found, among them was
one weighing nine pennyweights.
Mr. W. B. Fry, mining engineer
I at Jumbo, was in the city last
! Sunday and reported that he cut
' another vein of ore la9t week in
shaft No. 1, two feet thick and
took out seven tons of free milling
ore worth from $78.00 to $100.00
per ton. This is the fourth vein
of rich ore cut in the shaft, alto
gether making a body of high
grade ore five feet thick. The
shaft is down 40 feet.
We call especial attention in this
issue to the letter of Col. Price in
regard to Jumbo mine. For the
benefit of our readers who do not
know Col. Price. We will state
that he is the nestor of the North
this week mixing and mingling j (j eorg i a bar. He has represented
with his many friends in this coun
ty. Mr. Tate tells us that he is
this district in Congress of the
United States, and has been many
going to be in the race again for I tinj^s a member of both houses of
Congress. He has always gotten j the. Georgia legislature. Is the
a strong vote in Lumpkin county | father of the North Georgia Col
and will likely do sjo, again.
lege, has been tho president of its
Mr. Thomas Bell, clerk of the board of trustees since its organi-
Supet’ior Court of Hall county, nation. He has been a prominent
was here this week for tho first and active member of his church,
time in eight years. It is said that j the Baptist, for fifty yeai9 and a
Mr. Bell has a congressional bee in
his hat, who, if he runs as well in
tho 9th as he does for clerk in Hall
county, lie w ill win by a big ma
jority.
man of the highest character.
The superintendent of tho Gold
Mining and Milling Co., informs
us that ho has just received a let
ter from Judge Shopo of Chicago,
in which bo states that the compas
P'l to do without it as long ,as 11 . . -----
t able to pay for it. No good j to h ‘ s Lome paper in the way o a no tliing of this kind any r
ity citiz-m can afford defense of the N. G. A. College, j [ lorea f ter these compani
which Mr. Marks tried to injure
by bis remarks at a meeting of the con t ra cts, will not he in it.
Methodist people at Monroe not _
long ago. This old man has stepped
in the mire and he doesn t know
how to get out. He wants Mr, ;
Broach to write to the same paper
and retract what he said about
! him. He tried to cause Col. Price
to do ihe same thing after the
VCM T Colonel defended the college in the
Nugget against the preachers say- j J
ings, Gut he failed. And it will
be the same way with Mr. Broach.
Mr. Marks is a funny old man' . .
, . . l .1 M true va ne, hut it won t do it
When the friends ot the college ,
ii • i pirors will use every effort possi
were coming at'him on all snlesi J . .
about this matter ho fixed a date
at the Methodist church to set him
self right. A big crowd gathe red
on that day to hear his explanation,
hut he failed to give any, claiming,
that “a f t-o r, c o-n s u I-t i n g,
my f-r i-o n d s, 1 h-u-v-e d e-
c-i d-e-d to say n o t-h-i u-g o f a
personal n-a-t-n r-e.
[ lm Pkin county
l )0 "'dliout the Nugget, for it is|
|c °nly real newspaper in the
I’ 1 n.ty'
11 D'w weeks a convention will
|( hi j or i he purpose of nomi- l
a mayor and four aldermen
1 Dh 1 ( ity of Dahlonega. Mayor J
1 'c 1 ti lls us tFiat he will serve
h 111 ni if tin* people want
ln ' I las we think will be
'I'factory to all, as the Colonel
* Performed his duties well and
t no *t(
A good deal of lime wasccnsum-.
ed in court here this week concern- j w * d 1,6 dow n, in a veiy cw
ing
sub contractor from one of the
big non resident companies failing
to carry his contract out. We are
proud to say that there will he
more, for
inies that
have been awarded thousands of
A
K.,mail contract. Caused by , I day., and that the company m-
,h ™,ntr»ator from non nf ihe tonda to push JtMUtCH nt the HlinW
from now on as fast as possible, in
the way of completing ditches,
dams, &c , and otherwise equip
the old Briar Fateh property in
such a manner that she will soon
bo yielding up her precious metal 1
elsewhere. The writer has no
personal experience in mining
affairs, nor any knowledge of the
mining business, but lie remem
bers in his youth honing mer
chants who bought gold in small
lots say that the gold taken fyoni
Cavender’s Creek and its branches
was the finest and best gold to be
found anywhere. He also remem
bers that tlie late Col. Wm. Mar
tin of Dahlonega, himself wo ins
ferior Geologist and judge of min
ing properties in Lumpkin Conn*
ty, accumulated all the lots lie
i could buy in tho vicinity of what
I is now Jumbo, more than fifty
years ago. His advice to the
writer during the war while both
were in the Military service was,
put your money in Cavender’s
Creek lots. Some day it will be
found out that that is the richest
gold mining section in the ftitate.
Col. Martin bought many lots,
some of which have been sold to
Judge W. W. Murray and j\ro a
part of tho Jumbo Mine. Recent
events and discoveries have proven
that Col. Martin’s faith was well
founded and that the dream of
wealth in the region of the Jumbo
Mine by wise men fifty years ago
lias become a splendid reality.
Rejoiced at hearing of the discov
eries at Jumbo, and being told
that quite a crowd of our citizens,
including some of our foremost
miners, had just visited Jumbo
the writer called on Judge John
Huff, our Ordinary, a few hours
after his returning from the Mine,
in order to learn if the glowing
aeoounts were true. Every one
goes to Judge Huff for facts about
mines and mining. He was a
miner when a lad, he was a miner
when a young man, Hushed with
,. .1.1... ■■ napxnnffijH iia*
to pny get the services of tho
jfblest and best (Jpofgia miner fop
foreman. Sp thp vrptpj: jvpnt to
Judge Huff for fapts apd fonp4
hjm iii tho Court-house at hjs of;
fice and asked him what he had
Been at Jumbo. He began by say
ing, only the half has beep told
about Jumbo. To learn the other
half you have got to see it fop
yourself in order to believe it. f
never to'W *»iit one mine to ap
proach it in tho extent apd rich
ness of tho ore and that was the
Ralston Mine clpsp to the Pigoop
Roost which belonged to Hand auff
Barlow and which I managed sev
eral years for thorn. I saw in the
nuriforous body of ores now open
at Jumbo, say seven hundred feet
wide, many rich veinB varying in
sizo from eight inches to twelvo
feet thick, many of theso vein#
being of the richest ore l ever bp r
held in Georgia or elsewhere.
Then I pursued the inquiry fur
ther. But you know Judge that
many enterprises that bid fair
have finally had to stop and the
mills close dpwp for the lack .of
ore to supply the mill. Wliat do
you think pji the subject of orp
supply at Jumbo? Well, said
Judge Huff, my principal carp
when managing mills for Barlow
and if and jfco (igep # lookout
for enough paying pros to joysp
the mil la going night and day
pened”the nnd 011 ^ in *' ^' n0 hftgjn^ 88 I may
say that I have gnin,o,d pinch
knowledge. The supply of ore n£
Jumbo is beyond my power to es,-
tiniate. It is, as I might safely
say, practically inexhaustible. At
least it would take several genera
tions to work it put, Jf then. In
all my acquaintance with Georgia
mines I have never peon a proper
ty where there ,werp so inpeh pay
ore in sight and where tlio ,qiuyi-
tijty was apparently ho unlimited.
Here, if any whore mills might lip
erected with a view of being per
manent, say for one hundred years
to come, or more. One more
question I will ask you J^dga and
then I will cea.Be. Did you stay a
sufficient ieiigth of timo ,on tlie
properry, and look about y.yu
enough to say that the location is
such, and the water supply suf
ficient to justify the erection of
mills and modern machinery? To
this Judgo Huff answered, enough
water can be saved and brought
to the mills for steam and bat
tery purposes, but a large plant
should Ue .operated .by electricity
which can be obtained from h
plant on the Cheetatee river four
miles distant, now nearing com
pletion. This would be much
cheaper than steam power and
much more satisfactory at all
seasons. ( believe that Jumbo
will bring back to our Lumpkin
County mines the prestige they
once had, and will he pointed to
in the future as one gold mine
that will never fail. This article
is written by one who has not a
dollar of interest in Jumbo stock
and is not connected in any way
with its affairs, nor has he any
laud to soli in the neighborhood
of Jumbo. Every aero of land
that he ever owned or bad any in*
terest in that locality was sold
long before the richest mine iq
Georgia was discovered.
W, P. Phiue, Sr,
‘Ue unturned that would
f lllM Din interests of the" city.
I|U 11 upon an average Lumps
■ n C-oilDj v '
. l ,i i , t please her stockholders
contractor under llie law now, of '
which Hon. F. C. Tate is the fath
er, must live on the line or at eith
er end.
The true yalue of the taxable
: property of Lumpkin county will
j never be known until we ire given
I a board of assessors by the logis . , . . .. w
I ...... i , tnon preached by Dr. Kimsey on
turn. It is the dutv ot the grand . , . ‘
Sunday to a large congregation.
jury at ihe spring term to examine
the tax digests and see that all per
il! such quantities as to more than j knowledge of Georgia mines and
1 mining, he rushed in the forties to
! California and was a successful
The (’hestatee Association con
vened at Hightower church last
Friday. Rev. W. W. Bryan was
moderator and J. B. irimmoDS
clerk. Some interesting speeches
were made and an excellent ser*
i sons return their properly
at its
We
ls just as good a
l 1 'ace on t he face
u ’o moan to stai
con ti
nt" the
here
Pnii* „
~ as wo arc permitted.
n,tls :| go a certain fellow,
dissatislie I will# this sec-
’ away to beilci hi
and a i‘c
1 "ill, ()n
pocket.
weeks
twenty
con-1
ago re j
live cents!
hie to have some poor fellow pny
a fine or go to tho chain gang for
; selling a quart of liquor and at the
j same time we will close our eyes
I when it comes to opening tho tax
j digest lo sec if some of us have
not money in our pockets that be -
j longs to the state and county for
! taxes amounting to hundreds of
I dollars likely.
The next session of this body will
conveno at Mount Zion church in
Fannin county. A committee to
collect enough money to defray
I the expenses of printing the his*
j tory of the laxly since its constito-
lion, J. B. Simmons is the writer
of this work and it is well gotten
up. The different churches should
easily raise the money by New
Year and print tho work which
wjll show to the public what the
body has done in 04 years of
existence.
miner ill that wonderful gold
field. He became thoroughly ac
quainted with various inodes of
mining and the great sources of
oro supplies in California. Re
turning to Georgia he became con
nected with many of the richest
mines in Lumpkin County. The
celebrated Findley Mine was op
erated by him. When the late
Cols, H. M. Barlow and N. II.
Hand of New York were casting
about for a manager for their
mines, after several others from a
distauoe had failed, thoy procured
tho services of Capt. John Huff,
who remained with these gentle
men seventeen years at the Pigeon
Roost and other mines and mills
and made these properties sucoess
its | ful.
writer, if you want a Georgia mine
Auraria Dots.
Several of our citizens attended
court at Dahlonega this week.
After an extended visit with
relatives in the North, Mrs. H. P,
Jaquish returned to her hoijje hero
one day last wook,
liev. N. A. Whito filled his reg
ular appointment at tho Methodist
church here last Sunday,
Messrs, J, U, Smith aud Bro,
are getting up material to build
them a two-story store house. All
means business,
Rev. N. A. While, will preach
at the M. E. Church, lioro noxt
Sunday afternoon at 3:80. If tho
weather is favorable he will con
duct a series of meetings hero
next wook,
We arc requested to state tbut
there will be preaching at tho
Presbyterian church at this place
Col. Hand often said to the j next Sunday by Rev. Mr. Blacks
well.
