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cal Ne\v.\ Marshal Walker has Mr. K. W. Strickland is fore* Mis zone t Mr. Lizzie Alhiuta i^c Jicc: , r <ai the Walker.* Castleberry has to remain awhile. ; 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.