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>1 all kinds of shoes.
matter crowded out of
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, f0 t* from
Saturday.
,r„t down to fifty cents po.i
(torn
lillS
in
the Dahlonega market
last weeK.
M,^ 15. 1*. Gail lard of this
|, llTi has been quite sick for soy
I,.,! days with hroueliilus.
Some more of the Dahlonega
1I ' VS who went to Alabama a few
vvL ,]. s ago in search of a belter
place, have, returned.
Mr. G. McGuire visited Marble
Hill last Saturday in company
With Ilia daughter, -Miss Maude, to
|ll(t . n d the funeral of Mrs. Mo
(juire’s father.
\Vnik on 1 he telephone line
final here to Dawsonville, is mov-
j n „ ,'jirht along. Lust Saturday
n iMit they had the poles up four
nl ’l ;i half miles and the holes dug
pjo'ht and a half.
If you wish to take a hand in
the city election go and register
before the time expires. Those
not having paid their taxes, either
„.-.te or county, for any year ex
190‘5, can’t register nor vote.
It' liny one is shown any favors
ulini taxes aie being levied it
uniiht to be the mining companies,
limy invest large sums of money
nivc many idle hands cni-
,.i,iyment and help the country
generally.
Mr. Joe Ricketts of Dahlonega,
ultciided another shooting match
down in Dawson county last week.
The shooting between Mr. Kick-
cits and the Dawson county gentle
man seem to be pretty close.
Fiist one carries the belt and then
the other.
It will not be but a few weeks
now until the Mayor and four al
dermens election. If you haven
ticket to suggest send it in so we
can place it before the voters, then
they will have ample time to study
over the matter and make a good
s lection by the time the conven
tion is called.
Some one slipped into our office
and .-tole a scarf pin the other day.
Pretty hold. It was gold and
made in the shape of a bird. Any
one seeing it will confer a favor
by informing us of the fact. It
only cost a dollar and a half, but
with this pin and a claw-hammer
coat on, fitted us up for all occa
sions.
While at work out at the Gorge
dam last Saturday Charlie Dowdy
bad the misfortune to loso fifteen
dollars in greenback and a twenty
dollar order. It was loose in his
Vl S pocket and worked on t of
P ''muo way. He was pulling
:1 rope, shoveling dirt and turn-
ln - (n 'er big rock and there is
no telling where ho lost it exactly.
Me. Jack Peacock, who is nttend-
i g college at this place, was called
D bis homo last week at Cochran,
a message stating that his
bv
Randa dots were n
late for last issue.
It rained some last
tbitf morning it is clear mm ptvi t:n-1
ty weather.
Rev. J. J. Shed preached at the
H hen you need any shingles, Baptist church at this place lust
w i itc Hutcheson Bros, All oin ^ Sunday night,
dors promptly tilled, Freda, (la.
tf I
Mr, and Mrs. Edgar McClure o
Dawson county, visited relative
here last Sunday.
1 ho young people have organ
ized a Sunday school at the Glenn
Mr. John Hatfield returned from ! school house in this county
A!:i., to I W | u .|oh,l 8 mtlo hoy, Mon-
net, has b a n very low with pneu-
j mania for several days hut issomo
1 he literary school tit Glenn j better now.
opened a few days ago bv Mr. C.
i, , r r , ‘ 1 .| Lot. .lines, president of the Cav
.’sliulta teacher, rho attendance is , , ,,
I ...,.,11 i . . . onder s Creek Gold Mining Co.,
small hut prospects good. , .. ,, ,, „ . ? , ’
I and 1 rof. M. G. Boyd, arrived at
Mr. II. I). Gurley of Dahlonega, the mine last Friday after an ah-
luid two common size apple trees seneo of some weeks.
in his yard this year to produce .... *. . ,,
i ,*i,i ii ,* , 1 lie olher evening Mr, J, B.
about eight bushels of apples. I ,, , ... , . . , .
Brown killed a lug owl m a tree
D. M. Davis, and W. M. Keenan 1 at his house measuring four feet
nave heen added to the indigent j and four inches from tip to tip.
pension list of this county, and j Air. Brown is a Methodist proach -
M i s. 1 ollie Cannon and Millie er and is death on anything that
Cannon to the widow’s list. | kills chickens.
look out a location, last week lint
left again yesterday.
Not only farmers hut others will
find Prof. Davis’articles on agi'D
culture in (lie Nugget each week
very interesting. Read the last
ono nil the fourth page of this
issue.
We notice that many of the
mountain farmers travel to market
on Sunday same as any other day.
Maybe if they would quit thL the
cabbage worm would disappear j P’P 1 ' nr,(1 cll)(, ' v D bread pans
It is repoited in Dahlonega that
Mqta Stone of Nimblowill dis
trict, eloped the other day with a
man named Win. Palmer, said to
lie a 1 eimesseoan. Last heard from
the loving pair they were headed
towards Sodda, Tenn.
At M. .T. Williams you will find
both cotton and wool cards. Fine
lamps from 25 to 50 cents. Stove
for
brolher Manley had been killed in
a difficulty with H. G. Everett,
■•'i rctt was shot in the groin and
“■TV die. The trouble grew out
1 ! :l lawsuit in which Peacock was
^barged with aleniating the atfec-
hniis of Everett’s wife.
Photographer G. D. Bruce of,
' i ilonega, recently made a pho-j
'I’li of a big elephant repro- J
s " n, uig the.Jumbo Gold Mine in
!| ds county. This large beast is j
'V engaged with Ins trunk
L mig big pieces of rich ore from j
' lN v,, duahlo mine, which makes a ,
'“'.vimcresting picture. Hr. Bruce i
,l ‘ In ade other photographs of
' connected with the mine.
l' ls t Sunday a certain lad of!
, !, donega called on the girl of Ins 1
f'boicc.
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and they would line 1 a better mar
ket for this product.
Subscribers who get their papers
at other offices than Dahlonega
should examine the dates on their
Nugget aud renew their subscrip
tions as soon as the time expires.
Don’t wait for us to stop your pa
per before yon renew because it
causes extra trouble. We will give
all two works to do this and if they
do not renew in that time the Nug
get will fail to reach them. Re
member that wo are engaged in
this business for the money there
is in it not for pleasure by any
incans.
The sum raised here for the
Methodist minister this year was
$B4T, which makes $43T Pastor
Marks receives, adding the $190
paid by the conference. This does
well for au old man lhose days,
and even young ones, for it is
most all profit. We arc told that
the presiding elder was well pleas
ed with the amount. So was Mr.
Marks, for he made himself un
popular from the very beginning
of his appearance in Dahlonega,
and wasn’t liked as well as most
of the former ministers, and
wasn’t expecting as much for
his services. Mr, Marks took his
departure last Sunday.
At Mrs. John Hatfields two cas
dots from Walker county named
Kirkpatrick, were discovered yes
terday to be breaking out with
something resembling small pox,
although the physicians say it may
he chicken pox. It will be a few
days before they can tell for cer
tain. The young men say they
have not been exposed to small
pox, but for fear that it is, all the
school boys of that house will
be sent to cottages in the drill
field, together with Prof. Hillar,
who also boarded at the hotel.
They are comfortably quartered
and will lie fed from the girl’s dor
mitory. Mrs. Hatfield’s hotel will
he closed and the house quar-
r an teed by the city authorities un
til further developments.
The expenses of the last term of
Lumpkin Superior court was $788.
$490.00 of this amount was for
jurors, $150.00 being talis jurors,
It was his first courting
1 1 1ion, causing him to feel
’ much embarrassed, rendering
film
and strange to say the money was L iy j nK that it might he six months
paid to four or five, (one even si I before he would see any of them
on an important case.) whose names | ft£jajii IIe Wils listened to with
are not in the jury box, showing
that the jury revisors of this
county are not recognized iu their
work. And more than this, it is
no encouragement for a man to he
“upright and intelligent” if he
much interest for all sympathized
with their leader. Fora few min
utes everything wascalm and still.
You could have heard a pin dropp
ed on the floor, and it was during
these still moments that John rc-
ln;, l)le to think of anything to 1 can serve on the juiy and diaw the ( j iu>s j (1( j t| u . m j 0 n ]| sing “God he
1 d the young lady was at no
" ' 1,,r words and kept up the
: 1 nation until the time came
'. l| to take a walk with other
! counties money without it. As
stated last week, $119.00 was paid
to bailiffs — about half of this
amount going to “professional
I hen she excused herself
:1 ; 1 ,ll(! h°y left with a death like
File face.
with us till we meet again” and tie
dismissed. Then the leader and
nearly every one present wiped the
tears from their eyes and passed
stoves, etc. Ditching shovels at
75 cent - a piece. Also beautiful
eight day and other kind of clocks.
Heretofore we have heen pub
lishing the monthly reports of the
politic school here, charging noth
ing except for the principal to
subscribe for our paper. This lie
has not done is why the last one is
left out. This has always been
the custom. A stranger moving
into a place should certainly he
willing to <Io this much towards a
public enterprise.
Last week Deputy Collector
Richardson came up and in coinpas
ny with Marshal Grizzle paid the
blockaders in the western portion
of the county a short hut profitable
trip. Both Wilburn and Jim Griz
zle were running an illicit distillery
at full speed. The former was
brougbUto town and hound over
by Com. Baker, but the latter is
still at large. Being permitted to
go into the house and dress up for
his town visit, decided not to come,
and left in another direction. These
men havo both served sentences
for former violations heretofore
and Judge Newman may give them
a longer sentence when they ap
pear before him again. Ben Clark
was also arrested on an old war-
want but as he had gone down
some time ago and plead guilty up
to that time, this case was covered
by his sentence, and the man was
discharged.
The hoys toll a good ono on our
friend Mr. John Anderson, who
resides up in Yaboola district.
John measures several inches over
six feet from head to foot, and is
as clever and good natured ac
cording. Ho is a farmer and a
singing master. Not long ago
John got mixed up in a settlement
distillery by haying a small run of
pure con juice made for medicin
al purposes contrary to Uncle Sams
way of thinking. The secret
leaked out and John was arrested,
tried and bound over to the U. S. ]
Court in Atlanta. A few days be* j
fore taking his departure for that
city and when this clever man
was finishing up one of his singing
schools and the time had come to
close ho talked to the congrega
tion, telling them of his troubles,
bailiffs” who aro not officers, nov*»! ou t at the door wit i as much
cr have boon and were not even j solemnity as if they were in a fu
| W0I .' e iu , i non.I proco.
j Adlino Austin, an old time tin
! gro, died here last Monday morning
and was buried at the expense of
the county.
While playing a game of foot
ball last Monday, eadet M. 1. Seal
of Alpharetta, fell and broke his
collar bone.
Miss Morgan, who has heen at
tending college here for some time,
returned home last Monday to take
charge of a school.
The market for cabbage has
been dull. They have only been
bringing from fifty to seventy
cents per .hundred pounds here this
week.
AtC. W. Satterfield’s you will
find cheese, oranges, cocoiinuts,
all kinds of pulverized spices and
nearly every thing else that is found
in a general mercantile establish
ment.
Mr. S. S. Sliutt, a member of
the Consolidated Co., of Spencer-
villc, Ind., in writing us last week
makes those com pii military re
marks about us: “Please find one
dollar to renew my subscription
to the Nugget. 1 can’t do with
out your paper. It gives the
mining news which we northern
people want.”
Elsewhere we publish the reso-.
lotions passed by the Dahlonega
Baptist church recently, in refer
ence to the departure from our
midst our esteemed ft tend, Mr. J.
V. Hardison and his family, show
ing how deeply they regret to part,
with them. We publish them
with pleasure, for a few good
things said about persons while
they are alive are worth more
than a thousand sayings after they
are dead and gone.
A mountaineer, who resides the
other side of the Blue Ridge, was
in Dahlonega one day last week.
Ilia education is limited somewhat
but ho thoroughly understands
how to till the soil. In reference
to the cabbage worm scare, he said
that it amounted to nothing. But
a big piece of meat in the vessel
when cooking them, remarked the
industrious man. Grease is a
good “anecdote” for a poisoned
dog, said he, and it ought to lie for
a person.
The last legislature repealed the
act requiring Justices of the Peace
and Notaries to furnish the tax re
ceiver with a full list of the tax
payers of their respective districts,
and have fixed it so now they are
only expected to furnish the re
ceiver on his second round with a
list of all persons failing to return
their taxes in each district, for
which they receive three cenls for
each name. This is a good change
and will save the county a good
deal of money.
In a recent issue of the Atlanta
Journal an article from a corres
pondent oyer estimates the mines
of this section. He said that ono
in this county was expected to
yield thousands of dollars per day.
This is an error of the biggest
kind. No nunc here or any where
else is expected to do such a thing,
and wo are very sorry that a man
will come here and make such a
misrepresentation, The mine he
has reference to is a rich one and
the value of its ores does open the
eyes of the natives, and it is a big
thing, but no thousands of dollars
per day is expected from it by any
one.
It seems that Esquire \V. J.
Worley has gone into the matri -
tnonial business up at the colored
Baptist church. Lust Saturday
night' he wedded two colored
couples, being John Anderson and
Carrie Itoach. And Will Elrod
and Vesta Anderson. So much
joy and happiness never occurred
in any church, either black or
white here before. The church
was filled to overflow by both
whites and blacks. Eh Simms, a
waiter at thy Dahlonega Hotel,
having no life partner tell into a
trance and while skipping out of
the houso dropped from the door
to the ground, spraining one foot
so badly that he had to use a stick
and two crutches the next day.
d of
in
Mining Notes,
Mr. Ashley shipped n uam
mica containing 500 pounds fr
his new mine in this county to
i Toledo, ().. last Monday. This
sample is said to bo fine. •
On our first page will lie found
a sensible article concerning the
Georgia mines written by Judge
W. \V. Murray of Huntingdon,
Tenn., who spends much of his
time in this section, and knows
whereof he sneak
Read
At the Lockhart McDonald and
I others keep moving right along
| with their work. This is paid, by
i those who know, to he one of the
| host deep mines in all this country,
and in the near future wo expect
it to begin on a much larger scale.
Operations at tho Singleton
i have heen suspended for the lack
of sufficient wat6r, hut sitico the
rains the flow is stronger and Mr.
lOampwell has started up again.
While the mill was idle ho spent
the t ime mostly in prospecting
and informs us that lie has some
new discoveries that are good.
Messrs. John Huff and F. V.
Moose, who secured a lease on
some mining property over on the
Chestatoo river some time ago,
have been engaged getting things
in shape t-o lift the yellow metal
from what is believed to he a rich
mine, and will soon bn ready to
begin this work, which is very de
lightful to all miners.
The Jumbo still continues to
show up well. Another valuable
vein was discovered the other day.
Wo saw a couple of little rocks
from this vein beat and panned out
and it was undoubtedly the best
| tiling wo haye looked at in many
(lays. Many gold hearing voins
I have been discovered on this prop
erty, both largo and small, that
are so rich as to surprise even the
natives. Ono old native miner I
after visiting the Jumbo recently j
told us that if he had the money
lie would take a thousand shares
of the stock. «
Wo clip the following letter
from the Atlanta News concern
ing the Georgia gold mines. It is
certainly written by one who un
derstands tho situation, for every
word tho writer states is correct.
It islike he says, no large sums
of money have been spent here
in development work as in the
West and elsewhere. Had this
been done our mines would com
pared favorably with any of
the gold fields. Really they do so
any way, for the Georgia mines
havo produced more gold to tho
money spont of any mines in the
world. The statistics show this.
Take for instance a single tunnel
out West of 350 feet. It cost 1 0 f the vein which is barren.
$150,000 to cut it 200 feet without j has made no effort to sort
finding a single particle of gold, i waste from the ore. In some in-
and the stockholders were called i stances he has even extended his
upon for $ loO,000 more to finish j operations into the walls from 2
it through solid rock. 1 hoso er® , to 8 feet, thus reducing the per
facts. Now to Mr. Greens letter, cent per ton, which he should save
of far greater value than tho ores
of the same character of Leadville
and of Clear Creek and Gilpin
counties, Colorado. Tho miners
of Georgia know those assay val
ues. Yet they fail, in most in
stances, to place the property on
a’ producing and paying basis.
There tire two reasons for their
failure and they are that the ores
lmvn not been either scientifically
mined or treated.
These sulphide ores at surface
practically at surface, ranging in
depth from surface to 40 feet be
low surface, are in an oxidized
condition. The values of the vein
in that oxidized condition aro par
tially free, and even in that con
dition (lie stamp mill will not
save over 10 per cent of the assay
value, for the reason that while
the gold is apparently free, that it
can be'seen with the naked eye in
thojjpan,*ifc is not free, for it is
covered with a transparent film of
oxidized iron which prevents
amalgamation with tho quick
silver on the copper plates of a
stamp mill, and only that portion
of the gold amalgamates which
comes in direct contact with tho
stamps, crushing tho film and ex
posing ragged edges of free gold,
which (he quicksilver catches, and
should that ragged edge not come
in contact with the quicksilver,
hut the edge which is still covered
with the film that gold passes over
the plate and into the tailings and
is lost.
While this ore is in that condi
tion, an oxidized one, at surface,
the further tho ore is removed by
sinking, from atmospheric action,
the less even partially free gold is
seen in the pun, and when tho
sinking is carried beyond the at
mospheric influences and the ac
tion of the surface waters, we find
the ore in a pure sulphide charac
ter and no portion of the assay
value can he saved on the copper
plates—the stamp mill process—
the one entirely used in tho past
in Georgia. I havo visitod several
properties where the ore, as ex
posed, is a sulphide ore and find
them trying to savo tho values, as
shown by their assays, with a
stamp mill. Those sulphide ores
are a smelting oro, pure and
simple. No other process will
save them. They havo to he roast
ed and fluxed.
Again the Georgia miner lias,
even with his stamp mill, in the
treatment of the oxidized portion
of the vein, made tho mistake in
thinking that all matter between
tho walls of a vein was oro bear
ing, and has put through his mill
all vein matter, regardless of that
portion of the vein which was car
rying the values and that portion
He
the
Read it carefully and give it an
impartial thought:
“I noticed an article in yester
day’s News relative to the Mexi
can gold fields and the inviting
prospects offered Georgia capital.
While knowing nothing of the
Mexican territory, I am acquaint
ed with the western gold fields,
having spent the last five years in
that territory, mining in a prac
tical way. After an investigation
for the past three months of the
! southern gold belt, from Alabama
to Virginia. I am prepared to
say that nowhere in the west is
offered a better field for mining
| investment than our own state,
Georgia, offers her citizens today.
My investigations have brought
| mo to this conclusion: that the
belt, as a whole, is of a sulphide
character, and consequently a
smelting proposition. 1 do not
mean to say that there are not
free gold ores in Georgia, hut that
oro is ;i pnckety” and “streaky,”
which is not only true of high
i grade free gold ores in Georgia,
of an oxidized ore on tho copper
plates.
He lias again reduced that per
cent by presuming that (he vein
was ore-hearing as far as he could
trace it, and he has proceeded to
treat in his stamp mill all of tho
vein as far as ho could trace same.
He has made no effort to ascertain
tho extont in length of his oi'o
shoot, for is an admitted fact that
a vein is not ore-hearing in its en
tire length, as far as opened, hut
that on tho contrary, some por
tions of the voing, along its course
from one point to another, will he
ore-bearing; and then will come
in a barren portion and iomain so
for some distance, vary in each
particular case, and then again
the ore will come in.
There is more feet of develop
ment work in shafts, tunnels and
drifts on Mineral Hill, in the
Cripple Creek district, from which
as yet there has never been ship
ped a carload of ore, than there is
in the entire southern belt from
Alabama to Virginia.
Lot the Georgia minor spend
more money in development and
less in stamp mills, and other pro
but of tho west, and in dealing processes, and after development
with the subject I shall speak en- ship hisore to his smelter, here at
I tirely of tho sulphide ores—the j y° ur fftos, and Georgia will
i smelting ores. I have seen
irgia numbers of true fissure|country
assays I James W, Green.
take
her place nmong^tho best of the
I gold producing states of this
V1M1II
1 have obtained
from the sulphide ores of Georgia |
Atlanta, Ga
