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rmmmatrwrr .00 al NcWa. d t< W. P. new lint 1 brought seven tin 1 a the wagons hero half last night and and pivl •<*, Jr., ha. received a >1 all kinds of shoes. matter crowded out of Will appear next. , 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. ex 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