Newspaper Page Text
Local Jfetfd.
jGuincsvil
\\i> learn • Unt Undo Uiimti
p ll( ;U< I "f' ,llis is very
| fl, ' L
Mr. John Hatfield of Oaiiirsv illo,
„.. lfi nit on business ii (Iny or so
Ins'. wv»k.
|f you hit iutcresled in llu«
t .|jiiiiniiJ branch of (ho U. S, court
in AiIuhIi*, l <M, k over on our first
niijfc. •
Do yon wish to know who out
married iii Lumpkin county lust
I j. C! ir? If so, scan over the first
I'W* •
' Mr. JF K* Watson and family,
after being absent in Tennessee
some four months, returned last
work.
Want ten.—A girl to do general
liniifio jyork. Only two in family.
Will imiygood wages. Work light.
Apply to II. D. Jaqnish, Annina,
(in. 2t
Ho'fi. G.. D. Bruco spent several
hours down at the McAfee-Liml
Gold'Mine last week with his cam
era, taking views of the mine and
other things of interest.
Wo regret to learn that Mr.
Joseph Jnrrard, who moved from
this county to Hall first of Jan
uary, has been sick for several
weeks and is not expected to live.
How to make and save money on
produce. Give us your business.
Johnson & Dabnevv, Wholesale
Grocers, Importers and Commis*
sion Merchants, 39 Broad St., At
lanta, Ga.
Mr. Thomas Ray, after an ab
sence of several months in Ten
nessee, returned last week. Mr.
Hay has an eye effected by dyna
mite, the sight of which it looks like
be will lose.
Any one wishing to recover the
calaboose should apply to W. B.
Townsend, chairman street com*
mittee. The council furnishes
shingles and nails. Bids close at
j 3 p. in. today.
Obr friend, Mr. R. W. Walker,
I who has been spending some
mouths at Ellijay, returned last
week. Mr. Walker is a jolly good
fellow and wo are always glad to
have bis presence.
business.
If you want to
i I torso call nil J.
! Duhlouogu, Gn.
ednesnnv on
till v
M.
a undo or
Brookshor,
Hr. Stow
Dawfcbnvillc.
Seethe new announcements in
this issue on both the second and
fourth pages.
I t.r , A new lot of youths’ and men’s
We are requested to stale that cloth.ng just received at J. F.
I Kcv. 1. J. I Wiggs will preach at, Moore & Co.
Davis’ Chattel on the third Sun- | ,, . '
(lay in this month at 1 t o’clock. L y you uro a c ««didttto send us
XT ... 92.oU and lot us pul your namo bo-
Now it you waitf garden seeds ; fore the people.
| 'hat will bo sure to come up and
lo well, Dr. Jones has the Georgia
| seeds for sale at his drug store.
| Mr. Billups St nr go I of this
county, camo near losing one of
| his eyes the other day by being
| struck by a limb while at work.
Mr. C. W. Satterfield and Clydo
Loveless left this week for Ten -
nessce. Charley has gone likely to
look out a location for a home.
Mrs. A. Balinger, after spend
ing some time in Dahlonega with
relatives, returned to her homo at
Floyd Springs last Wednesday.
Mr. James I. Ducket, who left
here thirty years ago for Colorado,
is back to this county on a visit.
He is now located in the Klondike
region.
A sure cholera cure for hogs and
chickens found at last. Mr. Ike
Reed voluntarily vouches for this
statement. Sold by B. R. Mend
ers & Sons.
Bear in mind that all persons
having hogs in Dahlonega will
have to put them in lots by the
first day of April one*sixteenth of
an acre in size.
James Reeso of Dawson county,
was brought iu by Marshal Griz*
zle last week, charged with illicit
distilling, who made a temporary
hood until the 18th.
Mr. Johu Chapman, who resid es
within ten miles of Atlanta, tells
us that he docs not get his Nugget
until Thursday, more than half the
time. We are giving this matter
°ur special attention now.
.Mr, Isaac Ingram, formerly of
union county but now of Chero
kee, was hero for a whilo ono day
,f >st week, mixing and mingling
"ith his old friends, many of
whom he has not seen in years.
Mr. E. L. Stover, who has been
°ut in Indiana, gave us a call last
week. Ho was on his way back
pind called by to subscribe for The
- t'QGET, so as to enable him to
keep posted about this county.
t ^°L Charles Vittus, colonel of
'Oth Georgia Regulars, U. R. K.
•< of Atlanta, came up to the city
as t week, after spending a while
°' vu at the McAfeesLind Gold
* lne > in company with Dr. W. W.
ucAfee, its president.
Plof - Gilbert of the public school
IGlp i informs us that a report is
lent out to parents every month,
9 >ch is signed by them and re-
utned. So parents are not ignors
of their childrens non attend-
f ce an< ^ mo to blame for lettipg
them
remain away from school
hon not sick.
r/h 1 m ° etiD e city council
nhlonega last Monday night it
'•'s decided F»ko °ul the two
’’ ] io well pumps nnd use buckets,
I account of the pumps almost
'°uti no ally being out of repair.
Q( it '^ns also decided to recover
p old jail or calaboose. Coun-
uien l rico nnd McGee were ap-
II tried city tax assessors for the
nt M° ar ' The marshal's re •
1 i " a8 lec cived, which is as fol*
(- t' ^ nioun t of cash received
, February, $87.28, from the
L°* In * 8 ° ul 'ces: Street tax,
‘ °’ n<> £ tax, $7.00. Sani
12 J., tdx ' General tax,
Hues and costs. $50.80.
A fresh lot of the National Bis
cuit Co.’s goods just received at
W. P. Price, Jr. Also a new line
of shoes, including children’s shoes
of the prettiest kind.
Rev. Mr. Blackwell of Gaines
ville, spent a day or two in Dah-
lonega this week. While visiting
his numerous friends here he did
not forget those at The Nugget
office.
Mr. Pomp Strickland of Daw
son county, was in Dahlonega this
week meeting everybody with n
pleasant smile like many of our
present candidates are now carry
ing.
A new coat and vest was found
by Mr. Hutch Wimpy last Friday
between Dahlonega and his house,
which the owner can get by call*
ing at bis residenco and paying for
this notice.
Important! Read!—We give 65
cents per 100 cash or 75 ceDts per
100 in trade for all P. H. Hanes
tobacco tags. And for Sweepstake
tags taken from tobacco purchas
ed at our store, we will give 40
cents cash or 50 cents in trade por
hundred. H. D. Guruev.
Down at tho Barlow Mino first
of the week they bnd a break in
40 feet long nnd 12 feet
deep in tho canal, causing somo
damage to the mill. Very soon
they had it fixed and five stamps
of tho mill running and by this
time are likely about ready to put
all tho stamps to moving again.
Last Saturday night Will Mc-
Dougald, a boy who was working
and sleeping at Tate, Littlefield &
Co’s stable, desiring a light iu his
sleeping department, climbed up
in the hall, connected a wire and
soon had a beautiful electric light
burning in bis room just above his
head, hanging over a nail. Then
he took his bed, soon dreaming
of his qualifications as an electri
cian. Some time afterwards he
awoke and found bis bed a fire.
The light had dropped from tho
nail on the bed and burnt a holo
through two or three quilts, a mat
rass and was making its way into
a straw bed. With water he soon
extinguished the fire, removed the
light and wire, and for some time
next morning denied any knowl
edge of how it occurred. To say
nothing of the danger to the towu
Messrs. G. and G. II. MdGuire
left for Bai roltsville yesterday to
see their sick mother.
Mr. Chnrlio McAfoo is confined
to his lied suffering much with in
flammatory rheumatism,.
Tho little 111 roc-yen f*old girl of
Mr. T. J. S.mith is very sick with
pneumonia fever.
Dr. Whclchol’s little boy, Gar
net, who was so seriously sick a
few days ago with pneumonia, is
improving.
Mr. W. B. Woodward, former
editor of the Signal, is now located
at Americas and his family goes
to join him.
We iegret to learn of tho se
rious illness of Mr. J. M. Christo
pher, one of the best citizens of
Lumpkin county.
Mr. W. C. Thomas entered a
plea of guilt last Wednesday of
disorderly conduct aud was fined
one dollar and cost.
Miss Farmer of Elliott, Maine,
was in the city for u short while
Wednesday, who went from hero
to White county.
The city council is negotiating
with the Consolidated Co. to light
up the principal streets of Dah
lonega by electricity.
Did you say you wanted tho At
lanta Daily Evening News for
$3.00. If so, wo will send for it
and save you the trouble of writ
ing.
A letter received here Wednes
day afternoon from Bessempr,
Ala., stated that Mr. Jess Castle*
berry, who went from this county
recently, is still lying at the point
of death.
Hens have been retailing at 30
cents a piece hero this week. Eggs
15 cents per dozen. Mountain
Irish potatoes from $1.25 to $1.40
per bushel, and fodder got down
as low ns $1.50 per hundred.
At a meeting of the Dahlonega
city council last Tuesday evening
the same school board nt this place
was re elected, to-wit: Dr. H
C, Whelcbel, W. A. Charters, J.
F. Moore, J. M. Brookshor and H.
D. Gurley.
Bill Woody came in this week
and hired a little negro boy, be
longing to Lizzie Thomas, and car
ried him home. Lizzie didn’t want
him to learu to work and swore
out a warrant for Woody, charg
ing him with kidnapping. * Bill
gave up the boy and he has
returned home.
Mrs. J. L. Davis, after many
months illness and much suffer^
ing, breathed her last at her homo
Thursday aftenoon ut 5 o’clock,
aged about 05. The deceased was
a good kind hearted Christian lady,
having professed religion when
only sixteen years of age, and
from this time on always said she.
was ready to die at at any ti lie.
She leaves a husband, several sons
and daughters and a host of friends
to mourn her loss. Her remains
were interred at tho Jones Chapel
cemetery yosterday in tho pres
ence of a large concourse of peo
ple.
From instructions as to rural
delivery we find the following of
much importance: “The roads
must be good; this is absolutely es
sential. There must be no un-
bridged creeks or streams not ford
able at all seasons of the year. A
rural free delivery route should,
as a rule, be 20 to 25 miles in
length and serve 100 families. It
should be so arranged that the car
rier will not be required to retrace
or travel the same road twice the
same day.” Now can a single ru
ral route be established in Ltimp-
it was certainly a viery risky bnsLj jjj u or several other mountain
ness for a boy to be meddling j counties according to these iu-
witb a liyo wire. ) st ructions? We believe not.
Mr. Campbell is still at work
on the eight foot vein recently
found on the Singleton property
with good results,
1’ rotn four tons qf ore last, week
•Tack I ownsentl a ltd James Adams
made fifty-four pennyweights of
pure gold. ItcnmofFom a vein
found on tho Standard Company’s
property.
Down on the Briar Patch things
nro moving along as usual. Noth
ing new to report this week but
we expect to be aide to give you
something.of much interest very
soon.
Mr. Jaquisli, general- manager
of the Etowah Gold Mining nnd
Milling Co., after an absence of a
short whtje in New York, has re^
turned. He sent up to Dahlonega
this week for more carpenters and
we judge from this that he is mak
ing thigs hum down that way.
From a letter received from Mr.
Wm. M. Fisher this week, who is
largely interested in the Consoli
dated property, we learn that the
company aims to resume work
here at an early day, as he says:
“We expect to put in the cynide
process this Bpring and work it for
all it is work.”
Down nit the Lockhart they are
doing well .considering the time
they work. The pump and ma
chinery is old and requires a good
deal of time in making repairs.
It is one of the best mines in this
country, with large gold bear
ing veins that have been worked
to a considerable depth, proving
ing that it i9 certainly a good deep
mine, but the parties working it
are not able to put in the proper
machinery could they secure a
long enough lease to justify them.
We have abundance r of soap
stone in Lumpkin county -above
and below Dahlonega. The leads
run clear across the county, and
muchof.it has been used for win
dow sills and the construction of
fire-places in Dahlonega, and in
the'charity chimneys are now
standing that were built from this
soapstone seventy-live years ago,
and yet nqne of the state geologists
have ever mentioned even as
much as a speck of soapstone be
ing in Lumpkin county. Same
way bj/'kaolin. We have plenty
of it, but no one knows it outside
of the bounty. State geologists
and their assistants could find out
more and be of greater benefit to
Georgia if they would notify the
people of each county through the
local papers of the time they expect
to visit such counties. Then the
people living outside of town own
ing any kind of mineral property
could come in and present them
with their samples and carry them
to the property where found. By
this means they would learn
more in less timo than they do
now.
As stated 1 last week work had
been resumed at Grown Mountain.
Some rain had fallen and it was
believed there would be plenty of
power to enable the manager to
start up the mill and keep it go
ing until the completion of the
Gorge power. But after the rain
ceased the water soon got down
so low that the little light stamp
mill was only able £o run a few
shifts, the plates showing up well.
It rained heavier Sunday night,
enabling them to start the little
mill again bo me time on Tuesday,
with the hopes of putting twenty
or thirty stamps of the big mill
jii motion,.but so far they have
been unable to do so as there is
not yet enough power to run the
little ton stamp mill, and any of
the big mill and the pump at the
samcAime, blit the light stamp
mill has been running both day
and night since Tuesday. Themiue
cannot be expected to pay until
sufficient power is had to run the
plant oq full time, for the expen
ses are nearly as much to run a
portion of it as all. So wo have
given our correspondents interest
ed the facts about the condition of
Crown Mountain in a nut shell.
The McAfee-Lind Mining Co.
have completed their ten stamp
mill, and sire now running a Dean
pump, which lifts the water to a
height of 220 feet into a reservoir
169 feet long, 12 feet wide nnd 4
deep. Pipe lino runs from reser
voir to the cut 300 feet below to
the giant and from cut to the* mill
house, nnd the company, through
its general manager, \V. H. Me A
fee, Iiab developed nine gold hear
ing veins from six inches to two
feet wide. During the eon
structioii of the work, there 1ms
been taken out by tunnel and
hauled to the mill 1*0 tons. This
wns beat on a five stamp mill and
produced 555 pennyweights of
burnt off gold. Now they have
the pump in successful operation
sluicing the oro direct to tho mill.
There cannot be any doubt of the
utmost success of this mine pay
ing n handsome dividend on the
investment, as it is the first mill
ever erected on the property, and
there is enough oro in sight to
keep this mill running for the
next fifteen yenrs, and it is ex
pected that the Company will re
alize one-third ns much free gold
in Hume lino as they will make on
the mill. It is no exaggeration to
Btnte that this is the best equip
ped mine of its capacity now be
ing operated in this gold belt. The
mine is owned and operated by
men who desire to fully prove that
the mines in this section can be
made to pay by the proper man
agement, and nil that is needed is
a truthful statement concerning
them, for it is a well known fact
that there has been less failures
in legitimate mining here than in
any other business. But we are
free to admit that there has been
schemers and speculators here as
in all mining camps, who, through
ignorance of the true value, or
for the purpose of making money
regardless of the true develop
ments of our mining belt, causing
a great drawback to it. But the
day is not far distant when min
ing here will be the coming in
dustry of our county, and in oth
er counties where gold has been
made in the past.
In our last weeks issue we brief
ly noted a new discovered vein at
the Jumbo Mine. We learn that
this find is of much more impor
tance than we then supposed. In
fact, it turns out to he the richest
and best defined vein yet discov
ered on the property. Since our
notice this vein has been stripped
for over twenty feet and shows
more uniformity, both in size and
richness, than any we have heard
of. It is regular and can be seen
easily as it has been well stripped
and stands well Up above the cut.
While the management states that
the gold is fine and as a rule can
only be seen in the quartz with a
glass, nil miners agree that veins
carrying fine gold are more apt to
be uniform and continuous. While
no assay of this vein has been
made the pannings show values
not eften seen seen in this sec
tion. Several of our most relia
ble miners, as well as members of
the company, have panned many
samples from all parts of it and
all agree for a well defined persis
tent vein that itr is unparallelled
in this section. Tho lowest esti*
mate of what it would yield by
fire assay, is eighty dollars per
ton, aud none estimated the null
yield to be less than twenty-five
dollars per ton. It is understood
in this district that by mill test
it includes all matter taken
out together with the binding and
other material necessary in min
ing on a vein of not less than four
feet. This vein it is believed runt*
through the property. Present
development and surface clear
ly indicate its continued regulari
ty. This new find is about twen
ty feet east of the Mistletoe vein
which, as has been before stated,
is a part of the property which
was not considered of any impor
tance when development work be
gun. Like the stone that the
builders rejected—it may become
the chief-corner stone. It looks
that way now. Development work
continues and we hope we may
soon chronicle other finds on this
remarkable property.
A Few Memorable and His
torical Facts.
Tho Seniors planted their class
lice last Saturday, The exorcises
wore genuine—indeed meritorious*
Tho occasion will go down in the
history of the college no loss re
nowned than tho class itaolf.
Doubtless the class is represent*
od with the grentost diversity of
will-bo-profossional men that tho
North Georgia College has evor
had. It varies nil tho way from a
water-boy who will work for forty
cents a day and board himself, to
a twentieth century sago and
philosopher who is going to provo
to tho world in 1925 that tho pres
ent knowledge of all tho sciences
is really not a beginning. Ho ib
going to show m rainuto detail
how man evoluted from tho liz-.
zard up to the monkey, and from
the monkey up to man proper.
He is going to givo a philosophic
reason for tho existence of so many
jack logs in all professions and al
so the remedy.
The class is composed of num*
bors who arc full of vim and 'do*,
termination. Their ability to
work is shown by tlictr actious.
Mr. J. D. Gortatowsky, for in
stance, who is president of bis
class, wields the sceptor of his
mighty influence over his class by
laying up in his room with ti
“weekly fever,” while Mr. L, G.
Fortson, under Mr. Gortatowsky’s
skillful directions, goes and gets a
scvensyoar*old black jack for a
class tree.
Wo hope, however, that our
readers will not got the wrong
conception of our statemont, for
Mr. Goitatowsky is a worker in*
deed. He does moro work than
any other man in college—to get
out of work. He labors diligent
ly in the Doctor’s office from two
o’clock till drill time, and nt night
be is kind enough to tender all his
friends a visit, and tho next dny
he recites tho best of any ‘in big
class—who “hasn’t prepared the
l088On.” •
Our business department also
has sonic excellent representations.
Mr. Holden, for instance, says ho
has learned how to ballanco ono
account already. Mr. Steed sayg
he can writo a business letter to his
father now and ask him for ten
dollars once a week.
The agricultural department I
expect is a head of them all. The
class has three members who nro
going to graduate in agriculture.
AIL of them are very studious. Mr.
Rufeberford sayg ho has learned
how to grow cotton and corn. Mr.
Peacock says ho believes ho caq
pull a bell cord over a raulo moro
scientifically than anybody. Mr.
G. J.Jelk says ho has learned
more than all put togethor, for bo
has learned how to farm without
work.
Well, as space is short, vyo cau-
not attempt to dwell further on
the wonderful prospect of such a
brilliant class. It only remains to
say that if tho world will just give
it lime it will prove its “faith by
its works,” and fifty years from
now if they all haveu’t been in the
chaingang it will be a typical
model for the throngs who follow,
J. F. B.
The hardest and most rain that
has fallen here for many month*
came Sunday night.
COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
Gcorgin, Lumpkin County,
‘»rof
WANTED.—A it) stamp mill of
the Hall pattern. Also one 400
gallon pump. Address, G. S. A
F. M'. Scofield, Empire Building.
Atlanta, Ga.
By virtue of ap order of the Superior
court of said county, granted at- the
Oetot3er adjourned term, 1901, of suid
court, at tlie suit of W. J. Burt. B. F.
Anderson, J. D. WheUdiel, V. S. Lusk
and W. G. Candler, against Mrs. Emily
A, Smith, Lizzie Weaver,Mollie Wood,
Fannie Wood, May Wilson, Robert M,
Wood, William Wood, John Wood,
Fred Wood, Ret> Wood, Gennio
Stone and Mrs. M. ]j. Wood, as
the heirs at law of James E. Wood,
deceased, and Mrs. Emily A. Smith, J.
C. Anderson, J. T. Bpriggs and John
Cathey. We, tiie undersigned com
missioners, will sell before the court
house door, in said county, within tho
legal hours of sale, on tiie first Tues-
day in April, 1904, to the highest bid
der for cash, the following property,
to-wit i
Lotsjof land,numbers *241 Hiid 242, in
the 6th district and first section of
Lumpkin county, Georgia. The above
nahied jlarties being tenants in com
mon toaaid lots of land. Tiie 6aine
is to be sold for division among said
tenants in common.
This March 4th, 1904.
J. N. ff.\vis, )
Wm J. Worlky, Com
J. W. Woods' mid. )
am TtHBHSK
mmmmr