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■i iivirtising Madiutn,
7 (—No v
Devoted to Local, Mining and General Information.
DAIILONEGA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH ;,i. 1911.
One Dollar Per Annum
W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor and Proprietor.
STORIES OF MARK TWAIN.
Th« Great Humorist Was a Child In
Financial Matters.
“Ever) body who knew Maik
Twain recognized that in a matter
of business lie was the veriest
chi 1 I.” said the clerk of a hotel
where Mr. Clemens used to put up.
“1 remember that one day after
his wife’s death, when her estate
was being settled up, he came down
stairs one morning to receive an
oflioial looking iettcr from one of
the administrators, lie opened it
slowly and stood for a long time
studying the figures on an inclosure.
“ ‘flood Lord I* he finally ex
claimed. ‘Do 1 owe them $3S,000
or do they owe me $18,000?’ lie
passed the paper over to me, and
when I told him (he balance was in
his favor ho seemed greatly re
lieved.
“Once he was unintentionally in
strumental in getting our cashier
fired. Mr. Clemens was in the habit
of getting $50 or $100 a day from
the oilier. Sometimes he would get
it without a draft, and sometimes
his secretary would come down
stairs with him and cash a check.
After he had gone home after one
of his visits we sent him a bill. We
got an answer saying the bill was
too small, for ho had drawn $100
more than lie had been debited
with. This made the proprietor
angry, and lie tired (he cashier on
the spot. It afterward turned out
that on the morning that Mr. Clem
ons had drawn this particular $100
his secretary immediately afterward
had given the cashier a check for
$100, so. that there was no entry bn
the book.
“One day when Mr. Clemens
walked in and signed his name 1
asked him how long he expected to
stay. ‘I’ll toil yon,’ he replied,
leaning over the counter. ‘It de
pends on the weather and my
shirts. I’ve one shirt on and two
in my grip. As soon as they all get
dirty I am going back home.’ ”—
New York Sun.
Gladstone and the Heckler.
Mr. Gladstone was altogether in
tolerant of the heckler. During his
last Midlothian campaign he was
questioned by Sir (then Mr.) John
Usher of Norton, who had once
been Gladstone’s chairman of com
mittee, on the subject of the Irish
proposals, which sundered so many
political friendships. To one or
two inquiries a curt reply was
given. “Am I to understand”—
Mr. Usher was beginning. “Under
stand!” The old statesman leaped
to 1*.is feet. “I am responsible for
the understanding that the Al
mighty has put in this skull of
mine,” tapping his forehead. “1
am not responsible,” pointing his
finger at the questioner, “for tho
understanding that He has put in
that skull of yours.” The effect of
this rebuke was overwhelming. Mr.
Usher sank speechless into his seat.
—Westminster Gazette.
When He Did Better.
A celebrated bishop once sat
through a long and atrocious ser
mon on a hot summer morning.
Jhe preacher was a youth just out
oi college—a very conceited youth.
Ue bellowed through his sermon at
the top of his lungs. 11 is gestures
were violent enough to break his
arms. At every climax he fixed
the bishop with his eye to see if a
suitable impression bad been made.
And at the end of the service this
young snip swaggered up to the
bislnp and said:
‘ I fancy 1 did rather well today,
eir. Don’t you think so?”
‘ Vos,” returned the bishop; “but
you did better last year.”
“Last year!” said the young man.
“Why, 1 didn’t preach at all last
year.”
“I hat’s the reason,” said the
bishop, with a pleasant smile.
Did Not Work Both Ways.
Mr. George Jones, It. A., a paint-
or of battle pieces, etc., who died
some years ago, specially prided
nimsolf on bis resemblance to the
Duke of Wellington and used to
■ >ss up to the character. Some
mm mentioned the likeness to the
mWo and added, “It must be great,
!°r people in the street often 6peak
0 bim for your grace.” “Very
grange,” muttered the great man.
•No one ever spoke to me for Mr.
■ ones! Edmund Yates.
OBSTRUCTIONISTS.
An Interesting Letter From
Col. S. A. Jones, Who
Shows the Damag
ing Results.
Wayxksvii.i.k. N. U..
March 1H, 1011
Mi>. Nugget :
1 have read with interest your
kind editorial on the subject of
obstructionists, to the develop-
ment of gold mines in Lumpkin
County, Ga.
It is a pity that every editor in
the gold belt of Georgia don’t take
lip your key note and sound it un
til they make the dog in the man
ner class in the Georgia gold belt
1.: vve or sell out.*
If Georgia will pass laws to pro
tect men that are willing to mine
her gold, it would bring millions
dollars to the gold belt, and
give employment to thousands of
men.
Water is the all essential to any
gold mining that pays, that is
known to the world. No man
that knows the Georgia gold belt
has ever said that the gold is not
there, and there in paying quanti
ties if it can only be saved.
It is known that there are un
known millions of tons of low-
grade ore running from $'2.00 to
$ !.Ol) and $ 1.00 per ton, and there
an: immense deposits under chem-
i ail assay running from ten to
sixty dollars a ton and up, and un
der lire test from live to twenty
cl >llnrs and up. and there are de
posits of sulpbaret gold and de-
p >sils of Hour and vapor gold run
ning from twenty to one hundred
dollars a ton and up.
To handle such arcs calls for
large volumes of water, and with
out plenty of water it cannot be
handled at a profit.
Flour and vapor gold that pre
vails to a large extent in ehe Cav-
onders Creek Belt cannot be
caught on the amalguin plate. It
m ist Ite treated by a continuous
return Hood of water system to be
saved at a profit.
Myself and my partner, for out
side of iny partner, there is only a
su'Iieient number of stockholders
in the Lavenders Creek Company
to make it a complete legal stock
Company.
Before we bought the property
we spent about ten thousand dol
lars testing it under the supervis
ion of a man that bad tor five
years occupied the chair of t lie
Dean of the United States School
of Mining Engineers, where they
fit young men for t he develop
ment of the mining interest of
our Nation. As it is known of
everybody in that section by the
official records at the Court House,
we bought the property at a cost
of seventy-five thousand dollars,
and at the date we had finished
thirteen miles of canal at & cost
of over fifteen thousand spent in
development and equipment and
on purchase account to got ready
fur work 4 hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars with still a
balance due on purchase of twen
ty-five thousand dollars with a
warrantee deed for the water to
turn into our can a). And the day
it was complete and the manager
started to turn on the water the
SherilV stopjxal him and turned
two hundred and fifty men idle
wo were prepared and equipped to
put on t he work
i So unjust seemed the action
land so unreasonable, that wo did
i uni begin suit for damage for the
! !!U in we bought the property from,
we could not feel, had been mis
led all the years he had held it,
nor t hat the State would permit a
Company that lmd never used the
water and was not using it and had
no time fixed that it would ever
use it, would ho allowed to tie up
a hundred and finty thousand
dollars of honest outside money
that had been induced to invest
in this property, ready, willing
and anxious to work it.
But tlu: law granted the injunc
tion. We offered then not
only to sign any kind of a paper
to surrender the water if they ever
got ready to use it, but we offered
to put tip a sound lnirdrod thous
and dollar bond as a guarantee
that we would surrender the wa-
t if any three eompetant engi
neers would certify that the diver
sion of the waters of Spencer and
Mill Creeks, twelve miles above
their mouth at the river, and their j
mouth twelve miles above where
the pvrites property touched the
river twenty-five miles away from
gimeof baseball w« would have
had the water and Wop mining
&! 1 these years in Georgia,
So the vote was practically
unanimouHwit.il (he law which was
a just law and would have cured
the trouble, copy of which I send
you, hut too long for space l fear
in vour good paper and the be
lief t hat the Legislature will right
this wrong is why we have never
exercised our right to sue for judg
ment for damage.
I don’t belong to that class of
men that because an honest error
has been commit ted and an un just
law gives me power to injure my
fellowmnn, now will ever 1 take
such an advantage unless forced
to for my own protection.
My life’s record is as wide open
as the noon day’s sun and nearly
as public from Alaska to t he
, 0 id of South America, Und I chal-
their property, that would certify , . .
1 1 •’ ’ • 1 lenge any living man or any man
dead to rise up and say 1 ever took
that we were damaging them to
the extent of one horse power,
we would surrender even that one
horse power.
They refused this oiler and re
fused any kind of an offer to al
low us to go to work.
Then we went to the Courts and
fought it through to the last re-
sourt in the Supreme Courts and
the Supreme Court sustained their
injunction and made it perma
nent.
Still believing it could not he
possible that the Jaws of the State
th'nt years before had appropria
ted and spent several thousand
dollars starting to dig this identi
cal canal and when they found
out it would cost fifteen or twen
ty thousand dollars the State
abandoned the work and we didn’t
feel the State would allow men
who had brought their money to
Georgia, and took tip the State’s
abandoned work and completed
it, would stand for such an injunc
tion.
So we waited until the Legisla
ture convened and went to At lan
ta with a bill that would put the
Pyrites’ Company and every man
and Company in the Georgia gold
belt on an equal footing asking no
special favor for ourselves and
providing that no man unless he
was using the water should keep
others from using it, nor should
li: be allowed to retain possession
of it unless lie kept it in contin
ual use for gold mining purposes
and jk, oilier and when ho finished | jv ., tchin( , n to f . ul ,. for
the property to not he allowed t o
prevent the water from being re
turned to it's natural course or be
ing KHiod by other parties who
mjght curry it oil to another prop
erly f )r the mining of gold and
no other purpose. They met u.s
in Atlanta and we fought it out
with the aid of the Hon. Joseph
Underwood, a member of the
House from White County before
the Senate Committe First, we
peat them there and they only
got cue vote in the Senate against
bill. Then Mr. Underwood
n
out
with us before the House Commit
tee and with his able assistance
we defeated them there and got
it on the House Calendar and to
a vote the last day of the session
to be within the time limit requir
ed by the Constitution and after an
address by Mr. Underwood and
others in favor of the bill under
the roll call they got. five votes.
There was just a bare corps pres
ent and those five votes were just
that number short of the majority
vote required to pass the bill soil
there were 70odd members absent
j at a baseball game and I lmd
! personally every meml>er of the
| House hut about seven or eight
and not one was opposed to the
hill except those from Savannah
that were interested in the Py
rites Company, amt hut for that
an advantage of a follow man lie-
cause an unjust, law gave it to me.
Mr. Underwood promised he
would not fail jto secure the pas
sage of the hill l (the next session,
but the fickleness of political life
left him at home and 1 had taken
up t he work of leaving my home
State of some dog in the manger
Railroad, costing ni) T state ten
millions a year and have not had
time to take up the matter again
with the Georgia Legislature, and
those representing your county
didn’t seem sufficiently interested
to undertake to secure the passage
of the Law. So if the editor of
the Nugget will glance over the
official report of the work I have
done since that injunction was
filed on me in Georgia he will tes
tify that I have not lmd time to
fight Georgia’s battles even to re
cover over one hundred dollars of
honest money and hard earned
money invested there, but we arc
getting around to where we are
going to make another effort to
get the State to pass the law to
right the wrong. Our Company
is not the only one the water law
has stopped the work and driven
from the Georgia gold belt. The
people of Lumpkin County should
know just what it has cost me and
my associate. We have been out
the use of a hundred and twenty-
five .thousand dollars cash with
no interest for nearly nine years
and we have been paying taxes
the
i property.
F'itte thousand dollars will not
put the canal hack in shape like
we had it. Five miles of it was
heavy wooden flume work to carry
j six hundred miner’s inches of wa
iter all rotted down. To replace
j it means ten thousand dojjars in-
I vested, tunnels, ditches, and work
on canal caved in. Tunnels and
shafts on the mine work and crib
bing rotted and fallen in. Assay
I outfits ruined, all of wliieh means
’ five thousand dollars more wasted
meaning a ten thousand dollar in-
1 vestment to start up again. My
; home work in North Carolina
damaged for the need of our mon
ey hundreds of_thousauds of dol
lars, for wo had never sold or of
fered a share of stock for sale for
less than par ami it was only cap
italized for three bundled thous
and dollars on four thousand
acres and bonded for only a hun
dred and fifty thousand, exactly
what it cost us. So wo were not
there to Imy a prospect for a few
thousand and try to sell a fmv mil
lion doll.ns of stock for live and
ten ecu!8 on the dollar hut there to
develop and engage in mining and
not in stock selling.
Now to what this l’yrites suit
mean to Lumpkiu and \\ bite
Counties! Meuus of course the
people that sold us the mines ami
water could not eulloot the twonty-
fivo thousand dollars unless they
got us the water, so they lmyo
been out the use of their money nil
those years and there are some
twenty or thirty families interest
ed that could not get what was due
them, amounting <0 several thous
and dollars because the water
could not ho delivered and not less
than 250 men have been kept out
of regular work for nine yours be
cause wo could not get this water.
Sj the Nugget is right in its posi
tion. Men that won’t work and
won’t let others work are a costly
ornament for any county or State.
O110 of the men employed bytho
Byrites Company that, had su’d
some of his gold land to us, said
during the contest, that the By
rites Company was worth more to
Lumpkin and White Bounties than
all the gold mines 10 the county,
They set upas a defense bofoie
the Senate Committeo that they
had spent a vast sum of money.
I offered to lay before the Com
mittee certified receipts of what
we had paid out if they would do
likewise and let the .committee de
cide who had spent the most mon
ey. They decliuod the offer.
They contended that they wore
under agreement to get a railroad
to thair mine that would ho worth
all gold mines out there, hut they
had no visible evidence and it af
terwards developed that the
Southern Railroad told them if
they would give a guarantee to
produce seven thousand tons of
ore per annum from their mines,
that were worth all the gold mines
in White and Lumpkin couDtics,
they failed to do it. So there is
no railroad and they had not stuck
a spade in the ground for more
than three years before wo went
there and they have not stuck one
in the ground to do any regular
mining work from that day to
this. So it would seem that it is
time tho people should he relieved
by an Act of the legislature.
Wo don’t want to harm any man
on earth. We belicye Lumpkin
county can, by cooperating with
her members and Senators and
with the aid of Joe Underwood and
other leading men, get the same
bill passed by the next legislature.
If they will we will not ask a man
to lose a dollar but gladly pay all
wo agree to and we will set the
Lavenders Creek mine to moving,
for we have not lost our faith in
the Georgia gold. Give' mining
men water in Georgia and a rea
sonable showing for their life and
their money and millions will tlow
to your gold belt.
Respectfully,
S. A. Jones.
B. I). Green, who was conyict-
od and sentenced for stealing over
a half million dollars of govern
ment funds at Savannah, and con
fined more tlmu .three years, has
been released on a paupers affida
vit. This affidavit being in lieu
of tho additional, lino of $575,000
he was sentenced to pay. The
governments attorney tried to pre
vent his release, claiming that lie
had much money stored away, hut
was unable to prove it.
The Griffin Herald tells a good
one on two jurors who were out
all night on a murder trial, caus
ing them to have to get an nffida-
yit front the bailiff to prove to
their wives where they had been
to keep them from taking tho
broom to them upon reaching
home.
Au ordinance will be introduced
at the next city council meeting
ii Atlanta to prevent the new
Palis skirts, resembling mens
breeches, from being worn there.
LOCAL NEWS.
Cadets Frazier and Meredith
are both speaking of going to tho
Philippine Islands next summer.
The Brackett Bros., got through
their sawing up on Yahoola last
week amt moved their mill over
on the McGuire lot, abovo the
Gallows Hollow, near town.
Crane, the hoy in jail hero for
murdering Parks, is frequently,vis
ited by parties in and out of town,
including preachers, women and
pretty girls, ono of the latter re
cently presenting him with a Tes
tament .
A number of our citizens aro
preparing to have some meat at
homo by buying them a pig or
two and raising them. This is
right. A siioo or two of ham and
some streaked gravy at homo
whenever you want it are mighty
nice articles to have in a family.
On the first issue of May wo de
sire to publish all the names of
now subscribers and renewals to
tho Nugget received during tho
month of Apnl so as to hoc how
our spring business is running.
Send in so we can soe how well
you appreciate reading the paper.
The prico of everything most is
advancing at this and .other places,
Potash mountain liquor retails
about in the woods at from $2 to
$:i per gallon. And oven asafetida
has gone up to 10 cents 11 box
here, double in price and in Savan
nah turpentine has reached $1.00
per gallon.
Twenty-odd years ago Mr. Mat.
Wood, of this county, was cover
ed up by a cave while at work
in the gold mines here, having a
leg broken and being otherwise
injured as to necessitate an opera
tion being performed on him on
Thursday of last week by L)rs.
Head and Cantrell, of this place.
Uncle Dave Roberts, who used
to live hero, but uow a resident of
Hall county, was in to see us the
other day. Ou Wednesday night
he went down to Tnnyard Para-
lyzer to see the. high jump and the
cake walk hut the actors failed to
perform, causing quietude in the
ranks. Old Sweety wasn’t there
to turn on the power.
Mr. E. B. Seay, of Maysville,
Git., also sends utoiray and words
of praise to us, speaking us fol
lows: “1 can’t keep house with
out the Nugget. When it comes
1 feel like I have a letter from
home, as 1 was horn and raised,
in Lumpkin county, and 1 think
you gel up the best local paper i
.ever read. So let it keep com
ing. ”
While ono of our citizens was
in Atlanta recently ho saw the la
dy editor of tho pentpeost paper
going into her office with a siga
over the door of “Missions.” Af
ter learning who she was and what
the sign meant ho enquired, “Do
you mean to say and believe that
your folks can heal the sick?”
()h yes,” said she. “i saw in
your paper where a hoy fell off
tho fence, broke his neck and your
people healed him. Did that ac
tually occur !” was tho next ques
tion. “Do you think it impossi
ble?” said Miss Pentecost. “That’s
uot tho question,” said he, “do
you believe it did occur?” Aftor
hesitHtiug a while she answered in
a very slow manner, “y-e-s.”
“And you all can heal? Please
cite me to some instances where
your people have done any heal
ing,” was. next asked. When
she began telling of some jdace iu
China the gentium au informed her
that it was too far away and mov
ed leaving Sister Pentecost stand
ing, looking like a fellow when ho
finds a hair iu his sweethearts cake
at a picnic.
