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HULL KERR, EDITOR.
GOLD.
All students of geology khow
that the mountains in Georgia,
wnich are the southern end of tne
great Appalachian chain which
loses itself in northern Alabama,
were laid down in the beginning
of the Paleozoic era, and have
had all the advantages and pro
cesses required to produce the
preciou* metals, minerals and
ores;—extreme heat, iocompuf
able periods of time, pressure,
and all the volcanic, voltaic,
igneous and me^unorphic actioi
and transformations, and can bm
realize that nature all these mill
ions of centuries has been stor¬
ing untold billions herein for tin
use of man, in the mountains,
not only of Georgia, but of Ten
nessee and the G’aroluias.
The people of these states
however, are slow to awakei
from the dreams of centuries
being well-satisfied with thing
as they are, because life, undei
existing conditions, mild ch
mate, riph soil, and requiring
little labor to make vegetable*
and fruits grow abundantly, die
not care to seek new, and to t hem
uncertain ways, and harder, to
earn a livhhood. They paid lit¬
tle attention to the mines whet,
worked by the Government, and
winch were abandoned when the
w ar broke out, after which, th<
increased lure of the gold ladei
we»t carried the miners away
ami they still find excitement
enough there to keep them busy.
And perhaps, to their indiffer
ence, Georgia adds unbelief.
Vet there never has been t
time since this country was in¬
habited that gold has not been
found in great abundance ii
Georgia; it is in nearly every
formation, and more than that,
nearly every formation carrying
gold is found here, especially in
Murray, Dade, Gilmer and Un¬
ion Counties, altho the State
Geologists, for some strange rea¬
son, fail, some think refuse, t<
make a survey of these, counties,
especially Murray, and ^so pro
nounced has this action been that
now, few would accept any re
port that might he made by thai
department, even tho accurate
aml true. It is boldly hinted
that for some sufficient—to them
—reason, the men making sur
veys, are greatly interested in
booming Dahlonega, and it cer
tainly looks that way, although
no one disputes the value ol
Dahlonega even the it has beet
worked since about 1888.
Most of the mining here, espe
t.ially at Dahlonega, had been
placer mining, and that there are
millions on millions to be found
by deep tunneling, no one know
mg anything of the interior ol
the earth and the various forces
,-ver at work, doubts, but the
great find will be in Murray anu
Gilmer Counties. I’ll venturi
lo say that not an acre of ground
in what are known as Cohutta,
and Fort Mountain will be found
pour in gold. The land, the wa
ter everywhere, the sapiolite,
and all rock, carry gold; You can
dig anywhere, pan the dirt and
timl little nuggets, expedially in
Cohutta Mountain.
One mine was opened there,
but so badly managed that it did
not pay costs altho there is even
now enough gold in sight to pay
a big percent oil the money in
vested therein. And tnism&n
agement, as Professor Yates says
in his report on gold deposits of
Georgia. had done more to in
jure the standing of the state as
gold-bearing than anything else,
Men come here who blow, brag
and bluster, spend the money
foolishly and when :t is gone and
they are obliged to abandon the
say it is no good, or make
think the mining is use
lew by their conduct, and there
#reoge mirth over yoor claim
for gold.
Then again, if men are looking
at property supposed to contain
gold, some one owning lots near
by, will disparage it in order to
boom one of his own, and so it
goes. Not long since a man
wanted to prospect in Cohutta
mountains, and was accompanied
oy a man who took him to the
worst places in the mountain,
and made it so that the prospect¬
or abandoned the work, giving it
only about eight hours envesti
gation, an absurdly short time,
even had he been a government
expert, which he was not. This
and sucli action as this, is one
reason the north laughs at Geor
gian’s claim ; they say why does
not Georgia do something if she
lias anything to do with?” Or.
“If there were quantities of gold
there, it would soon be known.”
This sounds well, but the men
making such remarks do not
it now the Georgians.
There is no question in the
mind of any one having any
knowledge of the evolution of
Che earth and of minerals and
metals, but, Georgia is full of
high grade, virgin gold, but very
deep, much deeper than mining
nas ever been done here or prob.
ably elsewhere. At about one
thousand feet the richness will
begin to be apparent; at fifteen
hundred feet, great veins ol
gleaming gold must be found, and
will be someday, for the discov¬
ery is inevitable. It is tne law
of “the nature of things.”
Twenty eight years a woman I
know wanted her husband to buy
a large tract of land in Alaska, in
is known as the Yukon re¬
gion; ever one laughed at her,
but she insisted that before long
the most astounding discovery ol
gold would be made thereabouts.
It was. She also said that any¬
one buying land m Arizona
would be enormously rich in
time, for sooner or later, irriga¬
tion would make the country
habitable and there were vast de¬
posits of minerals there. There
are. Yet she was called a vis¬
ionist or a dreamer of dreams ;
some, called her crazy. It is
just so now with many in the
north, tho some pretending while
trying to make people down
here think their iron ores are not
of good quality, yet secretly try
to buy for $2 an acie, land worth
$50, and send to Cuba for the
very ores they pretend to scorn
when mined in Georgia, the
Bethleham Steel Company claim
ing to buy all their ores in Cuba
although the assay proves the
Georgia ore the better ore. The
famous Soudan ore assays a trifle
over (MJ percent; some of the
ores of Georgia and Tennessee
assays almost 158 per cent and the
assay was made by the United
Steel Company.
There are deposits of gold,
iron, copper, silver, lead, and
even cassiterite in this State so
enormous as to be startling and
unbelievable; if you talk of them
to a northerner, he only laughs;
talk Mexican ores and minerals
to him and he is all interest and
attention. There is one piece of
property L have in mind now,
known as the Stafford mine in
Murray County. I have not the
least doubt that great fissure
vein, the one that has been sup*
plying the placer deposits for
centuries, is right there. The
nuggets found are rough, indicat
ing an untraveled condition—
that the mother lode is near;
the supply' also tells unmistaka
bly that the cause is there still
at work producing. I showed a
piece of the ore from there to
Mr. S. 1*. Jones, Assistant State
Geologist, and be pronounced it
the finest piece of ore he had
seen for some time, yet no re
port has been made of Murray
County, nor is there likely to be
one that persons knowing any -
thing of geology would accept
The ores from the Stafford mine
have been pronounced very rich
in gold by men of ability and ex-
THE MURRAY NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1900.
perience. and such prospects as
are there, would result, in the
west, in the immediate forma
fcion of companies with enormous
capital, with stock at least $5
par value,
This underestimate of Geor
gia’s vast mineral interests in
is partly the fault of the Geor
gians themselves, and partly the
fault of the men who have come
down here pretending to be in¬
fluenced only by the desire to
make the hidden wealth of the
state, yet doing everything pos¬
sible to make the world suspi¬
cious artd indifferent, by • either
their incompetency or their dis
honesty,
1 quite agree with Professer
Yates that there is not a gold
mine in the State that properly
managed and worked would not
pay a good dividend. It needs
only men’of integrity, sincerity
and truthfulness in word and act
to arouse the world to the hidden
billions in the mountains of Geor
gia, and someday, when this will
be done, and someday soon, tew,
the people of Georgia, will blush
at their own density, or whatev¬
er it may be called, that over
looked such vast, such incredibly
vast resources to lie in obscurity
for so many years and then per¬
mitted them to sell for a mere
song the valuable minerals that
have enriched the nations and
for wh cb all men strive, suffer
and kill, yet must have—the
“gold, gold, gold, bright and.yel¬
low, hard and cold” without
which no nation could exist, for
there is no substitute for it that
is not so plentiful that it can
have little value, or so scarce
that the demand would far ex
ceed the supply, and make life a
burden to the poor, and it is bad
enough as it is for them. Geor¬
gia has the gold, let her mine it;
Murray county has enough in the
Gohutta. mountain to make
the envied of all, and it is
■credit to her that it lies idle, on
the contrary it disproves the as
sersion that the Georgian
shrewd and plentifully supplied
with brain-matter, and logic.
Why should not Murray county
do her share in winning tiAt
place for Georgia in mineral
wealth? Why should she
back and allow men fiom the
north, or the east, or west to
from her the things nature has
give her, and which would
her naturally beautiful country
a paradise?.
But Murray county shows an
indifference
stand. Besides ignoring her
enormous natural resources in
minerals and ores, she does noth¬
ing to guard other valuable
rights. For instance, how much
longer will it be until men from
the north come down here, and
not only take the gold away, but
take away the water right by
buying the rights for themselves?
And the day will come soon when
companies will buy right of the
way and build trolley lines?
Why do not the men of your
county, see that those rights are
held by themselves, then when
companies want to run thru the
towns, they must pay your price
or stay out? But first of all mine
your gold, then eastern capital¬
ists cannot buy rights that you
should have and that they are
patiently yet surely waiting to
“grab” at a ridiculously low
price and do as they please with
you and your most stringent laws
forever after, as they do north
when backed by millions and
John Rockefeller who is “The
Trusts.”
There is gold enough in your
nearby mountain, Cohutta, to
pay the debt of Russia and prob
ably Japan, too, but no one will
believe it until you get to work
in the right, way with the right
men and management. Do that
and “the world is fours.
Drink Coca*Ginger. cold Oil
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skJ hot 0R {he other<
Manufactured b> the North Ga.,
Bottling works,
Dalton. Georgia.
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EVERYTHING IN THIS COLUMN
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
Have for _ Exchange, .
If you Sale or
Such as Farms, Timbered Lands.
houses and Lots, stack's of Merchan- j
dise, Saw-mills, or Other Property
That Amounts to Anything, Send us a
List or Description of it.
it vve do not make a sale or
exchange for you we will
charge you nothing. If we
do make a sale or exchange
pay us,
if >ou so desire, your name
will not appear in your sale.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
200 acres ol mountain land
on Cohutta mountain, with
goldmine guaranteed on land
Gold lead from 8 to 12 feet
under ground. Owners guar¬
antee from 2 i i to ii dollars
woft of gold per tun. Fine
water on land. *
Owner is not able to ope-
ate it and will sell at a bar¬
gain
This is a line chance for
some party oi company tr,
make a fortune as the owner
guarantee’s all the above to
lie true.
If interested, write to the
editor for further information.
1 have a Stock of Merchandise
in Chatsworth Ga., consisting of
Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions, Gro
ceriesand Hardware. This Stock
of goods can be bought for cash
or good note. This sto k will
invoice about $600. Chatsworth
is a town on t he L vV N. R It.
and has about 400 inhabitant’*
and is growing all the time. [1
interested write the Editor.
Valley Farm for sale 4 miles
south west of Dalton Ga. 106
acres, more or less, has a good
barn, good well of freestone wa¬
ter, orchard of 250 trees of as¬
sorted fruits, finest road in Whit¬
field county, on R. F. I). 85
acres cleared land, out of pasture
laud, is as level as a floor.
If interested write the Editor.
Price $2,000,00.
Brand new Plano Binder, has
only cut St') acres of wheat.
Price $55,00.
I Champion Mower. Has
cut only 14 acres of hay.
Brand new. $Ao.oo cash,
A farm of 20 acres for sale.
Has a 15 room dwelling, good gar j
den, well of everlasting water,
barn IS by 28 feet and well fenc¬
ed. One mile east of the court
house in Spring Place. In reach
of the High School either at
Chatsworth or this place. Thisi
farm is suitable for gardening thing.: 01 j
fruit, cotton, Corn or any |
It can be iiought for just what
the dwelling cost, $650. Apply
to the Editor.
A great many people have kid¬
ney and bladder trouble, mainly
due to neglect of the accasional
pains in the back, slight rheu¬
matic pains, urinary disorders,
etc. Delay in such cases is dan¬
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weak back, backache, rhenmat-!
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Kelly.
Wanted.
A reliable man to look alter
the Court House, keep it clean
doors fastened etc. Also to keep
gates to Court House fence fast- i
ene<l. Applicants will meet the |
tindersighed in the afternoon of
first Tuesday in March, 1600.
County Commissioners.
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What does this mean to you? insures
Do you keep your money in a Bank that you
against loss? If not, it is not our fault. The Bank
of Chatsworth is the only Bank in this community
that insures deposits. This insurance costs the de
poSitorS NOTHING.
We will gladly receive your account, however large or
small it may be.
All business strictlv confidential.
Bank of Chatsworth
J. M. SANDERS, President J. B. GRE60BY, Vice-President
T. W. BROOKS, Cashier.
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