Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-07-28

MES OF ci,izsns have recently commenced opera
lions, more has been dug up rich, that It'll thought
OF will produce at the rate OF 90 d,sts. per bu
shell! confident belief is entertained, that Rowan will
prove as rich In her golden treasures as any other
~ in the state
Gold has recently been found In Wilkes county in D
number OF places. Many of the en'erpr>ng citizens
there buying and leasing lend, for the purpose OF
pursuing the Mining business. We have been inform
ed that more OF the companies contemplate the
Immediate erection Of machinery, for p-lveiising and
washing the
new and very rich nino has been discovered OH
the plantation OF Mai Jonathan Harris, OF Mecklenburg
county. BY the labor Of four negroes, Mai. Harris
realizes about hundred dollars worth of Gold daily.
In Cuilford county, learn that new discoveries oil
the precious metal almost daily made and gentle.
men OF skill and enterprise going into the business
pretty largely.
In Lincoln, well a. Rutherford counties Gold has
been found IN divers places aud we learn that prepare
tons making 10 work the mines
liz Randolph Chatham, Stokes, Roekinghalp, ant
Surry some god and indications Of more, have
ly been discovered
70 MeeSlenbarg, new and r!ch veins ara constant,
opening extensive machinery is continually building
and large quantities of the precious metal daily
washed out, by steam. water, and horse power.
In Anson and Montgomery, tho mines continue TO be
worked with profit; although not as extensively in the
latter county as formerly.
In Davidson county, number OF new mines ha-'
been opened and machinery is erecting to work them
IL sstatcd iu the Pioneer, that company have
menced the Gold Mining business in York Ill strict
with good prospect Of success a gentleman of York
vile, has found mine Oh his plantation about "a mile
from the village, which promises to be productive.
salisbury CdToinidn.
NORTH CAROLINA GOLD
We arc informed that gold mine has been recently
di.coveredin Davidson Co. containing vein of the pre-
cious metal, eighty feet in width This is the lsrg
est vein heard Of either in this any other coun
TY. They generally vary in width from two to five
feet. Raleigh Register, June p3
t'rom The Yo,lsvilIc g. c. Pioneer OF June ~
SOUTH CAROLINA GOLD
II is with much pleasure we state, that company o
Of Iisfr hau
mining business with every prospect OF success. A
few days since shown piece of gold, clbou
eix grans collected from about two quarts of puveris
cd rock, which found i'm their mines in this Dis.
trct. We 10 not deem il improper to remark, that
gentleman OF this place has discovered gold mine OF
his plantation situated about mile from this village
which, from every appearance, promises TO be yer,
productive.
From various indications throughout our district a
well as the spirit which animates our citizens on thu
subject, we should not be surprised, it, in few years
York would become celebrated for gold mining o.
Mecklenburg county, Carolina. There is still, how
ever, wanting men possessing not only the same capt.
Gal, but the same enterprise of those gentlemen thus al
luded to- in order that the business may be successfully
pursued
VIRGINIA GOLD.
II no longer remains a doubt but that Coll OF pur,
quality 10 be found in great quantity in this county.
has already been discovered eight different planta
tons, onone OF which wiz that of Capt VIM f. s. Dr. Ed
White, about $500 worth of surface Gold has been oh
tanned within few months, and the partial diggings
places, witnessed by the writer of this indicates al
abundant supply. IL is much to be hoped that ncre
duty in this case will dispense with her usual
and that the inhabitants OF county especially,
Of our State, will awake from their apathy, foreign
capital aud enterprise shall be employed 10 eav
us only the opportunity OF grumbling the CLEAN
ngs oil rich golden harvest which had been withif
our grasp.
Large Pein frulB-A paragraph is going throu 81
the papers stating, that at Of the Gold Mines in Da
wilson county, vein of the precious metal has beer
struck, which is eighty feet wide! Whoever communi
raed this piece OF intelligence must either DO mise "a
oily lacking in information about the gold business,
desperately bent qtissinc The Editor who first pub
shed II, or some other mischief No rein of gold pro
Perly speaking has ever been found that comes within
~ eet OF the width OF this fancied in Davidson
1It- cerntJt~ in DIacee il, -,
even greater extent than this story represents: Fo
instance in Burke the earth is richly inpre gna,ed il
places, 10 the width OF tco hundred fceH Yet
one acquainted with mineralogy mining ever thou eh
Of seriously saying uen of such dimensions had heel
discovered. ITVesrey,l Cdroliniau