The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-28
MADOC GOLD REGIONS.
An Interesting Account Of the Gold
Disceveries In Canada, near Belle.
ville-Great Excitement Prevail

An Iateresting Account Of the Gold
Discoveries In Canada, near Belle
ville-Great Excitement Prevail.
ing.
From the Correspondence ofthe Toronto Globc.l
l paid a second visit to the mines yes
terday. The Richardson mine is still
closed, though there is always crowd
round it seeking for information and
satisfying curiosity. 1t is expected
that Mr.. Carr, the purchaser of it, will
be here early next week to pay the stip-
ulated price of twenty thousand dol
lars, and that the mine will then be re-
opened and worked without other de-
lay. In other parts of the country
prospecting is being carried on, and, II
all reports are to be believed, with fair
success.
Yesterday afternoon, in company with
two others, visited part of the town.
ship several miles distant from the
Richardson g. Moore claims, for the pur-
pose of seeing what was told promis-
ed to be rich district. The persons
with whom / went were practical
miners, who have had much experience
in California and Australia. We found
that the reports we had heard were not
at all exaggerated. Running through
two very large hills, we found two
lodges of fine quartz, cropping here and
there above the surface, and we had no
difficulty in tracing them several hun
dred yards.
Breaking up pieces of the quartz
which the owner of the land had lately
taken out, we found gold, in very small
particles, to be sure, but still pure gold.
The mere finding of the metal in quartz
taken from such o position, is extraor-
dinary, and promises a great yield in
the lodges and beneath them. AS
write, one of the specimens lays before
me, and all who have seen it say that if
the ordinary result follows, those lodges
ought to take rank among the richest
ever discovered. One of the lodges has
been purchased by Messrs. Grant &
Willard, who intend commencing opera
tions shortly.
That this region has all the surface
indications and general appearance Of a
rich mineral district, every one must
admit. 1t is an uneven, broken, lumpy
country, with rocky hills, bald and
barren looking, deep gullies, small
streams, and an occasional patch in
fertile land, scattered in the wales or on
the hill-sides. The rocks and stones
consist principally of granite, quartz
and gneiss, with once in while large
patches of limestone and hills of wash
ed gravel. Other stones, of course, are
to be found, but those have mentioned
predominant. The hills are chiefly COM
posed of granite and quartz. In some
places the strata are quito irregular while
in others they were thrown into great
confusion, as if by some immense con-
vulsiOn of nature. The stratum called
by miners the "big rock" has no where
been reached as yet, though it is very
possible that in some of the valleysit is
not moro than few feet below the sur
face. Practical miners say that until
that is come upon no fair estimate OF
the value of the mineral deposits, es-
pecially gold, can be made. The most
singular feature of the discoveries is the
way in which they have been made
and their very singularity is the strong
est point that could be urged in sup
port of the richness of the deposits.
No one has yet prospected the gulches
or bases of the quartz-bearing hills.
Because Richardson struck his gold on
the top of hill, all the farmers, in their
ignorance of the nature of tho metal,
and the proper way of finding it, think
that the tops of the hills are the only
places in which ii oan be found, and ac-
cordingly they look for it nowhere else.
Old miners say that such course is
about as sensible as trying to stone the
sides of q well by beginning at the top,
and yet the farmers have struck gold,
much to the surprise of every one
who knows anything about the
matter. All this would lead us to
the belief that there must be immense
mines of the precious metal hidden
away in the bowels of the earth. For if
it is found on the top of the lodges,
where it is not generally found, how
much more ought it to be found in the
bottoms, where nature would place it 7
These circumstances contain the reason
why Iold miners are 80 confident that
rich deposits are to be found here. They
unite in saying that gold was never dis
covered in such singular way.