The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-20

To Miss Mary Ports bill, 1922 GO
| To Miss Nancy Ports bill, 274 25
| To Miss Bersey Ports bill, 354 42
To Mrs. Nancy fuckers bill, Alt rs
To Miss Mary Ann fuckers bill, 800 so
| To Miss Eliza fuckers BILL 2S5 90
To bill of self and servants, 500 SO
Total $2,536 90
Received pay in gold.
JACOB KLAUSHAMER.
Jacob having sold his stock out proposed
| to leave his horse and cart with the old man
while he went to Philadelphia for more goods,
and old john thinking it good opportuni-
tv sent by him three thousand penny weights
of gold to have coined at the mint and bring
back when he came with his goods. But
the old man never saw Jacob again, though
| for long time would not believe he would
not return, g for he would not have left his
horse and cart if he was not coming back
the old man would say.
Ports died in 1850, and he and his wife
lie buried in the garden without even a stone
to mark the last resting place of the owner
of so much wealth. At his death his
numerous children could make no AMIGA
BILE settlement, and the mine was sold, Mr..
Thomas K. Thomas of Louisburg N c., be-
coming the purchaser. Mr.. Thomas has
worked it more or less for the past fifteen
years and always proftably, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the only appliances used
have been the old fashioned pan the rocker
and the sluice. One cannot help wondering
at any result but failure having attended
such shiftless and inefficient working, but the
records show that during the lifetime of Por-
it's more than million and half of dollars
was taken from the mine.
The soil in which the gold exists is red
alluvial, and quartz as pure as any 1 ever saw
is also very abundant. Clay, mica and tai
cose slate exist in large quantities. Many
analyses of the quartz have been made and
never have failed to show gold. The rocks
have assayed from $39, the lowest, to 81 400,
the highest, per ton. But the great wealth
of the mine is in the soil. For three days
have been exploring the property with a pan
and shovel, and have been unable to find a
single shovel full on the whole nine hundred
acres that did not show gold 1 used COM
mon iron saucepan holding about two quarts,
and every pan full washed showed from two
to ten cents worth of gold the purest I have
ever seen. No other mineral has ever been
found on the mine and I honestly believe it
to be the richest surface mine in the world.
By the process used here only about two
inches of the surface top could be washed,
and then they were obliged to wait until the
surface exposed by this scraping became
Stacked by the action of air, frost, Sc, when
the process was repeated. The lack of wa
ter has also been severely felt here requiring
the material to be washed to be hauled
considerable distance. The present compa-
ny WILL however, obtain plentiful supply by
a very simple and economical process A
large quantity of fine gold is shown in every
painful of the soil, and by the old process
this has all been lost.
The present company was organized this
season under charter from the State of
North Carolina. with a capital stock of
$500, 900, which is all taken. The officers of |
the company, who are also the principal |
owners, are Thomas K. Thomas, President;
S. g. Sturges, of Newark, N j., Treasurer,
and James HI. Platt Jr., of Petersburg, Va,
General Agent and Superintendent.
Operations were commenced here the
1st of August, and Mr.. Plat had a steam
saw mill in full operation in just three weeks
from the day machinery left New York,
which, taking into consideration the distance
from the railroad and the nature of the roads
over which the machinery had to be hauled,
is remarkable feat. They have also com
pleted two story building, seventy by thir-
ty, built from material sawed at their own
mill since it was erected some six weeks ago.
The machinery to be used in mining is a
new invention recently patented by New
ark manufacturer, which, if as successful as
the experiments promise, is destined to work