Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-07-12

100 acres are planted in corn, and so acre.
with winter wheat and oats, beside,
labout 80 acres Of cotton. The old man
lsion house is most beautifully situated upon
an elevation overlooking the surrounding
country for miles The apple and peacl
orchards promise an abundance Of fruit
this present season. not only upon this
land but throughout the whole section OF
country.
| After leaving Charlotte our next stop
ping place was Concord, the county seat
of Cabarrus county, where we visited a
number of the principal gold mines cf that
section, the first of which was twelve miles
distant-the Reid mine. This old and eel
ebrated estate has been recently purchased
| by two OF your worthy citizens. one ali eY-
| tensive manufacturer, the other a pron1l-
nent member Of the Bar who have their
mill in full operation with the most i'm
proved machinery, and such is the produc-
tiveness of the mine, that it is estimated
they will clear $50, 600 the first year. over
all expenditures According to Professor
Emmon's Geological Report, of this State,
the Reed property has produced, by mug
gets found upon the surface, larger
amount than any other piece Of land in the
United States, and, by his Report, which
is a State document and perfectly reliable,
that between the years 1899 and 1927, 115l
pounds of pure gold had been found, the
largest Of which weighed % pounds, and
was found by plow-boy, and brought to
the house and was used for the purpose of
keeping the front door open; old Mr.. Reed
not knowing it's value. But Yankee mer-
chant accidentally put his eye upon It and
bought it for ten dollars worth of dry
goods The Placer diggings upon this
tract are considered very valuable, when
by small outlay an eng inc could be placed,
so that water from a large stream could be
raised to wash the whole surface of the
land.
Since the war many other properties
have been purchased by Northern capital
lists, and gold mills are going up in all parts
of the country.
The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Penn
sylvania, General Farnsworth and n. B.
Judd, ESD, of Illinois, all members of the
present Congress-, have purchased a vaiua-
BILE mine few miles from this place. which
they intend to work to its fullest capacity.
The New Workers are in the gold field.
They have bought the Phoenix mine, and
are preparing a ten stamp mill This is an
exclusive New York enterprise
The Blakely Mining Company, also a
New York company, are erecting a twenty
stamp mill.
Another mine is in Union county, called
the Houey, and owned by Northern men ;
they are paying now about 81, 900 per week
wages 1t Will be soon III operation.
And still another III the same county
the Hardness mine sixty days will put
them in operation with their ten stamp
mill.
No finer opening to Northern capitalists
can be offered than the North Carolina
gold region. 1t is useless going to Califor-
MIA, Montana, Nevada or any Of the dis
tant territories for gold when we are with
IN tWentysiX hours ride of rs good dig
ging5 as the world can produce.
Almost every hill and running stream
shows gold, with princely returns for few
dollars Of capital invested. The placer dig
glngs In this State are fully as extensive as
those Of California, where the colored men
and the poor white trash, as they were
formerly called, are washing gold by the
rudcst machinery, viz the ld-fashioncd
hand rocker, and making from So to S. per
day. Thousands of acres of this kind of
land can be bought for mere song, or
leased for a number of years. by paying
the one-tenth Of the product to the present
owners. Your correspondent has tried his
hand at this by way of amusement, and out
Of twenty pans full Of earth, holding about
one quart each, has shown gold in every
pan full, and would now like to take a snail
wager at the above rates. He has al the
present time more than a dollars worth c.
gold in his pocket, the result of three pans
full, washed by himself
The political sentiments of the inhabi-
tants are decidedly for the Union, and no
hostility need be feared by new corners on
that account, for man may hold whatev-
er political opinions he pleases aud express
them at proper times, without fear of mo-
lestation.
The Charlotte Mint although in good
order, still remains closed. DR.. Isaac NJ
Jones, Of Salisbury, has been recently APP
pointed Assayer, and it is expected that as
saying will be soon commenced. DR.. Jones
IS native Of North Carolina, and was one
of the most resolute Unionists during the
war.
Slavery is dead forever. One of the old
est inhabitants tod me few DAYS since
that he was fully convinced that slavery
had been a great loss to them. He, his
father and grandfather had all been slave
holders, and had lived on the same lands,
and he had never known anything to be
sold off these lands until the present sea-
son. But this last year he and his two sons
bed worked the lands themselves, and he
had sold upwards of fifteen hundred dol
lars worth of produce which was not need
edby the family, andnext yearhe was conf
dent be would be able to sell as much more
He ended by saying that if the best slave
was offered to him as a gift, to keep him
as slave, he would not have him on the
place. This I considered a strong aIgu-
ment in the favor Of freedom.
This great North Carolina gold belt ex
tends from the county of Burke in the
wost, to Montgomery in the east, and from
duilford i'll the North down into South
through Chesterfield, as far as
5he Edgeield district, embracing an ex-
5ent of country from forty to one hundred
niles in width, and one hundred and thir-
y in this State. The counties in which |
gold abounds are Mecklenburg, Cabarrus,
Rowan, Davidson, Stanley and Union.
From the National IntelIgencer.
The satrapy in Full Bloom.
No more rigorous OF emphatic edict of
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