Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-06-01
The Gold Placars of the South.
[Frosn tho Washington Chronicle.

| =, wv " iSS!oiNtlon alone Is to be worked Ou
the reconstruction Of the South. Poitica
action must pioneer the work; wise states
manshlp must go before; but business consid
cr'tions' trade and profit, material and deyel
"Pmcnt any growth must bring their soC
blocks OF living interest for place in the endu
ring foundAtions upon which these States arc
to be rebuilt. al this South land is riol
| IN agricultural resource there flourish ss il
no other zors the great staples Of trade, the
primo artol:ss.ssss,esstso HI ssesstso and ctothing,
Rocentlyso,T attention has been especially
called to the mineral wealth of tho South by
conversation with several enterprising gentle.
mcn'who l.ayo just returned from extensive
journeys through ull that section, where thew
have been tomake personal investigation Of
its mineral resources, with a view to large in-
vcstmcnts, and have come back with the be-
lief, as they$assure us, TINT the gold fields of
North Carolina and the placers of Georgia
give bettcrEnppearancs of profitable returns
than the mines of Colorado or California, with
the cxccptiono Of a few especially rich districts
We haiiEthis turning of attention to the
gold fields Of the South MS happy omen for
that land-Tha new assurance of early and en-
during re9onstruction-as new bond of
peace and Union; and wo hope in addition to
these good'blcssings for US all this new enter
prise may prove indeed source of wealth to
it's active workers.
From Mime, in the Northeast, to Alabama,
in the Southwest, the whole country is trav-
"rscd by tho Allegheny or Appalachian ridge
of mountains, through which runs a belt of
from twenty to fifty miles in width composed
OF micaceohs and metalnorphic sandstone and
calclierous sand.rock, talcose, chlortic Slice
Gus. rnbendc and micaccous slates, &c..
having general trend from the northeast to
the SOUTHWEST, and forming an unbroken &C.
rics OF strata belonging to tho Taconic, Pots
dam, or sub Silurian system.
Amongst this strata there are found numcr.
GUS veins Of valuable ores, among which may
be enumetatcd iron, zinc, copper, lead, anti
mony and Ibismuth, silver and gold, the latter
being principally found in what is termed the
gold belt, bra series of strata of from five to
seven miles in With. running parallel with
: a asssa s.gola far Gust
as New Hampshire, where mine is now be-
ing worked with some promise, showing it
here upon the Potomac near Washington, and
in many localities down through Virginia but
making It's greatest development in South
western Carolina and Northeastern Georgia
Men familiar with gold mining in Califor-
MIA recently returned from North Carolina as-
sure us that, in their belief, there are as good
gold mines in the latter m in the former State,
if only worked with the same skill and pcrse-
verancc. There is hardly stream in the
counties Of Moore, Randolph, Montgomery,
Davidson: Cabarrus and Stanley, in north
western North Carolina, which will not Weld
gold by "pana;i;g" the sands from it's bed.
Aud thesamc is true of parts of Neck lenburg,
Union, Lincoln, Catawba, Rutherford, Burke,
Henderson, and other counties in the same
section of that State.
Bnt the great gold belt Of the Allcghanics,
so far at present as is knoRn, makes its rich.
est development in the northeastern portion of
Georgia, especially in those counties watcrcd
by tho Chestatee River and its tributaries,
which, thus far, have formed the celebrated
diggngs of Georgia, and from which have
been taken, within the last thirty years, at
least twenty million of dollars of the precious
metal, and which were deemed of sufficient
Importance by the government to induce it to
erect mint at Dahloncga, mining town sit
uatcd within three miles of the Chcstatcc
River and between two of its principal tribu.
tarics, Cave Creek and the Yahooa, from the
beds and banks of which and adjacent hill
sides within an area Of about five miles square
the most Of this immense wealth was taken.
But this interesting theme has led us along
too far already for single article. We will
resume tho subject another day.
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Mr.. DAVIS BAIL.-Ttw will interest somo Of
of readers to know that General j. ID. jack
man, Of Philadelphia, who is tho third on The
list of Mr.. Davis bail has purchased The
plantation, in st. Andrcws's Parish, known a.
Bolton, formerly bclo' ing to the Barker fam
lily, and is about to@-Jecomc citizen Of this
State. Gen. Jackman is native of New
|! Hampshire, and obtained his title of genera
by commanding the Pennsylvania militia du
ring tho war. His action in the case of Mr.
Davis, and his Investment of capital in tht
South, show him to be roconstruction,st o
the right sort Charleston loycary.
In western debating society, the question
| for discussion was as follows If fellow
haint nothing when hc gots married, and tht
girl haint nothing, is her things hizzcn, o
| hizzcn hern 2"