New-York tribune., 1871-07-12
THROUGH THE SOUTH.
MINES AND RAILROADS OF NORTH CARO-.

SALISBURY, AZ. g., June 2j.-Tbis ,lace will
IVe III history as the site Of the prison ,vbe,a 40 NAM
"or'nerh men and Southern Unioni,ts were .o,anod
""eie 10 many died' and whence A. d. Rlcb,rdson and
,'oSpe" Not ayestige OF the old prison.
! pen REMAINS ana a luxuriant growth ~ COZ, -
| the greater part OF It's site. Thi. !. a. ' ''0
! founded long before the Revolution and T,r ,'
lOtte and Uilisboro' boasts OF a b. %
standing, which was occupied by corn,..""
left the cars here 70 visit the gold mining region 81 ,
State This place the of the mining ~
tion, but the chief mining interests are at CharIo,
slightly irregular line running from Weldon, O. y.
Columbia, :. G., will throw westward Of IL al the min
eral wealth Of the State There /, not county west of
that line In which gold been found md In most
OF the counties mines exist which have yielded the pre-
clous metal in large quantities. and , pay handsOms
profits to parties working in a busines-ilo manner
Previous TO the discovery OF California more than two
thirds Of the gold Of the United states was obtained from
North Carolina, and mine alone has yielded
sjo0o,o0o. This il ns gnincsnt beside
yer lode or California paoer, but II great In its day
Taking buggy this place with fat little
darkey for driver commenced tour Of the adjacent
mining region. My seepyeyed darkey belied his looks.
| for he alernaed between little catnap, and sharp
applications OF the whip his nag. and was withal
about rapid and vigorous driver would caro-
to travel with 1t than probable that the Gauss
OF this revealed in occasional exclamation Of
Gwine give that quarter when yon es thro'
| trips you bossP At any rate, Ee slumbcred and
whipped until we reached Gold HILL The mines az hi,
point have been worked In all sorts OF wayswOrked
minerals worked for sale. worked for stock oper
ations The for miles has been pierced with
holes, while the immediate hills immense piles
debris, which yield as much gold originally
taken from the The works carried on by
Mr. Howes Of New York private business operation
consequently he Is making money Then lac car
ries on his underground works by cooperation. lie
gives his miners percentage Of all he gets tho
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mines, but does well here. The deep shaft, called
Barnhardt found full water, but the miners
a shaft about 800 yards to the north They
getting handsome from hard s.ate. worth about
$40 tun Of which about s6 per tun ia saved The dim
Guilty lies the large amount of suphuret OF iron and
the small grain of the gold The machinery used is tho
Blake crusher Chilian mill, and Burke rocker No new
fashioned machinery has ever been OF value Roasting
might be OF use but 1t has not been trs From 0) 10
1900 pennyweights per week OF gold have been extracted
and expenses about 1900 Nr. Howes says he knows
Gold Hill, that he lost money there before the war;
and no one can induce him 10 try fancy NewYOrk ma
chinery. inclined TO think much of his success Is
due the cooperative idea, 1t makes every miner
sort Of proprietor and prevents the practice of stealing
nuggets, formerly very common
This mine and its immediate neghborhood by ths
present slow mode is producing something over 5000
ner veor No man has ever failed TO make money
who worked the mine business, and with the simple
machinery above mentioned. On the other hand hardly
a single Wall-st company has ever made any money
from the mines true OF every other In ths
State. A gentleman told that he sold a mine
Northern company for $1,000 cash and $4,000 bond
aud mortgage. They tore out his old machinery ami put
in $4,000 worth OF cTushers, concentrc;Ors &C. Tney
did not get OF gold per un surrendered the prop
ery TO him. He sold their machinery for old iron, put
| in Gillian mills and Burke rockers, worked the mine IN
small, quiet way, and 1t yielding him a pront OF
about $40 per day. South of Gold Hill, in the Counties
Cabarrus, Meckenburg Union, and stany have been
valuable gold mines, and few are stRl worked Near
Charlotte, the stephen Wilson mine yields ABOUT No0
per week of quartz ore which Is crushed by stamps
In Montgomery County, IS miles east Of Gold Hill.
are placer mines and two good slate and quartz
lodes The copper amalgamating plate is used. Mr.
Howes intends to try it at Gold HILL The Hon j. T.
Cowes Assay superintendent at Charlotte, states tho
present yield of the gold of the Stale to be about
s5OOOOO per annum North of Gold IIll in Davidson
County is the Conrad Hill gold mine, said TO DO a very
valuable property; but it has been in the courts for tho
last years The yen-stOne is quartz Near II Is Slver/
HILL at one time the noted mine In America, II hav-
ing furnished specimens of carb0nates and phosphate OF
lead of most superb character numbers OF EiropeaD
cabinets found the surface and II also
yielded large quantities Of gold and native silver Az
about to became a fine, crystalline argen
terOus gaena heavily impregnated with suphuret o'
zine 1t worked to depth Of 700 feet and the ore
is carried to NewYOrk to make white paint called Zinc
lead The Superintendent, Capt. Johneon told mo the
ore still yielded from s5 $40 Of gold and silver TO tho
tun but that no effort was made TO it, The mine
was worked lead by the Rebels during the war The
Superintendent told he sending of 10 tuns per
day. and paying about $500 per week for labor One
of the country said it kept the county up and
he wished few mines would be started He inade
5000 per year hauling and also carried on one OF the
| neatest farms have
East OF silver Hill a copper mlne is worked on
small SCALE and in Randolph County de three four
placer mines On Deep River, in this county founds
former correspondent of TIE TRIBUNE hammerng outs
superior quality Of iron from Of the ia tho
world He jolly. and oodhumored, and as rough
as Western pioneer. In his vicinity I'VE fao
tories-small affairs, but very profitable. North Of Ran
dolph in GulOrd County, once the most extensive
mining sections of the state There dozens Of gold
mines represented to be in the county, which only
exist on paper in New-York They yielded gold very
well near the surface but a little lower down they be
came copper mines For procuring "copper" several OF
these mines valuable-that Il, Saey would be
there were any sale for owgrade sulphurets The oar
ner and Gardiner mines the only at work fhe
section we travelled through has iron or every grauo anu
character there also zine in abundance lead shu ~
yer copper gold, soapstone, tale fedspar kaoln OF 'u
nerb oualty water-power almost unlimited and 'astun
touched forests OF oak, hickory, and some walnut u0
South of this section the coal fields OF Deep h'
where work is just commencing; notth OF IL "io -
coal fields OF Dan River. where work has ever 00
done. This section ships more than 5000" "O''
OF dried fruit and furnishes Rusiia with sAhan
dies Westward runs the Western North Carolina hAi
road intended pierce the Blue Ridge hnd form CON
necton at Chattanooga with the great Southern system
of railroads and the Southern Pacific Railroad For the
completion of this road more than sOO0O0O OF spech
Tax Bonds were appropriated by the state IL Is well
known they were used for this purpose 1t Is now
stated that the road is pass into the hands OF tho
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company. Ihey
intend to complete it TO Asheylle, thence norlh
ward TO Cumberland Gap, and also "e't"Au
II IN he will perseYtfr ."