Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-08-30
From the Charlotte Democrat.
;.. GDE.i Hines OT MCcIGlenDur;s
County.

s!.e GuI,i Hines 0T MCcNIemburg
County.
Not lone since Il [ ST by assay was made
al the city Of New York Of the sulphurrtic
.olI ores taken from the Wilson Mime in
Ibis county, belonging 10 ). NJ. Townsend,
# New Haven, Which proves very cOnclu-
,Htlv the immense value Of the sulphu-
relic brown ore VEINS in the quarts fOrma-
tl5u Of Mecillcuburg county East and West
oi Charlotte.
lLr J. T. Clark, the Superintendent of
r. Wilson Mine used for some time a ten
..u:. battery, and was making out of the
.r tom lily to sixty dollars per ton,
.hiri: was considered hy everybody in the
community Il splendid yield; but from
various tests made OF the tailings from his
battery, he was satisfied that tie largest
portion Of the gold escaped, and could not
h.. collected by the ordinary process of
milling. Therefore he boxed up and sent
tp New York three OF tOuc tons of his ore
o.. *. l!ie, by fire assay. / he result OF
ms experiment proved the ore To be worth
80, peg ton, show ing very clearly that he
Lad lost $500 oilt OF every tOi, he had put
through lis mills.
Now these are facts worthy of the con-
>oieratOn Of every person now engaged or
TO may hereafter engage i'll the mining
b.. mess. Can the refractory ores Of our
..lI!lL VEINS ne assay cu W lLu SiIIllld! It
.llls on Il large scale Ii So, then there is
$50 uIiHing country il the world superior to
.,ld MletlIubnIg county, n. G. There is
40 trouble in oettiu" out the ore in large
Quantities. but we have heretofore found
l"ry great trouble in getting the gold out
OF il.
Mr. Clark. who has managed his mine
i imirabiy from the beginning, and has
taGru Il large qIliltlty ut ure from the veins
NiI.h seem iueNhaustihla, very soon dis
covered that he was not getting near all the
odd llis ore cont aimed, very properly used
r. prr"aut0il to save all the taiin@s from
lis MIL. These taiingS are now just i'll
l,robar condition to be a5sayed, and ac-
rorCily to the test above referred to there
is enough on hand at the mine to make
ll:..e sum OF money.
.'1t> Wilson Mine has been worked
.ot+r to TIE depth OF thee Hundred feet
~ IN 4nciiIled shaft, through which all the
;rr ana waste dirt from the mine IS drawn
rAilr,,,.ti hv of n inrRe n s1a'"
engine which affords ample power besides
.or milling purposes. But without stopping
10 take out the ore, except as they cut
through it with their tunnels, they have
IN pressing on, exploring the mine,
u2til they have established its permanency
L'.youd doubt. and it is now one OF the
b,sL mines in the United States.
The Mct;iuu Mine is situated on the
same side of Mccllenburg county with the
Wilson Mine, aud very near the celebrated
old Capps Mine it being one of the veins
lrl,iing from the Capps Mine. This mine
Is also in successful operation, under the
management Of Mir. Pond, an intelligent
California miu'r, who is using a stamp
.sH!. wish copper plates differently arranged
am ti',rtl. fAT pa q
soit nom anything that we ever had i'll
This county, and understand he is pro-
dlrlug wonderful results from it in the
Way of making gold, and no fnuht Will
bring about a great revolution III The
INNING Interests OF tins county.
- liz Ci.I,,.z Stinu is sill lying Idle
FRA, ti,;li miners from California and else
"nere come out here, they near OF this prop
city, 20 10 see H. walk over the hill and
s"e " hat a great amount of work has
L-ru dome there; hear from the people how
iiclI lis goli or1s are, and the large guam
lily of gold it has yielded, and see the inn
m"usr piles Of refused ore lying upon the
-U:.4,c, roi!;,.t..iug gold enough to pay for
mime twice over. They all want the
iHi;.,' ;tld talk about buy iugNt, but finally
X uut, afraid OF the cost. And thus
i:uS valuable property with its maSnlilcen1
sold veins is permitted t. lie idle from yeal
H. year, " Aile men, practical i'll other things
come here and purchase other ana ln1erlol
mines, because III y get them cheap, ant
after Working awhile fail alsd go back home
etlrsjug the = III mines i'll Moth CAROLYN;
because they ftled, as tleY wO I'D fail il
..t-y ether business " it'll the same manage
Il.rut.
IS a general thing we have had as few
ilures i'll the gold mines Of this part O
North Carolina as they have had III Cali
lornia and Colorado. Gentlemen wh'
have visited both countries say that tn
North Carolina mines in this section ar
Just as good as the Western mines, and tn
average yield of the ores richer. And tina
We have greal advantage over the Cali
tornla country IN that We can work all til
year while they can only work from Apr
to November, and we pay our hands from
seventy-tiv cents to one dollar and p hal
i.ar day. Will they pay their hands froI
three to five dollars per day, and provis
iods OF all kinds high IN prOportiOn-wOO
from fifteen to twenty dollars per cord.
RIIIION.