The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-13

exhausted, according to popular belief.
more than twenty years ago. I have
found, IN this soil, more gold to the ton
Of earth, than was originally taken from
the mine. This precious treasure has
been basking IN the sunlight, and when
some untutored eye discovers It, he is at
once confirmed in the astounding theory
that the gold is actually grolOiag in the
soil Eagerness for large returns !;
defective machinery, and ignorance of
proper methods of extracting the last
particle of metal, have combined to
produce these results. Now, I have
long believed, and am. sanguine of
| speedy demonstration Of my opinion,
that the time is coming. when the yield
of gold in the mineral region Of Georgia
and Alabama, viii be a more reliable,
and a more nensssnerative crop than that
of cotton ever has been in this country,
or ever can be. I am acquainted with a
locality in q neighboring State, where a
ledge of gold-bearing quartz extends
for nearly mile in length, varying In
width from seven to fourteen feet. AIais
rock is permeated by auriferous pyrites,
which, on the surface, In the process of
ages, has shared the fate of the enfoIding
rock-decompOsition. The quartz has
become quite soft, and the pyrites
assums the greenish color from oxyda-
lion.
Now. by a very simple process
merely grinding the rock, washing,
arnalgamating with quicksilver, and
the sublimating the mercury in a bent
glass tube, I found residue of gold,
amounting to about 80 cents to the
bushel Of rock. Now this rock forma-
ton IS not scattered, casual heap, but
IS the out-crop of vein, pyramidal in
form, with the base extending into the
earth to an unknown depth. The owner
Of this property delves away on few
poor hill, making scanty subsistence,
when almost in sight of his log hut is a
treasure that would buy the largest
cotton crop his State ever has made
Now here is room for enterprise and
industrious application, with the posi-
tive certainty Of results, for it is well
known to practical miners that this
species of rock is so regular, that a few
samples collected from various points in
the Sein, will yield an average which
can be more certainly predicted than
the outcome of any field of matured
grain. Given product of a dozen
bushels and you know the product Of all
that is to come.
In the same State there is q region
nearly twenty miles square, whose soil
is permeated with fine gold in almost
every foot. True, we have to invent
means to make these disseminated
treasures available, but in particular
locations in this tract of country there
are evidences of special Iodes. and
auriferous rocks, which would richly
repay careful working and intelligent
management.
am no enthusiast, nor would TEMPT
any man to expect return of FIVE
hundred per cent. per month, or per
annum, for his money invested. But
cannot but lament the supineness of
our people, who suffer our rich treasures
to lie waste until the eyes of strangers
eagerly discover them, the hands Of
strangers gather them, and the pockets
OF strangers receive them, whilst
our Ignorance of their existence and of
their value, renders US justly subject to
the joers and radicule of those who love
us not. Shall we ever wake up from
| this slumber of ages?
Seven years ago, I endeavored to
enlist the attention of few capitalists
n Alabama to the fact that there were
unmistakable evidences of Petroleum
in the coal region of that State. They
thought my reasoning very plausible.
but they did nothing. There were
points at which there was moral certainty
OF success rewarding the outlay of
few weeks experiment. Recently, some
of these gentlemen have invested in
100000 companies now diligently
boring for OIL Unhappily, some of
them, fear, viii fail. They have fol-
lowed the lead of pseudo practical men.
who have paid little attention to topo-
graphy to the classification If rocks. or
the position and form of the coal
! deposits, and hence are burning day-
light and wasting money.