Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-15

tiaV produced this valuable specimen
should be examined; the rocks should
be tested, and it may be that you have
a Sarer treasure, a more certain source
Of wealth than You suppose. But do
not be extravagant. Don't expect to
make 800 per day to the hand. Come
down to two, three or five dollars per
day profit, and measure your outlay and
your income accordingly"
| have been forcibly impressed with
these facts, on making a brief examina-
lion and test Of the earth thrown out of
miucs in this State, which have been
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 nntntored eye discovers it, he is at
once confirmed in the aStounding theory
that the gold is actually growiag in the
soil! Eagerness for large returns :
detective machinery, and ignorance Of
proper methods of extracting the last
particle of metal, have combined TO
produce these results. Now. l have
'ong believed, and am ~sanguine If a
speedy demonstration Of my opinion,
that the time is coming, when the Weld
of gold a the mineral region of Georgia
ana Alabama, will be a more reliable.
ana . more feBIHneratire crop than that
OF cotton ever has been in this country,
WI ever can be. | am acquainted with 4
locality III a ucishborng State, where Il
ledge OF collaborating quartz extends
lor nearly a mile in length, varying in
width from seven to fourteen feet. This
rock Is permeated by auriferous pyrites.
winch, on the surface, in the process of
ages, has shared the fate of the enfoldjno
rock-decompositior. The quartz has
become quite soft, and the pyrites
assams tine greeoish color from oxyda.
ton.
NOW. by Il very simple process
morrty grinding ao rock, washing,
omaigama,ins mh quicksilver, and
the *ab.mating the mercury in a bent
g.a -,ha, L found Il residue of gold
amounting 10 about 80 cents to tbe
oaoheI OF rock, Now this rock formo.
tlol Is not Il scattered, casual heap, but
IS The oat-crop of a vein, pyramidal in
form, with the base extending into tbe
e'fth to az unknown depth. The owner
OF TINS property delyes away on a few
poor hill, making a scanty subsistence.
'"eh almosoln sight of his log hut is a
treasure chat would buy the largest
cotton crop his State ever has made
NO" here IS room for enterprise and
industrious application, with the posi-
ave ''i waty oi results, for it is well
Known to practical miners that this
species OF rock is 50 regular, that q few
samples collected from various points in
the vein, will yield an average which
can be more certainly predicted than
Inc outcome OF any field of matured
GRAM Given product of a dozen
bushels and you know the product of ali
that is to come.
In the same State there is a 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 lodes. and
aa1terous rocks, which would richly
repay careful working and INTELLIGENT
management.
l am no enthusiast, nor would Itemnt
any man to aspect a return of five
hundred per cent. per month, or per
annum, tor his money invested, BntI
b1t lament the supinencss of
our people, who suffer our r~ichtreasures
to lie waste until the eyes of strangers
eagerly discover them, the hands Of
strangers gather them, and the pockets
81 strangers receive them, whilst
our Ignorance of their existence and OF
thelr value, renders us justly subject to
Jeers and radicule of those who love
us not. Shall we ever wake ND from
This slumber Of ages?
Seven years ago, I endeayored to
Enlist the attention of a few Capitalists
n Alabama to the fact that there were
lnmistakable evidences of Petyolcum
n the coal region of hat State. They
4ouGht my reasoning very plausible
they did nothing. There were
POINTS at which there was moral certainty
u success r~ewarding the outlay of a
weeks experiment. Recently, some
II these gentlemen have invested in
100000 companies now diligently
for oil. Unhappily, some of
hem, | fear, will fail. They have fol {
owed TIE lead of pseudo practical men.
gho have paid little attention to topo- ]
to the classification of rocks, or {
he position and form of the coal I
and hence are burning day. I
light and wasting money. {
| may return Mr. Editor, in another c
rticle or two, to this subject, if YOU t
egard these thoughts worthy the atten. c
ion of your readers. S
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