The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-07


should be examined the rocks should
be tested, and it may be that you have
a sltrer 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.
I have been forcibly impressed with T!
these facts, on making brief examine
zion and test Of the earth thrown out of
mines in this State, which have been
exhausted, according to popular belief,
more than twenty years ago. have
found, in this soil, more gold to the ton
Of earth, than was originally taken from
the mine. This precious treasure has
been basISing in the sunlight, and when
some untutOred eye discovers it, he is at
once confirmed In the astounding theory
that the gold is actually grOt0i1lg 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, aud am sanguine Of a
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 7-eU1at11eratiUe crop than that
of cotton ever has been IN this country,
or ever can be. [ am acquainted with
locality IN a neighbOring State, where a
ledge Of gold-bearing quartz extends
for nearly mile in length, varying in
width from seven to fourteen feet. This
rock is permeated by auriferous pyrites,
which, on the surface, in the process of
ages, has shared the fate of the enfoIding
rOck-decompositior. The quartz has
become quite soft, and the pyrites
assums the greemsh color from oxyda-
ton.
Now. by n very simple process
merely grinding ne rock, washing,
amalgamating with quicksilver, and
the snblimating the mercury in bent
glass tube, I found a residue OF gold,
amounting 10 about 80 cents to the
bushel Of rock. Now this rock forma-
ton is not Il 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 almosti in sight of his log hut is &
treasure that would buy the largest
cotton crop his State ever has made
Now here is room for enterprise anC
industrious application, with the posi-
tive csrte nty of results, for it is vel
known to practical miners that thi.
species of rock is 80 regular, that a few
samples collected from various points il
the vein, will yield an average which
can be more certainly predicted thar
the outcome of any field of matureC
grain. Given product of a dozel
bushels and you know the product of al
that is to come.
In the same State there is a region
nearly twenty miles square, whose sol
IS permeated with fine gold in almos
every foot. True, we have to inven
means to make these disseminated
treasures available, but in particula,
locations in this tract of country Their,
are evidences of special Iodes, ant
q auriferous rocks, which would richI,
{ repay careful working and intelligent
management
2 l am nosenthusiast, nor would Temp
any man to expect a return of five
hundred per cent. per month, or pei
] annum, for his money invested But
cannot but lament the supineness O
a our people, who suffer our rich treasures
| to lie waste until the eyes of stranger
e eagerly discover them, the hands o
D strangers gather them, and the pocket
e of strangers receive them, willis
q our ignorance of their existence and o
j. their value, renders us Justly subject t,
T the jeers and radicuIe of those who low,
us not. Shall we ever wake up from
o this slumber of ages?
b Seven years ago, I endeavored t,
d enlist the attention of few capitalist
IS | II -1ldDILlid 10 tIl6 IdCG LItlG there WeF
. upmistakable evidences of PetroLcqz,
T in the coal region of that State. The,
b thought my reasoning very plausible
5 but they did nothing. There wer
q points at which there was moral certaint,
q Of success rewarding the outlay of
a few weeks experiment. Recently, som
s. of these gentlemen have invested il
3, 100000 companies now diligentl,
70 boring for oil. Unhappily, some o
G them, I fear, will fail. They have fol
e lowed the lead of pseudo practical men
e who have paid little attention to topo
d graphy to the classification of rocks, O.
d the position and form of the Goa
e deposits, and hence are burning day
y light and wasting money.
may return Mr.. Editor, in another
y article or two, to this subject, if YOU
u regard these thoughts worthy the atten
G tion of your readers.
CHARITY.
s In the practice of this virtue exist
d ! one of the easiest duties TO perfOrr,