Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-23
GOLD FIELDS OF GEORGIA.
fhe AuriferOus Regions Around
the Chestatee and 5hatia-
IioOchee Rivers.
From the Boston Advertiser.l

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fFrom the Boston Advertiser.l
The following, taken from a letter
just received in this city from The gold
tields-of Georgia, written by the cele-
brated ,nllneralogist, Dr. f. II. Ste
phenson, former Assayer to the United
States Mint, will be read with interest ::
"The Chestatoe River rises in the
Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, III
Lumpkin County, and flows south
ward through one oi the most picIur-
esque and charming countries III Amer
lea, and fails into the Ciattahoochee
River, in Hall County; then sweeps
onw ard to the Gulf ot Mexico. The
Chattanoochee is so called, in the
Cherokee language, from rubies being
found in its sands. 1t has become his
| torical as being the western base of De
Soto's conquering march through the
Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee Ma
tions of Indians. Ali along this route,
1 from St. Augustine in Florida TO the
! Nacoochee Valley, are found numerous
relics of his fortifications, has battles,
and explorations for gold, the last be-
ing his chief object.
"The Chestatee, as well as the Chat
tahoochee, traverses the gold belt for a
distance of twenty or thirty miles,
mostly at right angles to the strata OF
trend of the gold veins, which necessa-
riIy has produced rich and extensive
deposits in the creeks and river beds,
as well as places on the table lands and
/ hilJsides. The CheStatee from its mouth
ktu the junction with the Tesnatee above
| Dahlouega IS vastly rich, but has no!
been worked, excepting the shoals,
which yielded large profits to the ., er-
ator. Several companies have been
organized heretofore To turn the river
by canals, and one by a wooden ttunie
Tor some ten or twenty miles, but the
war prevented successful develop,
nient OF their plans. Two companies
are now engaged in preparations tc
work the river bed, one from Ohio
under the control of Colonel Price, who
Y &hQ is cutting a canal and tunneline
a2h a ,fidgeso lar as to bare and
AHabte three miles of gold de.
tn, nas Is ns%r y us m0uth
make ava. b9 :. F." Bart:
posits. This ca. ehgt29seo e;
The other is controlIe.. afe
lett, OF Boston, who has ..f
nearly ten miles of the river. Bol.
practical men, and have not only the +
-apital, but the skill and deterInina-
ION OF purpose to carry it out to COM
Dietlon. All the workings, in wears
gone by, in the shoal water, Welded
rom one to ten dollars per square
'ard, which, if properly worked. with
,nergy, as the above parties indicate
will give millions annually to the cur,
ency of the country.
1.-The vast mineral wealth of tb;S
egion, heretofore scarcely known, is
to be appreciated. Capital I
M II enterprise from the North and
vest are coming in, people of the {
tale are excited, and already, on every &
ana, evidence is increasing of the [
of gold mining, which
lds lair 10 excel the most fiattering :
reductions Oi California. Another t
oinpany from Ohio, under the SUPER c
islon OF Col. Hand, of Cleveland. is f
repairing TO work the extensive placers
lntrOiled by the charter of the old
Yahoola Mining Company, around Il
ahlonega, upon the canals and mills +
which the former company expend- 4
1 nearly half million dollars. When
le rich and extensive gold field is put
1der the hydraulic process, the Weld
III beenormOus; and the same process
Ill expose hundreds CT rich yeina
hlch have now no Outcrop. OF their
ccess no practical minor kere has any
'ubt. The capital necessary to work a.
any OF the most favorable sections of n
c river will be comparatively small. y
a many veins found without any ex- !,
nse. 1t was thus with the celebrated VI
5oly-Fielus vein," which is now be- II
developed by MIR. Bartlett, of ~ ~
,ston. tr
This vein is the hornblendic sneiss, W "
d wien first opened yielded the "a "a
hest ore ever worked i'm the world. ", ~,
mnstsingular characteristics are that
IS In the oldest formation, and dis ~
owes the absurd theory of Lord =
lrchIs0n, Lyell, Dana, and other au- " "
)rS-viz., that gold Was brought to ~: 10
surface only a short period before sMIl M
appearance OF man on earth. We W.
We two other mines which prove the 90
ne, one where the gold is diffused an
'ough the Oldest granite in paying ma ma
antilles for miles, and the other in eN
ispar over hundred miles from any yo
arlying rock containing organic re- I'M III.
ins, proving this mountain-range to eal sul
millions of years older than the i lol
cky Mountain chain, the Alps, the pc
DIES, or Himalaya, where you find .u.PP
yetable and animal organisms from -; Il
)vO to $1,000 feet above the sea, in WI
everything rocks on the mountain .', io
rs, incontrovertibiy proving that l iei
y were elevated above the sea in the no no
'tidry period, whilst ttheAppalachian m m.nt
i'm was upheaved in the Azoic age. Pc.
All we need here Is capital and en- o'e
prise to develop millions, at one
I the expense of working the mines
the Pacific coast, Central and South of
ierica, or Australia. Hundreds of for
l veins have been worked to the hat
Ter level and abandoned long since lea
want of capital" ed
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he Postmaster at Oberlin has been ma
,cted by ballot. fan