National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-16
a CLEAN OF HOPE FOR SOUTH CARO-.
LIMA

In the midst Of the present political COM
plications, which every sensible and patri-
otic man in the country should regret, no
matter what may be his party sympathies,
and when every consideration of public
policy should animate all in an honest en-
deavor TO promote the general veal it is
pleasant to know that there are portions of
the South in which mems minds are, and
should be, directed TO that improvement
and development of the national interests Of
that country, which once attained will 60
far TO divert the thoughts and actions of
that people from matters Of purely political
concern, and cause them TO realize the adj
vantage and necessity of practicing less
cussedness and more enterprise and in
dustry.
We are glad to see such evidences in sew
eral Southern States, and particularly so in
South Carolina, for while we hold the pecu-
liar politics of that State in honest abhor-
renee, we do most sincerely desire to see it
recover from its present depression. We
honestly believe that restored material pros
perity would do more than any political
condition to reconcile it TO the Union, to
make il feel kindly TO its icllow-States and
to convince it how inextricably its own Sc
curity and its own fortunes are bound up
with those of the whole country.
The mineral wealth of the Southern
States, especially Of those portions which
lie along the spurs of the Allegheny, has
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Governor DRAYTON, Of South Carolina,
called attention 10 some special develop
ments of it. Since then various experiments
| have been made with much success in Ches-
! terficld, Union and Abbeville counties, in
that State, and there are at present well
known and well-deyoloped mines, which have
yielded reasonable profit, even under un-
sltillfn and unscientilic worlSingin PicSens
OcOnee, Spartanburg, and Kcrshaw counties
One striking feature in all these mines is the
unusual richness of the ores, even where the
quantity OF rock excavated has been large
leading TO the inevitable conclusion that
with experienced and skilllul labor the
yield of the rocl, would be greatly increased
For example, in the well-knOwn "Dorn
Mine in Abbcvillc County, 100000 wa
taken out of an excavation 300 feet long
12 feet deep, - feet wide, and mt all expens,
of only 81 POO No portion Of the famous
CoMsroCK lode can furnish u parallel to thi!
product. In Norris Mine, UnioI
County, 5000 pennyweights of golc
were taken from eleven bushels o
decomposed ierruginous matter, Wha
discoveries in Leadyille OF Arizona are 50 in
yiting to the prospector and the capitalist
As far back as 1913 over 200 people wer,
employed in the gravel deposits around the
BREWER Mine, in Chesterfield County, with
out working at all on the vein, which is o
immense thickness Aud even with tn,
rude and imperfect implements of labor thel
in use good wages were realized, Nor
recently much interest has been aroused
and attention directed TO mines in Ozone
County, now being worked by Mr. JOHN II
COCHRAN. Fine ledges have been traced
aud rock extracted Of great richness, justify
ing large expenditures aud ere long tn
erection Of the necessary machinery for sue
cessful operations
Once more we earnestly urge our South
EN- friends 10 90 10 work, develop your in