The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-04-10

! Chicago Virginia Coal Mini g COM
pany in Orange county, Virginia
reports gold bearing quartz found IN
three separate strata, and is conn
dent the belt will yield from 500 10
$3.50 per ton. The company has q
capital stock of 100000. The Poca-
hontas Gold Mining Company OF
Spottsylvania county, Virginia, ON
the same belt has capital stock OF
81 100000. These companies are
only working SO far the true assure
veins, and have not sought for the
rich threads or spurs which must ex-
list. Silver, lead, copper and zinc,
have been found in many places
throughout these mountains, but in
what paying quantities has not yet
been demonstrated.
A few miles south of Mason and
Dixon's line in N. w. Maryland is
situated the newly discovered silver
district, where the Savage river
fiercely bursts through the noun
tains, in wild force. II seems rich
silver treasure has slept for centuries
from mans grasping power. Over
its rock battling foam crested waves
the mighty hills seem to have re-
coiled by some great force, and with
out any slope stand with sharp sides
to the river. The lone depths of
~<nese wild hills are now filled with
an anxious throng of treasure seek.
ers, and hanging on these sharp hill
fronts and up to their very wood
crested SUBMITS may be seen scores
OF human forms in quest of the
rock imprisoned wealth of legend
dim and tradition remote.
In the morning dawn of creation
when the dim outlines of the world
was merging from chaos and cOnfu-
sion, the Allegheny mountains were
hurled up by volcanic force from
heated depths "a frozen wave of
fiie," but human speculation could
not tell, till scientific investigation
reveals how many veins of precious
metals were thrown up by the heart
throbs of earthquake shock. VIM.
Hackett and Joseph M. Cogan we're
soldiers together, and after the war
went to Colorado and mined silver.
They came back and were engineer s
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Hearing the usual story of a lead
mine regularly related, they went
up the Savage river prospecting. ana
located from favorable indications
the site of their present location on
the mouth of run, in the heart of
the Savage mountains, emptying in
to Savage river. The vein of silver
ore is six feet wide on which they
are sinking shafts. The first assay
was $50 to the ton, the last was Sl25
to the ton. and the vein growing
richer. They bought 100 acres for
$500 before revealing their discovery
of silver ore mixed with lead.
The Merrill, Sunrise and Duck
worth mines have since been opened,
and are i'll operation excitement
high and land held at fabulous
prices.
j. S. Jamison has ordered crush
err and all the machinery necessary
FIR working the ore. Lead and zinc
ores impregnated with silver have
been found at GAINESVILLE, in Preston
county, w. Va, only fifteen miles
from the Fayette county line.
Copper ore has been discovered in
West Virginia, within ten miles OF
the Fayette county border. The
GAINESVILLE lead and zine ores re-
semble the Lowe ore above Hayden.
town in Fayette county, Pa. The
GAINESVILLE zinc has less limestone
but of finer quality than the Lowe
zinc; no aluminium, but tracings of
copper with zinc about the same as
the Lowe, and better percentage OF
silver.
Farmers should beware of specu-
lators leasing lands and know what
they are signing.