The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-24

Bullock must have made a profit OF
more than 800, 900. A large stream
engine was sent with the mills to the
shutord mine. Though this mine was
situated in the woods, and though
| North Carolina was known 70 send
much building timber TO New York.
vet the engineer resolved not TO have
anv inferior work disfguriug og its
vicinity the magnificent goiG mining
establishment he WAS setting up. cans
ed a house TO be framed III New lork
under his own eye and had rs parts
sent by ship to Norfolk, thence hy raIi-
road TO the upper part OF North Car"
lima. thence hauled In wagons nut y
the mine. and there put together again.
After an expenditure of $1O.ODO the
mine was pat into operation on a grand
scale. The Bullock mills did not give
fifty cents TO the ton OF carth thrown
into them, most Of the gold csc ping
with the muddy water. II 'ideTs OF
certain unsettled claims against the
establishment afterwar4 sought 10 self
the mills as old iron, but with little
success.
1t Is EOl LCCtSSllN " - -
tail the Chicago hot-bed process, which
failed as sIgLaliy In North Carolina as
it had done IN the Western mines, or
that other plan, invented In the same
enterprising city, which was tried III
Cabarrus county. BY it the ore, after
being pulverized and tortured Ia sew
eral Ingenious ways. was blown throu. b
pipes from room to room, and famed
both up and down stairs, to make i
give up its precious material. BAT the
ore showed itself as Itsoiute against
the attack Of Eohus Us did Esop :
traveller.
One potent CAUSE of the failure OF
Northern men to find profits in South
ern mining has been the iucomrctency
of those employed by them to na e
the examinations OF the mln's. IN
some early instances men vino had been
sellers IF whiskey in California were
trusted as skiltful mialug engineers,
and their reports We're accepted VII
iull confidence.
Sometimes the agent sent from tht
North, on ascertaining that the Owner
would not pay him secretly for 4 favor
able report, after looking around for a
few days would find some mine which
was rated low because it had never paid
a profit. From its owner he would
sometimes obtain W contracts, one
providing that the owner should rcce Ne
80. 600 for the mine, and the second
that he should receive $40, 900 or $l5,
900. Then he would settle with the
owner ON the former basis, aud receive
from his principals in the North the
SO, 600 or $4,000, pocketlng the dill
ference. OF course he would represent
To his principals that he had Int upon
a neighboring mine much richer than
the one he had been sent to exaaalnc.
If there was a hitch be could usually
make a secret arrangement with som,
one who appeared to be di>iutcTcsted 10
examine and report that he "ouid bc
willing to put in his own m.54cy. Ii
the event Of the purchase, he aud thi>
agent would divide the profits. Several
worthless mines were bought in tn 5
way by Northern companies, who, b.
paying a reasonable price, might hay,
acquired good mines. 1t seems never
to have occurred to them that a cheap,
non-paying gold mine Is d very bad
CICDIIGlI W oNu. LII vi " INNNs 1
where Northerners succeeded N getting
hold of a good mine, the failing on,
among themselves have retarded it,
successful working. One of the best
mines has for years been purposely kept
in a non paying condition by some OF
the wealthier partners, who wished to
obtain all the stock by freezing out their
poorer associates.
If these failures were more signal
than the experiments of Northerners IN
cotton growing Immediately after the
close of the war, it is because success
tut mining requires more skill and ex-
p~er;ence than successful planting.
There is no reason to doubt that a mum
Der Of our Southern mines would pay
fairly if we'll managed with as much
skill as is required for prosperous mer-
camille or manufacturing enterprises.
L. l.. CLINGMAN.