The Benton weekly record., 1882-12-21
MAJOR MO0RE's DISCOVERY
How One of Gov. Joe7B3r0xgxaes Miners
Became the Richest NzaRR I'm the
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Became the Richest MaRR I'm the
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ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 25.-The admins
tration Of Gov. Colquitt closed with al act
characteristic Of Georgia. A few minutes
before Gov. Stephens Inauguration Major
A. II. Moore Of Forsyth county, Ca, Wis
tied Gov. Colq,litt, in company with an
English mining expert, to secure the
| Governors signature to deed from Major
A. Fl. Moore to q syndicate Of English
capitalists OF four hundred acres Of land
lying in Forsyth county, Ga, guaranteed
to contain gold mine. TIie consideration
was 81 ,000, 200, or $5.0O0,0O0.
Major Moore was a Confederate soldier,
and during the campaign in north Georgia
studied the gold fields more intently than
ssratagems Of war. He knew something
of metallurgy and gold mining, and be-
came satisfied that these gold fields were
the richest in the United States. After
the war he became an expert III the me-
tallurgy Of geld ores at Jersey City, and
returned to investigate the fields of north
Georgia. He found the ores the richest
he had ever known, but so impregnated
with sulphur as to be impracticable for
mining. He spent $40 900 experimenting
in mining Oh the Chattahoochee River.
Becoming discouraged with the methods
of mining used, he ceased his work, and
bought options in land containing gold,
desulphurize the gold ore. About this
time he met All inventor MIR. ). w. Bull
| lock who, like himself, had lost his all in
exDerimcnt8 and inventions. 4 "lelIOW
feeling'' drew the two eNpermenters to-
gether, and they agreed to unite their
means and interest in discovering some
means to desulphulize the rich Georgia
ores They spent long years Of toll and
/ SO 900, and had just succeeded in pro-
cess which put the mines Major Moore
owned on paying basis, when Mr.. Bull
lock. the chief oxperimenter died. Half
the time Major Moore was bankrupt, but
held on to a few mines and bought options
on other lands, often however, being COM
PEELED to sell a mine to continue opera
tions. After Mr. BulIocks S death Major
Moore ass sociated himself with DR.. Fred
erick Charles q graduate Of college OF
mining engineers in Bavaria. Like Major
Moore. he had come to the South during
/ I J.oI f,,I1 - hor
minerals, especially her gold ores, and had
foI years been experimenting in mining
in North Carolina and Georgia. Major
Moore gave him the results Of Mr.. Bull
locks experiments in desulphuriztng gold
ore. and in a short time the German had
discovered process, by means Of electric
/ itv and silver cloths, Of desulphurizing
gold ores to a fine assay. The process
was Immediately patented, and Major
Moore begsn its use ii the McDonough
and Franklin mines, owned by PhiladeI-
phia capitalists and Major Moore. The
value of these mines has increased i'm
mensely since the Charles process has
been applied. Beforezthey were estimated
at half Il million, and now st $10,00O,0OO,
and no stock for sale. This Charles pro-
cess has been tried only about eight
months, and III the spring Of this year
Major Moore met an Englishman, a Mr..
Butterfeld, III New York, who was seek
ing investment in gold mines in this coun-
try for a syndicate Of his count1ymen.
The result of the meeting was that the
Englishmen became so well satisfied with
the prospect that his company have now
signed the agreement mentioned above.
Major Moore is now the richest man in
the South, for, besides this English money,
paid III S., 600 bank notes, he owns inter
ests in many other mines, which hespro-
poses to deyelope by the Charles process.
Major Moore once worked in a coal mine
owned by Senator Joe Brown. Now he
can buy out the Senator several times over.
He proposes to make Georgia and Atlanta
his home, and to further develop the min
eral resources of Georgia. lie says there
are millions in the marble quarries OF
GlChellS alI JlltI5I COutitlGs, RI OllS
mine now worked by Major Moore the
dam has been built Of gold-bearing roch
ore because no other Kind could be found
+, and Major Moore and the English exper1
say the supply is inexbaustible. At one
opening alone there is exposed 4 ,000,O0(
tons Of ore. This ore, even by the ole
process, is valued at $40 q ton. All o
north Georgia is literally q vast gold field
only waiting the Charles process Of de
sulphurizing the ores to pour its colder
T streams in plenty over our old red hills.
who Is Maria?
.sWhois Maria:' was the question tina
; startled Mr.. Brown (who talks in hi