Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-15
A HOME Ell DORADO.
EXTENT AND VALUE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA GOLc-FiEto.
How 10 Can BE Worked SO - 10 Render
1t the Richest Regisn On
tho GIsbe,
(corrsspondencs Of IN. Richmond pissas.a., (,
SALISBURY. y. c.. October q lsss.

(corrsspondence Of the Richmond Disssssa)
SALISBURY. y. c., october 3, lsss.
To the Editor OF the Dispatch:
| In your paper OF the 4th Instant you
| have an editorial headed Gold In AbuR-
dance" in which you comment on a gold
field. the Witwatersrand OF South Africa,
with circumference OF 400 miles. and an
area OF 70 $50 square miles. This deposit
OF eight blanket beds. s feet thick. $50
| feet deep, you say. contains lo.No,co tons
Of ore. worth $50 per ton. and would be
worth altogether $4,000. 10000. etc.
| Now. you are wrong n,5oo,Go0 tons Of
ore at $50 per ton IS sIS7iAec, and IL
that was the worth In coin OF each Of
the eight beds. the area would only ee
worth sGGO.OoOO O00.
But this IS not what I started out to
write.
This country hero also has n gold-held
worthy OF comparison with that OF tho
| Witwatersrand. u.
| Take the ten counties OF North Carolina
IN this god-bearing belt alone W. eVo
man of North Carolhla): G,ltord, ran
! dolnb Moore. Davidson. stanley. MONT
! Nfecklonburg. with an area Of about one
hundred miles hong by aoout tofN
| v-ide-sav 1000 square miles, or less taa'
! ono third OF the Witwatcrsr0nd, ana this
is the richer OF the two.
RICHNESS OF THE FIELD.
let us see about this. In comparison
with your corrected figures. There are
MT fewer than twenty-five veins In each
/ county with a run OF twenty-five mics
~, an average each. making 60 miles per
/ couuty. or s. 80 miles for the ten couh''eS'
/ with 5.2So f,et per mile. ana an "VcI"s
: thickness - three feet. Two tHVuN"',- =,
five hundred feet or depth eS.lti,',,'o ~, ,.,o ,,o
cnbic feet per ton. will make lo''Vo'VVV'VVV
/ t,,s which at $3.50 per ton. VIII equal
60, IN ooo o00 which shows that thls see
| o. b., much richer than the Witwat'l-
| er,nd field. though this field has but OH"
tritI the area Of that in Atrica.
Vow ADA twenty more counties In Norm
Carolina In which gold is found ana ,i's
would make about tho same ai'1 aS s''"'
80 Vvetw1tersrand Estimating th'Sc
twenty counties At half the value IN soIt
p.r county as the ten already hahcu "uI
~ b,ye North Carolua's possible Eolt
rrolurt Sl7JOO .OpO00 or SbN"""'o"
NOR, than the corrected figures show the
Nyitwatersraud To bc
Some inexperienced people will say tha'
this Is falItcious. will say that II lS WIN
cot reasoning. and waste oi uHc' 'U't7y
and even patience to consider H. nut
let MS 90 a uttlo further into the la'tS'
MORE FACTS.
tn bo-ln with. the best evidence Of the
resources and value of this state iS SHOWN
I'm tha t,ct that North CIroiina's miner Il
exhibit has taken the premium over an
m. States iu the Union at the Word
Columbian Exposition.
,ro show the extent of vein matter
; known To exist here, Morgan toWhs"ip'
p.,,.4n c,uutv. IA about ten miles SQUARE.
'Ther. are -n miles of measured VEN mat
tar CARRYING gold, silver. and copper III
, tb,f nr., t.vu~hip Some OF the veins are
,icntoen feet thick. aud Wortl'SD In goia
The rlg sulphur vein in the Randolph
shaft IN Gold Hill. al the depth ot ~
! feet. is fourteen feet thick. ana catrirS
/ about 81 in gold per ton There u one
- ,,.u I'm this couuty thot ha Soeen traced
4 flr several miles. uud il j. il'm ihii'y 10
> sixty feet wide. II ia worth about f'9
- rar fou in gold. and about - per cent. ~
$ conner AT "a depth of lly feet II ha"
; u.tj,e carpa~ is thirty feet wide, and h's
. 8. ,0 psr tom m gold.
Thor. are hundreds OF shafts ana Vein
J. matter ion the tom counties. showing t'"'
y m. veins are ti,r ts>ur" ones. and tlat
they widen in depth ana 10 not peter
-. out"
This and much Uore can Dee Sad oi
70 th- gold veins TIN" same area contain.
conner veins th7t carry enough ore iI
elrrlv ,he world Dor centuries ana 70
prlu-rly worked. would mah" the Lake
caurcr mines" Iwia!l" into iu-lcu'.c"n"r
i Davidson. Rowan. C1h1rrus. AMI mon
counties have hong lines - silver I"'d.
and zinc veins. SOM" uf which are W0rnri
b o. a. depth of over 600 feet and In one shait
in This county u5iiys silver Is found nc
q d.rth OF no feet iu au eisht-fOot vein
Ou. gold voin has been worked i3o feet
wide us am open cut and is worth about
$50 per ton Many others, from thi"o
10 sixty f..t wide have bon worked
, below the water level. ana found To nave
, pay ore On them. - it is r'niilF So
4 that the reasouiugs alone ar" not "lid-ct'
a and falllcious
WHY ARE THE MINES IDLE?
, Thor. are over 400 mines I'm this county
, alone. get every one Is idle Why? s.
d the very natural question. Not tna'
r there is no vein matter here, not that th'
+ veins 10 not carry enough ore, not maj
p th. ore Is not rich enough 10 be- worked
4 but that Che ores are refractory suphm'
p ores. from which the gold cannot b'
e saved as by-prOductS, ana at pIoh' an
% cess at prOht.
{ Millions Of dollars are lost thus; bu
. thgrr IS no reason why II should ne so
- The ores can be- mined at as little coa'
3 as any others la the world. The avordg.
To- ORE is as good as any elsewhere. but i
p Is refractory. Listen then. what l.
I now dormant, Improbable. and lost car
K be- made the most profitable, and 'hl'
e. country rendered the richest In the wofid
, Erect proper reduction works, and trta'
2 the ores for what they are contain. ~
- or. is not worth what 1t contains hh'
what one gets out of H. First. work M
n ores for the sulphur IN them, and rendri
- this profitable Toy sulphuric acii. apI
/ agricultural fertilizers Then the g'lI
=, silver. copper lead. and zinc they con
tain wlll Doe rendered free. and can b'
>. saved as by-products and a. profit on'
without going To Africa or anywhere else
This can be- made the FL Dorado Of MOD
eru times. and with ths precious metal
extracted at a profit. forever settle ne
moncrnealMc and bimetallic nnancid
q question.
W.. have the richest country IN th'
world. II wc only take advantage OF 0p
~ portunities. }. }. NEWMAN, NJ. L.