The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-30
THE VIRGINIA GOLD FIELDS.
Rich Developments In Fluvanna, Gooch-
land and Fauquicr Counties.


land and Fauquier Counties.
CALEDONIA. Va, March 29-Now
that spring has fairly set in mining in
the gold fields in this camp has begun
with renewed vigor. Hydraulic mining
will commence on the Collins gold mine
April Is. Machinery Is now en- route
to it, and will be in operation by con
tract on the above date. Experimental
tests show that placer works on the
Collins ''pan out" 81 to So per cubic
yard. Fifty cents to ST. is considered
very rich tout West"
Mr. j. w. Woodside, the Worlds
Fair commissioner from Philadelphia,
sunk shaft on his property last fall,
has ordered new improved mills which
Will extract ninety per cent. of the
precious metals from refractory sui
phuret ores, and this is splendid aver
age. BY the first o. July Mr. Woodside
will have two or three mills of ten
tons capacity each in full operation on
his fine gold property.
The Pryor gold property has been
sold to Williams and Shelton, OF Rich.
mond, for $4,000. 1t is nugget
mine" and nuggets worth So, $3.50 and
81. ss were found in it last week.
Thirty five dollars and as high as
02.5O nuggets have been washed up
by John Davis. Some time ago one
Tyler, colored man, turned up with
his big zoe in gully on this mine and
adjoining the fine Busbey property, a
three pound solid gold "chunk'' which
he took to Richmond and sold for S72O.
Tyler says this was the biggest turn
up" he ever had.
Free milling ore has been taken from
the Busbey vein which assayed over
81, 1000 per ton. This mine has not been
developed yet, but will be, and improved
machinery put on it before August /.
Other gold properties are about to
change hands, in which there are big
fortunes to be made. Washington par
ties have purchased an interest in the
Luce mine, but no figures are given. A
IDEAL" is about to be made of the very
rich Kelley mine
A millionaire Colorado miner and a
Belgian representative of company are
on their way to Virginia with view to
invest in gold properties in Fluvanna,
Goochland and Fauquier counties.
The Powhatan Gold Mining Company,
eighteen miles from fredericksburg, and
OF which Congressman Shonk, of Penn
sylvania, is president, are turning out
satisfactory amount of the yellow metal,
although not yet in operation three
months.
Senator Sawyer's mine has been
sold to an English company at figures
away up in the hundreds of thousands.
A piece of gold property, which the
present owner purchased as farm land
for 81, 200, is now held at $4,000. He
borrowed $4,000 on it some time ago.
Two years ago the Moss mine and a
three.ton stamp outfit were purchased
for less than $4,000 in this country.
About $500 in profits wero taken out
of it in two years work and recently it
was sold for $50, OO0
Some weeks ago 1,650 pounds Of tho
orc lying on the top of the dump from
two shafts, some fair and some indiTer-
emit, from the Hughes mine was run
through the Crawford mill and yielded
$40 in pure gold The assay called for
$4,000 per ton. Some surface ore on the
Big Gilmore mine was run through the
same mill and PANIED out Sl5.75.
Mr.. Challiere. the wealthy New York
jeweler, who purchased mine some
years ago in this country, and which he
holds at $500, 900, has sent down orders
preparatory to working it himself. and
OF which his son will be superintendent
and manager. He is man of ex-
tensive means and he will work it for
all it is worth.