Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-28

| him to tell the world, through the Age | Herald, of his discoveries. The judge has | gone over every foot of the Appalachian. | gold belt, and owns some valuable prop | erty in that section.
 | Judge" queried the reporter, "have | you made any new discoveries in the matter of Alabama gold since 1885. the date of your letter to the Times Democrat?"
 Yes; on my return to the west the inn pression made on my mind haunted me. and when the Chicago exposition closed l came back to Alabama, since which time l have been prospecting in the min eral zone of which I wrote in 1885.
 At the exposition l found a great ad- vance had been made in gold mining machinery, and that a process had been discovered peculiarly adapted to the treatment of the sulphurated gold ores of Alabama. There are gold bearing micaceous and graphite schists, almost lmitless in volume, which permeate the metamorphfc zone, extending through Alabama, Georgia and western North Carolina. At the water level these and all other gold bearing veins change from free and oxidized gold ores to gold sul- phurates-that is. gold, iron and sulphur Tn union In the main they are low grade ores, carrying from S4 to S6 from wall to wall, but almost limitless in quantity
 Here and there. however, as at Arba- cooehee or Turkey Heaven gold nuggets yielding from $5 to $10,000 have been found. These finds have been almost simultaneous with similar finds in Georgia and North Carolina.
 Tn a letter written two weeks ago to the Manufacturers Record, MT J. J. Newman, mining engineer of Salisbury, says that numerous fields of largs gold nuggets have been found during the past year in the Ingraham mine in Stanley county, North Carolina, but that being conservative people, the managers of the mine have kept their discoveries to them selves Recently, however. the finds nave been so great that it was imposs- ble to keep them secret. and it is known that at least twenty-five pounds of gold, mostly in nuggets. have been taken out in the last thirty days. Three weeks ago five pounds of the precious Jumps were brought to town at one time, then four pounds. then one two-p pound nugget and last week one seven-pound lump of solid gold was found. besides a double hand full of small nuggets.
 The big seVen-pounder. as described, is heart-shaped, is inches long and 5 inches wide, and 21a inches thick In the thickest place. It is considerably water worn and shows that it has travelled and the Superf1uouS information is added that work in the neighborhood is pro- ceeding with increased energy The lump is the largest one that has been found in North Carolina since the twen- ty-eight-pound nugget was taken from the Reed mine in Cabarrus county, near- ly 100 years ago, and it is reported that the mine has now been purchased by some Ohio people and will be put to work again for all it is worth.
 "The most soldly interesting part of MT. Newman'S letter, perhaps is that in which he states that the obstacle which has so long prevented the development of the North Carolina mines, the refrac- tory character of their peculiar ores, has at last been removed by the chlorination process. A chlorination plant at the Reimer mine is now in successful opera tion saving at least 90 per cent of the assay value of the gold per ton at cost of only $2.50 per ton, so that any ore hav ing value of above $2. .50 per ton can be worked at profit, no matter how much pyrites it contains, or how refractory it is This, says MT Newman, will render valuable and profitable many hundreds of idle mines in North Carolina alone, and make it possible to get millions of dollars out of them in the shape of bull lion. Colonization, he says in conclusion, will save the gold contents of our very refractory southern ores at a profit, though by that process other valuable contents are lost. Remedy this loss and the south has the richest gold field of the world, not excepting the Witwater strand or any other"
 What MT. Newman has said about gold is true, and 1 can add but little to it.
 Kaolin
 But in her matchless kaolin Alabama has another source of revenue from which she can draw on in the future. It will enrich the state and at the same time give profitable employment to tho young and ambitious. Out of it will grow a school of ceremic art and de- sign, when her translucent wares of porcelain and china, embellished by the minerals from her own mines. will take rank by the side of those from Cey lon, France and Germany
 "He who is laggard now and fails to help with money and brains to make Alabama second to none in her exhibit at the Atlanta exposition, neglects a duty that he owes his state and his coun- try"
 Judge Horne is deeply interested in the gold development of Alabama and has giyn the matter considerable thought, and is probably as well posted as any