The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-27
CHEROKEE RICH WITH GOLD.
In All Sections Are Deposits Into
Which a Pick Has Never Been


which a Pick Has Never Been
Stuck.
Gainesville Correspondence Atlanta
Journal
Fifty miles from Atlanta there is
stretch of country which is so rich in
gold that if 1t were in Colorado or Cali
fornia it would have many busy producing
camps and many thousand miners
This may seem hardly creditable to those
who have not been in the section referred
to and who are not familiar with mining
matters
1 have recently been through a portion
of Cherokee county and know whereof
speak. About fourteen miles from Car
tersville is the Kitchen Big Vein" a
property controlled by Mr.. Russell How
land, English gentleman who repre-
sents English capitalists. The kitchen is
deposit of quartz in zinc mica schist
1t has been traced for over eight miles,
varies in width from ten feet to over
eighty feet. At one place on the surface
it assayed Al cents to the ton in gold.
Four feet down at the same spot 1t assay
ed 4.47. The La Belle" is on the same
extension, and averages 81 to IS to the
$50.
When the large extent of this deposit
is considered il will be seen that the
amount of gold it contains is enormous
At the La Belle the gold is mostly free
undoubtedly sulphides will be struck al
lower depths on the kitchen, but the Thieo
ChlOrinatiOn prOcess-one of the greatest
boons to southern gold mining has rem
dered the treatment of sulphide ores easy
and certain.
Southwest of the kitchen Is the
Trip" distant four miles. The ore
runs $26.S7 per ton. The Clarkson runs
| S61.60 These two properties are also con-
trolled by Mr.. Rowland. The assays on
their ore and on that of the kitchen were
made by Dr. Henry Froehlings, Rich
mond, Va. saw panned. some of the
ore from a shaft on the kitchen. Very
much free gold was obtained. At the
East La Belle all In the same stretch Of
country the vein Is from u to IA feet
wide and mills from 81 to S12 per ton
To person conversant with gold min
ing in other parts of the world, the small
cost of mining in Georgia is especially
striking. Take South Africa there the
ton and the cost of mining over IS per
ton, with heavy taxes, expensive freights
etc. The Treadwell mine in Alaska, one
of the most celebrated gold producers in
the United States, is in the cold and dis
tant Alaska, with long distances over
which freight, etc, has to be brought
unsklled and skilled men. Their ore is
poor-S3.85 ton. Yet with all these draw
backs and high cost Of fuel living, etc,
they have been clearing $4,000 per month
profit
Here in Cherokee labor runs Is cents
per day. fuel sL5 a cord and with ore
mate Of the value OF the ore Is NOT only
conservative, but much under what many
mines here show, some in the section Wis
tied ayeraging . by assays and some
much higher, but ] prefer TO be on the
safe side.
The BLACK Cat" another Of Mr. How
lands properties, assayed on the surface
500. One fourth Of a mile from the Black
Cat Is a shaft opened by Col stanciI
This ore contains pyrite and chalc0pyrite
copper pyrites and the assay returns ran
from $ 70 SO gold per day.
At the cOgglns mine shaft II down
thirfy-six feet. ] saw some Of ffle ore sa-
profile. that % decOmpO6ed rock Ia place
named. II contained large amount N
free gold assays showed none Of THIS ore
running less than - % the ton. Al the
Putnam many cuts have been made 81 the