The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-12-28

will not be very long before we VIII see
wonderful developments all over the belt
There is enough gold on some forty-acFe
lots In Lumpkin to float an issue of gov
eminent bonds and there is enough gold
in the county to wipe out the national
debt Of the United States and probably Of
all other countries thrown in Men have
mace money mining up there by methods
which would ruin "a syndicate in the west
| have known - per cent Of the gold 10
Toe lost and yet the miners would get $ 70
S5 a ton by their slOp process. / have
been running two mills for development
work and l know what ! am talking
about Why there is rock UP in Lumpkin
worth thousands Of dollars to the ton.
have known tailirgs from some Of the
mills to run away up when assayed- I do
cot mean to criticise the miners. but simply
state some facts 70 snow that the King
metal is there
some of the veins are enormously large.
Think of one $50 feet I'm width l can take
you to It and show and measure it of $50
feet and more between the walls Why a
man can pick out a lot UP there and get
ore enough 20 work "A 900 stamp mill lH0
years and make--well I would not care to
say IN public what ] think about it, he
cause some people might think / was ex-
agrerating. Thirty-dollar ore IS abundant
some of il is sapprolite-d rock,
easily handled. Again some Of the rock ls
hard quartz but IL can be mined and
treated at a cost which would leave an
immense profit. These veins have rich
chutes and pickets just like other gold
countries II would he difficult to give any
average Of the gold because IL varies so
widely hut 50 far as my Investigations
20 the deeper the mining IS carried the
richer the ores l have had several hun
dred feet of tunnels run into the side OF
one mountain and have cut the veins In
different directions at different depths and
my experience is that the deeper We 20
the more we get from a ton The supply
of low grade sulphuretted ore IS pracu-
cally inexhaustible. The hydraulic mining
that has been done left TIE veins exposed
and now IT is an easy matter for pros
pector to go into the belt and get practical
results right at the start
Judge Murray's idea Of mining in Georgia
IS To do il on a large scale He says that
a 5m-stamp mill ought 10 be working on
some of the Lumpkin properties and he
doubts not that there are other belts which
would pay enormously if worked on the
same big plan. If there is money I'm work
ing teu-stamp mill, how much more
there would be in running go stamps The
sulphurets must be treated chem cally.
Colonization IS a practical way. the cheap
est and most successful ever tried On
Georgia ore. There is no doubt that he
and his friends have big plans under con-
sideratiou. They were thoroughly salts
fled by seeing the heavy loss IN slilphurets
over the plates that many times more gold
runs off than is saved. They believe that
modern methods with up-to-date machinery
would be successful almost beyond reason
able expectations.
The gentlemen left last night for Nash
ville but VIII probably return here after
the holidays. Major Williams is capital
ist and practical business man. Colonel
Duncan is a very successful promoter.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company is one of the largest Industrial
enterprises in America.