Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-01
MINES AND MINING.


THE ENQUIRER has been to some pains
to gather information as to mining opera
tions that are now being pushed in various
sections of York county. We do Apt
pretend to say that what has been gath
cred includes everything; but at the
same time it is calculated to give pretty
fair idea of what is going on.
Messrs. Thomas Girvan q Son, of New
York, have just unloaded several cal
loads Of machinery at the Love mine,
about mile north of McGilPs store. Ii
ia their intention to crush and treat free
ores at the mine, and they will probably
send refractory ores to Blacksburg.
Messrs. H. B. Clarke & Bro, of Colum-
bia, are developing a mine on the A. s.
Wallace property, near Smyrna. They
have sunk several shafts down to point
where IL is necessary to have machinery
with which to control the water. They
are very much encouraged, we under
stand, and are now waiting at that place
for the arrival of machinery which has
been ordered. In the meantime they are
also investigating certain properties in the
northeastern section of the county, and
seem to be well pleased with the prospect.
They control all the money that they will
require in pushing their operations.
ESQUIRE McGill, Of Kings Creek, has
a mine that has been paying him
more or less revenue for several years.
He has recently perfected an arrange
ment by which the Sulphuric Acid COM
pany, of Blacksburg, is to take out the
ores, and the company is preparing to 60
to work on a large scale.
The Enterprise Mining company, which
commenced operations on the old Martin
mine about two years ago, is still doing
business. Additional machinery has been
put in recently, and it is reported that
some rich ores have been struck.
The company, however. is keeping its
affairs pretty we'll to itself, and about
the only way the public has Of forming
any idea as to what it is doing, is by
watching its increasing activity.
Negotiations are in progress for the re-
opening of the old Wilson mine, five or
six miles north of Yorkville. This is one
of the oldest and best developed mines in
the county. The free ores that were taken
out of it many years ago yielded several
fortunes; but shortly after the refractory
ores, which are usually rich, were struck,
the work was abandoned. With the i'm
proved methods for reducing refractory
ores, the prospects st this mine now seem
to be especially inviting.
The Wolf Creek mine is another famous
properly. It's owner, Mr.. J. B. Ross, OF
Spartanbure, has developed it by means
of shafts, tunnels and open cuts, and is
shipping ores to Blacksburg.' He has re-
fused several good offers for the property
recently, and is now holding it at about
five times what it has cost him.
Mr.. Ira Hardin has for some time past
been engaged in developing property near
Blacksburg that was originally worked by
his father. He has had quite quantity
of ore treated at the Reduction works,
and has been so well pleased with the
result that he is now arranging to engage
in more extensive operations.
Knoxville, Tenn, parties had car load
of ore treated at the Reduction works at
Blacksburg last week, and since receiving
q return from the treatment, have signi-
fed their intention to put in machinery at
their mines, and to make extensive ship
ments of concentrates to Blacksburg.