The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-20
GOLD Fields or GEORGIA.
Great Interest shown by Capitalists
and Experts.

and Experts.
Chiffon, Ca, Dec. 1S.-The gold region
of North Georgia is just now the center of
attraction for wealth-hunlers, and great
interest is being shown by capitalists and
experts in mineral veins in developing and
securing properties that are known to be
gold bearing.
While gold has been known to exist in
this region since 1925, and many millions
were taken out up to 1S49, the year of the
California excitement, at which time near
" all the Georgia miners struck out for
the new diggings, since that time. and UNI
til within few years past, but little was
done in this field.
Now that there is a general rush all over
the world for new gold fields, Georgia IS
again coming to the front with good pros
poets of being a big factor in producing
The worlds output Of gold. The Creighton
mine known as the "Old Franklin" is fif-
teen miles from Canton and on the main
collaborating belt and while 1t has Deeh
worked nearly continuously for 90 years
is now turning out more gold than ever
before. This mine Is well fitted up with
twenty stamps, crushing forty tons Of ore
per day, aad with - Gs - trators ana a
Of thaaSsESf0 KSSrfect gold plants in the
So, EEysss3eE<f = KPBFHA tfR
Gen. KNaW Warner, of Ohio, Mr.. Ham
mas rival for the Senate, and several as
socates, have recently bought the "Old
Cherokee" mine, and are now remodelnng
all the works, putting in complete ny
draulic system for washing down large
hill filed with a saprollte or rotten solu
bearing ore.
In addition to this, they are putting in
other and more modern machinery TO
crush the hard gold ores that the water
cannot release. The "Old Cherokee is
mine that was worked years ago ana was
a rich gold producer, but it was abandon
ed until reopened within the last two years
and now bids fair to be bonanza 10 US
owners.
David ]. Telfair Of South African fame,
as an eminent mining engineer and in
ventor, has bought a mine In Cherokee
county. near Canton, and Will put IN his
new process, which is known as the cleo
trolytic mining process, in which, as the
name indicates, electricity plays the chief
part. The company which has this mine
in hand with Mr.. Telfair claim a great
deal for this process; that it was sue
cess in Africa, and if it does half its
friends claim it will do, it will revolution
ize gold mining in Georgia.
A gold vein does not produce alike at
all points along us cOuISc iiSic a. ~
places at intervals where it shows at the
surface a good outcroD. These are the
places that the miners opened and worked
in other years, and are now called old
mines" These are the mines that are
being reopened and most successfully
worked. Among these, the "Old Skies"
mine, from which over $1,00OOC0 was TAX
en- out of the placer deposits, is to be re-
opened for work in January, and the Wor-
ley. the Micou, the Garrison, and the
Davis, which have been recently sold to
New York company, are all old mines
within a radius of six miles of Canton,
aud are known to be good gold producers.
The many advantages of climate, trans
portation, timber for all mining purposes,
water in abundance and cheap labor, make
this region the ideal location for work.
ing low-grade ores, and 1t is confidently
predicted by experienced western mining
men who have examined this belt that
within five years North Georgia will be
the scene of as active mining work as are
the busiest camps to-day in Colorado.