Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-07
GEoRG1A's GOLD FIELDS.
T.-R. Correspondent Writes of Per.
sonal Visit to ltich Mines,

heL,ap!icall. inns is the flrSt day OF WIN /
ter, and still most of the lawns of this |
beautiful little city are full OF rose
bushes. with the sloveliest roses one ever
saw any where. One would think they
bloom here all winter, and / think they
do not lack much of 1t. Yesterday being T
Thanksgiving day one would think it /
Was sunday. Business Of all kinds was
suspended, and our usually busy streets |
Mere comparatively deserted This sec
ition of the country more fully observes
all legal holidays and sundays than any /
other part OF the United States was
ever in. A few days after writing the
last letter we took a trip up to Dab
lonega, the county seat OF Lumbkin
county. twenty miles northwest of here.
located at the foot of the Blue Ridge
mountains. in the very neart of the rich
gold mining district of north Georgia.
Staying here three or four days l was
enabled to collect few items of inter-
est First was conducted over the
Consolidated Mining Company's plant.
This Is the largest plant of its kind in
the whole United States. consisting of a
large stamping ana quartz crushing !
mill running 30 largest size crushers.
and Il large chlorination plant in proc
~,
i, ~. ,s,,i.ad 500. ,rb;s cnr,na,y l.
,,.,rl.i,,y 400 ,,,, ,,.,,.t IN t,,a co,,e,f,,c-
ton of the large building and part get
ti,,.r e,,,t IRE. n has ALREADY 1oo ooo tons
Hof quartz ready for the mill as soon as
1T is ready to run. which will be about
the 1st of April. 1900. 1t is a grand
sight TO see these nagnificent buildings.
pon.lero,,s machinery and great army Of
men working al this one mine only. This
company Is composed mostly Of north
ern men. withsa capital of Sc 600 900, and
has already expended 81 .o0o. 900 in the
large plant. lit is buying everything of
a mining nature it can and selling moth
ing. which goes to show it has conf
dence In the amount OF gold concealed
in these hills. i also visited the Crescent
mine. managed and operated by Mr..
Walker, who is one of the most pleasant
gentleman 1 ever met He spared no
pains in conducting me all around and
explaining every detail IN regard to
mining and the management OF mine
of this nature and Just before was
ready to start back TO the CITY ne TOOK
me down TO the bottom OF his nine ana
there we dug ana PICKED up, Win ms
help. a few specimens las me as you
would wish TO see. VISITED ssNeisi
aother mines and was ully convinced
that an TIE Ola fea hiiis, ha'i
mountains ana mountains .iia. sui
round this little CITY OF l'ahipiiesa arg
fun OF the mlch-coNetsu precious MT
al only awaiting the northern energy
and capiai TO dlsloase IL from us ialu
raj bed. Tfle city itself Is q hlceiS-
built little berg of about 700 inhapi-
ltants, and twenty miles TO the hearesl
lraiiroad point, which Is Gainesville.
/ Fine hotels and everything UP IN snip
shape form. The Northeustern Mil
tary University of Georgia is located
here in a fine building that the United
States government used as a United
| stats mint before the civil war l,ut
on account Of the great rush TO Calitor-
4 MIA al that time. which took 10000 peo-
pie from north Georgia depopulatings
/ this section, he government aban-
4 doned the old mint here Now these.
4 same people are as alXfons To flock.
4 back as they We're TO rush away forty
years ago, where they can get cheap
labpr, cheap living and can work all
i winter in their shirtseeves, and where
the fases even are not particular. And
last but not least. there is plenty of
1.-The precious metal 10 reward one for
4 his fabors. Y ou might say. and truth
fully, too, in regard II this little city
4 Of Dahlonega is is said of the New
/ Jerusalem THE streets are literally
j payed with gold, as it is u fact one
may go out on the public square Of this
I tnriving little berg and pick up small
pieces Of rock that Will assay any
where from 81 To sloo per ton. Ny fa-
ther. who has been all through the
mining country Of Colorado and Cali
sornia. said when examining the ore at
4 the. different mines at Dahlonega that
dir was the richest ore he had seen at
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