The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-24
GOLD IN MOUNTAIN
Minnesota Men Will Make Their
Fortunes in the South.
PROPERTIES IN THE cARoL1NAs
Southrons Living From
Hand to Mouth in the Midst
of Wealth.

Special to The Journal.
Bemidji, Mimi, March 24.-Before the
Revolutionary war it was known that
there was quartz gold in North and South
Carolina, and that the deposits of ore
bodies were extensive, butitwas due part-
ly to the lassitude Of the people and
partly to the inadequacy OF the old meth
DDS of reduction that the ore has until
recently been considered too low grade
for successful mining.
Sluice mining has at different times
been carried on in both states, but in
a small and primitive way, although one
Of the largest nuggets in the world, weigh
ing twenty-seven pounds, was found in
North Carolina and disposed of at the
United States mint at Charlotte, N. c.,
where a fac smile OF 1t has been pre-
served by the authorities. y.
One South Carolina mine which has
been in operation for over 100 years on
an indifferent scale, with old Chilean
mills and hand rockers, was in 1887 taken
up by A. Theis, the inventor of the Theis
process of chlorination, now successfully
in use there and elsewhere, and this
mine now known as the Halle mine, sit
uated four miles from Lancaster, S. g.,
produces over $4,000 in gold monthly, and
this from refractory ore averaging IS
per ton. ~.
The southern people are not explorers,
developers or miners and it remained for
northern men and capital to make the
necessary investigation to determine what
the Carolnas are capable of.
The Minnesota men who have gone into
North Carolina and made investments in
mines in Randolph county are VIM.
OBrien, hammers Bros. and J. w. Nell
son of Saltwater; A. Y. Merrill and Blake
ly & Farley of Minneapolis; F. 4. Silver,
J. w. Irwin, F. E. Dudley and Harry Sill
yer of Bemidji; A E. Underwood Of Sol
IF 1lTh
men, through f. A. Silver, purchased the
property known as the Pine Hill Gold
mine about year ago and at once or
ganized the Pine Hill Gold Mining COM
pany with capital of 100000, and be-
gan the work of development. small
test plant was installed on the property
and the ore tested as the development
progressed. These men have visited the
scene of their investment and are more
than satisfied they have as good thing
as any mine in the land can possibly be.
Several Of them are experienced mining
operators, and all are active, keen bust
ness men and their Judgment should be
the best. s-. a. g. r..- '..'-
The property comprises 250 acres and
consists of a hill Of ore over 500 feet
| high and estimated by two different min
! ing engineereS to contain over Al, 900
tons of ore that is free milling gold quartz.
| Since this estimate was made the COM
! pdny mas ueFelOpeu anu ulOChcu OuL tAS
ore to depth of 100 feet, drifting over
| l 400 feet in length, and prosecuting 512
| feet in width, with 400 feet of ore out
cropping in front to uncover Enough ore
| has been put through the test plant to
, demonstrate that the whole hill will av-
erage over $3.50 ton, all of which is
free milling. This ore can be mined and
milled for less than SO cents ton; labor,
| fuel, water supply and every condition
facilitate the economical handling Of these
vast ore bodies. -.
Already eastern capitalists are following
! in the footsteps of these farsighted Min
! nesotans and within the past thirty days
several large companies have been or
! ganZed at Pittsburg, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, and agents are out taking op-
! lions and buying large tracts Of these
old mining lands. One company Of Pitts
burg capitalists, with Geo. l. Whitney at
the head, is expanding $1,000 in develop
, ing electric power at the narrows of the
Yadkin river near Gold Hill, N. c., and
are to transmit the power to large re-
duction works, now under construction al
the mine. The lands purchased by the
Whitney Reduction company comprise
$1,000 acres Of the Gold Hill mining prop
critics, where gold was first discovered in
North Carolina, and which have laid idle
since the war.