The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-16
GOLD MINING IN SALUDA COUNTY.
The Culbreath Company Have Sunk
two Shafts and Tunnel of Sixty
Feet.
News and Courier.

News and Courier.
| The older citizens of Saluda Coun.
ty will remember when efforts al
gold mining were made near here
years ago by primitive methods, and
what rich finds we're made in some
places, and how the work had to be
abandoned as soon as the water level
was reached. Notwithstanding the
mlsgivings Of many, three years ago
a company composed principally of
Newberrians, with Col. j. Y. Cul.
breath, formerly of this county, at
the head, was organized and sn i'm IL.
mense amount of work has been
done. As the operations of this COM
pany and it's prospects are of more
than local Importance, the following
from this weeks Saluda Standard
will be read with interest:
Within the last three years new
era has dawned for gold mining in
Ssluda County, and new impetus
has been given to it by the organizn
tion of the Culbreath Mining Com
pany, and also by the work done at
the old Yarbrough mine by Mr. G.
@. Beddoes, who, with the latest
knowledge and experience gained in
the gold mining regions of Colorado,
has developed in this niue very
valuable lead of gold ore.
The Culbreath Mining Company
have been confident all the while of
the value Of their property and have
spent several thousand dollars in de-
veloping it. They have sunk two
shafts and tunnel Of sixty feet on
their property lying at the confluence
of Little Saluda River and Big
Creek, and have found quite an ex-
tensive deposit of low grade ore
which, forty years ago, would have
been valueless, but now the improved
methods of mining and treating gold
ores make it one of the most val
liable Of deposits This is, there
fore, a most desirable property.
While the work already spoken of
was being pushed the company's
mining engineer, Mr.. G. G. Beddoes,
an experienced mining and geological
expert, discovered mass of black
igneous rock near the old Culbreath
homestead. The disintegrated sur.
face rock showed cobalt; and upon
his representation and advice the
company set TO work to develop
what he asserted would prove to be a
nickel and copper mine. The w rk
mp to this time has produced results
happily confirmatory of his opin-
ion, showing, also, some quite
unexpected geological formations,
which indicate new end valuable
mineral DEPOSITS in the county.
Having sunk two different shafts
here, depth Of only eeventy five
feet, they have opened up deposit
Of nickel ana copper ore. which their
engineer reports sufficient to put the
mine on safe paying basis as soon
as the necessary machinery is in
stalled. Prof Powell, of Newberry
College, pronounces this nickel aud
copper ore very similar to the ore Of
the famous Sudbury mine in Can
ada, from which practically all the
nickel used in the United States is
obtained.
And when we consider that a cop
per and nickel mine never gives out,
bnt always increases in value with
the depth, we must congratulate tho
owners OF this property and the citi-
zens of tho county on the brightest
prospects of early development of the
mineral values that are now possibly
unknown and unproductive, and
which we hope may in the near fu-
ture make Saluda one of the most
prosperous counties in the State.