The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-05-11


efforts at stamping tin ore from lodges
of coarse granite similar to the Black
Hills tin ore we're made mary years
ago, but it was found difficult to stamp
the rock on account of the consider
able percentage of mica. Lately Capt.
S. S. Ross, of Gafney City, S. c.,
discovered PARTICLES Of cassiterite ly-
ing in clay Of what seems to be resi-
dual material, from a wide granite
dixie now thoroughly decomposed.
Capt. Ross showed these to Mr.. George
5. Barrows Of the Welsbach Light
company, who was visiting in that
neighborhood, and Mr.. Barrows show
ed them to the writer. The fragments
were large and clear and of practically
pure cassiterite. The writer found
opportunity, just one year ago, to
visit the deposits, and advised Capt.
Ross to work the deposits on as eco
nomical scale as possible until some
thing as to the amount of tin could be
determined. This Capt. Ross has
succeeded il doing with rare economy,
persistence and forethought, with the
result of sending quite large ship
ment in profitable manner to Swan
sea, as above stated. Meantime con-
siderable excitement he's naturally
been aroused, but no further large
body OF thoroughly decomposed gran
ite where the s;n ore is simply in clay
has as yet been discovered, with the
exception Of one lode in the vicinity
OF Bessemer City, N G., which is also
being de- ,oped by Capt. Ross and
HE associates. This was discovered
by an agent OF the North Carolina
State geological survey. The many
other lodes Of tin ore recently found
in North Carolins near the South
Carolina border and in the neighbor-
hood Of Kings Mountain are of the
same nature as those known for many
years, that is, hard pegmatite Coarse
granite), containing irregularly distri-
buted masses of tin ore. What per-
centage any Of these lodes will yield
is not yet known, and the proposition
Of mining these iodes is by no means
so fascinating as simply washing the
tin ore from clay bank, as in the de-
posit at Gaffney City. There is every
reason to suppose that this tin mine
near Gaffney City will yield paying
quantities Of tin for at least several
years, and plans are being developed
for working it far more cheaply than
heretofore, although the present work.
ings are extremely profitable. AS to
the likelihood Of finding other deoom-
posed veins from whioh the tin can be
washed with water, it is difficult to
make any reasonable prophecy, but
considering the large number of lodes
OF tin ore whieh have lately been un-
covered, it would seem that the pros-
poets Of finding other decomposed
lodes is considerable
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