Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-15

Map of the State and Possible Loca-
ton of Mine.
or mica schist ledge, holding one or
more veins or seams of quart rock,
which are rich in virgin gold.
From the inability of the prospec-
tors to make accurate measurements
and draw reliable conclusions, the
ledge which holds the gold may be
rs miles or $50 miles north and west
from the railway, though the chances
are that the distance is in the vicinity
of 100 miles.
Reasoning from prevailing condi-
tions in other gold mines, the
chances are that the undiscovered
source of Maine gold is in a quartz
band or zone which, in geological
times far remote was injected into
crack between the original granite
and the later schist, and that when
the mine is discovered it will be
found to hold vast wealth.
Prospectors have found gold in
Maine sands and gravels along the
river courses for more than a cen
fury.
Large quantities of the precious
metal have been washed from the
earth near Sandy river in Franklin
county by three generations of Maine
residents
From 1916 to 1920 it is estimated
that fully $4,000 of dust was taken
out and sold, and again, some ten
years ago, the mining fever broke out
with fresh vigor, and for six months
or more there were men camping
near the river banks and washing the
sands, with results that yielded from
rs cents to $3.50 day to those who
were diligent
At the request of enthusiastic min
ers and promoters skilled biologists
have visited the place from time to
time, all of whom have declared the
output of gold.
The trouble with the deposits is
that nobody can find the parent lode
from which the grains of drift gold
started.
About seven years ago Charles
Holtz, a matchmaker of Danforth, be-
came so interested in tracing the
treasure back to its starting point !
that he spent three months in the
woods digging and washing earth in
the hope of gaining some definite in
formation
Buying a wheelbarrow and pans |
and the required chutes for washing |
the earth rapidly, he hired a muscular
man the next summer, and together |
they started out to trace the gold
bearing sands across Maine.
The following winter while Mr..
Holtz sat in his shop and repaired
watches and mended jewelry he |
thought out plan for making sys-
tematic hunt for the parent lode Of
the fugitive gold that had been found
in Maine.
Accepting as fact the statement
made by biologists that all gold /
found in the state was of glacial or
drift origin, he resolved to hunt back |
along the glacier markings on the ex,
posed lodges and thus reach the start
ing point
All of the fourth summer Mr.. Holtz
spent in the woods with compass and
chain, measuring the angle of rock
striation and determining a base line
which could be used Tor rough tri.
angulation. The direction of the
glacier tracks led south by about Is
degrees east.
Running his base line at right
angles to the direction of the glacier
movement he secured a base "a miles
in length, and late in the fall having
determined the angles of Imaginary
lines which should meet at some point
in northern Maine or Canada. he
went home TO chart out the location
OF the hidden gold mine by trigonome-
try
AS Mr. Holtz was not a mathema-
tician his work was far from accurate.
but in a clumsy and faithful manner
he was able TO reach the conclusion
that valuable deposit OF gold exists
Mr.. Holtz was Obliged to abandon
HIS quest after four years OF search
because Of falling health.