The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-02-26

Good Prospects I'm Piedmont Carolina.
Sources OF the. Worlds. Supply
Large Consumption in the United
States.

The News man spent several hours
Sunday at the Lithia Inn, enjoying the
genial hospitality Of Mr. Van Wyck
Hoke, and gathered some information
concerning the tin mine which may be
of interest to our readers. This mine
Is located about one half mile from tia
Lithia Inn, and is being operated By
the Piedmont Tin Mining Co. which
was organized and incorporated unde-
the laws Of Georgia The company i:
composed Of MeSsrs. w NJ. Maunc.
John Rudtsill, and NJ NJ Carpenter, IF
Kings Mountain, Judge Spencer AtkIE-
son, OF Atlanta, and others, and is cap
italized at a large figure Two shafts
have been sunk, one 100 feet deep, and
another 40 feet, with several counter
shafts. The operations so far have
been simpy TO expose the veins, and
from present indications the prospects
are very promising indeed. Operations
are temporarily suspended on account
of the recent bad weather, but the
company is preparing TO spend a grear
dea3 Of money as they have good rca-
son TO believe that the ore is presen,
in paying quantities. There are I
great many surface Indications Of in
in the neighbOrhOOd Of the mine ana
Mr.. HOke has numerous fine speCi-
mems Of ore found on the inn property.
This OutcrOpping Of tin is a cOntinua-
tion of the lead from Gaffney ant
Kings Mountain, where the first dis
covery was made in 1889 What may
be called the Carolina tin belt extenGs
from Gaffney, Cherokee county, S. c.,
in Il genera northeasterly direction
across this county; the south eastern
corner of Cleveland county, N c., ana
across Castor and Lincoln counties.
The tin deposits found in ROckbridge
county, Virginia, may be a continual
tiOn of the Carolina tin belt across Ca
tawba, Iredel1 Yadkin and Surry couu-
ties.
Tin has been found in small GUAM
titles in Maine, New Hampshire Mas
sachusetts, Virginia, Alabama, South
Dakota, Texas, California and Alaska.
The worlds chief supply Of tin comes
from the deposits on the Malay PENN
sular northwestward for a distance cf
about $50 miles to the border of the
Siamese possessions. The Cornish tin
mines of England are perhaps, the
most widely known of any of the de-
posits of this metal and were undoubr-
edly the first to. produce tin. For over
1000 years these deposits have been
furnishing England with tin, and are
still producing at the rate of 1000 teas,
Or more per year. These are the deep
est workings Of any in the history of
tin mining. and are now down over
1000 feet below the level OF the sea.
These mines are owned by the Marquis
Of Butte and have been in the posses
sion of that family for generations.
The value of tin in the arts was
recognized long before the beginning
Of the Christian era, and it is believed
that $50 years before the birth OF
Christ He1odotus alludes to the tin
Islands Of Brittany, from which the tin
was obtained. The PhOeniCians and
Greeks also traded with Cornwall in
the purchase Of tin
At the present time none of the tin
used in the United States is produced
in this country, but it is all obtained
from foreign sources.
The fact that about As per cent of the
worlds production of tin is consumed
in the United States emphasizes the
Importance of discovering source of
supply of this metal that can be con-
trolled by this eountry.-Lincoln News.