The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-25
The Gold Mines in Hall
fax County Near the
Town Of Virgilina.
FACTORY PROGRESS
In SOUTH L AND.
Virginia Is an Inviting Field fol
Fruit Canners-A Hundred
More Would Pay Hand
somely-There Are Mil
lions in Mules Raised
in Virginia.
ny FnANx S. woopsoN.

III FRANC S. WOODSON.
Virginia IS a town on the Danville-
norfolk division Of the Southern Rail-
road IL is on the State line. in fact,
is partly In Granville county. ~ c.,
and partly In HALIFAX county, Virginia,
principally In the latter. THUS It gets
= Its name. have a letter from Vir-
gilina written by II. G.. Pool, the
cashier Of the bank there Dir. Pool
has hcen reading tn Industrial Sec
ton, as all good bankers always do.
and ne has taken note of the accounts
printed therein of gold deposits In
FluYanna. Goochland and other coun-
ties. and he is a little hurt that the
gold deposits in Halifax county, espe-
cially those right at VfrglIina have
not been mentioned, and he writes a
jolly good letter 10 inquire the reason
thereof Well. the answer is easy
enough. No mention vas made of the
Halifax gold mines because the very
informa ton that Mr. Pool now fur
nishcs was lacking. He thinks the
precious metal in the Halifax mines
is in larger quantities than In the
veins that cross Fiuvanna, Fauquier
and Gonchland counties AT any rate,
the present owners of the properties
+ are not offering them for sale. and are
not organizing any stock companies
TO work the mines. thinking they
have too good a thing to turn loose.
ating themselves 5s
The Gold Discovery
Mr.. Pool tells me that the first dis
covery OF gold near Virginia was
made several years ago by local talent
The owners of the land upon which
the yellew stuff was found were not
In financial condition TO develop the
property and SO they got two capital
Isis OF Buffalo. y. y, interested, and
all arrangements were made for active
business. when ne panic of 1907 came
along and operations were suspended
and We're not resumed until this year.
shout four months ago. Xii.
The people about virginia had loi e
believed there was gold in the earth
thereahouts, and finally they got an
expert from the famous mines at Gold
Hill. n. C.,to Investigate This export,
Z Mr. Crowell, found rich vein. vary
Ing inlwidth from four TO fifteen feet,
and the diggers have gone down TO a
depth OF from It's 200 feet, where
they have found ore that Mr.. Pool
thinks is richer than any ever found
elsewhere in Virginia. This mine Is
now owned by Mr.. Durgy, Of New
Haven. Conn. who Is enthusiastic over
his bright prospects. and Is going
right ahead with his costly develop-
ment plans He has Installed much
machinery, including twenty stamp
mills and complete cyinide OUTFIT. He
expects 10 have one hundred stamps
on the property within the year. and
he enthusiastically declares that the
"Porcupne fever Will turn to Virginia
inside of six months"
There Is Copper, Too.
Just north OF this property Howard
Brothers, OF Buffalo. y. v. have found
good values a hundred feet under
ground. have Installed an OUTFIT. and
VIII DO extensive work in short
while John A. Hassell. OF New York,
Is developing another gold mine prop
erty about a mile from Durgy's mine
Hassell now has shaft down about
thirty feet and has struck what he
considers a rich vein .'unning from
four to eight feet in width.
After giving a glowing account Of
some other good things IN and about
Virginia. Mr.. Pool says: But mind
you. gold is not the only metal we
have in this section. we have some
valuable deposits of copper, as valuable
ms can be found in all the south, and
but for, the low price of copper we
would now have not less than a dozen
copper mines al work. The Tennessee
Copper Company now holds leases on
several properties which they are
K obligated to operate when copper
reaches. certain price. and 1t Is now
within fraction of q cent of that
price"
Hurrah for Virginia anyhow, and
good for Cashier Pool. who knows
r good thing when he sees 1t, and knows
Il how to tell about 1t. too.
Wonderful Progress In Factories.
am in the habit of getting a great
deal Of aluable Industrial information
from that sterling journal. the Manu-
fascturers' Record Here is a little
Z sum up crib from the Record !.
Between 1901 and 1908 the capital
invested In factories in the South, ex :
elusive of Virginia and West Virginia,
for which census returns have noe yet
been announced. increa sed from s1,3S2.-
$4,000 to s2.Os6,a49.ooo. or by s67s.222,-
600 equal to 49.4 per cent and the
value Of factory products Increased
from s1,54o,07s.0oo to sp.l53, 2s7. 900 or
by s613,219, 900. equal to 800 per cent
a will probably have the Virginia
figures by next week and they will be
encouraging. for It is to be doubted
II any Southern State has made great
or Industrial progress within the last
ten years than Virginia.
sB More Canncrfes Wanted. lsi
II In this great fruit-growing State OF
Virginia moro canneries are needed,
and there is fine opening for capi.
B tai and talent right here. II At3times a
large amount of fruit and early Vege-
s 10 bles are wasted because markets are
glutted or railroads are unable to
4 handle them promptly, and the grow
II srs are thus put to great loss, but
these very people within few months
are often buying canned goods put up
IN the North or West. Moreover, there
ia a large amount OF fruit sometimes
too ripe to bear long shipment which
could be canned to great advantage
Ls3i The whole South Is a good field for
Gamers. and no part Of the South Of