The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-03-08
GOLD, KAO-AND MANGANESE.

| In announcer COluNlH we arc CoPS ilS
an article from the Greenville Pied
mont concerning Abbeville's celebra-
ted miners, Messrs Bradley and Lyon,
and their big mines in the lower
part of the county; we should more
properly say in Mccormick County.
iNow, it may not be generally known,
|but there is gold in that section and
plenty of it. 1t takes some money
to find it, and somebody to look for
lit, but Bradley and Lyon are the men
to spend the money and to look for
lit. They spent about one thousand
dollars some three years ago digging
around on a three hundred acre
farm, looking for "goh pocket" F"
They didn't know just where the
"pocket" was, in fact they only knew
there was "pocket" by intuition.
They did not find the pocket because
they didn't know just where it was,
but they would have found it # it
had been where they did their dig
ging. 4.
| But they located a vein down on
! lWide's lower place, and they got
[friend Banks to sink shaft to dis
cover just how the vein looked and
how long, how deep and how thick it
was. At seventy-fye feet they
found it alright, and commenced to
get the gold out, but some fellow
came along and mentioned to Charley
that they might be losing something
in the ''tailings," so they sent a
sample of the latter up to Clemson,
and found that they were losing
about three hundred and seventy-fve
dollars worth Of "sulphfdes," which
were being washed down into the
branch, and they had to stop until
they could remedy this.
i In the meantime different "suck-
ers" around town got the gold fever,
and about seven different companies
were formed to get after the free
gold, sulphides and the tailings."
Every time one fellow commenced
to organize a new company a lot OF
fellows from the old companies piled
in saying they had an interest in the
"hereditaments" of the mine, and
on account of the confusion thus
brought about the gold is still lying
| loose in the ground, while children
all ever the country are crying for
bread, and the people are needing
money with which to pay their sub
scriptions to the Press and Banner.
But things have not been alto
eether idle in the meantime. Col.
Joe F. Edmunds lives up near Wide'
and passes by his house almost every
day. and one day as he was passing
he was suddenly seized with the min
;np fever. Wide administered to
him and sent him down near McCor-
mick to look for mine. The Colo
mel wasn't much on gold, and his ex-
nerience with "Kao" did not give
much of promise, so he discovered
manganese"
This latter mine is seven miles
from Greenwood, and the question
has been how to get the goods to the
"deppo." Joe worried with this a
good deal, but it didn't take Wide
ionp to solve it. He has hired
George Harrison's big truck at about
twelve dollars per day, with Tommy
as "shuffler" and he is going to send
Young Charley Lyon, and his butler
Abram Brown, down next week to
load a coal car full to ship west. The
price to be paid for the manganese
lis TO be AT LEAST seventy-hfty
per ton, and Wide will give the sup
ner Jim Mcmillan won from him at
set back as soon as the first returns
come in.
Bradley and Edmunds will soon
open an office to transact the Man
ganese" business. They have hao
Col. Kerr order them two chairs TO
sit in and a table two feet higher
than anything. in town to put their
feet on while smoking and transact
ing mining business. AS soon as the
force finishes working the "Kao"
mines, Mr.. Henig will likely let them
work the "Manganese" for these gen.
tlemen.
Since Wide has hit prosperity his
neighbor Kerr calls him cousin
Wide" He also calls Will Lesly
"Cousin Will" Will has new au-
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