Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-26
CLINCH VALLEY NEWS.
Tazewell, Virginia.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1919.
GOLD MINE IN GRAHAM NOW.
REALITY

Graham's gold mine became re-
atty Saturday morning when. it is
asserted, gold was struck eleven feet
from the su,facs. L he shot YVES fir
ed ut a few minutes before ten
o'clock, and the material shot out
shone and sparkled like beads when
placed in the sunlight.
a. j. Hearn, of Bluefield. general
manager of .the Eureka Development
Company, was present when the shot
IVES fired that brought up the yellow
metal, but he was not surprised, as
Err. Hearn had maintained from the
first his confidence i'm the success of
the prospecting.
The opening, which is located in
the woods on the Sanders place, di-
rectly opposite the suburban home of
City, Attorney V. L.Sexton and about
three hundred feet from the Sanders
read, is eight by twelve feet, the ex-
cavating has proceeded to a depth of
between eleven and twelve feet.
The opening resembles very much
the old fashioned well, and there is
MINDLESS arrangement thatt is be-
ing used to bring the material to the
surface.
The gold seam proper is figured at
eight feet and five inches in width,
thlrty-one hundred and eighty feet in
length, extending from, the present
opening to Bluestone River on the
west.
The entire seam appears to lie on
the lands of the Sanders estate, upon
which options were recently obtained
by the Eureka Development Co., of
Bluefeld.
great mystery seems to exist rs
to how the gold field was discovered,
nut we are not now .divulginp any
secret to announce that the Graham
Daily News reporter has been wise to
this proposition since the first of
August. Saturday when the stick of
dynamite was exploded that exposed
the yellow metal he was among the
first on the ground to view the new
gold mine and witness what the earth
had given up right under the shadow
of the town of GAaham, and within
few hundred yards of the corpora
ton line. The shaft has not vet been
roped off, but it was annonced Satur-
day night that this would have to be
done, and later it is the intention to
place guards on the premises, in or
der that the property may be protect
ed. Visitors were allowed to visit the
opening Sunday. No doubt hum
dreds will visit the gold mine and see
for themselves that the find is gen.
uine.
1t is understood to be the intention
of the promoters to mill the ore; that
is, grind it up and use the washing
process. All of the refining will take
place here in Graham, and tram
way will be built from the opening
of the drift mouth or shaft to the
railroad. Seven openings will be ope-
i.a.l Il 10 g
be engaged in the work.
The news became circulated over
town early Saturday morning that
the gold strike had been announced
by Mr.. Hearn, but this rumor proved
little premature, as it was exactly
ten o'clock when the shot was fired
that tore up the clate and brought to
view the first real yellow metal.
r. A. Payne, well known Graham
citizen, who spent many years in the
west as a COW boy and gold miner,
visited the drift shaft Friday night,
and he was so well pleased with what
he saw that he gave it as his opin-
ion that only few additional shots
would be necessary to reveal the real
thing.
Since the Graham gold find became
public, many of the pioneers have en-
gagged in considerable reminiscing of
previous gold finds and the excite.
mcnt that usually followed, and it is
recalled that many young men from
this section went to the Klondike in
that great rush, some of them to
strike it rich and remain while 9TH
ers lost fortunes in prospecting and
returned empty-handed.
Should the present find pan out
and prove of paying quantity, Graham
and this entire section is destined to
become famous, and this was what
the Graham Daily News had in view
a few weeks ago when it announced
that Graham soon would become ia.
nous from coast to coast.-Graham
Daily News of Sunday.