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very handsome. Many of them show different 

 terminations and when thus found are of con- 

 siderable value as soecimens alone. 



The whole group when found in place occur 

 in veins of feldspar, usually the variety orthocla?e. 

 They are gregarious in habit, essentially 

 "pockety" and seems to be intimately connect- 

 ed with masses of a pure watery quartz, around 

 which they cluster and sometimes penetrate. 

 The associates are black tourmaline, much 

 mica, (Muscovite) in masses, one or more 

 species of garnet and large crystals of felsdpar. 



These are constant but at different places 

 other crystals are found as hiddenite, xeno- 

 time, monazite, apatite, etc., in Alexander 

 county, and samarskite, allanite, gummite, and 

 minerals of the uranium group in the Mount- 

 ain counties to the west. 



If we except the work done by Mr. Hidden 

 at Stony Point in 1883-1894 in his exploits 

 for hiddenite no regular mining for them hag 

 been instituted, though of late I believe the 

 mica people of the Western counties are 

 giving them some attention. 



There are a few isolated ))o nts througli 

 Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Cleveland, Ruiliei- 

 ford, Henderson and some otlii-r of ilie horder 

 counties where the stone is loand. Many of 

 these localities are of much interest as a stud„ 

 from the fact of their being altogether discon- 

 nected with the beryl belt. One locality in 

 Lincoln county — Deadman's — has produced 

 crystals six inches in diameter but of poor color. 



Stories of wonderful crystals found m former 

 days and of mines of fabulous wealth can be 

 heard on every hand but the prospector that 

 lends a willing ear generally follows the will 

 o-the-wisp and catches the mist for his pains. 



In this same old mine I was told of the 

 finding of a beryl crystal, perfectly clear, two 

 inches in diameter and eight inches long, by 

 mica miners. Surely a gem of priceless value, 

 but it was a long time ago, and they broke it 

 and divided the pieces. 



E. H. Harn, 



Henry, N. C. 



A VACATION TRIP TO THE WHIIE 



MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



DURING THE SUMMER OF 1892. 



BY J. ELWYN BATES. 



Having finished my term of school at Spring- 

 vale. Me., my daughter and self left the town 

 for Portland on the morning train of July 7th. 

 We then took the first train to Gorham, N. H., 

 where we arrived at 12.30 f, M. I ei gaged 

 board at the Willis Cottage; and, leaving Inez 

 there, went over to Shelburne, some four miles 

 distant, to see the Hubbard Bros., with whom 

 I had formed an acquaintance on a former 

 visit to the mountains. They were much 

 pleased to see me. and the next morning one 

 of the brothers went with me to the top of the 

 water-fi\ll on Mt. Hayes. The fall was at an 

 elevation of some 1500 feet above the valley 

 and i^ miles from the Hubbard home. We 

 followed a logging road up the mountain side. 



This road was built by a mm who intended 

 to get logs from the mountain; it was built at 

 a great cost to him and proved ne.uiy a dead 

 loss, as only a few thousand logs were ever 

 lakfu out by him. I am told that he with 10 

 or 12 men worked about six months upon the 

 road, and that the men received little or no 

 pay for their work. 



After a tiresome climb for an hour and a half 

 we reached the top of the fall. The stream is 

 scarcely more than a brook at this time, but in 

 the spring of the year, and after heavy rains, it 

 becomes an angry mountain torrent. It is the 

 natural outlet of a pond upon the top of the 

 mountain, near which a loggei's house is 

 located. 



At the place we visited the stream, it takes a 

 sudden and nearly ]ierpendicular leap for 200 

 or 300 feet. This fall of water is greater in 

 perpendicular height than any other that I have 

 yet seen in these mountains, although it is, 

 perhaps, less beautiful at this time than Glen 

 Ellis Falls, ewing to the smaller amount of 

 watei flowing. 



