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fessor Olmsted,* at only one thousand square miles. Since 
that time, successive discoveries have extended it over ‘he 
counties of Guilford, Chatham, Rowan, Davidson, and over 
the adjacent counties of South Carolina. Indeed, very re- 
cent observations have carried it westward more than one 
hundred miles fromthe original mine of Cabarras, to the 
very base, and even among the valleys of the Blue Ridge. 
nes Petia: cee from D. Reinhardt, Esq. of Lincoln- 
n part of North Carolina, addressed to 
Professor Olmsted, ‘of Yale College, contains the most recent 
accounts we have seen of the new discoveries of gold in that 
Sane 
* Lincolnton, N. C. June 4, 1829. 
ked the mines ‘in Cabarras, found some small parcels of 
el in Rutherford county, between First snd Second Broad 
ivers. In the month of March last, near the same place, 
discowertalicwe were made in rapid succession, near the South 
Mountains, and on each side of them, in the counties of Ruth- 
erford and Burke.t So well were those d who search- 
ed for gold, that in a short time, all the common laborers 
were engaged in digging for it; and one dollar's worth of 
gold to the hand per day, was thought to beo nly to 
tolera 
ble business.t Companies were soon formed, and lands that 
* See this Journal, Vol. IX 
f At the base of the Blue Ridge, on the east, lie the counties of Rutherford, 
Burke, and Wilkes, = each of which the face of the country is bat! Paint 
ae and interesting outline. All the foregoing counties lie 
reste of the Catawba river, font por which it was not sup until recent- 
ly, thatthe gold country e 
u This a acadiet is fe by merely collecting the earth in small parcels, 
and ves it by tNo 
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