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would not bring one dollar per acre, were sold as high as thir- 
eds dollars. 
* The gold is got out of the small streams, and is called 
“ Branch gold. ” estoy: is generally commenced at the bed 
of the streams, and continued on each side to the adjacent 
hills. After the top Sait and sand are removed, round flint 
rocks (quartz oe are See such as usually occur in the bed 
of streams.* ¢ this earth and sand, the gold is found 
in particles dite a iat small size, to masses of two penny 
weights. I understand it was thought that no gold was to 
be found below this deposit of pebble and flint sant 3; but 
lately. afier penétrating the Se Sl of flint stones and pebbles, 
the miners came to a bed of very fine sand, varying in thick- 
ness from six to twelve na s, and below this another depos- 
it of round flint stone and pebbles, which is more abundant 
in gold than the former. 
* The quantity of the preston metal collected since the 
first of March, cannot be accurately ascertained ; but two 
weeks ago, sfontit one aan 2 Hie were at work, avera- 
ging each a dollar per day. |New discoveries of gold are 
daily making in this county, (Lincoln,) but our mines have 
not as yet proved so rich as those ef Rutherford and Burke 
before mentioned, 
“ Quicksilver has been found connected with the gold. 1 
ae doubted this fact, though it had been repeatedly assert- 
; but this day,a man who can be relied on, and has wor- 
ked at one of the mines in Burke,shewed me a small quantity 
of quicksilver, which he asserted that he obtained at that 
mine. 
* Many exaggerated reports are put in Scola respect- 
ing the value of the gold mines, with the view of enhancing 
the price of land ene that region ; bat so fair are the real 
motives for enterprize, that man of our most prudent and 
wealthy citizens are seme arrangements to enter largely in- 
to the business, So eager are people to find large pieces of 
gold, that they harry raid the process of washing in a 
* That is, probably, exhibiting the appearance of having been worn by at- 
trition—shewing that this peculiarity marks the deposit of gold here, as well as 
a 
from and not merely, (as Professor Mitchill has maintained in a late 
= of | this wor' an) the result of a decomposition of the associated rocks, —O, 
“ was not of native origin. —O, 
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