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sion, from uliicli tliere i.s hardly yet a revival. Accordiiif: to the best olficial esti- 

 mates the gold production of the southern Allegheny region for the century from 1799 

 to 1898, inclusive, has been something over $46,000,000, disti-ibuted as follows: 



North Carolina $21 , 926, 376 



Georgia 16, 658, 630 



South Carolina 3, 961 , .S63 



Virginia, slightly in excess of 3, 216, 343 



Alaliama, slightly in excess of 437, 927 



Tennessee, slightly in excess of 167, 405 



Maryland 47, 068 



Total, slightly in excess of 46, 415, 612 



Authorities: Becker, Gold Fields of the Southern Appalachians, in the Sixteenth 

 Annual Report United States Geological Survey, 1895; Day, Jlineral Resources of 

 the United States, Seventeenth Annual Report United States Geological Survey, 

 part 3, 1896; Nitze, Gold Mining and Metallurgy in the Southern States, in North 

 Carolina Geological Survey Report, republished in Mineral Resources of the United 

 States, Twentieth Annual Report United States Geological Survey, part 6, 1899; 

 Lanman, Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, 1849. 



(42) Extension of Georcia laws, 1830 (p. 117): "It is hereby ordained that all 

 the laws of Georgia are extended o\-er the Cherokee country; that after the tirst day of 

 June, 1830, all Indians then and at that time residing in said territory, shall be lialile 

 and subject to such laws and regulations sis the legislature may hereafter prescribe; 

 that all laws, usages, and customs made and established and enforced in the said terri- 

 tory, by the said Cherokee Indians, be, and the same are hereby, on and after the 

 1st day of June, 1830, declared null and void; and no Indian, or descendant of an 

 Indian, residing within the Creek or Cherokee nations of Indians, shall be <leemed 

 a competent witness or party to any suit in any court where a white man is a defend- 

 ant." — Extract from the act passed by the Georgia legislature on December 20, 1828, 

 "to add the territory within this state and occupied by the Cherokee Indians to 

 the counties of DeKalb et al., and to extend the laws of this state over the same." 

 Aullurritifx: Drake, Indians, p. 439, ed. 1880; Royce, Cherokee Nation of Indians, in 

 Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, p. 260, 1888. 



(43) Removal forts, 1838 (p. 130): For collecting the Cherokee preparatory to 

 the Removal, the following stockade forts were built: In North Carolina, Fort Liml- 

 say, on the south side of the Tennessee river at the junction of Nantahala, in Swain 

 county; Fort Scott, at .\quone, farther up Nantahala river, in Macon county; Fort 

 Montgomery, at Robbinsville, in (frahain county; Fort Hembrie, at Hayesville, in 

 Clay county; Fort Delaney, at Valleytown, in Cherokee county; Fort Butler, at 

 Murphy, in the same county. In (ieorgia. Fort Scudder, on Frogtow'n creek, north 

 of Dahlonega, in Lumpkin county; Fort Ciilmer, near EUijay, in Ciilnier county; 

 Fort Coosa watee, in Murray county; Fort Talking-rock, near Jasper, in Pickens 

 county; Fort Buffington, near Canton, in Cherokee county. In Tennessee, Fort 

 Cass, at Calhoun, on Hiwassee river, in McMinn county. In Alabama, Fort Turkey- 

 town, on Coosa river, at Center, in Cherokee county. Aitllmritii: .\utlior's personal 

 information. 



(44) McNair's (Jrave, (p. 132): Just inside the Tennessee line, where the Cona- 

 sauga river bends again into Georgia, is a stone-walled grave, with a slab, on which 

 is an epitaph which tells its own story of the Removal heartbreak. McNair was a 

 white man, prominent in the Cherokee Nation, whose wife was a daughter of the 

 chief, Vann, who welcomed the Moravian missionaries and gave his own house for 

 their use. The date shows that sIk; filed while the Removal was in progress, possibly 



