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The locality has been known but for a few months, and appears 

 to be valuable. Three samples examined at the Mint, yielded as fol- 

 lows : — 



No. 1 yielded at the rate of 744 grains per cwt. of ore, or $610.00 per ton. 

 No. 2 „ 960 „ 787,20 „ 



No. 3 „ 206 „ 168.80 ,, 



Average, 636 522 



The quartz which forms the matrix of the gold, crops out amidst 

 a decomposed talcose slate, so that quarrying is very easy. Ores of 

 copper and iron are also present. 



Messrs. Bowman & Ebbetl, of New York, state that much gold 

 appears to be disseminated throughout the gangue, in so minute a 

 state of division, as to be invisible to the naked eye. 



The following extract of a letter from Prof. Emmons, of 

 Albany, describes the geological character of the locality. 



The geological formation consists of the talcose slate, mainly in a 

 state of entire decomposition, or disintegration, probably, to a great 

 depth; subordinate to the slate there are regular masses of hornblende 

 rock, or more properly, sienite, which appears often in large beds, 

 forming knolls upon the surface. 



In addition to the hornblende, is the quartz, or flint rock, in beds or 

 seams, traversing the slate in lines parallel to that of the slate, all of 

 which runs N. and S. or N. N. W. ; these quartz veins constitute 

 the matrix of the gold ; they vary in width from half an inch to fifty 

 feet, all of which appears to be auriferous. 



Having satisfied myself of the character of the beds, and of the 

 rock formation generally, I proceeded on the second day to deter- 

 mine the fact, whether the gold was common to the seams of quartz 

 which I had found in place; I selected from three of these seams or 

 beds, two of them narrow, the other from a bed at least 50 feet thick; 

 in each and all of them I obtained gold, Mr. Derby washing it for 

 me. The fifty feet bed, of course, was not tested as it should be; but 

 a specimen of the mass, taken at random, which contained oxide of 

 iron, and which appeared as favourable as any part. 



I did not indeed expect to find it, but there was no doubt of the 

 fact. It is not so rich apparently as the thinner beds, and the par- 

 ticles of gold are smaller; but it was found in the first and only piece 

 of the rock which I tried. 



The most important point which I supposed you wished me to di- 



