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PUBLICATIONS. 



ECONOMIC PAPERS. 



1. The Maple-sugar Industry in Western North Carolina, by W. W. Ashe, 

 1897. 8°, 34 pp. Postage 2 cents. 



2. Recent Road Legislation in North Carolina, by J. A. Holmes. Out of 

 print. 



3. Talc and Pyrophyllite Deposits in North Carolina, by Joseph Hyde Pratt, 

 1900. 8°, 29 pp., 2 maps. Postage 2 cents. 



4. The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1900, by Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, 1901. 8°, 36 pp., and map. Postage 2 cents. 



\- Takes up in some detail Occurrences of Gold, Silver, Lead and Zinc, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Cor- 

 undum, Granite, Mica, Talc, Pyrophyllite, Graphite, Kaolin, Gem Minerals, Monazite, Tungsten, 

 Building Stones, and Coal in North Carolina. 



5. Road Laws of North Carolina, by J. A. Holmes. Out of print. 



6. The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1901, by Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, 1902. 8°, 102 pp. Postage k cents. 



Gives a list of Minerals found in North Carolina; describes the Treatment of Sulphuret Gold Ores, 

 giving Localities; takes up the Occurrence of Copper in the Virgilina, Gold Hill, and Ore Knob districts; 

 gives Occurrence and Uses of Corundum; a List of Garnets, describing Localities; the Occurrence, 

 Associated Minerals, Uses and Localities of Mica; the Occurrence of North Carolina Feldspar, with 

 Analyses; an extended description of North Carolina Gems and Gem Minerals; Occurrences of Mon- 

 azite, Barytes, Ocher; describes and gives Occurrences of Graphite and Coal; describes and gives 

 Occurrences of Building Stones, including Limestones; describes and gives Uses for the various forms 

 of Clay; and under the head of "Other Economic Minerals" describes and gives Occurrences of 

 Chromite, Asbestos, and Zircon. 



7. Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1902, by Joseph Hyde Pratt, 

 1903. 8°, 27 pp. Postage 2 cents. 



8. The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1903, by Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, 1904. 8°, 74 pp. Postage 4 cents. 



Gives decsriptions of Mines worked for Gold in 1903; descriptions of Properties worked for Copper 

 during 1903, together with assay of ore from Twin-Edwards Mine; Analyses of Limonite ore from Wil- 

 son Mine; the Occurrence of Tin; in some detail the Occurrences of Abrasives; Occurrences of Monazite 

 and Zircon; Occurrences and Varieties of Graphite, giving Methods of Cleaning; Occurrences of Marble 

 and other forms of Limestone; Analyses of Kaolin from Barber Creek, Jackson County, North Carolina. 



9. The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1904, by Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, 1905. 8°, 95 pp. Postage 4 cents. 



Gives Mines Producing Gold and Silver during 1903 and 1904 and Sources of the Gold Produced during 

 1904; describes the mineral Chromite, giving Analyses of Selected Samples of Chromite from Mines, 

 in Yancey County; describes Commercial Varieties of Mica, giving the manner in which it occurs in 

 North Carolina, Percentage of Mica in the Dikes, Methods of Mining, Associated Minerals, Localities, 

 Uses; describes the mineral Bayrtes, giving Method of Cleaning and Preparing Barytes for Market; 

 describes the use of Monazite as used in connection with the Preparation of the Bunsen Burner, and 

 goes into the use of Zircon in connection with the Nernst Lamp, giving a List of the Principal Yttrium 

 Minerals; describes the minerals containing Corundum Gems, Hiddenite and Other Gem Minerals, 

 and gives New Occurrences of these Gems; describes the mineral Graphite and gives new Uses for same. 



10. Oyster Culture in North Carolina, by Robert E. Coker, 1905. 8°, 39 pp. 

 Postage 2 cents. 



11. The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1905, by Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, 1906. 8°, 95 pp. Postage 4 cents. 



Describes the mineral Cobalt and the principal minerals that contain Cobalt; Corundum Localities; 

 Monazite and Zircon in considerable detail, giving Analyses of Thorianite; describes Tantalum Minerals 

 and gives description of the Tantalum Lamp; gives brief description of Peat Deposits; the manufacture 

 of Sand-lime Brick; Operations of Concentrating Plant in Black Sand Investigations; gives Laws 

 Relating to Mines, Coal Mines, Mining, Mineral Interest in Land, Phosphate Rock, Marl Beds. 



12. Investigations Relative to the Shad Fisheries of North Carolina, by John 

 N. Cobb, 1906. 8°, 74 pp., 8 maps. Postage 6 cents. 



13. Report of Committee on Fisheries in North Carolina. Compiled by 

 Joseph Hyde Pratt, 1906. 8°, 78 pp. Postage 4 cents. 



14. The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1906, by Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, 1907. 8°, 144 pp., 20 pi., and 5 figs. Postage 10 cents. 



Under the head of "Recent Changes in Gold Mining in North Carolina," gives methods of mining, 

 describing Log Washers, Square Sets, Cyanide Plants, etc., and detailed descriptions of Gold Deposits 

 and Mines are given; Copper Deposits of Swain County are described; Mica Deposits of Western North 

 Carolina are described, giving Distribution and General Character, General Geology, Occurrence, 

 Associated Minerals, Mining and Treatment of Mica, Origin, together with a description of many of 

 the mines; Monazite is taken up in considerable detail as to Location and Occurrence, Geology, includ- 

 ing classes of Rocks, Age, Associations, Weathering, method of Mining and Cleaning, description of 

 Monazite in Original Matrix. 



