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of the presence of copper discovered at many other places, as Shell Ridge, 
Scott’s Creek, Sugarloaf, Panther Knob, Wolf Creek, &c. The first 
named of the above mines, Waryhut, had been opened by a shaft said to 
have been 100 feet deep. The minei3 on Waryhut creek, about six miles 
southeast of Webster; the vein was described as five to eight feet thick, 
the ore copper pyrites, with the usual carbonates and silicates near the 
surface. The rock is a tough, grayish syenytic gneiss. The Cullowhee 
mine is on Cullowhee mountain, southwest of the former, and at 
an elevation of several hundred feet above it. The rock is a gray 
gneiss, with hornblende in immediate association with the vein. The 
thickness of the latter is estimated to be about eight feet. The 
ore is copper pyrites, but too much weathered to allow an estimate 
of its richness. The vein was not well exposed, and so no minute 
examination could be made. A similar remark may be made in regard 
to the Savannah Mine, nine miles west of Webster, on Savannah Creek. 
The rock here is a massive coarse garnetiferous syenyte, and the vein 
about nine feet thick. The ore is copper pyrites, but no fresh surfaces 
were exposed, and therefore no good specimens could be procured for 
analysis. My impression of the Cullowhee and Savannah Mines was that 
they are very promising and well worthy of the attention of capitalists. 
Of the Waryhut I could form no opinion, because it was not accessible. 
There is in the northern part of Haywood county a copper mine, near 
Wilkins’ Creek, where two shafts have been sunk and a drift of 75 feet 
cut; but the vein was not accessible. There was however a very formi- 
dable outcrop of gossan , indicating a large vein. For further informa- 
tion of this mine, as well as of others belonging to this range, I refer to Mr. 
Smith’s paper in the Appendix, p. 112. 
Of the other copper range, in Ashe and Alleghany, one of the most 
notable localities is Elk Knob and its spurs, within a radius of three or 
four miles. The prevalent and characteristic rock of this mountain and 
region is garnetiferous hornblende slate, with gray gneiss. The Elk Knob 
Mine is on the northwest slope of the mountain, at an elevation of some 
4000 feet above the sea. The vein which cropped out in a deep ravine, 
was insufficiently exposed; but it is evidently not less than six or seven 
feet thick. The rock is a dark gray gneiss. The ore at the surface was 
mostly iron pyrites with a moderate admixture of copper pyrites. At 
the southern base of the mountain the Miller Mine had been opened, and 
a shaft sunk 60 feet, and some fine specimens of calcho-pyrite were still 
obtainable among the rubbish, but nothing can be stated as of my own 
observation, as to the character or size of the vein. At other points on 
