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operations upon the mine. Col. Jenks enclosed the grounds and allowed 
no one to go within the enclosure without a written permit from the 
superintendent. He has kept the results of his operations concealed from 
the public. I made application to Col. J., through his superintendent, 
for permission to examine the mine with a view to reporting upon it for 
the State. He granted permission, with the restriction that the report 
should be submitted to him for his approval before it should be given to 
the public. Under such restrictions I declined to examine the mine at 
all. I, however, have confidence in the value of the mine, based upon 
my observations previous to the sale of the property. The Corundum at 
this locality has Ripidolite, Tourmaline, and Margarite as its immediate 
and most intimate associates ; besides these there are Chalcedony, Chro- 
mite, Spinel, Actinolite, Asbestns and Anthophyllite upon the mining 
grounds. 
It is unpleasant to be excluded from information which the State is 
entitled to and the scientific world desire, in regard to this mine, and I 
am sure public opinion will not approve a policy which has deprived 
them of it. On three or four different properties in the same neighbor- 
hood, Corumdum has been found and a strong probability exists that val- 
uable crystals may be found upon them. The line of out-crops crosses 
the mountain which divides the Tennessee valley proper from the Sugar 
Town valley. On reaching the Tennessee valley the disturbing force 
seems to have scattered and the dikes are therefore scattered. This may 
be attributed to the configuration of the Blue Ridge at the head of the 
Tennessee river. Here the ridge forms a considerable curvature around 
the head of the river, and tending nearly north for eight or ten miles 
forms a junction with the Nanteyalee chain which is one of the tranverse 
chains forming one of the peculiarities of our mountain system. Had the 
axis of disturbance which caused this system of dikes continued upon a 
direct line as it has done to this point, then it would have entered the 
central mass of the Blue Ridge beyond the Nanteyalee chain. The dis- 
turbing force here conformed to the relation it held to the ridge from 
Mitchell county to the Tennessee valley, a distance of an hundred and 
thirty miles, and shifting to the northwestward, reappeared at Buck 
creek, a tributary of the Nanteyalee, holding its relative distance from the 
summit of the Rlue Ridge. 
On reappearing it has produced the grandest mass of Chrysolite rock 
in the States of this Union — perhaps in the world. The out-crop is a 
mile and a half in length and covers at least four hundred acres. While 
all the other out-crops described are inclosed in Gneiss, at Buck creek it 
is inclosed in a Hornblendic rock. Over the whole area of this Chrysolite 
