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hands in one month produced five hundred and fifty pounds of trimed, 
merchantable Mica. This was over four pounds per day to the hand. If 
similar results can be realized the year around it would certainly make a 
handsome business. There are other flattering prospects in Haywood 
county. 
Passing into Jackson there are increasing evidences of dike fissures, and 
the general character of the rocks is more favorable to Mica mines. Sev- 
eral veins have been opened in the county and a good deal of Mica taken 
out and shipped, but I am sorry that I cannot give any definite informa- 
tion as to the status of operations upon the mines at present. There is, 
however, strong evidence that Jackson county will prove to be valuable 
as a mining district for mica. The range passes from Jackson into Macon 
county. In this county granite dikes are more numerous than in any 
other county 1 have visited [excepting only Mitchell. There are several 
openings in this county. The first made and worked is a mine at the 
head of Cowee creek, now owned and operated by Mr. Brooks, a gentle- 
man from the State of Hew York. This mine has yielded a large amount 
of Mica of good quality and of average size. The crystalization of the 
Mica is firm and its average and color good. The proprietor is not 
operating a large force upon the mine at present, having divided his 
forces for the purpose of prospecting upon other properties. This vein,, 
which is called Mica city, is evidently a fisure vein. It is located in 
Gneiss, and the Gneiss at this place bears copper. Indeed, there is in 
the quartz and Feldspar that make up the Mica vein, a smaller vein of 
Pyrite which is magnetic, that bears some Copper and perhaps a little 
Hickle. In the immediate neighborhood, and on the same range, there 
is a vein in Gneiss rock that contains Argentiferous Lead, Zinc Blend, 
Copper Pyrites and Pyrrhotite. I mention this in connection with this 
Mica vein because it renders that locality unusually interesting. 
West of Mica city and on the western side of the Tennessee river, there 
is another locality where Mr. Brooks is opening for Mica with flattering 
propects. Hear the Watauga gap, and not exceeding a quarter of a mile 
from the State road, is a locality known as rocky face. Here considerable 
work has been done and several hundred pounds of merchantable Mica 
taken* out. Within the last year this property changed hands and from 
some cause unknown to me has not been operated upon since the change 
was made. 
About one and a half miles from Franklin a mica vein has been tested 
on the lands of Dr. B. W. Moore. The vein is located in Gneiss, and 
bears the marks of a regular dike. In power it is about six feet with 
branches. It is Feldspar with a central quartz vein. The Mica usually 
