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and on the Little mountain, in the direction of Waynesville. At these 
localities everything seems favorable for copper. 
At this point I must leave this zone to discuss a copper locality in Hay- 
wood county in an entirely different geology. It is on Wilkin’s creek, 
twenty -five or six miles from Waynesville and down the Pigeon river 
towards the Tennessee State line. It is lithologically identical with 
Ducktown, and is in the same geological horizon. When I visited the 
locality in 1860 a considerable amount of work had been done by Messrs. 
Hill & McCraken. They first sunk a shaft upon the crest of the hill and 
found some pockets of black copper. They then abandoned the shaft 
and drove in a tunnel from the side of the hill. This tunnel penetrated 
the vein into which they cut some twelve or fifteen feet without reaching 
the opposite wall. The vein is almost solid Arsenical Pyrite, precisely 
such as constitutes the veins at Ducktown. I supposed, without analy- 
sis, that the vein matter contained about the same per cent, of copper 
that the same material does at Ducktown at the bottom of the black cop- 
per. At least the copper Pyrites distributed through it appears to be 
about the same. I was assured that the out-crops of gossan extend for 
four miles North-eastward, and generally as bold as at the locality under 
consideration. This is the only point outside of Ducktown where I have 
seen Ducktown duplicated. This locality deserves special exploration ; 
and needs only capital and enterprize to make it a valuable copper mining 
district. 
After passing Waynesville the copper belt widens out, the zone we 
have been following, passing into Jackson county at the head of Scott’s 
creek. There are several out crops between this point and the Way- 
chutta mine. Some of these localities have been tested by Messrs. Oram 
& Davies who are the owners of sixteen thousand acres of land em- 
bracing these out-crops. The tests made, developed copper, and I have 
been informed by reliable gentlemen that the veins are of good size, and 
the ore, (Chalcopyrite,) of excellent quality. 
On the head waters of South Richland, a zone sits in, in which there 
are out-crops of Gossan. When I examined this section in 1860, I was 
much pleased with the prospects for Copper. Some work had then been 
done on the top of the Caney ‘.Fork laid , a mountain dividing the waters 
of Pigeon and Tuckasegee. The prospecter had cut a large quartz vein 
which showed handsome copper ore. Along the spurs of the mountain 
on the Pigeon or Richland side, I saw two fine Gossan out-crops. South- 
westward from this point, on the waters of Caney Fork, there are large 
exposures of Gossan in Gunstocker Cave. The zone passes down Caney 
Fork, and crossing the Tuckasegee river, runs into the Cullowhee moun- 
