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the lands of Messrs. Oram & Davis. This zone passes north-westward, 
crossing the county line in Bet’s gap, and shows copper at the Corner 
rock on the head of Cowee creek, in Macon county. 
The Buck knob zone shows in Macon at the Corbin knob, where some 
copper has been recently obtained. The belt here is broad. On Tessen 
tee and Middle creek, in the southern part of Macon, there is a large out- 
crop of gossan. On Middle creek, near Cabe’s mill, two openings were 
made before 1860, and a large vein cut, but in this instance, as well as all 
others in this whole copper district, so soon as the prospecters reached 
the upper part of a vein, they ceased to prosecute the work further. 
When these works were open, I obtained excellent yellow copper ores. 
The out-crops extend for the distance of one and a half miles. The prin- 
cipal part of the view belongs to a Cincinnati Company. The Company 
propose at an early day to erect a furnace for the reduction of these ores. 
This is no doubt valuable property. 
Again, there is a locality on Cortoogajay creek, four miles south-west 
from Franklin. This is known as the Patton property, and now belongs 
to the Cincinnatti Company. The vein is in Syenite. It is several feet 
in thickness, and at the time it was opened, produced very handsome 
Chalcopyrite. South-westward, at the base of the Nanteyalee mountain, 
there is another locality knowu as the Waldrope property, where copper 
occurs, with a fair prospect of a valuable mine. 
The whole belt crosses the Nanteyalee mountain and into the south- 
east corner of Clay county. The section is very mountainous and I have 
not explored it. The zone, however, shows on the west of the mountains, 
in Towns county, Georgia, where there are valuable copper properties. 
In passing over the belt I have only referred to such localities as are 
known to produce copper. There are quite a number of localities where 
I have no doubt valuable deposites of copper exist. A noteworthy fact 
which I have learned is, that the ores on this entire zone in North Caro- 
lina are remarkably free from Arsenical impurities. This will certainly 
add to their value when the time comes for their manipulation in the 
furnace. The hopes of our people have been so often blasted as to the 
prospect of railway transportation, that the works at all the copper local- 
ities are in a state of dilapidation and it is very rare when a man can be 
found who will take the trouble to furnish a dozen pounds of ore as 
samples. 
Magnetic iron exists at numerous points in the counties west of the 
Blue Ridge. Lithologically considered, it is not confined to one class of 
rocks, but has a wide range in its distribution. My explorations in refer- 
ence to it have been limited. I have, however, gathered some facts that 
