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property of Mr. John 0. Moore, which lies adjoining the Georgia line, 
works were carried on previous to the commencement of the late war. 
A stamp mill was erected and some eight or ten thousand pennyweights 
of Gold obtained. The yield to the ton of ore was good, but the break- 
ing out of the war caused a suspension of operations, and the parties 
scattered and never returned. 
This zone passes in the direction of Fort Hembree, and crossing Hi- 
wassee river, follows up the valley of Tesquittee. Hear the head of this 
creek there exists Gold on the lands of the late Capt. W. B. Tidwell, 
Capt. W. P. Moore and Mr. Shearer. Some of the ores obtained from 
this locality I found rich in gold. There is but little gold on any of these 
ranges upon the eastern 6ide of the Hanteyalee mountains. I know of 
but two points where attempts have been made to mine for it. One of 
these is on the range just under consideration. It is on the waters of 
Briar Town creek, on the eastern side of the Nanteyalee river. It has 
been said that the quartz at this locality yield a fair per cent, of gold. I 
have not, however, examined the ore myself, and cannot vouch for the 
truth of the statement. The other locality referred to is in Macon county, 
about twelve miles in a southeasterly direction from Franklin, on the 
waters of Sugar Town river. Many years ago an'operation was carried 
on upon this property and fair wages was realized. Mr. Silas McDowell, 
the owner of the property, has informed me that the gold obtained was 
very pure. He states that he had at one time regular octohedral crystals 
of the metal. This as a gold mine is isolated, having no connection with 
any system of Gold bearing rocks. 
In the Southeastern corner of Macon county in Whitner’s Valley and 
the Horse Cove mining has been done for gold to a considerable extent. 
The gold along this zone has been obtained from branch and creek de- 
posits. It is not known that veins exists there. Indeed, no systematic 
search has been made for them. There is apparently a system of trough 
like vallies or gulches lying immediately along the Southern base of the 
main ridge, and between it and Buzzard mountain in which these mines 
exist. In 1856 I observed at one point in these vallies a narrow zone of 
Talco Micacioue slates which led ms to the conclusion that such a zone 
once existed filling up these narrow gorges or vallies, and by abrazive 
forces had been carried away, leaving the gold in gravel beds. 
This zone continues Horth-eastward through Casher’s Valley and along 
the Southern base of Hogback mountain which is a section of the main 
ridge. In the Toxaway, Georgetown and White Water vallies mining 
has been done similar to that in Horse cove. At one point in Hogback, 
I have been informed by old miners, that there is a spring breaking out 
