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irenry Heady in composed larg'ely of garnet, and a considerable i)()r- 
lion of it has been sliipped by the 1'anite Conii)any to their mill at 
troudsbnrg. 
NOKTIl CAROLINA. 
Corundnm has been known to occur in (inantity in this State for 
over thirty years, l)ut emery lias until recently been known from only 
one locality, and liere the quantity was not ap])arently sufficient to be 
worthy of any development. This deposit has been descril)ed by 
(xenth" as occurring at the McCliristian place, 7 miles south of 
Friendship, Guilford Connty. 
During the last few years emery has been found in Macon County 
in what appears to be considerable quantity. Nothing definite can 
be stated regarding the rock in which it occurs, as it is greatly decom- 
])osed as far as it has been exposed by the excavations. It does have, 
however, very much the appearance of a decomposed basic magne- 
sian rock. There are a number of small outcrops of this saprolitic 
rock about 5 miles southwest of Franklin, the county seat, and emery 
in varying quantity occurs at all of them. 
These outcrops, as far as could be judged, are isolated and in no 
way connected with one another. They are lenticular in form and 
l)ut a few hundred feet w^ide, the longer axis having sometimes two or 
three times this length. While the general direction of the strike of 
these outcrops is nearly the same, they are not in even an approximate 
line as regards one another. For nearly 15 miles south of them and 
following the valley of the Little Tennessee River small isolated out- 
crops of peridotite are numerous. The country rock through Avhich 
these have forced their way is a hornblende-gneiss. 
Consid(M-able mining was done in 1898 by Dr. H. S. Tineas, of 
P^ranklin, at the Fairview mine, near North Skeener Gap, about a 
hundred tons of ore having been taken out and cleaned. The vein 
has been tapped at intervals for a distance of nearly !20() feet, good 
emery being encountered at each opening. All the work done was 
near the summit of Fairview Knob. 
One mile N. 25° W. of the Fairview mine, on the southwest slopes 
of Dobson Mountain, another opening has l)een made for emery in an 
outcrop of the same rock on the land of J. A. Waldroop. A vein of 
emery ore was uncovered here that was 15 feet wide. No mining has 
been done here, all the work being in the nature of prospecting. 
Emery has been found in similar outcrops on the lands of William 
Mann, three-fourths of a mile south, and of James Ledford, 1^ miles 
S. 30° E. of the Fairview mine. Preliminary fire tests were made 
upon the cleaned product of this ore, which proved it to be well 
"Bull. U. S. (ipol. Survey No. 74, 1801, p. .30. 
