108 GOLD AND TIN DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. 
The above statements regarding size and value of the ore bodies of the Wilson mines 
not capable of verification by the writer and are given for what they may be worth. 
Prospects. — A number of small workings of either old or recent making were visited in 
the course of the recpnnaissance. These are briefly mentioned or described in the following 
paragraphs : 
Some work was done in the early days on a quartz vein occurring on the property of 
George R. Wallis,a about 4 miles northeast of Yorkville, and desultory exploration has 
been carried on up to a few years ago. It is said that John W. Mackay worked here as 
a common laborer before going to California. One shaft is said to have been over 100 feet 
deep. A vein ranging from 1 to 4 feet wide, striking N. 75° E. and dipping about 70° 
NW., has been opened up at various places for about three-fourths of a mile. The country 
rock appears to be a sheared granite. Granite appears close by. A 100-foot north- 
westerly diabase dike appears to fault the northeast part of the vein 200 or 300 feet to 
the northwest. The quartz carries rather abundant pyrite, some of which, as concen- 
trates, is said to run $100 per ton. It is reported that the ore averages $10 to $20. 
Messrs. Small & Johnson are prospecting in a small way on two properties about one- 
half mile northwest of Smyrna, York County, S. C. On what is called the Allison (formerly 
Bolin) place some rather promising-looking quartz with decomposed pyrite has been 
encountered in a vertical vein about 15 inches wide, which strikes about N. 70° E. A 
20-foot pit and a short tunnel comprised the development work at the time of visit. Not 
far from this, at the Bradley place, a 20-foot shaft has been sunk on what is said to be 
a vertical ore shoot 10 feet long in a 15-inch quartz vein. The values in the shoot are 
said to be good, while outside the shoot the vein is of very low grade. A little ore has 
been shipped to Perth Amboy, N. J. 
The Horn property, in the town of Smyrna, is said to have within a few feet of each 
other, three parallel quartz veins striking about N. 38° E and dipping steeply to the south- 
east, which in places are rather heavily impregnated with pyrite. These it is said are cut 
by a pyrite vein striking N. 30° W. and dipping about 45° NE. As the shallow pits, which 
were sunk years ago, were either caved or completely filled with water, the writer was able 
to judge of this occurrence only from material on a small dump. This was quartz heavily 
impregnated with partially decomposed pyrite. It was stated by the owner, Mr. Horn, 
that a ton of ore shipped to Jersey City gave returns of $43 gold and 26 ounces of silver, 
while 2 tons shipped to a Norfolk smelter gave very low returns. If gold is present in 
the partially oxidized pyrite it does not appear on panning. 
On the place of .James Love, about a quarter of a mile west of Broad River, at Smiths 
Ford, a little tunnel and shaft work was done years ago on a good-sized vein of massive 
white quartz, in which no indication of sulphides could be seen. It is not known whether 
or not gold was found here. 
About a mile north of Smiths Ford, on the east side of the river and about 12 miles 
southeast of Gaffney, is situated what is known as the Flint Hill mine. Several pits and 
two 50-foot shafts have been sunk on what appear to be tw T o northeastward-trending 
quartz veins which carry pyrite, and are said to assay $11 to $16 per ton. The work was 
done many years ago and no information could be gained concerning the extent of the 
deposit. 
At the Rosa Arrowwood mine, about 1 mile east of Smiths Ford, some good ore was 
taken from pockets in a northeasterly-trending quartz vein. The work was done years 
ago, and only a few old pits, partially filled and overgrown, remain to indicate that gold 
was ever present here. 
The Mitchell place is about a mile south of the Rosa Arrowwood. A %>w years ago a 
vein was opened here which was heavily impregnated with pyrite, and the prospectors 
were much encouraged by the general appearance of the ore, but when assays were made 
a Probably same as Wallace mine. See Nitze and Wilkens, Bull. North Carolina Geol. Survey No. 
10, 1897, p. 77. 
