Show rdgo4 GOLD IN THE EAST + A Ann Immense Amount of Precious Metal it pres Waiting for the Miner Icln I believe that from Halifax to Tennessee lerli nessee In a line winding around ambay through Maryland Virginia and the j tie bayw Carolinas thero is going to be a re offer habilitation of gold mining Said Col irmen A B Russ of Montgomery county I a Isle r i Md at tho National last week says it dittot tho Washington Post When the on to miners went West In 1849 they left rti fo h this very field I am speaking of and rhrn after they that field was explored I tali came back to a richer field In Colorado around Colo-rado which they had entirely overlooked jelne looked After a time they went to iftlorei Alaska and just a short time ago rich C tot fields were found In Nevada from legene 5cni which millions havo been extracted jUhit But it seems to bo little known that iFloi right around this neighborhood of arms si s Maryland and Virginia there are rlcb au deposits of tho precious metal I think It would surprise many people leaf to know that not long ago in my county ° q coun-ty some gold was assayed that yielded I tenon 23G to the ton while ho average ten-on was 8 to 10 In anothw place there nary 2000 was In day and all dug up one a s this by entirely crude methods It llrl runs through a vein of quartz some ii re eighty feet down Near Great Falls a tt seven veins have been opened from 8ms three to twenty feet wide Six Colorado latin Colo-rado mining capitalists a day or two trdi ago bought 600 acres of land in tkat locality for tho very purpose of exploring 1a ex-ploring this It Is not confined to Iuld that locality either I havo driven m IM my buggy COO miles from Maryland it t down through tho Carolinas and W lust found many places where tho same 11 conditions prevail In South Carolln I Ie I there are mountains of Iron ore that I Jit have never been touched I tell you Jitn the mineral resources of tho eastern Qte South are unknown Ill ryt1 |