Show its mountains beom with precious stones and metals veins of gold which ahll some pay be opened and enrich the country all kinds 0 gema known to science one of the mineralogical experts of a large mining company returned to new york after an extended trip through the south in the interest of his organization and in speaking about the mineral resources of the southern slates he said 1 I have passed through nearly all ibe mining sections of the south to ex aaroin e the mineral products of the interests of a number of capitalists and after a careful survey of the field it is my honest belief that the future mining operations of this country will be in the south instead of the west I 1 found the appalachian range particularly rich in all the auriferous and ores not only in virginia but the whole length into alabama in georgia the rich depos s are well known and companies are row rapidly organizing to mine various ores in south carolina posits of monazite crystals of cu rare metal known as cerium used only in chemistry and worth an ounce have been found so valuable that a big industry haa been built up in the piedmont section it is estimated this industry is now valued at several millions of dollars although it is only a few years old when I 1 visited the fields everybody was looking for monazite nd the business will bring in at atlease least to the people of the piedmont section this year owners of apparently worthless land have let it out to cori tractors at the rate of an aero and these miners make big profits besides A few years ago the owners would have been glad to have received three or four dollars per acre for this land there is more gold in the south than any man ever imagined traces of ii in the most unexpected places there must be some valuable feint hidden away in the mountains that will ome day be discovered and startle the auntry ou cripple creek will be nothing to the southern gold fields after they lave once been located it seems strange but the fact is nevertheless true the south has never been thoroughly cx for miika al alica gold products afore the war every body went west 3 ficia gold and the south hafl given r to cotton pi sugar und rioe tier the war nothing was done r g time to develop the indus 3 of the southern states but now we beginning to realize that a great i eloped fiel spreads out before vs Q are scores of gold prospectors ding mountains of the U looking for the treasures alm chiau tc light some day pi cik about the future 1 being found in africa vr it bore gold is buried in the appalachian ange of mountains than they will find in africani in the next years but che mountains are eo vast jand the region so little known that it will take me to locate the beat mines even infer the prospectors have been attract botha to tha e th ing about the southern anies is that bainy of the most precious tones have been picked up at various binte and where such jewels are proad out on the you can rest assured that there are others further down under the ground por instance at corundum hul some chires have been found here are tome I 1 secured from 0 miner they were not mining for sapphires sapp hires buthal pick them up wa pres aver eapp hires have been aund at this place and of them 1 are valued at 50 to and upward th fact is that we have a country capable of producing all the previous stones known to science but so much il has been given to the mining of iron coal oil silver and gold that the more precious products of the rocks leave been neglected I 1 dis in california when the gohl xe er was at its height miners threw up averal fairly good specimens monds but in their craze for the yellow detal they paid ho attention to the previous stones they knew all about gold mining but nothing about diamonds ow that the gold fields have been cx austed I 1 guess many of them wish hey had stopped and pocketed some of he precious stones they threw away f we made as thorough preparation or diamond mining as they do in south Afric awe would find this country much richer in materials than anybody anticipates ci A company bios recently been organized to developed dev elope the mines of precious stones inthe and it has a number of agents in the field malting p they will include in their work all of the precious stones diamonds emeralds sapphires sapp hires berels agnete and every other gem of any alue they will be provided with the proper machinery and not with coal slid gold mining implements it is all rong to suppose that a coal or gold miner would unearth the precious stones if they happened to bei nithe mountains the precious stones are not found where the gold and coal arc located it needs d instinct machinery rand and isis the thit def gem of this country the company which I 1 have been travel ing for has already made negotiations for large tracts of ameral land along the appalachian system and it will make immediate efforts to develop the mines I 1 have no doubt but they will strike many unexpected fields of pres cious gems and the country will ge a new idea of the resources of the mines of the south philadelphia times |