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Show GOLD FIND IN GEORGIA. Rediscovery of the Kline Worked by De So'o and His Followers 30O Years Ago. Mr. W. C. Padget, a sawmill man operating a mill in the mountains northeast north-east of this place, has discovered Boni9 interesting relics in the way of stone mortars and other implements. Mr. Pad-get Pad-get secured the services of Professor Clark, an old mining engineer, to prospect pros-pect the place. In one of the excavations excava-tions they discovered the spur of a quartz vein, which they went down for a bit. It proved better than they had fancied. They found gold sticking in the quartz in plenty, visible to the naked eye. Professor Pro-fessor Clark said: "It is a valuable find, beyond doubt. I believe it to be the exact spot where De Soto and his followers located and mined for gold and silver 800 years ago. There is every evidence to prove this. The remains of a large fort, the old excavations, ex-cavations, some of which have trees growing in them 200 years old, the cooking cook-ing utensils and the other relics hewn from the solid Btone. All this proves conclusively the site of an ancient mine. Ab to the mineral deposit, there are seven well defined veins that are legitimate in every sense, having a well defined igneus granite foot wall rock and overhanging slate top wall running northeast and southwest, dip east southeast." Ellijay (Ga.) Dispatch. |