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Show GOLD FIND IN GEORGIA. fcediscovery of the 3Iine Worked hy De Sofe asd His Followers 300 Tears Ago. Mr. W. C. Padget, a sawmill mar operating a mill in the mountains north east of this place, has discovered somi interesting relics in the way of stont mortars and other implements. Mr. Pad-get Pad-get secured the services of Professor 21arl,an old mining engineer, to prospect pros-pect ihe place. In one of the excavations excava-tions they discovered the spur of a quartz vein, which they went down for a bii 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 saidj "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 utensil1? and the other relics hewn from the solid stone. All this proves conclusively the site of an ancient mine. As to the mineral deposit, there are seven well defined vein3 that are legitimate in every sense, wing a well defined igneus granite foot wall rock and overhanging slate top wall running northeast and southwest, dip east southeast. Ellijay (Ga.) Dispatch. |