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Show GOLD FIND IN GEORGIA. Rediscovery of the Mine Worked by De So ukd His Followers SOO Years Ago. Mr. W. C. Padget, a sawmill mar operating b mill in the mountains nortlf east of this place, has discovered sortu 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 6pur of a quartz vein, which they went down for a bii. It proved better than they had fancied. They found gold sticking in the quart in plenty, visible to the naked eye. Professor Pro-fessor Clark saidj "It is a valuable find, beyond doubt. I believe it to be tha 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 utensil's 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 sever well defined veins that are legitimate in every sense, fr-ving a well defined igneus granite foot wall rock and overhanging Blate top wall running northeast and southwest, dip east southeast," Ellijay (Ga.) Dispatch. |