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Show GOLD IN THE EAST. . B Immense Amount of Precious Metal B Waiting for the Miner. BBJ "I bcllovo that from Hnllfax to Ten- BBJ ncsscc, In a lino winding around B through Mnryland, Virginia and the B Carolines, thoro Is going to bo a ro- BB hnbllltntton of gold mining," said Col. BBJ A. B. Rubs, of Montgomery county, BBJ Md., at tho National last wcok, says BB tho Washington Post. "When tho B miners- wont West In 1849 they left B this very Held I nm speaking of, and B after that field was explored thoy BB camo back to a richer field In Colo- BB rndo, which thoy had ontlroly ovor- BH looked. After a tlmo thoy went to BB Alaska, and Just a short tlmo ago rich B fields wero found In Nevada, from B which millions havo been extracted. BB But It seems to bo littlo known that B right around this neighborhood of BB Maryland nnd Virginia thero ara rich BB deposits of tho precious metal. I B think It would surprise many pcoplo BB to know thnt not long ngo In my coin- BB ty so mo gold was assnyed that yielded BB $238 to tho ton, whllo lio average BB was $8 to $10. In anothw placo thero BB $2,000 was dug up In ono day, and all BB this by entirely crudo mot hods. It BB runs through n voln of quartz sorno BB eighty feet down. Near Orcat Falls BB soven voIiib havo been opened from BB thrco to twenty feet wldo. Six Colo- BB rndo mining capitalists a day or two B ago bought COO acros or land In that BB locality for tho very purposo of ox- B plorlng this, It Is not confined to BB that locality, cither. I havo driven in B my buggy COO miles from Mnryland BJ down through tho Carollnas nnd havo B found many places whero tho samo BJ conditions provall. In South Carolina BJ thero aro mountains of Iron oro that BJ havo novor been touchod. I toll you fBJ tho mineral resources of tho custom ISj Souta aro unknown." JjjB |
