Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1916 — GOLD IN EASTERN STATES [ARTICLE]

GOLD IN EASTERN STATES

With Silver and Other Metals Year’s Production Is Around $30(000,000. Not all of the gold of this country comes from Alaska and the Rocky Mountain states. A good-sixed lump of it, more than 10,000 ounces, worth $224,250, Is dug out of the mountains here In the East, remarks the New York Sun. Gold hunters dreamed for years of hidden wealth of yellow metal In the southern part of the Appalachian range. Some of them stopped dreaming and went to work, missing an Eldorado but gaining enough profit to pay Well for their dally labor. As a result 69 gold and placer mines and 24 deep gold mines have been developed. The most productive of these are in North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The last-named state has not done so well as In some previous years, but both the others have exceeded the production of 1914. The largest placer mine is In Rutherford county. North Carolina, and the most productive deep mine in Montgomery county, in the same state. But the whole story of rqetal mining In the East is not told In the quest for gold. Besides this precious mineral, sliver, copper, lead and zinc have been produced In quantities sufficient to make a total last year of almost thirty million dollars. This Is nearly three times the value of the preceding year’s production, the Increase in gold alone being more than fifty thousand dollars.