core) were bored on the Capps vein. Fig. 5 shows their position relative to the mine-workings in plan, as well as a vertical section of the ground which they explored.
A, Capps vein; B, parallel vein; C, Jane vein; D, diorite; E, 90-foot level; F, 78-foot level; G, 130-foot level; II, open cut; S, saprolites; m, drift; n, drift; 1, borehole, 350 feet deep; 2, borehole, 250 feet deep: 3, borehole, 220 feet deep; 4, borehole, 200 feet deep; 5, Penman shaft, 80 feet deep; 6, Bissell shaft, 125 feet deep; 7, Mauney shaft, 130 feet deep; 8, Baldwin shaft, 120 feet deep; 9, Gooch shaft, 10, Old shaft; 11, Isabella shaft, 160 feet deep.
The Capps vein was penetrated by each borehole, and showed a regular thickness of about 20 feet, with walls of fine- and coarsegrained diorite, at times porphyritic. The dip is quite constant, about 30° S.W. The vein-matter is quartz, averaging $6 to $7 per ton, as shown by assays of the drill cores. The drill-holes are certainly very satisfactory, in so far as they prove the continuity in depth, and regularity in thickness of the Capps vein; and, on a large body of ore, such as this is, the assays of the drill cores are of value as showing at least the presence of mineable ores.
The McGinn mine comprises the Jane vein, worked to a depth of 160 feet in the Isabella shaft, and a cross-vein on the northern extension of the Jane, known as the Copper vein, which has been worked to the depth of 110 feet as a copper mine.
The Ferris mine is situated 5-| miles northeast of Charlotte. The character of the vein-matter is milky quartz, carrying free gold and pyrite. It lies with the schists, striking 1ST. 25° E. and dipping 70° X."W. The quartz is broken up into stringers, the widest solid portion being 12 inches. The vein, as a whole, is stated to vary from 2-| to 5 feet in thickness. In the fall of 1894 the mine was being worked by two shafts, respectively 56 and 95 feet deep. The ore was treated in a Chilean mill of 3 tons capacity. It is stated that the concentrates assay from $45 to $60 per ton.
MINES IN GASTON COUNTY.
Among the mines of this county are the Oliver and Farrar (12 miles northwest of Charlotte), the former being situated on the Catawba river near the " big bend," and reported to have been worked by one of the early German settlers prior to the Revolutionary war; the Rhyne and Derr (17 miles west of Charlotte), the Duffle and Robinson (16 miles wrest of Charlotte), the Smith and Sam Beattie (13 miles west of Charlotte), the McLean (15 miles southwest of Charlotte), the Long Creek and the Kings Mountain.
The Long Creek mine is situated in the northern part of the county,
