gold remained in the log-washers; much was caught on the plates below the fine screens; and the smallest amount, which was all fine gold, was caught on the slime plates. Trouble was also experienced here by the flouring of the quicksilver. The bottom land lying directly to the east of the mine is being worked in shallow pits by tributors, who wash the grit and soft bed-rock slates in sluice boxes. Panning showed up very well here, and the ground might pay for hydraulic working on a large scale.
MINES IN LINCOLN, CATAWBA, DAVIE, ALEXANDER AND YADKIN COUNTIES.
Gold has been found in these counties in isolated localities; but with few exceptions no mining work of any consequence has been done.
The Dixon mine, in Yadkin county, is a new discovery (1895). The vein is reported to be several feet in thickness, of high-grade sugary quartz, containing some copper. Only prospecting work has been carried on. The developments consist of a 40-foot shaft and 140 feet of levels on the vein. A hundred tons of ore taken out had a reported value of $5 per ton.
THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN BELT.
MINES IN CALDWELL COUNTY.
The Miller, Scott Hill, Pax Hill and Baker mines are situated within a distance of 1-| miles from Johns river, and near the southwestern boundary line of the county. The mines are located in each instance in close proximity to a wide dike of olivine diabase, which strikes through the country for many miles in a direction X. 20° AY.
The Miller, Scott Hill, and Pax Hill veins strike X. 50°-G0° E. and dip INVW.; as far as observed they are from 8 to 12 inches in thickness.
At the Baker mine the strike of the veins is X. 35°-45° W., and the dip is 60°-70° IST.E. The thickness is from 2 to 5 feet; the ores contain auriferous and argentiferous galena.
The Bee Mountain mine is about 4 miles northeast of the Baker mine, and the ores contain zinc-blende, galena and chalcopyrite.
MINES IN BURKE, MCDOWELL AND RUTHERFORD COUNTIES.
By far the greater proportion of gold coming from these counties has been won by placer mining. With few exceptions, the quartzveins are too narrow to justify deep mining. But even in the cases where the veins are of sufficient width, mining operations have been very spasmodic and of limited extent. Placer mining on a larger scale has been carried on during the past years only at a few points. Such
