South Mountain belt in ^orth Carolina (page 68), and, as in that district, the gold produced has been obtained almost entirely from placerdeposits. The present operations are purely of a desultory character. Among the more extensive deposits might be mentioned those of Wolfe creek and Tiger river, located on the boundary between Spartanburg and Greenville counties at the foot of Hogback mountain. The gold in these bottoms is derived from small quartz-veins having the same strike and dip, and being in other respects similar to those of the South Mountain district in x\Torth Carolina. The gravel in the bottom is from a few inches to 5 feet in thickness. It consists of white, saccharoidal and glassy, barren quartz. In 1892 the Wolfe creek bottom was worked by the Wolfe and Tiger Mining Company, with a 2-inch nozzle giant, supplied with 45 feet head of water by a 4-mile ditch.
Other mining properties in this vicinity are the Hammett, Knott, Golden Gate, Thompson, Hale and West Springs.
GOLD MINES IN GEORGIA.1
MINES IN RABUN COUNTY.
Some work has been done at the Smith mine near Burton, and at the Moore Girls' mine, 12 miles northwest of Clayton.
MINES IN HABERSHAM COUNTY.
Practically no work of importance has been done in this county, excepting perhaps some development work a few miles northeast of Clarkesville.
MINES IN WHITE COUNTY'.
The chief mining district is located in the picturesque iSracoochee valley and its vicinity. Among the many Indian traditions of this neighborhood is that of extensive gold mining by the aborigines, but absolute proof of this is wanting.
The Lumsden mine is situated about 2 miles north of the Sacoochee valley on Bean creek. Several rich quartz-stringers were being worked in 1895 by tributors, using a combination of hydraulic and dry mining, the hard ore being hauled ^ mile to a wooden 10-stamp mill, driven by a 20-foot over-shot water-wheel. Five hands are stated to extract 70 to SO dwts. per week by this crude method.
The Jarret mine adjoins the Lumsden on the south; a 20-stampmill was operated here for some time by Mr. Childs, of Athens, Ga.,
1 For a more complete statement concerning gold mines and mining in Georgia see Bulletin No. 2 of the Georgia Geological Survey, Atlanta, Ga.
