MINES IN HALL COUNTY.
But little active work has been in progress for a number of years. The principal properties are the Potosi, 12 miles northeast of Gainesville, the Currahee, 6 miles northeast of Gainesville, the Elrod, the Merrick, the Mammoth and the Glades. The Currahee mine is equipped with a 20-stamp mill and a roasting furnace. The ore is quartz, containing pyrite and galena. A set of rolls and a cyanide plant are now being erected at this mine.
MINES IN LUMPKIN COUNTY.
The principal mining operations are in the vicinity of Daiiloxega, extending from the Yahoola river, about 1 mile northeast of the town, in a continuous belt nearly 4 miles in width to the mining village of Auraria (Kunckelsville), a total length of about 6 miles. A general description of this belt and the method of mining and milling (which bears the name of the Dahlonega or Georgia method) pursued here is given on page 107.
This is by all means the most important mining district in Georgia. In 1838 a United States mint was established in Dahlonega, which continued in active operation until 1861, during which time $6,106,569 were coined. The nearest railroad point to Dahlonega is Gainesville (Southern E. K.), 20 miles to the southeast. A connecting branch between these two points is looked for in the near future, and will greatly benefit the mining interests of the district.
The following is a list of the prominent mines and their crushing equipment: Mary Henry (or Murray) (5 stamps); Hand (20 stamps); Singleton (10 stamps); Yahoola (20 stamps); Stanley (10 stamps); Findley (40 stamps); Preacher (10 stamps); Hedwig (40 stamps); Josephine (20 stamps); Lockhart (20 stamps); Barlow (40 stamps); Ralston (20 stamps); Turkey Hill (10 stamps); AVoodward (5 stamps); Ivy (60 stamps); Calhoun (40 stamps); Garnet (20 stamps); Bigley (20 stamps); Fish Trap (20 stamps); Bast (10 stamps); Siloam (10 stamps); Lawrence (10 stamps); Horner (5 stamps); Betz (1 Huntington mill). In the summer and fall of 1896 240 stamps were being operated at the Findley, Hand, Yahoola, Murray, Lockhart, Singleton, Woodward, Preacher, Turkey Hill, Ralston, Barlow and Hedwig mines.
Of late years more attention is being paid to the deep-mining of hard ore in distinction to the usual method in this district of sluicing the soft saprolites. Thus, at the Lockhart mine, quartz from underground stopes is treated in a 20-stamp mill (for description of which see p. 115).
The special operations of the Chestatee Company, and of the dredge boats on the Chestatee river, are described on pages 101, 106.
