. North Carolina and its resources. the larger mines, hydraulicking is employed, under apressure of fifty to two hundred feet, with twelve inch mains and oneand one-half inch nozzle. The hj^draulic elevator has also been usedsuccessfully. The numerous mountain streams afford a fairly goodand constant supply of water for mining purposes. There are severallong ditch and flume levies in the region; one of these is over tenmiles in length. The Handcock mine, in Burke county, is a placer digging atthe foot of Halls Knob. The thickness of the gravel bed is one andone-half to two feet, and that of th
. North Carolina and its resources. the larger mines, hydraulicking is employed, under apressure of fifty to two hundred feet, with twelve inch mains and oneand one-half inch nozzle. The hj^draulic elevator has also been usedsuccessfully. The numerous mountain streams afford a fairly goodand constant supply of water for mining purposes. There are severallong ditch and flume levies in the region; one of these is over tenmiles in length. The Handcock mine, in Burke county, is a placer digging atthe foot of Halls Knob. The thickness of the gravel bed is one andone-half to two feet, and that of the overlay twenty-five feet. Arough estimate of one of the pits showed a yield of fourteen centsper cubic yard. The Carolina Queen mine is situated on the north-eastern slope of Whites Knob. A series of narrow quartz veins in thetipper decomposed rock layer, has been sluiced over a width of somethree hundred feet, and to a maximum depth of fifty feet. The J. CMills tract, at Brindletown, covers a very large territory, and is one of. Gold, Silver and Copper. 85 the most famous localities in the South Mountain region, a largeamount of gold having been obtained here since the first discovery in1828. From Pilot Mountain and along its lower slopes, a number ofgravel channels radiate in all directions. Some of these, as the WhiteBank and the Magazine mines have been worked as high as water couldbe obtained, but a large amount of virgin ground still remains that hasnot been worked. The total length of the several ditch lines on thisproperty is about twenty miles. The head obtained at the mines isfrom sixty to two hundred feet. The Marion Bullion and Improvement Company, in McDowellcounty, owns an extensive tract at Brackettown. The principal workof importance here has been placer mining. In a general way, thegulch and hill side deposits range in value from four to fifty cents percubic yard, while the gravel of the bottom land will run as high as^ per cubic yard. A number of narrow
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