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In Horth Carolina; Mining gfical "*•« s"«-" *® >'•« Century. iir '» S ;»n irrvrs nittrle ^Side# thf> He I amerce ^ Z“°V *>»! sought*6" UrC“ for 11 foi are The 'Thet.-°mlSlng w«* ome iat» in jh s>® ■ niethou.^Pekl Z?,Jf ^.*upp,v ^ tracting it .om the ore so cheaply that it can be smelted for less than a dollar a ton. This makes mines and dig gings yielding only a small quan tity of metal profitable to work, although forty jrears ago they could be worked only at a loss. All this and the considerable amount of gold in the ground in North Carolina has attracted min er* and metalurglsts to the Tarhee» tate which, before 1849, produced more gold than any other part of America, and was one of the lead ng producers of gold in the world The mining of gold was abandoned there long ago, because the ore was low grade, and It cost more to get s the metal out of It than the gold was worth. Now things are differ ent. Gold Rash to North Carolina A dispatch from Raleigh says a new gold rush Is on in North Cat - ollna. Mines that have been idle, for from 25 to 50 years are being worked again and ore veins regard ed as being too poor to work in the days of prosperity are now paying sold to its miners at the rate from *4 to $12 a ton, while some of the richer veins are paying as much as «0 a ton. Fields that heretofore v have been growing six-oent cotton at a loss are now yielding $20 nug gets. The state seems to be on its way to regain its place as a leading gold producer. State Geologist H. J. Bryson is being kept busy these days visiting either active mines or prospective mines and giving the owners or operators advice as to the best methods for working different types of deposits. Geologist Bryson is visiting mining properties in Ca barrus and Rowan counties. He is going to spend part of the day at STAINLESS Same formula . . tame price. 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This would last for hours and Z could get no relief. “1 tried almost every thing that was recom mended to me, but found nothing that would help until X began taking CarduL My mother thought it would be good for me, so she got a bottle of Cardul and started me taking it. X soon improved. The bad spells quit coming. X was soon in normal health.” —Mrs Jewel Harris, Wlnnsboro, Texas. Sold At All Drug Store*. Mill CARDUI Helps Women to Health I Take ThedfonTs Black-Draught ] ' tor Consolation, ’ndlgestion, I Jffi2. Biliousness. W5. PAYS an old mining propernear Mount Pleasant in Cabarr countJ’ and then will go to thold Ooid H111 Mine in Rowan unty- where a twenty-stamp red‘t|on mill is be ,n* recondition* preparatory to resuming actlvefperation again. Pr«t Seen. I Both of thte mines are located fin one of tf> richest gold-bearing I ore in the _tate and there Is no ' why they should not be op erated at'an excellent profit, with new methods and modern machin ery.” Mr. Bryson said. "For the percentage of gold to the ton In the ore found In North Carolina is much richer than most of that found in either California or Alas ka. Mam- people do not know that until the California gold rush In 1849 that North Carolina was and had been for years the leading pro ducer of gold In the United States. Now, with the return of cheaper labor and unprofitable agriculture, Indications are that the state is again to turn to its long-neglected natural resources and becorne * leader in the gdld mining field.” A number of big Western mining syndicates and Eastern corporations have recently sent their engineers into the state to either buy up or lease many of these old gold-bear ing properties, Mr. Bryson reveal ed, with a view to starting exten sive operations. But mo6t of the de posits now being worked are being worked by their owners or by na tive North Carolinians who nave obtained leases on the properties. Because there is no sme'ting plant in the state, so that the crushed ore has to be shipped outside the state to be smelted and reduced to pure gold, a number of these small er operators are seriously consid ering the erection of a cooperative smelter or reduction plant, If this is done. it will greatly increase their profits by elminating expen sive freight charges. Some of the out-of-state smelt ing plants are complaining that much of the ore is too rich for them to handle because it requires special equipment. Operating Stamp Mill .mu-, ijryson visnea me Indian Trail mine in Union county, about halfway between Charlotte anc’. Mhnroe A stamp mill with five stamps is being, operated and from $♦ to $10 a ton is being recovered from the quartz vein being wonted. Another mine in , Stanley county, near Troy, was visited. This mine is operating a ten stamp-mill from the enriched zone vdn in a rock similar to slate. Much of the gold being found is in nuggets ranging from $15 to $70 in value. Mr Bry son has a single nugget, containing about $20 worth of gold, given him by one of the mine operators and which was picked up in a nearby cotton field. The richest ore so far found in the state is that being taken from the Black Ankle mine in Mont gomery county, not far from Troy where the gold is actually averag ing from $15 to $20 a ton and where the ore is mined by steam shovel. It was the ore from this mine which a smelting company in Tennessee complained of as being too rich for them to handle. Most of these mines are now be ing operated by from eight to ten men and are yield from $100 to $20Q worth of gold a day, Mr. Bryson said, thus showing a good profit for the operators after deducting wages and capital outlay for equipment. Time* May Be Aid To Thi* Country Monroe Journal. While the present time is hard on individuals It Is not going to prove o hard on the country as a whole Maybe It will prove a good thing in the long run. It seems heartiest and cruel to offer such consolation to a man who has lost his job or seen his business go under, but i‘ has a good deal of truth In it Here is the country with an abundance of everything and better prepares than ever before to produce more But there is no money and for lack of money and activity, individuals go down. But when the depression is over there will be everything tha* was here before. But a lot of it will have changed hands. Those who have gone down will see others' rise to take their places. Polks win still have to farm and manufac ture and merchandise and doctor and practice law and run newspa pers and mine coal. The total wealth of the country has not been decreased at all though In the great process of squeezing out the water, many Individuals have Jjeen sunk. This is not much consolation for an old man who has lost his farm or his savings or hie occupa tion, but it is an assurance that he loss sustained by some will be compensated for by the gains of others and that the country as a whole will be In just as good shape o go on as before. EXECI TOE'S NOTICE (litping QuaUiied as executors of the ate of T. W. Hamrick, deceased of ■eland county, North Carolina, this is ,t notify all persons having claims against ha said estate to present same to us onerly proven on or before the J«th Of December 1933 or this notice wth pleaded In bar of any recovery there of. All persons owing the said estate wU' please make Immediate settlement to the undersigned. This Jan 1st, 1833. F. A. Hamrick. L. M. Hamrick, and Mae Hamrick, executors of estate of T w Hsmrlek , . Nobody’s Business Bv GEE McGEE - We Need ( Ity Relief Instead ef Of Farm Reliel. Everybody knows that I have more money than I will ever be able j to spend, but that "more” refers to the little I have In a closed bank To mRke a short story longer, my wife and I held an 'Economic Meet ing” In the kitchen last night—for the purpose of trying to reduce the cost of our living. After figgering all over the walls and the bread tray, we decided that we could not do vej-y much along the line of cutting costs—as we found the following items to be “fixt” expenses—which could not be cut down—due to reasons best known to the corporations—and po litical organizations 1—Taxes, 2. —Oas (to cook with 3. —Electric lights, 4. —Telephone, 5. —Cost of keeping daughter in college. 8.—Laundry work 7. —Insurance on dwelling and furniture, 8. —Medicine. 9. —Water (for cooking purposes1, 10.—Typewriter ribbons, 11-—Life insurance premiums. 12. —Interest rate, (we pay), 13. —School books. 14. —Shoes, i 15. —Spectacles. 16. —Automobile license plate 17. —Gasoline, 18. —Motor oil. 19. —Coal (due to high freight rate), 20. —Aluminum ware. We don’t pay the cook too much and we can't turn her off—as some of the family might get hungry. We never did spend much for groceries —especially when peas and com meal and fat back bason are cheap. We don't travel so often. We wear low-priced clothes—till they cause the rag-man to follow us around. We finally came to the conclu sion that we could stop putting soda and salt in the bread, stop putting coffee in our hot water, sop our plates a little bit cleaner, go to bed 2 hours earlier, and stand up more— so's our clothes wont have to be pressed very often. By doing aU of these things—W'e can possibly save 83 cents a month. Now, friends, you figger some and you’’l find that you are just as helpless a* we are tn respect to living cheaper. Some body else has already ‘(bred” about 75 per cent of your necessary ex pense* - and you simply have to take your medicine—or move to the country— where living hard is an expected luxury. Hon. i. Fuller Bull Addresses the House Legislators I am glad to have a chance to make a speech before this boddy of able law-makers who hate been sent down here to the legislature by your respective constlt-urants for to attend to the publtck matter of our great state. Friends and feller-legislators, I have a momentous subject to fetch before you and I'jnost earnestly Im plore not only your favorite con sideration, of this great matter. The eyes of all the voters are gazing upon you and what you do or do not do in regards to *hls question will settle your destiny as a politi cian—from now on. My heart aches within my frail boddy when I think of what will take place If you do not give this situa tion satisraetory interpretation. Here we are, gentlemen, being paid 110 a day and, mileage to serve the interests of those who stooped low enough to vote for us, will you do your duty or will you fall your friends. A great manny of my close re lations. as well as my wife, begged me not to fetch this thing before the pressent general ass embly, but shall I shirk my duty as a lawmaker during this dark hour? No, says the echo of my eternal disposition to do the right thing at the right time. Manny of yo uwiil censure me for bringing this matter bef<fre you at this time, but—“Better I die than forget my loved ones,' says Barker. Colleagues, where do you stand when great questions must be ans wered? Men of all ages, who are you that are willing to fall by the way-side? Some of your stand ace high In your chufch and in your secret orders, but how about your standing in respect to tire taxpay ers of this land of ours. Can I de pend on you. or will you or will you remain a spectator the balance of your lives? Mr Speaker and Feller Cittaons: Now cornea the question. Are you ready for it? Is your mind cleat enough to absorb the rights of the voters, or will you continue tc force them to absorb their owe rights? Answer me that, now listen: Does Andy Gump eat through hli nose, or has he a mouth? (applause.I Odd Tales Related About Old Wilmington Cemetery Wilmington.—A woman burled In a cask of whiskey, a dog in the arms t>f his master and the remains of a boy entombed alive are half-for gotten in cemeteries here. The graves of the only woman who lost her life in service during the civil war and of the last man killed in the south in formal duel here, revive strange memories of lifes final dramas. In 1857 Silas Martin, with his daughter Nancy, and her brother John, were sailing around the world but the girl died and, to preserve her body, she was seated in a chair and placed in a cask of whiskey, i rumm and alcohol. The trip contin ued but soon John was lost over board and the father returned five months later. The girl was buried in the cask and a simple cross on the grave bears only the word. "Nancy.” The grave of Miss Lizzie Turling ton also bears a simple epitaph but its phrase is ominous: “Murdered by W. L. Bingham.” Miss Turling ton was engaged to Bingham. Both were deaf and dumb. She postpon ed the wedding to complete some work for the state and in December, 1886, the two went for a buggy ride. Several days later her body was found riddled with bullets and her throat Was cut. Bingham had van ished. Mrs. Rose O’Neail Greenhow, the famous Confederate spy whose In formation resulted in victory for the south at Bull Run. is credited with being ^he only white woman to die in the service during the civil war. Returning from England where she had been on a diplomatic errand, her vessel was threatened with cap ture by the federal blockade fleet as it neared here, he put out for shore in a small boat which overturn ed in a raging surf. She drowned. Two day6 later, September 8, 1864, her body, weighted with a belt of gold coins about the waist, washed up on the beach. W. A. Ellerbrook is buried with his Newfoundland dog in his arms During a fire In 1880. Ellerbrook. a volunteer fireman, dashed into the flames to salvage what he could The dog followed but neither re turned. The next day thrdogs body was found with his teeth sunk in his masters coat and his feet braced in a pulling position against a 1 beam that pinned the man’s body to the floor. Their monument, er ected by the community, bears an Inscription about Ellerbrook and an Image of the dog with the words: “Faithful Unto Death.” In 1810 Samuel Jocelyn and Alex ander Hostler pledged that the first to die would return in spirit from the other world to visit his friend. Later Jocelyn fell from a horse and after two days, was buried. That night Hostler said he heard his companion's voice say: “Why did you let them bury me dive?” But he dismissed the phantom words On the two following nights, how ever, he said he heard the ques tion again and at his insistence Jocelyn’s parents dug up the grave. When the coffin was reached, one side had been burst open and Joce lyn’s body was face downward. He had been buried alive. There are others—a 30-foot mon ument rises over the grave of Dr W, W. Wilkins, the last roan killed in the south In a formal duel that re sulted from political differences with a former friend. Llewellyn Marwick disappeared in 1760. Eight years later a heavy rain washed up his skeleton, identified by a ring, from the center of a street In the heart of this city. He had been mur dered. — • Upper Cleveland News Of Interest (Special to The Star.) yFeb. 4.—Many people of the community attended the funeral services of Mr. Taylor Wall at Mt. Moriah church on last Monday. Mr. Clayton Devenny of Kent. Ohio, is spending sometime with his parents, Mr. and Mrs J M. Devenny. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Wliisnant of Cllffside spent Friday with his mother, Mrs. Sallie Whisnant. Mr. and Mrs. Cowen Wall and son, Travis, and Mrs. Hamrick vis ited their father, Mr. Ben Wall Monday night. Mrs. P. M. Whisnant and daugh ter and son. Pauline and P M., Jr. attended a birthday dinner given in honor of her mother, Mrs Mar tin Melton of Golden Valley com munity. Mr. Q. J. Devenny motored to Rutherfordton Monday to the trade day. Mr. Clem Hord and Clayton De venny motored to Hickory bn busi ness Monday, Mrs. Etta Mull visited Mr* R, L. Morris Tuesday. [jobless Sea Cook Gets Al’s Clothes 'Struts New York Slrrrts Wearing Brown Derby And AUfre Of Former Governor. New York.--A Jobless sea cook I strutted the sidewalks of New] York's East Side recently wearing] one of Al Smith's brown derbies. | "Yes. sir, that’s what I call « i break,'' said George Stumpf, who used to rook beans on army trims 1 ports but now stirs stew in the mi. nlcipal lodging house for his meals , "Here I walk Into that free cloth 1 cs place with a ticket calling for r. > i suit and they gitnme one of th<•• [guvnors blue worsteds, made on] Fifth Avenoo. Tlicn. to top It off they stick one of his hard hats or, my head.” Stumpf has his, new outfit L ■ j 'cause the forflter governor heedcJj the plea of the clothing relief div ision of the emergency unemplm rnent committee, He called Clarence i H. Low, chairman of the dlvlsie ■ ! into his office high up in the Em- : pire State building. "Here, Clarence,".ahe said, 'her a bundle of clothes I gathered u gether up at the heuse. I want you J to take them down to your ware j house, clean them, sew button cm ■ them and give them to the unem ployed so they’ll be comfortable and presentable enough to take employ ment" Low carried i+w bundle, contain lng several suits and coats, down to 73 Dey street where a clothes re i habtlltatton factory manned by in■ ] and women formerly without jolv ‘ went to work on It. A few hours later in walked [Stumpf, bearing a ticket from one [of 33 relief agencies served,by the factory, “Of course,' Mr. U>w said to re porters, "there’s a moral to this Sturnpf story. Just tell your read ers there must be a lot of clothes In the closets of this city and na tion that men like Sturnpf could use" Big Law Suit Begun In Mountain City « (Asheville Citizen ) Suit for $193,53887 by Sidney Gayle, of Greensboro, former Ashe ville real estate man, against, the Griffin and Bland Hotel corpora tion. a Maryland corporation with headquarters In Raleigh, was start ed in Buncombe county superior court yesterday. Judge H. Hoyle Sink presiding. Breach of contract on the lei.se YOU THOUGHT “FRANKENSTEIN” wax a SHOCKER . , . hut Wait . . . see "Murders in the Rue Morgue” at the CAROLINA, THEATRE tyloh. Feb. 8 Children Under 10 | Not Admitted. JIM - . -l'l. - .. of the Battery Park hotel of Ashe-j vtlle. Is claimed as cause for the suit. The plaintiff alleges he lost the sum sued for when T L. Bland, president of the hotel corporation controlling several hotels in North Carolina, Including the Sir Walter, In Raleigh, breached his contract for lease of the Battery Park. Senate Passes Bill To Stock Feed Loans Washington, Fob. 2.—The senate today adopted and sent to the house a resolution to assure the avalla biltty for livestock feed loans some $12,000,000 unexpected balance of last year's drought relief appropria tion STRENGTH The expression, “solid as a rock” was never more apt than when uped to de scribe this Bank. Today, as always, many of the leading business men of our xity are affiliated with this strong, safe bank. v Commercial Accounts Invited Union Trust Co. Shelby, N. C. Ward’s store closes for the last time tomorrow night! Everything must be sold tomorrow! Costs forgotton—prices slashed! Be here for last-minute bargains! Everything goes! 139-141 S. LaFayette St. Phone 167 Shelby, N. C. ONTGOMERY Ward & Co.
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