Georgia's Gold Mines

Few people have any idea of the auiouut of gold that is dug out of the north Georgia hills and shipped to Atlaata every tnonth. Some days ago we published a news-notioe, in whioh we stated that Messrs. James R. Wylie & Co., of this city, received about $3,000 a rnonth in gold dust from that región. We learn that Messrs. Moore, Marsh & Co. reoeive doublé as much, and that otbers receive fully that much. In fact it pours in a yellow stream from the rich mountains into our favored city. There are single milis at Dahlonega that get out $ü,000 worth of gold per month. We do net believe that lesa than $30,000 worth of gold per month reaohes Atlanta from North Georgia every month, possibly $50,000. Arouud Dahlonega there is a perfect nest of milis. The Harfd Gold Mining Company are running at present twenty stamp milis; the Bennlng Mine, ten stamp milis ; the Lawrence Mine, five stamp milis ; the Findley Mine, twentynine stamp milis; the Huff Mine, five stamp milis. There we have sixty-four stamp milis working within less than two miles of Dahlonega. Mr. Lumbard has an eight-stamp mili, and the Ogle mili with a five-stamp mili, are within two or three miles of each other. Besides these there aie several mines in White Couuty being worked successfully. There are others in Hall County doing quite as well. Apart from the milis there are a perfect swarm of veinworkers or operators who work deposits or veins instead of the ore. Thoy simply wash the sand and dirt in huge ehakïng-troughs, and gather the gold specks with quicksilver, whioh gathers every partióle of the metal into an amalgam. Their operators need iio milis, but bring a very large amount of dust into market. Among others of the rich mines are notably the Ballafield, the Glade, the old Fiudley, the Veasey, and the Jones Therti are scores of these veins or deposit mines. The little boys in and about Dnhlonega spend their leisure hours in Hifting the loose soil in a panful of water, and niake 30 to 70 cents a day. We were shown on yesterday, a solid nugget of gold as large as the first joint of your little finger that was picked up by the street-workers in Dahlonega aa they were grading the public road. [ lauta is the market for all these corapsnies. They ship a quantity of theirdust here and buy their goods here. There is hardly a day but that strangers pasa tbrough the city on route to the gold fields, and north Georgia will before long literally swariu with miners. We 8av ou yesterday several specimen of silver ore, taken trom a field near GrainesTille, which assays $70 to the ton. There were the huge blocks of it picked up at random and sent to the assayiBt, who, upon returning the assay, mudo the ofter of $10,300 for thirty acres, which was accepted. The asaayist, Mr. Loman, of Boston, is now preparing to torward maohinery to crush the ore and