Devel'
From the Rakish V 'ress-X isilor we
take the following. The Gold Leak
lias frequently mentioned this matter
but with no desire to so highly color it
:is to make it appear sensational. Many
of the facts ineulionod by our contem
porary were known to us but a9a whole
we fear the picture is a little over
drawn. However, here is the story as
the I're.iv- Visitor gives it:
Therei.su strip of rugged, hilly hind
ten inilea long and from live to three
iiiilen in width, Hituated between two
streams iind intersected by numerous
Hinaller ones in Granville and Vance
counties which bids fair to become the
moHt valuable poHseHHiort in the world.
For generutionn the land hurt been
plowed and tilled an other red hills in
North Carolina, but little did the honest
toiler know that they were turning over
quartz quurtz richly imbedded with the
yellow metal. The people of the two
counties on which the land is situated
nre in a ferment. They think and talk
of gold by day and by night. The people-
who nettled California and Cripple
Creek were never nunc enthusiastic than
those Granville and Vance farmers who
have quit the ouitt and industrious oc
cupations which have always engaged
their attention. The excitement is truly
intenbe among the people.
Six months ago gold was discovered
in the hills of the finest tobacco country
in the world. This name territory is
known as the golden tobacco belt and
became famous throughout the country.
The bare fact was published that quartz
Kiipposed to contain gold had been dis
covered. Since then a very expensive
mining plant has been put in at one
mine and strips of land have sold for
fifty, forty, thirty and twenty thousand
dollars each.
