Georgia, historical and industrial (1901) (14779564812)

Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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of the Crystalline area to these much softer rocks, all of therivers form falls or cascades. The line marking the junction of thecostal plain with the Crystalline area is hence called the fall line.Up to this line all of the larger streams, flowing through the flat, lowlying coastal plain, are navigable. The fall line, forming the head ofnavigation and affording important water-powers on the streams, deter-mined the location of a number of important towns—Columbus, Maconand Augusta. In the coastal plain are found the finest clays of the State and valu-able beds of marl. GOLD. Gold is known to have been f oimd in Georgia in 1829 on Dukes creekin White county, that part of the county where the discovery was made,being at that time a part of Habersham county. It is also claimed thatit was found a year prior to this in Lumpkin county. By the year 1830the gold fever had fully developed in Georgia. In 1831 $212,000was sent from Georgia to the United States Mint, and in 1838 the United V.
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 59 State government established a branch mint at Dahlonega, which contin-ued in operation till the civil war in 1861. The gi-eatest output of anyone year during these twenty-four years was in 1843, when over a halfmillion dollars were coined. The State Geological Survey estimates in Bulletin ISTo. 4—A, that thetotal production of gold in the State, from its earliest discovery till 1896,was $16,228,730, Statistics from the Director of the mint show a totalcoining value of $546,006 for the gold received from Georgia during thefour years following 1895. The gold deposits of Georgia form one of the main belts of the goldfields of the Southern Appalachians. Two auriferous areas, as definedin Bulletin No. 4—A of the State Geological Survey, are to be traced onthe southeast side of the Blue Ridge running in a northeast-southwestdirection, closely parallel with the main axis of the mountain range.The northernmost and largest of these two belts is the Da