W. T. Worley property, Canton, Cherokee County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
W. T. Worley property	Property
Canton	Town
Cherokee County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

This mine is located on lots 459 and 460, 15th district. The early workings consisted of placer-mining, which, though limited in area, and soon exhausted, we learn was very profitable. About ten years ago, some rich ore-shoots were discovered on the property, which were, afterwards, worked to the depth, of several feet, below the surface. At this point, a stratum of decomposed schist, forming a quicksand, was struck. This quicksand, on account of the weight of the superincumbent rock, flowed into the excavation, as rapidly as it could be removed, and thereby made it practically impossible, with the means, then at hand, to follow the ore-bodies to greater depths. It was not until about two years ago, when the property fell into the hands of the Cherokee Milling and Mining Company, that this difficulty was overcome, and the sandstone was penetrated.

At the time of our visit to the property, the company had just erected a first-class prospecting plant, consisting of mill, hoisting engine, pumps etc., and had already done considerable exploration. A tunnel, five hundred feet long, had been driven into the hill, exposing three gold-bearing veins, only one of which, however, was of sufficient size, to justify further examination. They all run parallel, and correspond, in strike and dip, to the country-rock. The larger one has been worked, for twenty feet, on either side of the tunnel, by driving drifts, and stoping out the ore, from above. Its greatest thickness is about four feet; but it greatly decreases in width, at the end of the drifts, where it becomes so contracted, as to make further mining unprofitable. Ninety-two tons of ore, taken from this vein, yielded, in their Huntington mill, $4.08 in gold per ton. The vein material consists of mica-schists, with thin layers of quartz, all more or less decomposed, and easily mined with a pick. Hydraulic mining was first attempted, here, by the Cherokee Milling & Mining Co.; but it was finally abandoned, as unprofitable.