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Airte + Melatic American Boomences, New York Star. M. EL Biker, our consul-general at Buence Ayes, has recently report ed to the state Department the dis covery of gold in Patagonia. Accord ing to the report of the comm + on appointed by the Argentine Republic to examine these dep s 6, they are of # superior class, and there abun dance both of gold and platinum ’’ Mr Esker cave the ore is believed to be nicer than that of California or Australia. Not the least interesting fact about ‘hb + discovery ia that the pew gould fields are enerly necesalt« The denoalts are obld to extend from Cape Virgin, on the northern shore of the straits of Magellan, through which many vessels put every year, northward along the Atlantic cmt for forty ofifty miles. Among the mining companies cr ecited that year in London were ourteen projected to carry on opera tions in the gold and diamond delta of South Africa, 3 Ccompanies for Asia, 12 for South America, 6 for Mexico and Central America, and 5 for Australia. Amery the mountains and foothille that border the southern and weaters: frontiers of the Transvaal, hundred of miners are developing placer dig git we, from which during the cloging week if last year 2560 ounces of gold were received st Natal, [np the game region st Eoyiishmania new ‘urnine out coverel tons of lead a day. The elvil engraver, Anderson, reported fifteen months ago these game ranger of hille west and northwest of the Travevaa there were rich deposits of god He paid the natives as je would petition the country to be properly prospected, but that if the region were annexed to the Brech crowd there would be no dfeicacy in developing its resources, ‘It B) country reincluded in the great dis trict over which Great Britain, on treaty with the native chiefs,assumed a protectorate last year. Still further north,among the many southern Nuente of the Zimbedi,Mr W Montagu Kerr recently found rich indications of gold. He trough home from these sandy river beds numerous specimens, generally free from base metals He says the na tives wael the alluvial dep site in wooden trays, and put the said they exhract in large quills, which they carry great distances to trade for cloth and ornaments. A part of this gold-producing region had never be fore been visited by a white man, but in another part the Portuguese formerly carried on profitable “dix. gug, though their methodd of mining were cumbrious and expensive I[t Was these units, togther with the ivory trade, that made Tette, far in land on the Zimbesi river, at one time a busy and important town. Prejevalsky, the explorer, is now telling the Russian audiences to whom he is describing his last great journey that gold is very plentiful throughout northern Tbilisi.”” He says he saw natives mining near the sources of the Hoang Ho river. They dug only one or two feet below the surface, and their meths of wash jng were of the most priminye de scription. ‘Nevertheless,'' says Picjivaneky, ‘they showed ws whole handfuls of gukiin unipe we big Ae pear, abu iwiece or thrice ae bi” Mr W Mesny, who has also visited the digennous borthern and esslerm Thibet, corroborater Prevalaky's estimate of their great value, e says he saw gold in nuggets from the size of a pea to that of a hazelous, almvet perfectly pure and perfectly malleable. Prejovalaky exprecacs the opinion that at a lower depth great treasures will be found on the im mensely elevated plateau. The deep est and rich ca: diggings observed by Mr Mesay were about sixteen feet below one surface. Lit hie opinion no metal will be found below the bed of rock on which this surface gold, bearing atra‘um rests, and in this deepedt he appeated'scent from the opinion expree#d by Piejevalaky. The discovery of gold two years ago in Manchuria wee anti of the numerous negrera of te y leave to mesa the wiles Rosimund Gunn A the diggings were any uneasy pote from the Russian possessions. 4 oun ber 6 Rusciana joined the Chins and Coresles who were hare : gold. One feature of dhe Noe disturbarce was a lottery borers Russian ace Chinese trada last, and ther, larey rrd, in trading miners, wri Loria ys sent, Were buaded ou at cba Colda deo cerritory. From Maudegerear acd Hentin Tecent repurse have been receiving new diecoveries of gold. Atixte tion from the Argentine: La purte is now supposed to learceiui line it Chubtut river in Patagonia toree of the reports derived from Ductiles that gold 2 found at 8 beldwaters among the Cordilleras are true Many of these regions are still practi cally closed to White men, and the golden promises of some of them may never be realiard. The big nuggets found in Tasmania a few years ago caused a rush to her gold fields for awhile, but today, although the an nual gold product of that slood amounts to §1200000, only two among 160 mining companies are paying large dividends. Here not a single republican of prominence remains in fice The places once filled by them are now held by democrats, and certainly North Carolina was no cause to come plain of civil service law hard elip ped then, too, quite a large number of North Carolina democrats have been recognized in the bestowsl of fices elsewhere —Goldaboro Mes senger. te gow 42 Methodrate. The New Zealand Wesleyan con ference closed only a few weeks and ite thirteenth annual gathering of a town called Christ Church, Thin town, It appears, 8 one of the strongs holds of Method/=m. I) bee popu lation of about 80000 It has three circuite, manned by five tunnisers, and with it) 4 radius of twenty ooilo there are 4 X or seven circuits more Twelve years ago the first conference met in the same building, Toe mins istera in the interval had from 54,076, meailovers from 6900 and regular bearers from 2300 to 45,000 During the interval 4 bom meission fud had grown up, the one qual income reaching the reibor hoow ( $14,000, slap a cont. wens food with an supual income .( Po01), and 6 jogo find with a capital of §$35, Ouu A little college hr, bis .es, been founded for the educaton of ministers. Come hee not a xingie lure lu peg vam. 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See what one of the more eminent snd wasted culture of the United Scatea says of the visues of Westmoreland'’s Calisaya Tonic, these in need of @ similar preparation shoud doubt 0 longer, the folow ing was written by Ex-Governor BL Perrys 8ans 3ovuci, Sept. 2 , 184, Measre Westmorsland Bros . Gsnwa men--I most cordially recommand your Vailsaya Tonic. For several years past 1 have been troubled with Indigestion and dyspepsia. My son, Dr Hext M Perry, of Philadephis, who knows the ingredients which com pose your Tonic, spoke favorably of it. in the course of two monthe pnnt I have used four bottles, and am entirely relieved. Yours truly, e, BF Penny Branney Casson, Whavenly Agents, Coumbus, Ga, a, 9 l1lw The men killed 5 For Worth were not coapitatisia, and it does not appen, that capitalives died or canish sha guns so we fred,
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Americus Daily Recorder
Americus, Georgia, US
Thu, Apr 15, 1886
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