A17 Columbus, North Carolina USA 1855

There was a long trench running through the woods for many yards, which had been made in 'searching for the veins'. Here again were a company of operators in and about a shaft or pit of some 60 to 75 feet in depth pursuing a vein into the bowels of the earth, and from thence drawing the rich ores. A little way off and there is another company similarly engaged. A little beyond and there is still another, and another, and another and so the woods are filled.

— Unknown, “Carolina Watchman,” 1844

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