Phenix Gazette

Discoveries of Gold, in the Gold Region of Virginia.—

We hear almost every week, of new discoveries of Gold, in the Gold Region of Virginia.—(which as far as ascertained, commencing in the neighborhood of the Rappahannock, in the county of Spottsylvania, tends with the mountains from N E. to S. W., touching the counties of Spottsylvania, Louisa, Fluvanna and Goochland, on the north side of James River, crosses James River near the point of Fork and enters Buckingham, and passes on through North Carolina to the Cherokee lands in Georgia!) and the letter below adds to the number. Many of the veins are extremely rich, and the gold of exceeding purity. The ore is found on or near the surface, and the preparations for collecting it are so little expensive, as to have induced numbers of individuals to engage in the search. Some probably do a bad business, but many have made, and are making, considerable sums. One gentleman of Goochland, we learn, made $110 in one day, from 20 hands; the mines he worked being situated in Louisa, and his average profits were thus far not much behind that average.

[Rich. Whig.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND WHIG

Buckingham County, July 30th, 1833.

Sir—Mr. Thomas Morton & Co., digging on the west fork of Hunt's Creek, about two miles north west of Buckingham Church, are getting frequently four or five dollars per day, to the hand. One day they obtained eighty pennyweights, valued at 95 cents per dwt., or about 7 or 8 dollars to each hand employed, in surface gold. A large quantity of Ore has also been dug up out of a pit adjacent to the branch that the Surface Gold has been obtained from. One man (engaged in mining,) supposes this ore worth 8 or 10 thousand dollars, or 7 or 8 dollars to the bushel. A mill will be erected to convert it to dust, for the purpose of being washed.—

John Moseley & Co., have very lately commenced washing for Surface Gold, about 500 yards south of Morton & Co., on the land of Stephen Gerrant. A few days ago, they with 8 hands obtained 16 pennyweights, or $1 75 cents to each hand in one day. The number of hands was so small that the washer was not constantly employed during the day.

Yours, respectfully,

Daniel Gerrant, Jr.