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Yorkville Enquirer
York, York County, South Carolina
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In York, 22 pennyweights of gold from 10 bushels of ore at Boleyn Mine on Crowder's Creek near King's Mountain were exhibited, extracted via rudimentary drag-mill and valued at 95 cents per pennyweight. Mine controlled by Jefferies, Tooker, Roberts, and Secrest.
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On Tuesday last there was exhibited to us twenty-two penny weights of gold, represented to have been taken from ten bushels of ore, by means of a "drag-mill" of the rudest description. The samples shown us are from the "Boleyn Mine," situated on Crowder's Creek, in the vicinity of King's Mountain, and are said to be worth ninety-five cents a penny-weight. The above mine is, at present, under the control of Messrs. Samuel Jefferies, J. B. Tooker, Columbus Roberts and L. M. Secrest.
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York
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On Tuesday Last
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twenty-two penny weights of gold extracted from ten bushels of ore, valued at ninety-five cents a penny-weight
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Exhibition of twenty-two penny weights of gold taken from ten bushels of ore using a rudest description drag-mill from the Boleyn Mine on Crowder's Creek in the vicinity of King's Mountain. The mine is under the control of Messrs. Samuel Jefferies, J. B. Tooker, Columbus Roberts and L. M. Secrest.