cipally shallow, and continued profitable development on a large scale is unknown.
New England.—Gold
has been found in Vermont and New Hampshire, and alluvial deposits of
limited extent have been exploited along the Green Mountains. But the
production has been comparatively insignificant.
Virginia.—Alluvial
gold has been reported as found in Virginia in Montgomery and Floyd
counties, along Brush Creek. In Goochland County the hydraulic process
was tried in 1877.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.— The
Appalachian gold fields extend through the States of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia. Gold was first discovered in 1799, and in
1829 the discovery of placers caused a great excitement. Two principal
belts are known in North Carolina, one extending through Guilford,
Davidson, Rowan, Cabarrus, and Mecklenburg counties; another through
McDowell, Burke, and Rutherford counties ; the latter has been traced
into northern Georgia, where it forms the gold region in the vicinity
of Dahlo-neea. The latter is the more western and more elevated, and
contains richer placers.
The
formation of these gold deposits has been attributed rather to the
action of atmospheric influence than to deposition by large streams.
The best placers were exhausted at the time of the discovery of gold in
California, and more recent attempts to work them on a large scale and
by the hydraulic process have not met with success.
Idaho.—Gold
was first discovered in paying quantities near Pearce City, Idaho, in
i860. The Territory of Idaho, then a part of Washington Territory, was
organized in 1862. The principal placers were those in the Boise basin,
which first attracted the attention of miners in 1862, and on the Snake
and Salmon Rivers. In 1865 the production of gold in the Territory
amounted to $8,023,680, but the yield gradually decreased from that
