Excerpt from The Mining Industry in North Carolina During 1926For the past few years little mining has been done for gold and silver except in the year 1925 when worth Of gold was produced, most Of which came from the Rich Cog Mine in Montgomery County. However, during the past year, there has been a sort Of revival in this industry. Considerable prospecting has been done in several counties Of the State. New companies have been organized to carry on the prospecting in a systematic way and the results in several instances have been gratifying.The heavy clay products, as brick, tile, pottery, wall coping, sewer pipe, etc., continue to lead in total production with a value of while the stone, granite, trap, limestone and marble.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.