Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for JUNE & JULY 1899 June 9 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 10, 2004, 1:03 am The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for JUNE and JULY 1899 NEWSPAPER Issue of June 10, 1899 Jerome Baird who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. R.J. Williams at Griffin, GA for several weeks, returned home Thursay evening to accept a position with the Ingersoll Drug. Co. __ Near Oak Level on Wednesday, Aaron Roberts had some trouble with a man named Jones, a tenant on his place. They fell out about a hoe, it is said, and Jones hit Roberts on the head breaking his skull. Roberts is not expected to recover. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 24, 1899 B.T. Foster of Edwardsville and C.C. Nichols of Roanoke were in town today. __ Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Robertson of Oxford, spent a few days in the city this week with their daughter, Mrs. D.D. Perryman. __ The house occupied by Jim and Homer Cooper was destroyed by fire last Monday morning. Nearly all the household effects of both were burned. The house was the property of F.L. Blackmon of Anniston and was fully covered by insurance. ___ Rev. J.D. Johnson assited by Rev. W.M. Garrett will preach the funeral of Miss Jennie Hilton, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Hilton, at Cedar Creek the second Sunday in July. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, July 1, 1899 THE CLEBURNE GOLD FIELDS; An Old Miner Talks Interestingly of Their Past and Future Mr. John G. Tyson of this city, says that Anniston Hot Blast, is an old gold miner who has been following the business at intervals all of his life, in Alabama, Georgia and Colorado. He talks very interestingly of his gold mining experiences and is particularly enthusiastic over what has been and may and will yet be done in the Alabama gold fields. " The gold mines of Alabama will soon be the great Mecca for the gold hunter" said he, the other day. " I know of several mines that will pay well if they are worked right. One of them is within twenty four miles of Anniston, all on one section of land. Over half of it will pay handsomely. I have tested it. There are eight veins of good paying ore and work for forty men for fifty years. Twenty two years ago, we wrote to the different mints and got statements of the amounts that had been shipped from those mines. We ran it up and it was over $4,000,000 worth of gold. It was all Cleburne County gold and there are millions of it there yet. From 1846 to 1852 there were some two thousand men at work in these Cleburne county mines. Many rich finds have been made there. One man with four negroes took out in one day thirteen pounds of clean gold. A few years ago I was at this place. There were some friends of mine working this same pit, which they had been watching for fifty years. They went three feet deeper and struck it rich. I saw $2,000. or $3,000. worth of gold that day. When I was there last a company was working this property. The men said it was paying very well. I worked there two years. I did not strike it rich like I have in Georgia mines though I got fifty dollars worth in one day twelve years ago. here was a man who struck it rich close to my pit. I saw some of his gold. There were many pieces worth from thirty to fifty dollars each. A man at another nearby pit said he had taken out in one day as much gold as he could carry in a 25 pound flour sack. I have worked in Georgia and Colorado as well as in Alabama gold mines but gold can be mined much more cheaply here than in either of the other states. Digging can be done all the year round. It is never too cold. Everything is much cheaper too. Alabama gold is also worth from one to four dollars per ounce more than Colorado gold. I see men running iron furnaces making iron. If I could get one of those men to run a Cleburne county gold mine awhile he would never look at an iron ore bed again. The profit would be ten times greater. " Mr. Tyson is highly esteemed by those who know him. He is regarded as entirely reliable and trustworthy and a man not given to extravagant assertions. He continued; " Gold mining is Cleburne County is at present done on a very small scale but very rich finds are frequently made. The gold is there and it is easily mined but two great handicaps have been the lack of water and loack of proper machinery. A reasonable amount of capital can supply both and as this gold belt is now attracting much attention its early and thorough development upon proper and systematic lines is very probable. When this is done there may be discoveries which will startle the world and make east Alabama a second Alaska with Anniston as its' Dawson City, all of which is not at all impossible nor even improbable. " ______ LOCAL NEWS Mrs. J.C. Bean is confined to her room with fever. __ W.A. Hubbard visited his son, S.A. Hubbard at Waco, GA last week. __ Miss Bessie Morgan gave a musical this week which was greatly enjoyed by her friends. __ Luther Rogers who has been at work in Birmingham, came home Monday sick with fever. __ Curtis Sorrell is the heavyweight fisherman of the county. In company with W.R. Young he went fishing on Tallapoosa river a few night ago and caught a 7 pound cat fish. We could have believed this fish tale had we been presented with about half the fish. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, July 8, 1899 Rev. R.B. Baird visited his mother in Cherokee County this week. __ We are pained to state that the condition of Thomas Carruth who has been confined to his home with fever for several weeks remains critical. __ Married, on Thursday afternoon July 5th, Mr. Carol A. Bowen and Miss Nettie Porter, at the home of the brides's parents Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Porter. Hon. A.A. Hurst performed the ceremony. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple boarded the train for Birmingham where they will spend a week after which they will go to Childersburg where they will in the future reside. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, July 15, 1899 Mrs. D.D. Perryman is spending the week at Ingram's Lithia Well in Calhoun County. __ The friends of Miss Minne Lee Turner (nee Crawford) who remember her sad death on May 15, will be pained to learn that both her children have since died, Charlie Lee aged seven months died June 23 and Jeff aged two years and six months died July 9th. ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, July 29, 1899 Judge Blake of Randolph County visited Heflin friends this week. __ Mrs. M.M. Upshaw returned home yesterday after a months visit to her son in Mississippi. __ Mr. William Vaughan and his three children who are confined to their home with fever are unimproved. One of the children it is thought will not recover. __ J.D. Ayers, a prominent merchant and farmer of Randolph county was in our city this week. __ DIED - - Josh Roden, an old negro living two miles east of town died lat night. Josh had a great many friends among the white people who will regret to learn of his death. __ It is reported that the army worm has made its appearance in this county and is doing great damage to corn. Some damage has done by them in almost every section of the county but most damage is reported near Beasons Mills. __ The trial of Liner for murder of Bob Hunnicutt is being held in the county court at Edwardsville this week. Jordan was first on docket but a mistrial was made and his case was continued until next term. __ The funeral of the Coffee family who were killed by the cyclone several months ago will be preached at Cane Creek Primitive Baptist church two miles west of Edwardsville, tomorrow at 11 o'clock. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw170newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 8.2 Kb