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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The lead and copper mines of Wythe. (search)
depth of 225 feet I selected a beautiful specimen of the rich ore to carry home with me. The quantity is unlimited. The yield of lead is equal to three tons per day, and the mines and furnaces are worked day and night, Sabbath included — the pressing wants of the service requiring it. The quantity of buckshot made per day would be equal to at least five per carcass of each Lincoln soldier now anywhere near to Virginia. Besides the mines referred to, I ought to mention the operations of Judge Fulton in manufacturing lead, one mile below the first named, and where he is making from one and a half to three tons per week. The are is inexhaustible, and the per cent. of zine with it, it is thought, will pay a fair profit to separate it, yet it has not been done. I called to see the copper mines of this region, now suspended, and mainly for the reason the ore must be sent to Baltimore to be extracted--(shame on the want of enterprise in Virginia, that we can't have a smelting establ