Cowee ruby mine
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With the pistol has come an avalanche - an inundation of robbers,” he expostulated. the greatest national scourge of the age. Smith, whose sermons I found record of in an 1880 issue of “The Franklin Press,” also turned his talents to writing a history of Macon County and advocating against guns, calling “Colt, Wesson and others with their patented inventions and manufacture of pistols. Smith, of Franklin, N.C.” There’s a story here. Smith, North Carolina’s assistant state geologist, Lowell Presnell relates in his book, “Mines Miners and Minerals of Western North Carolina’s Mountain Empire.”Ī 1907 state bulletin, written by George Kunz, referred to Smith as the former state geologist and currently the “Rev. He’d found some “exceptionally heavy rocks” in his field and showed them to C.D. The first person to gain national attention for the local resource was Hiram Crisp, a Macon County farmer. Up through World War I, our region was the sole producer of this material in the U.S., helping to make cutting wheels that sliced through steel and stone. Nonetheless, another corundum product did prove profitable, and that is the abrasive form, second to diamond in cutting strength, and much cheaper. Prospectors gave panning a try, but nothing much of gem quality came of the venture until Charles W. Locals picked up the treasures from a humpy site above the Cullasaja River for years.
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However, though the gems were similar to the red rubies in Burma (now Myanmar), they were mostly pretty small. “At the Corundum Hill Mine (near Highlands), various shades of ruby gem corundum have been found,” the U.S.