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Excerpt from Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina
The ?uctuations in mining property, however, have in jured its reputation in several notable instances. This has arisen from speculations. Many mines have been purchased with that view alone. They have been in the hands of stock companies; and it was more consonant to the feelings of parties to make money by the forced rise or fall of stocks, than by legitimate mining business. But this is now assum ing a more permanent character, and the time is not distant when it will become one of the main sources of the wealth of the State.
The recorded observations embodied in this Report have been made by those who have been engaged in this survey. We have, it is true, received information from others; but at the same time it has been made a principle to see for our selves, and to base every important inference, or doctrine upon independent Observations.
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