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Correspondence on Lemmond Mine, Union County, North Carolina, part 1, 1854-1894

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Union County, NC, August [2nd?] 1854
T C Durant Esq
New York City
Dear Brother,
As regards to working in the 
Lemmond Mine I would say that I had 
commenced again a few days before I had
your letter [illegible] 4 men  3 [illegible] digging
trenches work and using the pan.  I have 
been digging about on the hill and have
run a trench around the [illegible] of the hill
from one to 4 feet [illegible] have hit two veins
but they are not [illegible] much [gold?]. There
is a place on this hill at the [edge?] of the
woods near the open field where the [illegible]
panned very good and for the last two 
days I have looking for a vein there. It
was found last eve just before the men [quit?]
I left the mine about noon to visit the
Long [illegible] and did not go back again but
Mr. Lewis the one that does the panning
and takes charge of the men when I cannot
[the?] says that is is a slate vein about
five inches wide and [illegible] risk and
also says that it is a vein that has never
been found before, but I think by the
way it [illegible] is - is a vein that runs [illegible]
[illegible] in the [illegible] of G Lemmond's [illegible].  I can

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Union County, NC, August [2nd?] 1854 T C Durant Esq New York City Dear Brother, As regards to working in the Lemmond Mine I would say that I had commenced again a few days before I had your letter [illegible] 4 men 3 [illegible] digging trenches work and using the pan. I have been digging about on the hill and have run a trench around the [illegible] of the hill from one to 4 feet [illegible] have hit two veins but they are not [illegible] much [gold?]. There is a place on this hill at the [edge?] of the woods near the open field where the [illegible] panned very good and for the last two days I have looking for a vein there. It was found last eve just before the men [quit?] I left the mine about noon to visit the Long [illegible] and did not go back again but Mr. Lewis the one that does the panning and takes charge of the men when I cannot [the?] says that is is a slate vein about five inches wide and [illegible] risk and also says that it is a vein that has never been found before, but I think by the way it [illegible] is - is a vein that runs [illegible] [illegible] in the [illegible] of G Lemmond's [illegible]. I can