Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: except where it is cut through by Channahatchee and Kielijah creeks. MINING OPERATIONS. Channahatchee Creek and Peru Branch. While gold has been discovered immediately on the crest of this ridge in Tallapoosa county, yet so far as at present known, such is not the case in Elmore. Limited prospecting work has been done in years past on Channahatchee creek, but such was abandoned, almost beyond the recollection of the oldest settlers ; and despite recent excitements on the north-eastern side of the river on this belt of semi- crystalline slate, in which several gold-bearing ore bodies have been discovered, no one has faith enough to prospect this ridge on the south-western side. This "Devil's Back-bone" ridge crosses the Tallapoosa river in Sec. 32, T. 21, R. 22, and preserving its general characteristics in a north-easterly course, crosses the Columbus and Western Railroad at Jackson's Gap Station ; and again crosses the Tallapoosa river near the northern borders of the Horse Shoe Bend in which is located the old battle ground where Gen. Jackson routed the Indians. The "New Yorker Shoals" also cross the river in the same vicinity in Sec. 24, T. 23, R. 23 E. or to locate the crossing exactly, this range line follows the river which at this point runs north for a short distance. The "Devil's Back-bone," while its course can be readily traced to the north-east, across the Tallapoosa for the third time, near Denny's ferry in the north-western corner of Chambers county, thence across Randolph county and into Georgia, does not form as prominent a land mark as in the vicinity of the gold mining district in Tallapoosa county. The semi-crystalline Talladega slates and quartzites form the ridge and its flanks throughout this entire distance, and many of the occurrences of ...