Col. C.A.  SANTMYER lately of Cincinnati is in town.  Col. S. and others own a large tract of valuable land in this and Graham counties.  On which they are prospecting for copper.  We learn from Col. S. that his prospects are very good.  He finds gold bearing rocks also indications of silver, but his main hopes are for copper, which from the out-crop and general indications, he thinks can be found.  This is all on the line of the proposed Railroad from Knoxville to Murphy.  Col. SANTMYER is an enterprising pushing miner and we may expect to hear a good report from his efforts in that direction.

Source: Cherokee Herald, 24 June 1874, page 3.