The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-07
GaIiCornin---A Rich Gold Disccvery-.-
a $4,000 NI@gcs---CO!cnel Eharasz-
thy DcYoUrcG by kIligatGrS.

thy DcvoUrcG by liIligatGFs.
san Francisco, August 2G-Scveral days
ago cutie little excitement was created
among our quartz miners by the discovery
Of q '.pocbct - of unusual richness in a
new quartz mining claim in Sierra county,
| California, near The Sierra Duttcs. Such
pockets arc not unfrcqucntly found near
the surface in partially Gecompcscd quartz,
but are seldom so immensely rich rs this
has opened. Many have been found near
Grass Valley, Nevada county, and one was
discovered few years since on the sum
nit Of Il Hill near the Catholic school
in the city of Grass Valley, from which
the owner took Il whcclbarrow load OF
cold in few days. His = streak of luck :"
was against him. however, for he wen:
mad, and, ] believe, died in an insane
asylum. Subsequently, Q pocket from
whence over ten thousand dollars in gold
was quickly taken was discovered in the
| Dromciary Mine, on Wolf Greek, in the
City Of Grass Valley, and another, from
which five thousand dollars was realized,
was found near the surface, on the opposite
side OF the creek. where the quarry mine
| known rs The Garden City Mine is located.
| This last pocket, however, cclipscs them all.
| 4 few years ago 4 placer mine was located
below the Sierra brtteS Quartz Mine" in
Sierra county, from the surface dirt OF
WHICH five thousand collars was washed.
When the "bcl rock" was reached the
claim was supposed 10 have been worked
ous, end was abandoned. Recently the
ground was "located" as Il quartz claim
| by party Of four men, who pre-
cccdcl TO run an incline down on
the vein. At thc depth of thirty feet they
came upon an immense deposit of porous
gold, like lava in lis formation. The first
mass or Nugget which was got out weighed
40 pounds avoirdupois; but III prying ii
up with crowbarS 81 pounds were detached,
AMI the "Chisp& "now weighs only 1906
pounds. !; is Of coarse, graduated gold,
| 925-l000 fine, and worth, as it now stands,
$2l 900 in coin. / saw it a few minutes
since, and can fairly say that | never
saw its equal, and never expect to sec it
again. The nugget is about twenty inches
long, ten in thickness, and about six
to ten inches broad. 1t was lying in a
tub Of diluted sui phuric acid, to clean it and
make it bright. There is hardly pound
OF foreign matter in the "Chispa," and it
| is literally q back load of gold in O single
lump. The men have taken out not less
than $4,000 already, and have not yet
touched bottom.'' Forty thousand of this
was the result of two mems work in two
days. The owners Of the claim arc William
4. Parish & Co. Contrary to all precedent,
they did not 90 and get drunk, and remain
so until they had wasted half or the whole
of their earnings, but as soon as they had
stored their big lump safely away, went to
work and took out more. They are still
doing so. This "Chispa" will probably
be exhibited here, and after month or so
sent to New York for the same purpose. 1t
| il, indeed, Il wonderful curiosity.
This community has recently suffered the
| loss of an old and valued citizen in the per-
son OF Colonel Agoeton Haraszthy, one of
our early pioneers. Colonel llaraszthy was
born in Hungary in 1912, and at an early
age migrated to America, living for some
years in Wisconsin and Iowa. Thence he
| went TO Texas, and across the country to
California. He was noted as Democratic
politician at one time, and under Pierce
held the position of Superintendent of the
United States Branch Mint in this city.
Subsequently he became superintendent OF
the great Bucna Vista Vinacultural So
ciety of Sonoma county, CAL, and for
some years has dispensed friendly
hospitality at the company's vineyard,
near the town of Sonoma. Two years
ago he resigned that position ana
went TO Nicaragua, where he obtained
from the Government the right to manu-
.facturc distilled liquors for twenty years
on terms which would have realized for
him eventually Il handsome fortune. While
going from Leon to his home, he lett his
horse 10 cross Il river to look for mill-site,
and fell from log into the stream and was
deyoured by allisators. lie leaves large
family of grown-up sons and daughters.
Colonel Haraszthy was in the flush OF vigor-
Gus manhood, though ffty-seven; brave,
enterprising, hospitable, and liberal man :;
and his shocking death will be widely de-
plored. The membe's of the - Colfax Par
ty " will remember him we'll, as also will
old Californians and intelligent travellers
who have visited California within the past