Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-14
LAKE COUNTY eoLD.
stampede OF sisux Fails Pe.pl, {, II.
Farm Of II. n. Lucs.
W. Sinnx Fails Panfanranh AZ

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Farm Of H. n. Lucs.
49, Sioux Falls Paragraph.
For some days. Sioux Falls has been In q
state Of excitement and anxiety, and troops
Of men have beer, visiting The Paragraph
Office askihg to see shat specimen" The
occasion Of fall this has been the fact that We
have had here . specimen of' the richest
quartz any Of il ~inspectors have eve essn.
1t weighs about an ounce, and 10 studded all
over with specks of gold ranging in dze
the yellow metal in it being variously ssti-
mated, at from fly cents to one dollar, 20
that . ton Of the stuff would yield At least
twenty thousand dollars. There isno mis-
take about the lglittering stuff being pure
miners, by jewellers and BY chemists, all Q!
whom pronounoe il straight goods, and he
ore il nearly pure quarts, being sufficiently
hard to score glass.
But what Rives it it, especial atlrac-
tion in Sioux Falls is the fact that it
was found up 10 Lake county, only
forty-6ye mila from here, and there
are immense quantities Of it In the
bluffs there. Several parties have rome out
from here to make . thorough examination
Of the region, and their return is a~nxiously
awaited. The specimen of which I speak
was brought here last Saturday evening ~ J.
A. Hutchinson, who drives the stage between
Sioux Falls and Madison. He procured il
ct first hands from II. N. Luce, one Of Lake
county's Oldest and most Trustworthy citizens,
formerly . member Of the territorial legisls-
ture, from whom no received the following
account of its d~iecovery:
Hmm M Trrop. $,eun on 1ho h>rL of
Lake Herman which encircles it like q horse
shoe, is q bluff upon q part Of which the
snow fingered some time. Az this was
liar appearance was obseryed, which was net
binary brown of the earth. Charles Wash.
ilnetcn. who. is q cousin Of little Frank
Washington Of Sioux Falls, and who is
stopping with Luce. first notice. this, and
he took = heavy hammer ard broke of some
Of the stone, which he showed to Luce, and
the two of course saw:theg littering metal in
the quartz. They obtained q large numb
of specimens. one of which Hutchins 90
cured from Luce, With 40 account Of the
discovery, and brought down to Sioux Falls,
ined BY q very large number of gentlemen,
" v ON0A at OuCO tOI
Luce's farm. the evidence being sufficient
TO make them feel warranted in q winter
trip of forty five miles to see what there 10
10 it.
1t has been a practice unfortunately So
common for localities to raise reports OF gold
discoveries, when there is nothing to juktlt,
them, That We have no doubt there will be
many who when they read this, will meta.
phorically put their thumbs to their noses
and watt their tigers In the air; but ".
-candidly state that we have told the circum
stances above just as we are led, upon good
authority. to honestly believe they exist.
We have no desire to e~xsggerate anything
in any essential particular. While We un
the advantage which the discovery
a quartz deposit in Lake county would be
to this section and to Sioux Falls, we know
very we'll that any unfounded report In re
gard to such a matter would ultimately do
Us more damage than good.