The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

sketch The first piece. of gold found at
this mine, was in the year 1899, by Conrad
Reed, boy Of about twelve, yearsold, a son
OF John Reed, the propriet6n lThe discov-
cry was made in an accidental manner
The boy above named, in company with a
sister and younger brother, went 20 smah
stream, called Meadow Greek, on Sabbath
day, while their parents were at church, for
the purpose of shooting fish with. bow and
arrow, and while engaged along the bank of
tho creek, Courad saw q yellow substance
shining In the water. He went in and
picked it up, and found it to be some kind
OF metal, and carried it home. Mr. Reed
examined it, but as gold was unknown in
this part Of the country &C that time, he
did not know what kind of metal it was
the piece was about the size of small
smoothing iron.
MIR. Reed carried the piece of metal to
Concord, and showed it to William Atkn.
son, silversmlth, but he not thinking of
gold, was unable to say what kind of metal
it was.
MIR. Reed kept the piece for several years
on his house floor, to lay against the door to
keep it from shutting. In the year 1902,
he went to market to Fayetteville, and carried
the piece of metal with him, and on showing
it to jewcller the latter Immediately told
him it was gold, and requested Mr.. Reed to
have the metal with him and said he would
fux it. MIR. Reed left it, and returned in
short time, and on his return the jeweIler
showed him large bar Of gold six or eight
inches long. The jeweler then asked Mr..
Reed what he would take for the bar Mr..
Reed, not knowing the value gold, thought
he would ask "big price" and so he asked
three dollars and fifty cents The jeweller
paid him his price.
After returning home, Mr.. Reed exam
ined ana found gold in the surface along the
creek. He then associated Frederick Kisor,
James Love and Martin Phifer with him.
self, and in the year 1903 they found piece
OF gold in the branch that weighed twenty
eight pounds. Numerous pieces were found
in this mine weighing from sixteen pounds
down to the smallest PARTICLES. The whole
surface along the creek for nearly mile was
very rich in gold.
The veins of this mine were discovered
in the year 1881. They yielded large
quantity of gold. The veins are flint or
quartz
do certify that the foregoing is true
statement Of the discovery and history of
this mine, as given by John Reed and his
son Conrad Reed, now both dead
GEORGE BERNuARDT.
January, 1s48.
Weight of different pieces of gold found
at this mine -
1903, 2S pounds 1904, pounds; 1904,
7pounds 1904, 3 pounds; 1904, 2 pounds;
1904, II pounds 1924, 16 pounds 1924,
81 pounds 1924, 8 mounds 1885, 13I
pounds; 1885, AZ pounds; 1885, pounds;
1885, pound 1885, 8 pounds. Total
115 pounds steeIyard weight.
PICKED UP.-We picked up letter in
the street, says an exchange, the other day,
of which the following is copy, excepting
the addresses. The owner can have the
original by calling at our Office
DEAR BROTHERS,, SISTERS, COUSINS,
and set down to take this opportunity to
inform you that l am Daddy" that is. I
suppose am, for Abbie has got nice fat
baby, and we hope these few lines will fiud
you enjoying the same great blessings
Now this is to be strictly business letter.
Firstly, as said before, Abbic has got as
nice baby as ever made up faces. Nextly,
I have swapped away old Buckskin, and
think have got pretty nice horse, it is a
little girl and weighs nine pounds l mean
the baby, and is just as fat as butter, and
has got good strong pair of lungs; she is
red and got bobtail 1.-THE horse l mean
and white strip in her face, and is good
driver; she has got blue eyes and q dimple
in her chin Il mean the baby now, and
just the prettiest mouth that ever was (of
course), and judging from her teeth should
think she was about six years old Il mean
the horse now); she is sound, smoothc aud
kind q mean the horse or baby either, (now
and the doctor sails she 10 the faires he
ever saw, without any exception Che means
the baby). got 25 dollars to boot, not in
the baby scrape, tho, for the boot was on
the other foot, and two or three sizes larger
as near as can find out. am going to har-
ness the horse now, and 60 after mother
she was born last Wednesday night, 20
minutes past nine Il hope you don't think 1
mean mother or the horse, | mean the baby.
She is as hearty as pig, ate an egg, bis
cult, and drank three cups Of tea for her
dinner (I mean Abbie). She is getting
along nicely, and if she don't have any bad
luck she will get along fustrate. She is
rather windy, and they say that is sign of
collie q mean the baby1 hope it is, for
the nurse says colicy babies never die. She
talks through her dose (nose) as she takes
stuff (the nuss mean now).
There, I've been reading this over, and 1
see plainly that amt fit to write. The
amount of it is, am frustrated I am daddy
and that accounts for it, so you must excuse
me this time. SAM. DADDY.