The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-07
NUGGETS.

In 8 little cabin far up the gulch
the first white child in this part oil
tie world was born. The eirl-Wife
bad followed her lover from the ststes,
and, Drawing every hardship for bis
sake, bad At last found him. When
the baby came the gulch went on 8
weeks spree. Gold in handiuls was
thrown by the rough miners into the
little ones cradle until it was almost
smothered under the yellow nuggets.
One poor fellow wanted to hear it cry,
and when the baby piped up the
miner wept. saying be bad not heard
sound like that for years. How the
rough. big-bearded men crowded
Ground that little child, one asking il
he might kiss It, another if be might
iitt It. and q third the privilege Of
seeiuK it fed out of bottle. When
1t was sick business in the gulch was
almost suspended, and nobody could
thiuk OF doing anything until 1.-THE
baby" was better. These were the
good old days OF gulch mining in
Montana, wnen -four was one dollar
pound, sugar and coffee seventy-hve
cents, dried apples ten dollars ga
lon. brooms five dollars apiece, tacks
seventy-6ve cents paper, calico one
dollar per yard, Red when q miner
could take out sixteen dollars per day
with chance of rich nugget turn
ing up twice a week. Nugget-fnding
is the excitement OF 3 miners life. OF
course, as long as gold is found in
chunks weighing one and two pounds
there is no good reason why 1t should
not be found in Jumps weighing fifty
pounds. and it is these huge iboulders
the gulch miner is constantly looking
for and daily expecting to turn up.
Montana has been fairly productive
in nuggets. One was taken out OF
SnoWshoe Gulch in 1865 which
weighed us ounces troy. and sold for
So, 200 Another WAS found in July,
1865, by Maxwell, Rollins & Co. in
Nelson Gul3b, worth $2073; another
on the claim OF Dsitrick & Brothers in
Rocker Gulch, which sold for 81 800.
A boy on Scratoh-Gravel Bottom
found a piece of god which be sold
for $475; and one on Captain Tandy's
claim for $3.50. Mr.. Rogers found in
Nelson Gulch, in 1878, a nugget
worth 5000, A farmer blowing in his
field saw something shining and
picked it up; it proved to be a nugget
of gold worth 5000. Nuggets are still
found, but not so often as in the
palmy days of Last Chance and Alder
Gulch.
speaking Of nuggets, do you know
where the largest gold nugget in the
world was found? It was discovered
Ia 1858 il the Ballsrat Digging, Vic
toria Australia. It weighed 2I66
ounces, and was sold for Sal $50. It
was nearly pure god and estimated
in the British Exchange as the equal
of standard gold or pounds sterilng.
This mammoth nugget was called
"The We come" and for many years
was reckoned one of the seven won
ders OF the world. New South Wales
produced gold to the total weight of
1921. 900 ounces, valued at S59,415,-
085. Victoria exceeded this quantity
nine told, her product in the same
ten years being 100000 ounces,
equal in value to $500, 100000 In
1862 the colony sent to the Great In
ternstional Exhibition an obellsk
called The Gold Trophy" It was
forty.fVe feet high by ten feet square
at Inc base, representing in cubic
Contenst the bulk of all the gold
raised in the colony in eleven years
1851 to 1862. Down to the end of
1867 the gold from this colony was
reckoned at $3.50, 900, OOO-besides
the gold OF New South Wsles.-Fort
Keogh Cor. Chicago Tribune.