The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

an extent as is claimed there can be little
doubt that auriferous gravel deposits will
be. discovered. The largest nuggets of
gold ever taken from the earth were found
in what is called "placer diggings," viz:
the nugget found in 1910, in Cabarrus
county, N. c., which weighed thirty-seven
pounds Troy; three in Australia, which
weighed, respectively, one hundred forty
six pounds and three pennyweights, one
hundred eighty-fve pounds, and the one
known as the Sarah Sands" the largest
in the world, two hundred thirty-tbree
pounds and four ounces. Reckoning gold
dollar weighing pennyweight, this latter
piece would be worth $4,000. Gold-hunters
here in New England do not expect to be-
come millionaires in a moment, but who
can tell what may be found in the beds of
these mountain streams? The gold mine in
Plymouth, not far from Tyson Furnace,
has regular dividends on the capital stock,
and has been worked with considerable
vigor, albeit quietly, for some time. Mr..
Raymond at the Five Points has opened up
a mine, which, it is believed, furnishes
"pay-rock " in fair quantities. Messrs. Mel
son and Alfred Wheelock, near the King
DOM" are sinking a shaft on quartz
vein that has good indications. but with
what result has not yet been ascertained. In
West Windsor, Benjamin Warren and G.
l.. Fallon are running drift from the bank
of tributary of Mill brook into the side of
hill, following small water-course that
empties into the main branch at that point.
Assays were made of some surface quartz
in the bed of the water-course, indicating
gold at about Sc per ton. OF course such
ore will not pay for working, but Messrs.
Warren and Fallen propose running drift
to point intersecting the quartz vein above
referred to, which will give depth of about
thirty feet, to ascertain just what there is
in it. A ton of ore is to be taken out and
worked so that there can be no doubt about
the value, and such proceeding will dem
onstrate to reasonable certainty whether
it will pay to go further or not. In Reading,
Messrs Reed and Person have located what
is expected to be good-paying mine, If the
assays already made give fair value to the
ore. Work was begun last June on lin
tied scale, and resumed again Immediately
after haying with an increased force. A
shaft about six feet in diameter was sunk to
the depth of twenty-five feet, then rifted in
some thirty feet. The surface indications
were small, but, according to the assets
made, they grew better the deeper the shaft
was sunk, yielding from So to $50 per ton.
The object is to drift through the ledge,
crossing the quartz veins at right angles.
This will enable them to detect the best
leads, and they can then work them at their
option. II. H. Goodell, Colorado miner
of considerable experience, superintends
the work. In the thirty-feet drift, three
gold-bearing quartz veins have been passed,
and on Monday of last week another was
pierced Mr. Goodell was convinced that
specimens taken from the extreme end of
the drift were richer than any before OBJ
tanned. One of these veins is about five feet
wide, one about three, and another little
less. Some two tons or more of the ore OBJ
tanned from these leads are piled up outside
the shaft, awaiting the crusher.- Windsor
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