Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-18
BIG GOLD NUGGETS.
The Largest Piece of Gold Yet Found Was
Worth $4,000.

In order TO correct many misstatements
that are going the rounds Of the press III
regard to the largest nuggets Of gold ever
found the editor Of the Siirc Dollar desires
10 publish the following facts, when he
obtained while commissioner 10 the great
mining exposition held in Denver, Col, IA
1882. These facts were obtained from the
gentlemen having charge If the Australian
exhibit. which includes models of oil the
LARGE nuggets discovered in that great gold
field. >,
The largest piece OF gold in the world
was taken from Dyer n Haltman,s gold
mining claim, Hi End, New South Wales,
Nav 10. 1872. its weight was GAO pounds,
leipht four feet nine inches, width three
feet two inches, average thickness
four inches; worth rl4s,SOO;, IL was
found imbedcd in IA thick wall OF blue
slate at a depth of $50 feet from the sur
face. The owners Of the mine were living
on charity when they found st.
Welcome Stranger nugget was found on
Mt. Molagel February Q, 1869, weighed $50
pounds, and was worth S45,6OO. his mug
oct was rnnied for S4G,0 900 mt So chance,
and was won 10y man driving baker
cart. Ii was sold to the bank for its true
value and melted.
The Welcome nugget was fOundat Bakery
Hill June 9, 1853. II weighed l9l pounds .
ounces IL pennyweights, and was worth
S44. S5G: was rallied for $4,000 at 20 a
chance, and won by small boy III bar
beT-shOp.
LADY Hotham nugget-namcd in honor
Of the wife of the Governor OF New South
Wales-was found in Canadian Gully, Sep
TENDER s, 1854. 1t weighed 90 pounds 10
ounces u pennyweights' and was sofa 1or
Union Jack nugget, found at Buningorg
February %, 1857, weighed ~ POUNDS 0
ounces, and was sold for 5000. IL was
found by a runaway sailor, who sold II Tor
the sum named and spent the money III
Just four weeks.
TOMS Flat, February 7, 1874, fifty feet be
low the surface, weighed SO pounds l
ounce. and was sold for So, 800.
The Leg of Mutton nugget was found az
Rallant January 81 1858, at depth OF
sixty-fiye feet. 1t weighed 1874 pounds IL
ounces. and was sold to the bank Tor
S82. $50. This nugget was shaped Ike
leg of mutton, hence its name;
No-name nugget, found at fakery mn,
Ballarat. March 6, 1855, near the surface,
weighed AZ pounds 2 ounces ana was sofa
No-name nugget, found in Canadian
Gully, Ballarat, January ~, 1853 at depth
Of twenty-five feet weighed "a pounds
ounces is pennyweights, and was sold for
The Kohinoor nugget, found at Ballarat,
July n. 1860, at a depth Of 100 feet from
the surface, weighed 81 pounds, ana was
sold for S16,6s0.
Sir Dominic DAILY nugget, found Feb;
ruary q, 1862, weighed 26 pounds, and SOLD
No-name nugget, found at Ballarat Feb
ruary %, 1855, only sixteen feet below the
surface. The discovery was made 10y q
small boy. The nugget weighed 30 pounds
II ounces 2 pennyweights, and sold Tor
No-name nugget. found at Weebville
August /, 1869, weighed IL pounds, worth
Nosname nugget, found at Ballarat Feb
mary ?. 1853. Just twelve feet below the
surface, weighed 80 pounds. and sold for
81 $3.50. c..,,
Only january 20, 1853, at eighteen feet be
low the surface, weighed 80 pounds
ounce and II pennyweights, ana sold Tor
No-name nugget, found at Bakery. Hhl
March 8, 1865, weighed 40 pounds. and was
Nj Desperandum nugget, found at Black
Hills November 20. 1859, weighed 45pounds,
and sold for x10,s00.
Oates a Delson nugget, found at Do
molly Qold-feld In 1880 NJ the roots, o. q
tree, weighed $50 pounds, ana sold foi
ID addition to the above we're the Heron