The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-10

= ~ s'il quartz was found which Welded
-'- ms with several smaller -usrars
W. laken from the Boulder Gravel Claim
Ieel me Fllot Mil postofiice. Several Iarr-
~ valuable sold nuggets were found IN,
-.-t- -,-..--Ie county In 1853 a mass OF gold
l-1--I,-.s ~ ounces Ias found at Co
= ~. Is ms was valued al s5625. At
G9Iu hll, IN the same county. a M
, Ism round one eighing so ounces and
ealled al $3.50. A Frenchman In Snrfng
-----' near Columbia. in the same county.
-ol--l one OF almost pure sold which was
OF u ss''yA The rich mass of gold rem
s s me miner insane on the following
cays anu ne was sent 10 the Stockton
asylum The nugget was sold and the
France AIS fanny IL
Near the Knapp Ranch. half a mile
east OF columbia, a Mr. Strain found a
latse gold quartz nugget which weighed
NY pounos After the quartz was crush
ca ana the gold melted. the amount OBJ
lalheo was $500. On Sullivaa's creek. in
ne same county, in 1910, a UWenJy-eight
pound nugget was picked up by one Of the
Pioneers. Il was sold for SIZES.
near elagalia, in Butte county. on Aug
L. 1893, Ira a. Willard found on the west
branch OF the Feather a nugget that
Nels-71- HIty-tour pounds avoirdupois and
was worth $40 go. On hnding this the
GRATED the event by a grand j0llifca ton
II the last decade several nuggets have
oeen found in the mining regions Of Cal
norma that have brought over s., 900 each.
IN october, 1883 two men were tramping
up the coast, were put off Southern
racine freight train al the little station
or Cahente, and started off 20 walk to
Bakersfield. Two days later they came
back to Cliente with a lump of gold and
4f-.1 ..%
having robbed mining camp ami even
Of having murdered a miner 10 get their
gold. They, however, proved that wDile
going about the dry bed of an ancient
stream Of water. two miles from the
Bealeville placer mining camp, for fagots
for IRE, they had stumbled upon their
lucky find. They had offered the gold for
sale TO a railroad man at Calieute for
SO, but he. suspecting fraud. would not
bargain with the strangers. Subsequently
the nugget was sold IN Los Angeles for
81, 80. 1t weighed PIG ounces. In less than
a week after the find there were over 100
men from all parts of southern Califor-
MIA hunting daily no and down that old
river bed for gold nuggests, but beyond a
Few Sc or 81 finds there was nothing
worthy the search.
In January. 1891 a nugget of pure gold
that weighed 40 ounces was found in a
drift OF coarse gravel in the Goler dis
trict north of the Mojave desert. The very
next day another nugget of pure god
about the size of goose's egg was found
by a manufacturing jewcler in Pomona.
The former brought s., 40 and the latter
1913. Several months ago a nugget that
sold for about 81 400 was brought into
San Diego by poor, weak consumptive
from New Jersey, who had been roughing
1t up in the mountains with some sheep
ranchmen. In his long daily walks for
health and exercise he amused himself in
looking for Indian relics in canon. He
found the nugget among a lot of rocke
one day after a heavy rainstorm had
washed down immense masses of gravel
and earth from the side of the canon.
There was no one more astonished than
he at the value placed upon his find when
he offered it for sale in San Diego. tx
perienced gold miners visited the locality
where the chunk was picked up. but not
one of them has yet found another sign
Of gold there. 1t is one of the perplexit'es
and aggravations in hunting for new gold
fields.
The largest nugget ever found in North
Carolina weighed so pounds. The largest
ever found in IBERIA weighed IS pounds
and ounces The largest piece of gold
ever found in Colorado weighed 10 pounds,
and this was by no means pure gold The
largest ever found in the world was discov-
cred in Australia in 1852 and was known
as the King Of the Water Moon nugget.
II weighed 223 pounds and four ounces
and was worth about S55,0C0.