Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-21

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GREAT GOLD NUGGETS
Natures Pockets Picked and Re.
lieved of Her Golden Wealth.
A correspondent of the Mining ana
Scientific Press says .he largest piece
of gold, free of quartz, in the world was
taken from the Byer & Haltman gold
mining claim, Hill End, New South
Wales, Australia, on May 10, 1872, its
weight being G4O pounds; height,
four feet nine inches; width three feet
two inches; average thickness, four
inches, and was worth $l4S,S0O. 1t
was found embedded in thick wall of
blue slate, at depth of $50 feet from
the surface. The owners of the mine
were living on charity when they found
it.
The Welcome Stranger nugget was
found on Mount Moliagel, February 9,
1869; ID weighed 100 pounds and was
valued at $4,000. 1t was raflied for
$4,000.
The Welcome nugget was found at
Baker Hill, June 8, 1859; it weighed
1S4 pounds 8 ounces l6 pennyweigts,
and worth $44,356. 1t was raflled for
$4,000.
The Lady Hotham nugget was found
in New South Wales, Canadian Gully,
Septe mber 8, 1854; it weighed SO
pounds 10 ounces IL pennyweights,
and was sold for $23,557.
The Union nugget was found Feb
ruary %, 1857; it weighed % pounds
5 ounces, and was sold for $500.
No name nugget was found at
Eureka, Dautton's Flat, February 7,
1874 at depth OF thirty feet from the
surface; it weighed So pounds ounce,
and was sold for $l2 500.
The Leg OF Mutton nugget was found
at Ballarat. January 81, 1858, at a
depth of Is feet; it weighed 134 pounds
IL ounces, and was sold at the bank
for 1872 $3.50. This nugget was shaped
like leg OF mutton, hence its name.
No name nugget was found at
| Bakery Hill, March 6, 1855, near the
surface; it weighed Al pounds Z ounces
and was sold for Sill ,420.
No name nugget was found in
Canadian Gully, Bsllarat, January %,
1858, near the surface; it weighed 81
pounds 3 ounces Is pennyweights and
was sold for $20,235.
The Kohinoor nugget was found at
Ballarat, July q, 1860, at depth of
100 feet; it weighed SO pounds and
was sold for $l6.6S6.
The Sir Dominic DAILY nugget was
found February q, 1862; it weighed
26 pounds, and was sold for $6,24O.
No name nugget was found at
Ballarat, February %, 1855; it weigh
ed 80 pounds IL ounces 2 pennyweights
and was sold for 81, 1896.
No name nugget was found August
1, 1879; it weighed IL pounds, and was
worth $2,2SO.
No name nugget was found at
Ballarat, February 3, 1853; it weighed
80 pounds and was sold for 81 1850.
No name nugget was found in
Canadian Gully, January 20, 1858; it
weighed 63 pounds l ounce II penny
weights and was sold for $22.s5o.
No name nugget was found at
Bakery Hill, March, 6, 1855; it
weighed 40 pounds. and was worth
$500.
The Nil Desperandum nugget was
found November 80, 1859; it weighed
As pounds and was sold for $1O,SOO.
The Oats & Delson nugget was found
at Donolly gold fields in 1880, at the
roots of tree; 1t weighed 1S9 pounds,
and was sold for $50 1000.
In addition to the above are the
Huron nugget, worth $4,000, and the
Empress nugget. $27661. A great
number of smaller nuggets. too
numerous to mention, have been found.
Many large nuggets or Jumps of
gold have been found in California
during the era of placer mining, but
Australia must claim the largest. The
California Jumps are as follows:
A piece of gold and quartz was found
in Calaveras County, on Carson Hill
on the mother lode; it was valued at
$4,000.
The Downieville lump of quartz and
gold, OF Sierra County, as stated by
Louis Blanding, gave value OF nearly
500, 900, but it was not nugget.
The mass of gold and quartz found
in the Bonanza mine Sonora, Tuolumne
County, gave q value OF over SAC, 600.
The Australian statistics are correct
/ having obtained them from govern
, ment authority.
> SECRETARY Smith, of the interior
Department, has decided the case O
John A. Cameron vs. 1. w. Nc
Dousall and the Everett Land Com
pany, involving 40 acres of land il
b Everett, worth many thousand dol
: lars, in favor OF the defendants, thu.
= unfolding the findings of the local, Al
against the General Land Office.
n L.S.J. HUNT, formerly one of th'
y Post t-Intelligencer, but now in tn
# Orient, has secured from the Shang
+ hal municipal council the right Il
2 construct an electric street-car sys
}, tenn at cost of 81, ,00O, 900 in gold.