The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-04-18
MORE GOLD!
John A. Cole and H. n. Owen Se-
cure Leases on Renville
Co. Lands.
Five Tracts In Flora Township
are 60bbled Up by the
Company.
Suspicion that a North and South
Lode Has Been Struck
by Miners.

Another move on the gold-mine
chess-board occurred last week. The
scene was extended and the board
took in the town of Flora, Renville
county. Five farmers, representing
as many different tracts of land, all
located in Flora township, gave option
deeds to their land to John A. Cole,
son-in-law to G.. W. VanDusen, and to
H. R. Owen, manager Farm, Stock
and Home of Minneapolis.
August Radtke:gave them an option
on 80 acres of land; John Beckendorf
gave them a like deed to 17O acres:
Henry Schmidt gave them an option
deed to 80 acres; Martha A. Gates
gave them the right to buy 12O acres
OF her land; and George B. Burch
gave them an option on 81 acres of
his farm.
Of the purchase price, it is under
stood that $500 was paid down at the
time OF signing the instruments. This
allows Messrs. Cole and Owen to enter
into and upon all of the land and
prospect for minerals. The balance
is to be paid whenl they agree to take
the land, a limit of time being named.
1t is understood that. the stipulated
price is from $50 to 500. The deeds
were all signed in the presence of AL
fred Edlund, president, and A. Van
Hemert. manager of the Minnesota
Mining and Refining Company of
Delhi. They were placed on record
in the office of the register of deeds of
kenville county early last week. and
on Thursday afternoon the register
OF deeds had the fling completed and
was preparing to return the instru-
ments to H. r. Owen, business man
ager of Farm, Stock and Home of
Minneapolis.
These lands are all situated directly
across the river from the present plant
OF the Minnesota Gold Mining and
Refining Company. The deeds in
clude all of the land up and down the
river for long distance except the
farm OF Mr.. Henry Cook, which ad-
joins the river directly:across from the
mine, and lease of which Mr.. Cook
gave to Messrs. G.. w. Waugh, A. w;
Bager and Erastus D. French of this
city during the summer of 1894.
The deeds were secured by Mr.
Cole and Mr.. Owen when the two gen
tlemen were here week prior to last
1t will be remembered that they we're
accompanied by DR.. Lehnen, analyti-
cal chemist of St. Paul, Mimi, who
remarked that very fine grade of ore
had been struck. Directly after that
remark the securing Of, deeds to land
across the river was commenced. just
why the gentlemen decided to secure
deeds in Flora township is question,
but rumor has it that vein has been
struck and that it runs underground
north and south, and consequently
across the river in Renville county
This may account for the placer gold
that was found by Edlund in the sand
during the extended time that he was
prospecting along the Redwood and
Minnesota rivers. The bed of the
latter river may have more gold Of
this kind than Edlund found in the
sand.
The gentlemen were very secret in
their acts, and had it not been for q
reporter of this paper being at the
courthouse in Beaver Falls las,
Thursday they might have been sue.
cessful in carry out their wish to avoid
publicity. At any rate this secret Sc
curing of deeds must be construed
that the gentlemen have faith in the
enterprise.
wer.-Latest U. S. Govt Report