The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27

valued at $500. Another was found near
Kelsey, In the same county, which sold for
A,7OO. In 1867, atsPilot Hill, a boulder of
gold quartz was found which yielded s. ,OO0.
This, with several smaller nuggets, was
taken from the Boulder Gravel claim near
the Pilot Hill postofflee. Several large and
valuable gold nuggets were discovered in
Tuolumne county, In 1853 a mass Of gold
weighing $50 ounces was found at Column
bus. This was valued at $5,625. At Gold
Hill, in the same county, Mr.. Virgin
found one weighing 40 ounces and valued
at $500. Freaehman in Spring Gulch,
near Columbia, in the same county, found
one of almost pure gold, which was worth
5000. The rich massso of gold rendered the
miner insane on the following day, and he
was sent to the Stockton asylum. The
nugget was sold and the money for it was
sent to his family in France.
Near the Knapp ranch, half a mile east
of Columbia, Mr.. Strain discovered a
large gold quartz nugget which weighed so
pounds. After the quartz was crushed and
the gold melted the amount obtained was
$500. On Sullivan's creek, In the same
county, In lS49 2S-pound nugget was pick
ed up by one of the pioneers. 1t was sold
for $7,168.
Near Magalia, in Butte county, Aug. IA,
1852 Ira A Willard found on the west
branch of the Fea ther a nugget that weigh
ed "a pounds avoirdupois, and was worth
$1O.69O. On finding this the miners quit
work for the day and celebrated the event
by grand jollifcation.
In the last decade several nuggets have
been found in the mining regions of Cali
fornia that have brought over $1,000 each.
In October, 1885, two men who were tramp
ing up the coast, were put off Southern
Pacific freight train at the little station of
Callente, and started off to walk to Bakers
field. Two days later they came back to
Caliente with lump of gold and crys-
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having robbed a mining camp, and even of
having murdered a miner to get their gold.
They, however, proved that while going
about on the dry bed of an ancient stream
OF water two miles from the Bealeville
placer mining camp, for fagots for a fire,
they had stumbled upon their lucky find.
They had offered the gold for sale to
railroad man at Caliente for &c. but he,
suspecting fraud, would not bargain with
the strangers. Subsequently the nugget
was sold in Los Angeles for $3.50. 1t
weighed ZIG ounces In less than a week
after the find there were over 100 men from
all parts of southern California hunting
daily up and down that old river bed for
gold nuggets, but, beyond few So and 81
finds there was nothing worthy the search.
In January, 1891, a nugget Of pure gold
that weighed lao ounces was found in
drift of coarse gravel in the Goler district
north of the Mojav desert The very next
day another nugget of pure gold about the
were bought by manufacturing jeWeler
in Pomona. The former brought 1920 and
the latter 1915. Several months ago a mug
get that sold for about 81, 400 was brought
into San Diego by a poor, weak consump-
| tive from New Jersey, who had been rough
| ing it 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 rocks
| one day after heavy rain storm 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 1t for sale in San Diego Expert
! enced 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 perpleXities
| and aggravations of hunting for new gold
| fields.
| The largest nugget ever found in North
| Carolina weighed 80 pounds The largest
| ever found in Siberia weighed SO pounds
| and four ounces. The largest piece Of gold
| ever found in Colorado weighed IL pounds,
| largest ever found in the world was dis
| covered in Australia in 1852, and was
| known as the King of the Water Moon
| nugget 1t weighed 223 pounds and four
| ounces and was worth about $55,000 says
| a telegram from Los Angeles, Cal, to the
| Chica go Herald,