The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-19

French Ravine, in 1850, a mass OF gold
and quartz was picked up that weighed
-53 ounces and was worth Si.eB In 1870
a splendid nugget Of gold was discovered
in the Rainbow Mine near Allegheny
which was Immediately shipped 70 London
and there sold for $1,000 In 1860 a chunk
of gold that weighed IS pounds and six
ounces was discovered in the same county.
In Placer county, in 1853, Edward Gill
bert, IN his drift mine near Butcher
ranch, twelve miles from Auburn, found
a nugget of gold and quartz that weighed
twenty pounds Eight pounds Of this he
sold for s. an ounce. or $l,536, while the
remaining twelve pounds were sold at
SlZ an ounce, SLIPS making S3,26i for the
nugget. The same man, many years later,
discovered in the same mine another val
liable nugget. 1t was ten inches long,
three TO seven inches wide and over an
inch thick. The gold was embedded in a
mass OF crystallized quartz, with clear
cut corners, the sides of which shown
with great brilliancy. When thoroughly
cleaned it weighed 147 ounces, and was
sent 70 the san Francisco mint, where it
In 1864. near Michigan Bluff. a nugget
or pure gold. Weighing 226 ounces and
valued al "a 20i, was found. In July. 1873.
). g. ColgrOVe of Dutch Flat found a
white quartz hOwlder In tlfe Polar Star
mine which contained $500 worth of gold.
In III Dorado county, in 1853 a lC5-ounce
nugget OF gold was discovered that was
valued "a $500 Another was found near
Kelsey. in The same county, which sold
for $500 In 1851. at Pilot Hill "a bowlder
--.l y
ss,W0 Ihis, with several smaller mug
gets, was taken from the BOwlder Gravel
cIalm, near the Pilot Hill postoffice. Sew
erai large and valuable gold nuggets were
discovered in Tuolumne county In 1853
q mass of gold weighing 800 ounces was
iounu AT columbus. This was valued at
At Gold Hill, in the same county, a
MT, virgin found one weighing $50 ounces
60 N"tluJu dl @o'5Q. trenchman IN
spring Gulch, near Columbia, i'm the same
county, found one of almost pure gold
which was worth 5000 The rich mass Of
gold rendered the miner insane on the
following day, and he was sent to the
stockton asylum The lump was sold
ana the money for it was sent to mis-
Near the Knapp Ranch. half mile
east OF Columbia, a Mr.. Strain discovered
large gold nugget which weighed so
and the gold melted the amount obtain
ed was $500. on Sullivans creek, in the
same county, in 1913, &-pound nugget
was sold for S716S
Near AIagania, in Butte county, on Aug.
a. 1899, Ira A. Willard found on the west
| branch Of the Feather a nugget that
weighed "a pounds avoirdupois, and was
worth SlQ69l on finding this the miners
quit work for the day and celebrated the
event by a grand jollihcation.
In January, 1891. a nugget of pure gold
that weighed 40 ounces was found In
drltt OF coarse gravel in the, Goler dis
trict, north of the Mojave desert. The
very next day another nugget of pure
gold, about the size of a goose's egg,
was found. Both were bought by a man
ufacturing jeweler in POMONA. The for
mer brought 81, 100 and the latter 1915.
Several months ago a nugget that sold
for about Sl,400 was brought into San
| Diego by poor, weak consumptive from
New Jersey, who had been roughing 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 a can
yon. lie found the nugget among lot
of rocks one day after a heavy rain storm
had washed down immense masses of
gravel and earth from the sides of the
! canyon
The largest nugget ever found in North
| Carolina weighed so pounds. The largest
/ ever found in Siberia weighed 90 pounds
! and 4 ounces. The largest piece Of gold
| ever found i'm Colorado weighed 3 pounds
| and this was by no means pure gold The
| largest ever found in the world was dis
! covered in Australia in 1852, and was
nugget. 1t weighed 223 pounds and 4
! ounces, and was worth about $4,000