The San Francisco call., 1897-09-11

DISCOVER
FREE COLD
Urban Picnickers Find the
Treasure in Paper
Mill Greek.
JHE LAND VF AklHUR kODGERS.
Credit of the Discovery Belongs
to Henry Plagemann Of the
Harmonic"
COMPANY INCORPORATED AT ONCE.
Ledges of Gold-Bearing Quartz Known
to Exist on the Coast Range
Near Bolinas Bay.
COMPANY INCORPORATED AT ONCE.

The e1iled Duke of Shakespeare fancy
found, in the forest of Arden, tongues in
trees sermons in stones and books in the
running brook. The singers of the Society
Harmonic who went afield the other day
apd held high revel IN the woods of Marin
County found more than books in the
running brook. They found gold in the
bed of Paper-mill Creek and went vigor-
ously to work sluicing out the precious
grains. The stream IN which the gold
was found runs through the land of
Arthur Rodgers. The way Mr.. Rodgers
came into possession of the claim can be
briefly told. The property belonged to
Mrs. Montgomery, charming widow and
the client of the lawyer. Mr.. Rodgers, at
the conclusion of the litigation in the set
Element of her first husbands estate. mar
ried the fair client and thus became the
possessor OF $500 acres of forest and stream.
The members of the singing society
who participated in the three days frollc
on the Rodgers domain in the redwoods
of Marin County are all business men
who once year join In stag party to
get free of the cares of commerce. The
first night in the woods the singers pro-
duced an origin opera called 'The False
Prince" The opera was rendered in great
style and at the conclusion of the per-
formance the chief characters were burned
at the stake. The second day was inaug-
urated by champagne cocktail, concocted
according to a secret process known only
to Henry Plagemann. Morning serenades
followed the cocktails and cocktails fol-
lowed the serenades.
The second day in the woods, after
many libations, the gold in the creek was
discovered The historian of the party,
julius Relmer, thus relates the discovery:
On the second day much excitement
was caused by the announcement that
William Plagemann had discovered i'll a
creek near by what he believed to bs gold.
He produced about bucketful of gravel,
taken from the river-bed near Camp Tay-
lor, which, by those of the party who
have experience in mining, was pro-
nounced to be rich in gold. Several of the
party left to verify the discovery, among
them being Judge julius Reimer. Al bert
Kayser, editor of the Oakland Journal,
and Frank Sonuerleiter. Each of them
prospecled independently the Lagunitas
Greek, between Camp Taylor and Taylor
vile. and they brought with them as
much as they could carry of gravel, rich
with free gold gathered in the bed of the
creek for a distance of a third OF mile.
1t appears to be quartz gold, which must
have been washed down the canyons of
the Coast Range and is found on the sur
face of the rlver-bed. There can be no
doubt, if the surface of the river bed,
where the free gold can be seen with the
naked eye, is as rich as the specimens
produced, that the deposits, which may
have accumulated there for ages, must be
Immensely rich down at the bedrock of
the river bed. The gold freely ANAL
gamated with quicksilver Charles
Dechent, a pioneer miner, expressed the
belief that the specimens produced by Mr..
Plagemann were undoubtedly gold bearing
gravel. The discovery became inme-
diately known to the owner OF the land,
Arthur Rodgers, and arrangements were
perfected to work the deposits.
Among those VINO became excited over
the find was old John Messmer, a resi-
dent of Tayicrville for more than forty
years. He has charge of the paper m Ill,
which he has superintended since its
ere ction, and he declares that the late S.
p Taylor frequently declared that there
was golo in the gnlches and streams of
the Bolinas Coast Range. and that there
must be gold bearing quartz in these
mountains, from which the gold is washed
down. 1t is also learned that company
has been formed to work several Lodges OF
ore discovered in the same mountain
range; these discoveries were but recently
accurately surveyed by P. E. Lamar, c.
E.. and are now being developed by
company on the north end of Bolinas
Bay, Marin County. known as the Golden
Crown Mining and Milling Company.
From surveys made recently there are
several ore bodies of well-defined gold
bearing quartz, sufficiently rich to war
rant the company in running tunnels,
drifts and shafts and erecting improve
ments.
But the placer diggings discovered at