The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-08
STATE NEWS.

The annual meeting Of the Vernon
State Teachers association will be hell
at Woodstock October 14-16.
Application has been made from St
Johnsbury with the secretary OF state
for a corporation called the Vacuum
Drier company. The object of the cor
poration will be to manufacture ma
chinery for the purpose of drying yarn,
cloth in the web, paperas it comes from
the machine, etc. They will organize
with capital stock of s150,0OO. The
subscribers are Henry Fairbanks,
Howard Parker, William G. Perkins,
Fred N. Wheeler and Ada Colby.
George Whitney Of North Shrews.
bury found swarm of Lees in the
woods one day recently and took from
them At pounds of honey. Harmon
Balch took So pounds from another
swarm and Almon Russell found q
third.
The annual inspection of Vermont
division, Sons of Veterans, will begin
next Monday.
A collection of silk worms from Jap
an has been placed in the Fairbanks
museum at St. Johnsbury, and theil
lives and habits may be watched there.
Mrs. Phoebe Frye, the oldest person
in Essex county, was buried at Con-
cord a few days ago. She was born in
1906, was member of the first Sun.
day school organization in the state and
had been member of the Free Bap.
fist society for more than IS years.
She leaves several children, among
whom are james Frye, a merchant Of
Boston, and Mrs. Clark, wife OF the
superintendent of the poor of Medtord,
Mass.
Moses Lunderville of Derby con-
tracted to eat two dozen bananas, one
dozen hard bold eggs, one dozen to-
matoes, one pound honey and milk to
go with the honey. He ate Is banan-
as, II hard boiled eggs, one pound of
honey, - tomatoes, two quarts milk,
one half loaf of bread. The estimated
weight OF what he ate is ID pounds.
Vermont klondike.
A Burlington dispatch says: Yer
mont has a klondike. There is gold
there, agd an experienced miner is in
charge of the placer mining works,
where it is being secured. 1t is free
gold, being found in small nuggets in
the bed OF a mountain stream.
The location of this Embryo Eldora-
do is up Joyner Brook" in the town
of Bolton, near Burlington.
There is no doubt that there is free
gold in the bed of the Joyner brook,
but whether it will be found in paying
quantities is still an open question.
Samuel A. Andrews Of Richmond
discovered gold there about fifteen
years ago, and has prospected the. bed
of the stream for a distance of three
miles. He saysthat he has found gold
all along the stream but never IN very
large quantities.
When he first discovered it he got
IS worth, since that time he has found
it small amounts whenever he chose to
go there and "pan OUT some of the
gravel.
Mr.. Andrews is in his 18th year,
and went to California in 1858. He
stayed about two years, when he came
back to Vermont tor short visit, and
then went back to California for eight
cen months. Most of this time he was
at work in the gold mines.
Mr.. Andrews has chosen a spot in
the bed of the brook about half mile
above the railroad. Above and below
"the diggings' the brook bed is steep,
but here the bed rock is concave, form
ing sort of basin, which i. filled with
boulders aud gravel. Gold being SO
heavy, it works itself to the bottom OF
the stream and lodges in the bottom OF
this basin.
Mr.. Andrews has two young men
him. They have put in a
sluice about four rods in length, at the
lower end of which two ripples are
placed. A ripple is made OF teninch
boards, which forms Vshaped troughs,
)r sections, across the bottom OF the
;luice; as the water washes the roughs,
and "if particle of gold gets into ont
If those ripples it can't get out" said
Mr.. Andrews.
The men, as they dig up the gravel,
wash off all the larger stones to remove
my particle Of the yellow metal which
nay be lodged on them, and the course
gravel is thrown into the upper ED Of
he sluice.
A four-tined manure fork is used to |
axe out the coarsest stones, and the |
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