The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-19
FORTUNES ~ LuMPs.
some Gold Nuggets That Have Made
Their Owners Rich.

lhclr owners HAths
From the New York Herald
PROBABLY the biggest piece o. goid ever
seen DO one lump vas the giant mug
received OF the assay office. Ia Wall street.
a few days ago from . miuing company.
d vas boo the shape ot cone. standing
about tao feet high. containing over 1SS
pounds - the yellow metal and valued a.
$1,000 -Four men carried q with dih.-
Guilty
Nevertheless. some very large chunks
~ gold have been picked up In various
parts % the world a different tim $50
Jumps formed nV nature. and rot m
posed Ike the one above mentioned y
melting toRe her the We'd Of Thousands
~ tons Of crushed rock For some rea-
con not well understood Austrslta has
bosn the chief producer Of great nuggets.
and nearly all of the eKceational.y hige
masses Of the previous metal in 'ra-
tive state" have been found IN thai part
~ the world Also. tho Australian naE-
gets have been noted Tor their pnnts
many Of them running over tweu'y-threa
carats me while some of them have
been ~ almost absolute purtty-tne virgin
stun-thst s. 20 say. with hardly any APP
probable alloy.
For example the Welcome nugget
which Yves the largest on record. Ne an
ing 2zlS ounces and valued al over Su.-
90. was a2 per cent pure gold. II was
found in Jas. az the diggings at Ballarit
In Australia under rather pecu lar cir
cumstances. The proprietors Of q hole
had gone away 20 lunch. leaving a hired
man diggiug with q pick Ak. suddenly
the pick struck something. The WORK
mat dug around q % see what II was
ana then he tainted dead away. Pres
entity the owners returned. and seeing tn
man lying in the hole. they thought ne
was dead one 81 them jumed iu, turn
81 him over 10 see what was the matter
with him. and then ha tainted also, Roth
Of them were dragged out. and immeii-
ately digging was Wildly begun Tor the
nugget which lay partly exposed. The
mass was so great that az nrsi they sup
posed they had come ufon reef OF pure
gold 81
mus Was discovered the greatest OF al
nuggets. and the curiosity u attracted
was 90 great that the finders sod u IN
RnUarat FOR So 50o-consider9bly more
chan n was worth. After being exhibited
for a time IN Australia Il was sent 20 Eu-
rope and finally was melted
The Precious" Weighing I'M ounces
and valued a. S3o3f0. vac found OF the
Berlin dsgginEs. as was also the Wis
count Canterbury" which tipped the
A.A
nre Another great nugget weighing 81
ounces and valued AZ $1,000 was picked
up ln the same nelghbornood and called
the 'Viscountess Canterbury The
Maitland Bar" was found al a place Of
that name IN New South Wales. ard
weighed 50 ounces. containing 3is ounces
OF gold Its value Sas Ssi2
Two OF the largest nuggets found IN
Australia fell to Cinnamon. from whom
I . a. ~ Of trFas
the KUN Toop,', Weighing rs ounces
and worth SO 90. IL came from the Ber-
iln dlggiugs as did likewise the KUN
Tow" which. though only 23s ounces Ia
weight sold for 5000 being very pure.
Another Berlin nugget the "Needful."
weighed 246 ounces and brought $500.
The Dunnolly digglngs. IN Victoria
yielded some Of the largest nuggets on
record. one OF which was the "Schlemm."
Weighing 53s ounces. hue containing 90
ounces % quartz. II was dug up July
II. is12. three feet below the surface Of
the ground The Solemn No. 2 from
the same neigh borhood. was SIS ounces
and sold for s. 90. One Of the most beau
tlful Of nuggets. being almost perfectly
pure god was the "Platypus" which was
discovered March "a 1851 in a pillar OF
earth in deserted claim-one Of the
freaks which serve 20 illustrate the essen
TALLY gambling quality OF gold hunting
a nugget. which Is claimed by some au-
ihouues 10 have been az least equal in
size 70 the Welcome was found near
Dunnolly. Feb. IS 1889. by two men named
Richard Oates and John Deason II was
exposed 70 view by one OF the wheels OF
a cart. IN which the men were driving. and
OF being Sug out 90 proved to be- twenty
one inches long and ten inches thick The
name Welcome Stranger" was given 70
u, and 70 Is sald 10 have yielded 2.2ls
ounces Of pure goid, its value being over
$1,000 II there is no error in the story.
this nugget was the largest ever known.
ranking even above the Welcome"
No very large nuggets have been found
al Cape Nome. though three or four.
Weighing twenty 70 twenty-five ounces
aud worth from 500 10 500 have been
/ borhood. while Jumps half an ounce or
an ounce IN weight are not rare The
nuggets dug out OF the creeks and gulches
"a that vicinity are rounded and smooth.
~ polished by the rubbing OF the gravels
81 the streams, which have torn them
away from the rocks further inland.
The largest nugget ever found IN Cali
fornia was uncarthed near the famous
Camp Corona by disslpated young fell
low named Martin. while digging a grave
for a companion who had been drowned
Al "A depth Of two feet he ~iruck the mass
o. yellow metal. which he was unable 10
carry 10 the camp alone. inasmuch as
Weighed 50 pounds Afterward he sold u
FOR - 100. and was sensible enough to
give up liquor from that time on, becom-
Ing an industrious miner. He died at New
Orleans not long ago. having earned
fortune In tho mining business and be-
Ing rated a mililopaire. n bit OF rocK
De thlckly interlacd with gold veins and
the rocky substance be dissolved away by
water. the metal IL likely 70 be left be-
hind IN a curious form known 20 miners
a. moss gold" which IS occasionally dis
covered IN masses nearly a foot IN diam
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