Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-27
SOME GOLD NUGGETS.
Australia Leads in Size and California
In Number Found,
OF INTEREST TO MINERS.

The statement is appearing in sundry
mining papers that the greatest pro-
duction of gold nuggets. as to size.
value and quantity is held by North
Carolina; the claim of the Red mine
in Carabus county, in that state. for
such a record is well substantiated.
This mine has welded nuggets weigh
ing twenty-eight ponds. seventeen
pounds, sixteen pounds, thirteen and
cne-quarter pounds, nine and one-half
pounds, two of nine pounds each, two
o. eight pounds each. FIVE pounds,
three and one-half pounds, two of two
pounds each and one of one and three
fourths pounds. The Beaver Dam and
Sam Christian mines, in Montgomery
county, of the same state, were also
great nugget mines in their days. Cal
ifornia has produced some nuggets,
too
II really makes little difference so
far as present conditions go. but pure
ly as a matter of record it Is worth
while saying that the above statement
needs a little correction. In the size
VI uSStlS lOulu, AuSlldlld lcduS lut
world. In 1858. the Welcome nugget
was found at Ballarat. 1t weighed 1S4
pounds, worth $4,000. In 1927, a mug
get weighing las pounds was found at
Korong, valued at s35. ZOO.
The first nugget that attracted no.
tice in California and the east was I'M
earthed on Mokelumne river; it weigh
ed nearly twenty-five pounds. The lar
gest mass of gold ever found in Cali
fornia was dug out at Carson Hill, Cal.
averas county, in 1854. 1t weighed 1875
pounds. In 1850, at Corona, Tulomne
county, a gold quartz was found that
weighed 3,151 pounds. In 1851, in that
county, another nugget was found
that weighed twenty-eight pounds. In
the same year a nugget was found in
French gulch, Sierra county, which
weighed ~twenty-one pounds and eleven
ounces. A gold quartz boulder found
in the same county in Minnesota
weighed twenty-five pounds and two
ounces. In 1851 at Sailors D~iggings,
near Downieville, a nugget was found
weighing t~hirty-one pounds. In 1852,
near Sonora, Tuolomne county, a mug.
get weighing forty-five pounds was
discovered. In 1854, a mass of gold
was found in Columbia, Tuolumne
county, that weighed thirty pounds.
found a boulder that weighed thirty
one pounds. In 1855, in Sierra county,
in French ravine, was found a double
nugget of almost solid gold, which sep
arated in taking it out, the larger one
weighing S10,0 0 and the smaller one
SO, 900.
In 1858 Ira A. Willard found on the
west branch of Feather river a nugget
which weighed ffty-four pounds avoir-
dUpois before melting, and forty-nine
and one-half after melting. In 1864, at
Michigan Bluff, on the middle fork of
American river, a nugget was found
that weighed eighteen pounds and ten
ounces. In 1867, at Pilot Hill, Ell Do
RADIO county, a gold quartz boulder al
found that yielded $4,000. In 1869, at
the Monumental quartz mine, Sierra
county, a mass of gold was found that
weighed ninety-five pounds and six
ounces. In 1855, a nugget weighing
sixty pounds was found at Allegheny
town, Sierra county. In 1871, at Kan
aka creek, Sierra county, a nugget was
found that weighed ninety-siX pounds.
On Rattlsnake creek, the same year,
a nugget weighing LOG pounds and two
ounces is reported to have been found.
This last is not authenticated In 1890
w. A. Parrish and Harry Warner took
from the Monumental quartz mine in
Sierra county, a mass of gold quartz
that weighed 1873 pounds; it was sold
To r. B. Woodward, of San Francisco,
for s21, 6 so, and for many years was
on exhibition at his gardens. When
minted it brought S~19,654.94.
About 1900 nuggets weighing n
pound and upward have been found in
California. About 140 weighed over
twenty pounds. The above statement
is exclusive of Chinese work. as there
is no way of determining the amount
and character of the gold they have
taken out and sent back to China, for
the Chinese. as a rule. make it a point
10 keep such matters hid.-Mining and
Scientific Press.