Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-18

Drought MIN 10 terms ana he asked.
How did you find out that I'd gol
hold of the other half of that mug
get?"
Guessed it, said the miner.
'Shell her out"
When the blanket was unrolled out
came the big lump of gold. Taking
the nugget the owner told the man to
git" that as ne had met great
temptation he would be allowed to go
! free. This half produced $4.430.75.
One nugget found i'll the Australian
! field in 1858 weighed LAG pounds, and
was purchased for Queen Victoria.
The largest Jumps of gold found in
the Klondike were taken from
Eldorado creek, one worth $3.50 anG
another $1,15S.
In the Atlin lake district of British
Columbia a nugget worth about
81 900 was found 1875 feet below the
surface.
On a branch of the Gilbert river,
in Quebec, one nugget weighing 81
ounces and another weighing 40
ounces were found. In the latter
case a little girl named Clotilde Gil
bert was crossing a ford of the
stream when she found in the sand d
large lump of the precious metal
Her story is as follows: My father
sent me on Sunday morning for a
horse in the field to go to mass
When crossing the stream l saw
something shining alongside the water
and took it up to show my father.
never thought such pebble would
make so much noise afterward."
The most important nugget ever
found in the United States, not be-
cause of its size but because its
finding marked a new era for the
Pacific slope. was one about as big
as lima bean, discovered by Peter
L. Winner and James w. Marshall IN
| 1S4S. That find started the gold
| seekers crusade. and led to the de-
velopment of the golden area of the
west.
The Reed mine, in North Carolina
holds the worlds record for the
greatest production of gold nuggets
both in size and quantity. ne
largest weighed 12S pounds. Slaves
found Jumps of gold weighing IL and
Is pounds, and there were 10 others
pounds, besides a peck of smaller
ones.
Thomas Fancy, who had been a
steady going citizen of Montgomery
county. North Carolina, began to pick
up about $500 worth Of nuggets day.
Riches turned his head, and he drank
himself to death. His favorite past
time was to go deer hunting, using
bullets of pure gold.
Calaveras county, California, mas
furnished some large chunks of tuG
precious metal. A 14-year-old Doy
named Perkins was playing with i
toy waterwheel over noun .u 4
stream when he stumbled over a Jus
get of gold and quartz as large =,
cocoanut. The lump sold for abc'i-
$500. Strange TO relate. the bCv
found his prize among the remnsEt&
of washings, and hundreds of miners
had passed that spot searching ~
gold.
In 1851. at French Ravine, Cal, d
lump of gold and quartz was dis
covered from which $4,000 worth Of
the metal was taken. Another worm
| $4,000 was found in the same ravIne.
The biggest nugget found in Call
fornia in the past 80 years was pick
ed up in Sierra county, 1t weighe |
1888 troy ounces and sold for $13,
500 for exhibition purposes. When it
was melted $4,000 was realized.
In 1850 a chunk of gold was dus
out with a common spade from tne
bank of the American river, II
EIdorado county, California, which
brought $19,4Oo.
Outside of California few nugget<
have been found in any of the Pac. i ::
coast states Colorado's biggest nus,
get, known as Toms Baby" weigh
ing 156 ounces. was taken from tn
Gold Flake mine, in Summit count
in 1877.
Montana's largest specimen was
found in the Little Blackfoot river.
lit was worth 1886 and was dug
from IL feet below the surface, about
one foot from bedrock.
From the San Mateo mountains OF
Chihuahua, Mexico, there came mug
get weighing 46S ounces and worth
about sS,430. The poor Mexican who
found this chunk of gold while
gathering herbs on the mining CON-
pany's territory was given $1,000 as
reward.
George Cameron, OF Cleveland.
Ohio, found five nuggets in South
Africa. one of which weighed seven
pounds.
! The greatest ever found in Siberia
was worth $4,000. Another named
the Gear" was valued at LOCO.
Victoria has produced many world
famous nuggets. The Welcome
Stranger" measured q inches in
length and 10 inches in thickness
It's value was nearly s4S.000. An
other found at Ballaret sold for Ssz
500.
THE KINGFfSHER.