The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
bling in water for centuries. Mrs. Ellis
got over $4,000 for this find.
Stole Half a Nugget.

Stole Half Nugget.
A nugget worth $4.672.50 was found
at Remington Hill, Cal, in 1856. On
one side it was fiat and rough, while
the rest was smooth and rounded,
which led to the belief that another Sec
ton might be found. Two years later
man engaged in drifting out pay dirt
announced unexpectedly one day that
he was going to leave. He was paid
off and departed. After he was gone
one of the owners of the mine said: ct
is strange that the fellow should all
at once quit work here where he had
a steady job at good wages. I wonder
if he has not found the other half
of that nugget"
His partner thought suspicion was
unjust and laughed at the idea. How
ever, the man who had suspicious
placed a revolver in his belt, mounted
horse and followed the departing
miner When he overlook his man
and asked him to throw down and open
his roll of blankets the fellow was at
first indignant and inclined to be ugly.
The revolver brought him to terms and
he asked: "How did you find out that
I'd got hold of the other half Of that
nugget 2"
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 he had met great temp
tatcn he would be allowed to go free.
This half produced $4,430.75.
One nugget found in 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 and another
$1,15S.
In the Atlin Lake district of British
Columbia a nugget worth about $1,000
was found 1865 feet below the surface.
A Little Girls Pickup.
On branch of the Gilbert river in
Quebec one nugget weighing fifty-two
ounces and another weighing forty-five
ounces were found. In the latter case
little girl named Clotilde Gilbert was
crossing ford of the stream when she
found in the sand a large lump of the
precious metal. Her story is as fol-
lows: my father sent me on Sunday
morning for horse in the field to go
to mass. When crossing the stream
saw something shining alongside the
water and took it up to show my father.
never thought such a pebble would
make so much noise afterward."
The most important nugget ever
found in the United States, not because
of it's size, but because it's finding
marked 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 development of the golden
area of the West.
The Reed mine in North Carolina
holds the worlds record for the great
est production of nuggets, both in size
and quantity. The largest weighed
twenty eight pounds. Slaves found
Jumps of gold weighing seventeen and
eighteen pounds and there were ten
others that ranged in weight from two
to thirteen and a quarter pounds. be-
sids 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 pastime
| was to go deer hunting, using bullets
,, of pure gold.