The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-20
NEW YORK,S MULTITUDE
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discovery was made in excavating for the foundations of a skyecraper, ex- citement was intense. untll 1t was dis- covered that the gold did not exist Tn quantities to make it valuable. The present discoverey. however, has not only revived all the old excitement, but added to 1t many fold, since If tho ore assays as much as the sample ai : ready obtained, It's value as estimatsd by experts would be nearly $25.0o0 Q ton. The "strike" was made Wfthtn half mile of the City Hall by sewer construction company, which was mak- ing borings along the edge of the East River. v
 For several days the drills have been bringing up quartz. a remarkable cir cumstance in itseIf. until finally a foreman, looking at the material thus
 brought up, discovered that It con- tained gold. Expert examination re- veaied the surprising value of the find. The ore, as now located. lies 100 feet below the mean water mark In the Bnst River on the downtown water front.
 Whether the ore is so placed that 1t can be extracted proftab1y. remains a matter of conjecture! Meanwhile, no claims have been staked out. chiefly. perhaps, because only few know of the location of the discovery. --- Although New York has held the opinion that there was not much left for # to learn in the promoting line. s It t -new this week and has been much in- terested in the visit here of Dr. Richard Harlan who is a son of Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court and who was formerly president of a Western uni versity.
 Dr. Harlan Is an educational pro moter for the present at least, and he is giving his time and energies to the task of securing the financial support necessary to make George Washington University, at Washington, the greatest centre of graduating study, in the country. In this, Dr. Harlan says. inc is only carrying out the desire ex- pressed by the Father of his Country. for whom the institution is named, to see a great national university at the federal capital. Those who are behind the present movement. however. believe that better results can be obtained fl the institution Is enlarged through Q widespread popular endowment than if the national government is asked to support 1t.
 From present indications the appli- catioh of modern business methods to such a nonycommercial project as the development of big national seat of learning seems likely to prove as sue cessful as 1t is novel.
 Connecticut's wooden nutmeg must now give way to New Yorl's stone po- tato. In the particular field of furnish ing this strange and adamantine vege- table substitute. this city. 1t is asserted on good authority, leads the world. The stone potato, 1t should be understood is not breakfast food. but in the small city markets where real potatoes are sold by the pound it is a source oi much profit to unscrupulous vegetable dealers.
 One of these stone tubers adds weight in aaaanner calculated to rap idTy enrich those selling them. The article itself, so large has the trade grown, Is made from plaster of paris and co1ored properly. Fortunately however, they cannot be eaten, fact which makes them less detestable than the gravel which when added to beans to give weight has caused many a broken molar.
 Persons who have suffered from these crooked practices assert that the gutta