New Britain herald., 1930-04-04
Gold Mine of the 40's Proves No Temptation
Neptune Mine

Lon Parsons wash Q millionaire, but he was comfortably well off.
 In the telephone book he was down as d Factor"
 He had an office and seemed to he tolerably busy, but those in the know" understood that his com mission merchant activities were confined 10 liquids that came in dozen-lot bottles, shiploads at q time.
 However, Parsons bought com fortable home, and q son in college and wife and daughter socially ambitious.
 He was on the way to make more 2 and more money unless the eiSh- teenth amendment should be re- pealcd.
 But he was cautious and conserva- tive. At the same time he was just as human as the rest of us-when there came a chance for moro big money he was eager for it.
 Harvey Dodd was the man who went to Lon Parsons. Harvey was lawyer from out Nevada way. At first Lon Parsons thought that Mir. Dodd was one of those chaps who look up your ancestors and fix up a nice family tree, even in cludins a coat of arms, if one cares to pay for it. Harvey Dodd soon dissipated this belief, emphatically g and profanely.
 Once a Prospcctor
 Tt just happens, Friend Parsons" :" Dodd said, that I ran across some very old records that have to do with the Dodd family and as near as l can figure out, you are a direct descendant of old Hickory Parsons, who was a prospector for years dur ing the gold days out in our hills" Don't know about that Parsons said, my father was born out in Chicago away back before the citi- zens started shooting up skyscrapcrs and gangsters started shooting up citizens"
 That's It," Dodd said, "your people drifted east 10 Chicago, probably old Hickory Parsons was your great grandfather. He quit prospecting after he had made a little money and spent his last days with relatives. Now I was looking Up old deeds and ran across a sort sof will. It was written on a pagc a from ledger, in the old fashioned Ink that turns rich brown but never fades. It strikes me that you've got 2. pretty good piece Of property out there, and gold mine Harvey Dodd produced copy and explained that he couldn't take the original away as it is way old and tattered and fragile. This old Hickory Parsons had made a will when he was injured and didn't ex- pect to live. It was left with the claim agent and when the town grew up there it went into the towns archives" Dodd explained.
 Part of this short will read:
 "Being of sound mind on this
 tenth of May, 1S45, but uncor-
 tain as to life bequeath all of
 my property, which runs to the
 peak of Blue Hills as per my
 claim, and also my gold mine
 named Neptune, after that mys-
 terlou5 planet, to my wife and two sons. Jonas and William"
 If Worked Properly
 "So," Lon Parsons said. own the west side of a hill and a gold mine, do I?'
 Tt looks like it-that is, there's gold there that could probably be made to pay if worked properly, and you certainly seems to be the heir to it'
 Whats the proposition 2" Parsons wanted to know.
 ..-s Well I'd like a quarter interest m the mine to pay me for hunting you up, 10 pay me for being bright enough to tumble on to tho old will, and all that. It won't cost over s@o,000 to put in an orc mill there and I'm so sure that it's a bonanza that III put up half of that twenty thousand
 Lon Parsons said that it sounded good to him but he wanted to sec u.
 Sure, sure I want you to come out" Dodd exclaimed.
 Dodd was coming back in a few days to go out there with Parsons. Meanwhile Parsons son came home from college and heard the story. He