Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1881 — Gold Hunting. [ARTICLE]

Gold Hunting.

Gold hunting and gold (digging fascinate thousands of persons, because the element of chance, that which makes gambling attractive, enters into their results. The New York Times publishes sundry facts about this mania, which we commend to the young: Despite the immense yield of gold in California it is now shown that her tillable soil produces more actual wealth than her richest mines. Her grain and her fruits exceed in value the best of her placers. Most persons think of California as only a gold bearing State, and it is pleasant to know that her agricultural resources are beyond those of her mines. Agriculture is apt to pay better than gold or silver seeking in any fertile, wellcultivated region; but there is a sort of fascination a>>out the precious metals which allures men the world over, and blinds them to the more rational and legitimate branches of industry.