Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1887 — The Fascination of the Gold Hines. [ARTICLE]

The Fascination of the Gold Hines.

An old forty-niner says of gold hunting: “It’s the fascination of it. Lor’, man, when you’ve struck it pretty rich and Can see yer gold right in front of you: when you’re piling it up every hall hour o’ the day, with a nugget now and again as big as a bullet to cheer you, and then when the evenin’ comes and Sou count it up and find a hundred odd ollars just picked out o’ the earth that day—well, there ain’t nothin’ like it. Then, when you don’t strike it rich, you always think you’re goin’ to next day, an’ it’s just as exciting bearin' other men tell in the evenin’ what they pulled out as it is countin’ over your own. Why, I’ve been three and four months at a time without making a dollar and without a cent in my pocket; but, gee-whittaker! the excitement of it don’t give a man twice to think how hard up he is.”

Remington News: Inmates were so plentiful in the city prison last Thursday night that the Marshal had to discharge some to make room for others and the last one almost demolished the bastile