Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — Tunnel Diggers Strike Gold. [ARTICLE]

Tunnel Diggers Strike Gold.

Workmen, while boring for the Kansas City (Mo.) Water Works tunnel under the Missouri River the other day, observed some brightly tinted particles in the dirt which they were handling, and showed them to an engineer who h:.d formerly been connected with a mining company. Putting the samples submitted to him under a powerful microscope, he declared that the stratum contained free gold in quantities to make the mining of it profitable. Kansas City people are now talking about paying for the tunnel with the profits to be made by mining the stratum discovered. At any rate, an assay of the gravel has been ordered. —[Boston Transcript.