Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — FINDS GOLD OF MINER OF '63 [ARTICLE]

FINDS GOLD OF MINER OF '63

Dredger Gets Nuggets of Man Who Died In a California River— No Trace of Skeleton Found.

Chico, Cal.—ln 1863 Wiliam Kastman, a well-known placer miner of Trinity county, was • druv»«. 4 in the Trinity river, and no trace ot his body was ever found. Monday, nearly 60 years after Eastman’s death, a dredger brought up in one bucket a flask of gold nuggets Eastman is known to have had in his pocket, a gold pocket piece identified as hts. and several silver coins, two of which were 12 % cent pieces, common tn those days. Two dimes were dated 1827 and two quarters bore nearly the same dates. No trace of the skeleton has been found.