Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1918 — Gold In Old Diggings. [ARTICLE]

Gold In Old Diggings.

A large piece of virgin gravel has been found in the old Hila diggings at Chaparral hill, near Downieville, Cat, by men who have been mining there on a small scale. The gravel is very rich in gold and Is of the same deposit from which several fortunes were taken in former years. A drift run 100 feet on the gravel has not disclosed its full extept. How this body of gold-bearing gravel came to be overlooked by the early miners is something of a mystery.