Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1906 — ’TWAS ONLY BRASS. [ARTICLE]

’TWAS ONLY BRASS.

The particles of “gold” pumped up from a well at Percy, Newton county, have been assayed and found to be common brass. An examination of the pump revealed the fact that a couple of 10-penny nails had got down in the cylinder and the action of pumping caused the nails to cut the brass cylinder, and hence the “gold” was pumped up with the water. Too bad, too bad. Perfection clothes for the young men and little gents at Duvall & Lundy’s. A < * ' . . . h