Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Stumbled on Vein of Gold. [ARTICLE]

Stumbled on Vein of Gold.

For seven pesos or aboui $2.55 a poor Chilean bought a few weeks ago the foundation of an old house in Putu near Constitucion, relates the New York Sun. As the nian grubbed out the stones from the earth his attention was attracted to the yellow specks in one of them. He found it contained an extraordinarily large proportion of gold. He inquired as to whence the stones originally came and finally traced them to a hill in the vicinity. There he found in the slope a vein of gold-bearing rock, from a small portion of which in the oourse of a week’s work he and a couple of friends extracted $75,000 worth of gold. A company has now been formed with a capital of SIOO,000 to open up the vein and determine Its true value.