Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — Paved with Gold and Silver. [ARTICLE]

Paved with Gold and Silver.

Thompson township, Fulton county, Pa., undoubtedly has the most valuable roads in the United States. They are veritably paved with gold and silver. The roads have been macadamized with tons and tons of mineral rock, and nearly the whole county is ablaze with excitement over the discovery that some of this rock assays $4.60 a ton in gold and silver. Joseph H. Covalt of Thompson says prospectors will at. once begin the development of the minerals. Thousands of acres of land in the township have been leased by capitalists, who will turn quarries into gold mines.