Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1902 — Unclaimed Gold. [ARTICLE]

Unclaimed Gold.

It is shown by official returns to parliament that in the English chancery there is about £56,000,000, or say, $280,000,000, of which all but about $6,000,000 is kept subject to the orders of the court in cases now before it This sum of $6,000,000, known officially as "dormant funds in chancery,” is the only amount of chancery for which owners are not absolutely visible, and for a large part of these dormant funds owners are pretty certainly known. The statement ought to have some effect on the well-estab-lished business of finding "heirs” for vast estates. Dozens of astute persons, disinclined for ordinary labor, have made comfortable livings out of credulous people who have contributed to funds to secure these estates, to which they toelieve themselves entitled as heirs. The claim agents have not restricted their operations to any one country—Canada, the United States, the continent of Europe, the British colonies, have provided a living for them. Great Britain and Ireland have done so, too, though it is "American estates” that have been used as bait in England to some extent.