Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — Stories of Gold. [ARTICLE]

Stories o f Gold.

Alaska produced $300,000 worth of gold and $2,,000 worth of silver last year. The United States produced $31,000,000 of gold and $51,000,000 of silver last year. The gold production of the world last year was $101,580,000 and of silver $125,000. “Montana Turnips” is the name by which S6OO or S7OO lumps of bullion are known in that Territory. Hyacinthe Loyer, of Gatinneau Point, Canada, a baskot-maiker, has been left $300,000 by an uncle in France. Eight thousand dollars was found in an old apron of a venerable woman who died at Port Pleasant, N. J., lately. Twenty-one years ago the steamer Brother Jonathan went down off the Oregon coast with $2,000,000 in specie on board. Various unsuccessful efforts have been made to get the money, and now another effort on an elaborate scale is to be made. One of the largest and finest gold nuggets ever unearthed in California is now on exhibition in San Francisco. It is about the size of an ordinary Derby hat, weighs thirty-five pounds, and is worth about $6,000. Great “gobs” of gold hang out of its sides.