Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — A Hidden Gold Mine Near Washington. [ARTICLE]

A Hidden Gold Mine Near Washington.

The recent gold discoveries in Georgia recalled to a Washington correspondent of the Hartford Timet the gold-prospect-ing fever that attacked many of the people of the neighboring County of Montgomery, in Maryland, a few years ago. That gold exists in the county is a well-ascer-tained fact, and several men are known to have made a living in a small way hunting about the streams for pieces of gold quartz. Bat somewhere in the region it is confidently believed a big bonanza of the precious metal lies hidden awaiting the lucky finder. Daring the war a soldier of a Connecticut regiment, it is said,

discovered this mine and secretly washed it forfi time, selling to the Georgetown Jewelers some f*,ouo worth of the gold. He rofiused to tell! where his mine Van locAtedfinud, opon (finding that, his movements Were watched bv othm with too hope of ascertaining it, he gave up mining altogether. Soon after the regiment was ordered* sway. A couple of yens alter the war was over, the aame man made bia appearance on the ground. He boarded there for several months. He told the people bp stepped with Jhsi he was a geologist, ana that he was prosecuting his stud** autoog the rocks in that location. Frequently lie would send away large trunks of the rocks that he gathered in His studies. The im habitants finally learned that it was gold, he was after, and their inquisitiveness bothered him so much that at last he agreed that he would tell the owner of the land the place where be found bis valuable rock upon receiving a deed of onehalf of the land. This was consented to, and the deed was properly made out. As soon as the papers were drawn he drove over lo Rockville, Md., s distance of about twenty miles. It was a very warm day, and he was overcome by tlic sun on his way. and forced to remain at a house about midway between both places for several days before he sufficiently perated to finish his drive." After recording his deed he drove to Washington, and on his way he had a relapse and, was required tq wait in Washingtonwhere,, after a few days’ illness, he died, with tne secret still locked in his breast. To this day the man who deeded away half of his farm does not know where the goldmine on it is located. He has spent alt the money he could raise prospecting for It, but gave up the job a Couple of years since.