Show SOUTHERN SHINERS lot of the irlooii Species but Gold Glittering Gold A North Carolina farmer of Cabarrus county says the St Louis Republican CO suddenly found himself rich the other when he was offered 50 a bushel day for 2000 bushels of a sand and gravel mound on his farm The dirt was more Inol profitable at that price than any farm product p he could raise on his land but he was as sharp as old Farmer Rogers the North Carolina farmer of Esmeralda md didnt take it The gravel mound isIS is-IS full of wealth as the dirt pile of pickens golden dustman and the latest improved 1 machinery is to be put in to work a cold mine The discovery came about in this way The farmer knew the mound and knew of an old hole near it n flinch had been filled up by the drift of ears He wished to make a dry Gravelly front yard for his house and hauled some cartloads of the mound and spread it before his door The rains fished it and he found among the < vravelanu get < of gold that weighed an ounce This opened his eyes He scraped up the gravel and it panned out 325 m rough pickings then he took a bushel of the mound ground it to powder in mortar and it yielded 125 which showed his good sense in not taking 50 a bushel for it Then the oldest inhabitant inhabi-tant of Cabarrus nigh on to 100 suddenly sud-denly recollected a story told him when a boy by his grandfather about an i Englishman who lived in Raleigh before Revolutionary times digging a pit finding a pile of gold and going home to coin it The pit was on this very Cabar rus farm and the mound was made from the diggings The lucky Englishman worked the mine in rough took out the best yellow chunks and left the smaller impels and rich dirt for the farmer and the name of this sudden millionaire is Bob Paul He will work the mine for all it is worth and would not take for the Englishmans leavings as many 10 gold pieces as would pave every inch of his farm a |