Show fi i Her Weight In Gold I Mrs Jesus Castro a Mexican lady now residing at American Hag in the anta Castilina Mountains is perhaps the oulywoman who literally speaking ever cost her husband her weight in gold It is said that in the early gold digging days of California she was a resIdent of Sonora in which state she was born and grew to womanhood When about the age of 17 a paternal uncle but a few years her senior returned turned with his companions goldladen from the El Dorado of the West and became desperately enamoreu of her He sought her hand in marriage and was accepted but the church refused because of the near relationship exist Sing S-ing between them to solemnize the marriage Persuasion being in vain he tried the power of cold She at the time weighed 117 pounds and against her in the scales the glittering dust was shoveled Her affianced husband still had sufficient ot this worlds goods to provide a comfortable home and they were married They lived happily together to-gether and she bore to her husband eleven children In the course of years he died and she married again Mr Castro being her second husband The above is a fact and not fiction as living witnesses can prove < I |