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Show Gold in Bulk. The Auburn Stars and Stripes of May 4th has the annexed an-nexed : Last Sunday a Chinaman brought in and sold to Hubbard & Andrews a small slug of solid gold, about an inch wide, an inch and a half long, somewhat some-what thicker than a twenty dollar piece, weighing about $23, which bore evidence evid-ence on both ends that it had been chiseled or chopped with a dull instrument instru-ment from a solid mass of the same material. For about eighteen months different Chinamen have at irregular intervals brought in and sold to the same firm blocks of gold, bearing similar sim-ilar marks, weighing $40, $50, $100 and as high as $200 each. Where they come from is a mystery, but there seems to be pretty fair grounds for believing be-lieving that somewhere in this vicinity our Celestial friends have found a gold deposit such as most old miners have dreamed of, but which few have ever seen. |