Show T J Hurley has put out a little book on gold nuggets He says that the country which holds the record for tho biggest and richest gold nuggets is not California Australia the Transvaal or the Klondike but North Carolina that in value and quantity the Reed mine In Cabarrus county N C is far ahead of all rivals and that the mines In Montgomery Mont-gomery county in that State have also produced some famous nuggets The Reed mine has produced nuggets weighing 28 pounds 17 pounds 16 pounds 13 4 pounds 9V pounds two of I 9 pounds each two of S pounds each n I pounds 3J ¼ pounds two of two pounds each and one of li pounds If wo remember 1 re-member rightly a nugget was taken out near Downieville Cal In the old days that weighed GC pounds A little quartz was Intermixed with It which reduced its value onethird If we remember correctly a still larger nugget was taken from a mine in either Australia or Tasmania but neither the California Califor-nia nor the Australia nugget was puro gold |