Gunnison Valley News | 1923-09-27 | Page 3 | Origin of Gold Nuggets

ORIGIN OF GOLD NUGGETS United States Geologist Says Finding of Huge Pebbles Does Not Indicate Indi-cate Large Vein. In a rugged, out-of-the-way region on the ocean side of the Coast ranges, in Monterey county, California, gold nuggets have been found of such size as to suggest that this was once a favorite retreat of the proverbial goose that laid the golden eggs. Matter-of-fact prospectors, however, have sought to find the veins from which such masses of gold, loosened by the weather, were washed into the stream beds. Their search has not been successful, suc-cessful, and J. M. Hill, a United States geologist of the Department of the Interior, In-terior, in a report just published, suggests sug-gests that the nuggets came from rich superficial pockets in very small veins, and that no large and rich deposits are Mkfly to be found by deep mining. The Coast ranges of California, unlike the Sierra Nevada, arc not rich in gold, and the occurrence of these large nuggets nug-gets does not necessarily indicate the existence of a rich deposit of gold ore.