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Show The most extraordinary method of seeking' gold Is described by Pliny, who says that tho nnclont Hadrian used to obtain it from the handy tleaerta. Thct" wastea wcto luhnWted liy n spceiea of anta tllslitly blggnr than foxca and amazlnjrly lleree. Like ordinary ante, which they resembled Ih form, they lived beneath hills, and the sand they threw up in digging tvail mixed with Kolddust. To collect this sand expeditions expe-ditions were Bnt into tho deserts Clioofdng the hot time of day, when the anta vere In their hole, the. gold hunt era tilled their bags with the (.and m-qulchly m-qulchly as poudblo and lUvl, th unts pursuing them bo swiftly that It was .inly by tho use of uriiusr,trstaRems that they wero nblo to escape Tlio In dlanaof Arizona do actually at the pro cut day mako n practl- c of gathering rubtcb from the hltli of untn ulikh theso indtmlrious Iniccts have fetched up from their mbtrrrancan workings It must le understood, says the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press, that tho ninps hjiucd by tho geological survey for the benefit of gold seeker show merely the ureas whero tho precious inctaUU likely to bo found. They do not plnt mil the precise spots where an iie-l.ulpg iedire or n rich placer can bo Mt-ii'k L'mphnsis Is laid uron this point, b enuso a great many pcrsrui-, luring learned that such maps would bo pub-ll.hed, pub-ll.hed, hac already written to aalt for them, toying thot they would like to know just where to go nnd dig mnw gold. A usual form of request sti't- that tho undernlgned Is n "poor innii" and that ho would like to bo Informed of tho location of n few (old-bearing "pockots," particularly euqh ra nro likely like-ly to yield nuggets of atffjfactoij'y t-Izes. .Occasionally ncorre6iiondent wlsliis to ascertain if thero la not somo place on Ids own farm where hu I -likely to dis-cpver dis-cpver gold. jE ! |