Roosevelt Standard | 1931-12-03 | Page 4 | Gold Eaten by Chicks Brings on Small Rush

gold eaten by chicks brings on small rush glenwood springs spans colo A sudden advance in the price ot of poultry at sopris may not be due so much to the fact that poultry Is generally in demand but that one mans chance Is as good as an others to find gold in the chickens gizzard I 1 recently 13 H grant who owns the F frying crying pan inn at basalt purchased a number of chickens tor for his bis restaurant when he cleaned the gizzards giz of the fowls he noticed hard bits which upon examination were discovered to be tiny gold nuggets A few flakes of gold were im bedded in the fowls gizzards giz joe Do signey owner of the poultry ranch on creek forthwith uncovered several gold pans which had been stored away for many years and got busy in the region where the chickens had been eating their meals publication of the finding of gold nuggets in the chickens craws has led to a mild gold rush in the sopris district