Hide Article Text (OCR)
aiggmg.A Mr. Bovco has ‘‘staked out‘? a claim on nbluff. some three miles from the ••old digging's75 where lie has been prospecting, and found a mineral which be pronounces silver or perhaps cold, Jle cmrricH with him. tied up in a handkerchief. some of his richest specimens, which lie think’s ought to convince anybody of their value. He exhibits them one at a time, andrMr. Henderson, of La Grosse, who was with me, and by the way something of a judge ofYlfcJL IL—if th 7 Tis 01regionruslunland.State.Weminerals, pronounced them i'spurious;‘J thisIon, 1Grove us **a:wortlr*the ffewe tnfeed tl;EMifor Cdid not suit him very well, so he llmught to put a stopper on all further objections to his %lva3- ! with ‘ nablcs1’ by producing a piece of quartz rock, i todoj streaked with ivoiu and exclaiming cxultingly as he did so* “There, if that’s not gold, then I don’t know any thing about it,5’ which was very true: as he jui».;t know anything about it. Mr- B. expressed himself as being very jealous of us. and thought we only visited to discourage him so he would leave the claim j place that wk might jump it. which shows his igno- laucje runce of our constitutional malady, which is a long deep-rooted antipathy to work—and especially to digging.The bright anticipations of future riches for which they are digging, arc founded upon the following legend or memoir:Sometime in the Summer of 1959. a Dr. somebody—I could find nobody that knew, or could think of his name, from Southern Illinois, ap-whiellicaland a ptrc a iric two i Dr. ]poured at Black River Palls, with a chart of Duelerre“8it,heofsome particular Huff and vicinity, which was situated about midway between St. Paul and Galena, at a certain distance more or less from the Mississippi River, in which he was assured by the same chart was a rich mine of silver. After looking around for a few clays he decided this must be the bluff,and returned to his home in Illinois, intending to come back again after his stiver. This account of the authorship of said chart is very plausible and easily swallowed by some, but I must say that it chokes me so badly I can’t get it down.cr-1 “When this Dr. was a young man and lived incd follC W;so in ter, ; The ing iis co 60 si mealrangence
Newspaper Details
Galesville Transcript
Galesville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 04, 1860
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Badgerlink
WI, USA 06 Oct 2017
Other Publications Near Galesville, Wisconsin
Galesville Transcript
