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August 6, 1893, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C.)
-Mr. J. E. KIKER, whose little daughter made the gold find some days ago at the Surface Hill mine, was in the city yesterday with his pocketful of gold, or the same thing, gold ore. In four days’ time Mr. KIKER got out 58 pounds of rich specimens, one lot of 17 pounds being one-fourth gold.
September 13, 1895, THE LANDMARK (Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina)
-The Monroe Enquirer says while Mr. A. J. NELSON and family of Jackson township, Union county, were at church a few nights ago his barn and stables were fired by an incendiary. Besides the buildings a lot of sheaf oats, two wagons, a buggy, a milk cow and a lot of pine and poplar lumber were consumed by the flames.
-Monroe Enquirer: On last Saturday Mr. J. C. IRBY, of Potters, came into town with about twelve dollars worth of gold nuggets. He carried them to GRIFFIN’S shop to have them melted. He succeeded in melting the gold and poured it out of the crucible into a small box made of babbitt metal. The gold melted the babbitt metal and Mr. IRBY discovered, to his sorrow, that he had a worthless mass of gold and Babbitt metal on his hands.
-Mr. J. E. KIKER, whose little daughter made the gold find some days ago at the Surface Hill mine, was in the city yesterday with his pocketful of gold, or the same thing, gold ore. In four days’ time Mr. KIKER got out 58 pounds of rich specimens, one lot of 17 pounds being one-fourth gold.
September 13, 1895, THE LANDMARK (Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina)
-The Monroe Enquirer says while Mr. A. J. NELSON and family of Jackson township, Union county, were at church a few nights ago his barn and stables were fired by an incendiary. Besides the buildings a lot of sheaf oats, two wagons, a buggy, a milk cow and a lot of pine and poplar lumber were consumed by the flames.
-Monroe Enquirer: On last Saturday Mr. J. C. IRBY, of Potters, came into town with about twelve dollars worth of gold nuggets. He carried them to GRIFFIN’S shop to have them melted. He succeeded in melting the gold and poured it out of the crucible into a small box made of babbitt metal. The gold melted the babbitt metal and Mr. IRBY discovered, to his sorrow, that he had a worthless mass of gold and Babbitt metal on his hands.
