Unclaimed “Stacks of Gold.”

Evening Star, Issue 7497, 16 April 1888, Page 3

Unclaimed “Stacks of Gold.”

The manager of a San Francisco farm recently said to a San Francisco reporter “ You would be surprised to see what stacks of cold coin and gold-dust remain here uncalled for. When we have kept it long enough we send the gold-dust to the mint and get it coined, and then credit it to the unknown. Years ago an old fellow living up on the John Day River, in Oregon, sent us a big bag of gold. We stowed it away until the bag looked like a relic of Middle Ages and: would scarcely hold together. Then we sent the bag of dust and nuggets over to the mint and got it transformed into B,ooodol. Eight years afterwards an old, bedraggled-looking fellow walked in and said he guessed he had some money here. We asked him his name, and

when he gave it we told him yes, lie had, and asked him why he hadn’t called long ago. Well, he said, he had sent it down in advance of his coming himself, h got here he didn’t need to Australia, and finally aj^upil.’ and had only just now got bqqJv-r / him why he hadn’t taken it'Jp ri she-«>bank, saying that he could have got ajgood many thousand dollars interest on it liy this time. Yes, he said, he knew that, but the banks might break, and he thought he would just leave it where it was.