A GOLDEN NEWSPAPER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2090, 4 November 1880, Page 3

A GOLDEN NEWSPAPER.

An American contemporary, the “B.F. Call,” may justly he considered a “valuable medium” by its readers. For months past its subscribers have bean gathering gold from its pages —not metaphorically, or as the result of the prudent adoption of wise counsel therein contained, but actual solid bullion. One correspondent writes as follows:—“I had observed previous to last February that tho “ Call ” often contained golden nuggets, but from the 6th of that month to the end it was rare to have a number without its golden show. From the paper of the 6th I took fifty-six pieces of gold, the thickness of tho “ Call,” and varying in size from that of a small pin head to nearly the size of a three cent piece. I think I have more than a hundred pieces of gold taken from the paper that month. All left a hole when removed, as the thin film of paper on the inside was rendered brittle by tho hard pressure which tho calender rolls gave as they flattened out the golden deposits. In addition to the gold I got platinum, silver, iron, tin, and some lead.” The editor was altogether unconscious of the presence of these mineral treasures in his journal, but found, after inquiry, that his papermaker was responsible for their introduction. In the manufacture of the paper pulp water was used that had been passed through a flume in which miners had washed dirt, containing all kinds of precious metals. Tho gold is what is known as " float gold,” and escapes the miners, who still follow the primitive methods of washing. Some of tho water used is taken from artesian wells. The manufacturers had often noticed a substance that glistened in the water, but they supposed it to bo mica, as the wells were bored through mica deposits.