THE BEAUFORT uEWS THURSDAY, JAM, 23 1934
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NORTH CAROLINA GOLD
THEY USUALLY COME BACK
Ey J. E. Alexander, Winston-Salem.
Tho miner usually comes back to
his family, friends and the girl he ;
left behind. The relating of one
such experience might be interest-;
ing: j
i Some twenty-five years ago, there ;
cume to my office a white -man, not
i vry 'veil dressed : enquired, "Is this
i Mr." Alexander?" I said I wrs. "Well,
you are the man I'm looking for."
! As I was busy at the time, I asked
him please to wait until I had eon
' pi'ided the m:itter in hand, and then
I would wait on him. He did so. I
then asked him what his business
was. He said he wanted me to pass
on the title to a piece of property,
naming a large farm formerly be
longing to a former eminent justice
of the Supreme court of North Car
olina, and located partly in Forsyth
county and partly in an adjoining
county. Now, I knew this to be a
very valuable farm, and sat up and
took notice when I was informed
that he was able to buy it, as the
price, as I recall, ran over $30,000.
cc.h. We went over to examine tlui
trie. b.;t could not conclude the
work that day, so returned to the of
fice. He said he must leave on an
arly train, and asked me to forward
the abstract to him by mail. He then
asked me if I knew how much I
was going to charge him for the le
igal work. I informed him that I
I did, and the amount. He asked if
'there was anyone elsj likely to come
.in, as the young lady was out. Upon
.being informed not, ho preceded to
pviil off his coat, vest. roV. up h:s
,hirt. Next to his shin was the
biighttst and newest 20 dollar gold
piccer, I ever saw. The man was an
entire stranger to me, so I spontane
ously exclaimed: "Ah, miner, .Where
did you ge tthat goli?" "Alaska," he
replied.
I subsequently learned his story.
He was an ornhan boy, worked on
this farm, nreamed of owning it some
day. When gold was discovered in
Alaska, lost no time: went there,
succeeded, got the gold after spend
ing two or three years there, came
back. The title to the farm was
good. He paid for it, married his
old sweetheart and lived on it until
the died about five years ago. I saw
this farm the other day. Among
other things on it is a beautiful new
brick country school building, locat
ed on a beautiful hill near a village,
and with the mountains for a hack
giound. Would one not suppose tha1,
by intelligent erTort, many other
might do similar things?
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