Friday, November 20, 2009

More Gold Discoveries

NEW YORK, April 18.

The Steamer Ariel from Aspinwall, 4th, via Port Royal, 15th, has arrived. He has six hundred and seventeen thousand in treasure. Indian graves, containing gold, had been discovered on Island Santa Clara, in Guayaquil river, occasioning much excitement.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 19, 1862, p. 1

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