"salting"

[Jonathan Lighter]

IIRC, it's the Gold Rush Poe immortalized in "The Gold-Bug."

JL

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> I should have added that Wikipedia claims that the first American
> gold rush was "in Cabarrus County, North Carolina (east of
> Charlotte), in 1799"; it lists the 1829 rush as the second.  (I
> didn't see in EAN any salting of gold before the 1832 cites.)
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> Joel
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> At 9/10/2010 05:57 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >This is presumably about the Georgia Gold Rush of 1829.  I think
> >someone of Hawthorne's family went South and lost his investment
> >(although I don't know whether he bought into a salted mine).  The
> >publication in the Salem Gazette is perhaps not surprising.
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