"salting"

[Joel S. Berson]

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.)

Joel

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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