Ft. Wayne (IN) Daily Gazette, November 18, 1881, p. 2. The gold discovery excitement still continues in Vienna Township, Scott County, and a large number of persons visited the James Collins farm in the southern part of the township where two shafts have been sunk to a depth of about 15 feet from which fine particles of gold have been taken. The gold is found in the black sand-that is to say the supposed gold. Many persons who profess to be experts pronounce it pure gold. Similar discoveries have been made last Summit on the J. M. & I. Road six miles south of Scottsburg. For a number of years it has been claimed that gold existed in Scott County.