RICH GOLD FIND.
IRISH BROTHERS’ LUCK. A remarkable story has just reached Dublin of how two brothers, Gordon and Kenneth Murray, natives of Dublin, discovered a gold mine in the Porcupine district, north of Pass Manitoba, Canada. Gordon Murray, the elder of the two brothers, who emigrated to Canada 18 years ago, engaged in prospecting for gold, but had but little success. His brother also went to Canada, where lie was employed by the Hudson Fur Company. During the war both served in the Canadian Fying Corps, but did not meet. Eventually they returned to Canada, neither knowing anything of the other’s movements. They met by accident in an hotel, and decided to go gold hunting. Almost immediately luck favouxed them. They struck gold at a distance of a hundred miles from any railroad, a spot reached by canoe in summer and dog sleigh in winter. A claim was staked, and leaving Kenneth in charge Gordon brought samples of the gold to the Government offices, and registered their claim. Engineers were sent out, ahd reported favourably on the find. A big syndicate asked the lucky brothers to sell their claim, to which they agreed, for £120,000 down and 7\ per cent royalties on the output. It is stated that the terms have been accepted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9474, 6 March 1922, Page 7
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