SPANISH GOLD
REPORTED FIND IN MEXICO.
BARS WORTH 900,000 DOLLARS.
CRUDE WASHING EQUIPMENT.
(Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, July 16
Talk of a fabulously rich lost gold mine worked Ly the Spanish Conquistadores has been revived by a report that miners in the Chiriqui Province found 35 gold bars, eacli of 50lbs, and worth 900,000 dollars, also the Spanish colonial arms on crude gold-washing equipment.
The police are guarding tbe gold pending a Government claim to ownership.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 236, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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