LUCKY LAD'S GOLD STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 205, 30 August 1935, Page 14

LUCKY LAD'S GOLD STRIKE.

Energy and optimism have won for a lad named Dodd a quarter interest in an extremely promising gold strike, for the option on which an offer of £8000 has already been received. For 12 months experienced miners daily had ignored the spot where the lucky find was made. About nine iniles east of the telegraph line at Tennant's Creek in the Northern Territory in Australia is the camp of a number of prospectors. Directly opposite their camp was a small blow of stone which defied classification. lor months miners walked past it daily when going to their claims, but none of them thought it worth while inspecting. One prospector tried the mound, but only on one side did he find any trace of gold and then only in the minutest specks. He was on the point of leaving the site when a lad named Dodd approached the prospector and asked him if he knew of any likely spots. The prospector suggested that if the lad cared to work the mound on a quarter share he could have it.

For several days the lad delved with great enthusiasm, and his efforts were rewarded to the full when he came on gold in very substantial quantities and the find became the talk of the camp. Within a few minutes of a mining engineer coming on the ground he had signed an option of £8000. While the lad had made £2000 in a few days, many experienced miners had been drudging on the field for 18 months and to-day are not in a position to buy | a bag of flour.