A GOLD STRIKE.
ON WILTSHIRE FARM. A SHREWD PROSPECTOR. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON", November 20. Gold has been found on a Wiltshire farm. But to forestall a rush the farmer, Mr. Bert Wootton, of Ranesbury, announces that he is not needing any help. While sinking an artesian well on some land at Fordingbridge, he came to a rock strata, and he found that chips of it bore bunches of yellow speck* that sparkled in the sunlight. Well aware that all is not gold that glitters, he took the chips to a wellknown Marlborough geologist, who sajd that the specks were gold. A further opinion obtained from experts at South Kensington showed that pure."..gold was in some of the specimens and gold specks' and ' pyritesy in: others. Mr. Wootton says that lie intends to drive a shaft through the strata of rock to ascertain the value of the "strike." Armed with this evidence, lie will have a shrewd idea whether or not lie has hit upon a local "Klondyke."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 16
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168A GOLD STRIKE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 16
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