GOLD FOUND

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 5

GOLD FOUND

DISCOVERY IN. IRELAND

The rep^rtf^thfft ft local farnier, "Mr. John Wiggins, of Bcssinount, has discovered gold in- 1^ great excitement among tlie people oi; Dungannon, County Tyrone, says the /fp.aiiy.^Mß.D."-^:^:;^.,,;, ~_ : .'....,« Mr. WJggins Uj jvi-hile..;insp.eetin£.'..his.. caUle, discovered stones speckled with a reddish substance which "looked" like gold. " " '. ' ~ He showed the stones to Col. C. God-frey-Jones,-of Llandaff road, Cardiff, a mining engineer visiting Dungannon, who said to a "Daily Mail" reporter: "I know nothing about gold, but Mr. "Wiggins persuaded me to tako some samples." " ' ■ "I' sent these to London to be examined "by the assayer to the Bank of England. His report is extraordinarily good, the proportion of gold to the ton of ore being considerable. "When the result of the examination was communicated to ,Mr. • Wiggins he telegraphed asking m$ itoV-go to Dimgannon. I went over last-weekend and inspected samples of the ore,. which I found scattered about in several places. Mr. "Wiggins is now negotiating with the Government of Northern Ireland, with the object of .obtaining a licence to search for gold or other precious metals. If tho search proves satisfac: ■ tory mining operations may follow:" V<