AIR “TREK” FOR GOLD

Evening Star, Issue 21786, 31 July 1934, Page 9

AIR “TREK” FOR GOLD

JUNGLE SEARCH LONDONER JOINS. NEW YORK, July 19. A new search for gold started when four men left New York by aeroplane hound for Lapaz to work claims which they own in the heart of the Bolivian umgles. „ The approach to the mines is across the main range of the Andes, and on a previous trip the party took several weeks to reach the site. Equipped with a huge Sikorsky Amphibian machine,- they will make the same trip n a few hours. Quantities of mining - machinery, already shipped to Bolivia, will be assembled on a river bank for transit to .he mine by plane. The leader of the expedition is Mr llalph O’Neill, a well-known South American air pioneer. Among others accompanying him is Mr Thomas Snaith, of London, a dredge master, and a Klondyke pioneer. Gold was located last year, and it is believed that it comes from the same river beds from which the Inca Indians extracted large quantities in the early sixteenth century. The expedition will remain on the site throughout the dry season—about eight months—with the plane carrying away such gold as is extracted.