SECRET CAVES OF GOLD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3439, 5 March 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

SECRET CAVES OF GOLD.

MYSTERY REEF OF THE WATERBERG.

Visions of an underground world inhabited by a race that had cat's eyes and could see in the dark are conjured up by recent discoveries made in the course of prospecting for the " lost reef of the Waterberg" (says the Sunday Times, Johannesburg). Traces that in the past a people had lived, eaten, cooked food, and herded cattle under-ground have been discovered in the course of organised efforts now being made to discover the spot from which, thirty years ago, two German prospectors took gold, but died before they could reveal the secret as to its whereabouts. Responsible opinion is now leaning to the view that the German prospectors' gold was panned from an underground river, and that somewhere at the end of an almost limitless labyrinth of chambers and passages gold will be found sticking out of the walls of the caves.

One farmer traces the connection between the old Rooiberg workings, said to be King Solomon's mines, and the Rankin Pass caves a few miles away. At the moment the mystery of the caves endures, for no one has ever explored them to their end.