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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4012, 11 August 1931, Page 7

A gold fever has gripped Brazil, arc! the excitement can be likened only to die days of 49 in California, and the ;arly clays of the Klondike. Repeated •eports that new big gold strikes have been made in the State of Minas, leraes have caused a rush to the pining camps. The picturesque scenes if early gold rushes are lacking, for nowadays prospectors travel by train md motor cars, and scientific organisa,ion by practical mining scientists redaces the rough and ready methods if the old-timers. Little towns which vere once famous as mining camps, nit have for a 100 years or more been ■rgaged in farming rather than minng, what was believed to he “worked mt ” country, are taking on a nev ease of life, I