MEXICAN GOLD
SIXTEENTH CENTURY MINE. REDISCOVERY REPORTED. 501 b GOLD BARS FOUND. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) Received July 17, 9.35 a.in. r MEXICO CITY, July 16. Talk of a fabulously rich lost gold niino that was worked by the Spanish Conquistadores lias been revived by a report that miners in the Chiriqui province found 35 gold bars each weighing 501 b and worth 900,000 dollars: also Spanish Colonial arms on crude gold-washing equipment. The police are guarding the gold pending a Government claim to the ownership.
Ihe Conquistadores were the leaders of the Spanish conquest of Mexico anil Peru in tho sixteenth century.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 9
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105MEXICAN GOLD Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 9
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