LUCKY GOLD STRIKE
YOUTH'S ENERGY REWARDED £2OOO WON IN FEW DAYS A quarter interest in an exceedingly promising gold strike, for the option on which an offer of £BCOO has already been received, is what optimism and energy have -won for a youth in a prospectors' camp in the Northern Territory, Australia. ' ~ • - Directly opposite the camp was a small blow of stone which defied classification. Every day for months: miners walked past it when going to their claims,, but none of them thought it worth while inspecting. One prospector tried the mound and he was on the point of leaving it when a youth, whose name is Dodd, approached him and asked if he knew of any likely spots. The prospector suggested that if Dodd cared to work the mound on a quarter share he could have it. Several days later gold was found in considerable quantities. Within & few minutes of a mining engineer coming on to the ground he had signed an option of £BOOO. Experienced miners who have been on the field for 38 months are to-day not in a position to buy a bag of flour. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22193, 21 August 1935, Page 8
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