BLOOD AND GOLD
TOP OF MOUNTAIN RARIFIED AIR A BAN SAMMOA (New Guinea), Dec. 20. Recent developments on the auriferous fields at Morobe have caused a perfect frenzy of pegging (jt.-er 400 leases have been applied for and approved, and men are still pegging. T)ie whole of ©die Mountain has. been marked off. The lower Kdie terraces have been pegged by K. M. CMassou, Kay Rarer, and others.
The Montoro sailed fur Sydney yesterday with a Christmas gift of IChOOOoz. of gold. There, is much active prospecting on the coast areas, and many leases have been applied for. The coast gold is of a high grade. Mick Leahy and Tom Lopman have returned from a remarkable prospecting tour in the Upper Wuria region They found good gold on Mount Chapman'at an elevation of 9000 ft. Prospectors, however, complain that the air is too rarefied to work in. The exertion caused constant bleeding of the, nose.
At such an elevation there is no jungle and no rain clouds; only small hush, knee-high, and lichens. Wild fowl is plentiful. The natives live lower down. They were quite friendly, and carried food up to the prospectors. The prospectors consider it important that large auriferous formations have been discovered at such high levels.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 8
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