RICH GOLD MINE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 6

RICH GOLD MINE

REPORTED DISCOVERY YOUNG ENGLISHMEN’S HOPES WORKED BY EARLY SPANIARDS. A new Klondike with gold worth hundred?- of thousands of pounds has it is stated, been discovered by two young Englishmen, one of whom cycled a 10V0 miles across trackless country on his quest. Once worked by the -Spanish Conquistadores and forgotten tor centuries, this lost gold hoard in Mexico is to be reopened and its fabulous wealth released. The two lu-.kv young men who have stumbled on thiremarkable fortune are Mr. John « upper, a voung Londoner who liveat Maida Vale. and Mr_ C. Drysdale, a Yorkshire man, who i.- at present living in Canada. the story their romantic litid. a* told bv Mr. Cooper, reads like the discovery of Aladdin’s cave. They found walls lined with gold aril earth glis tening with rich yellow ore. “It was Drysdale who located the mme while gold-scouting in Sonora." said Mr. Copper, “lie had no money to develop it at the time and so, saving nothing of his find, he returned to Winnipeg. For some time he tried to find a trustworthy firm who would fin ance the working of the mine, but each rime negotiations were started he be- • amc suspicious and declined to reveal his secret. When I met him he was looking ill and worried. We struck up a friendship, and hearing that 1 wa* heading south on a hobo writing trip, he took me into his confidence. ‘lf you go an<l look at the mine you’ll be

a valuable witness as to its worth, and ■ you can have a third «hare it' we can , get it working/ he promised.' ’ So. Mr Cooper started out on his ■ quest, pedalling 1000 miles to Nogale* ’ on his cycle. Here he took a South Pacific train to Cananea. where he hired an old car and fitted himself out for his journey into the gold country. “I found the mine quite easily from rhe directions which my friend hail given me/ 7 he said. “Within a few seconds of my arrival 1 was washing a pan of dirt for a first test. To mr delight and astonish merit —for I had doubted my friend’s account of rhe richness of his * strike’—l found a big deposit of little vellow grains in rhe bottom of the pan. Gold'. I fairly yelled out the word. “A few moments later I found a ; tunnel which mv friend had told me : about and whrch evidently had been used by the Spanish Conquistadores hundreds of years ago when they invaded Mexico and took hundreds of millions of gold out of the country. Forcing my way in 1 found myself in a sort of chamber which reflected the glare of my flashlamp from a hundred “Flecks and nodules of gold seemed

to -05 i-r most of the surface. There 'was not the slightest doubt about the richness of the mine. It must be one of the greatest gold finds which has ever been made.” Mr. Cooper returned with samples of ore to the nearest Yaqui village and had them assured. ‘‘The tailings alone were estimated to fetch £l4O a ton/’ he said, “while the ore I gathered in the tunnel was assayed at £2BO a ton. ’’ Now these two fortunate voting men hope to make themselves rich beyond their wildest dreams by reopening and working their treasure trovp.