CLUE OF THE GILDED TOOTH
Capetown, May 4. A sheep’s head started a gold rush in the Vosburg district, says an Associated Press correspondent. An Afrikaeans clergyman, when preparing a sheep's head for the table, saw a thin layer of gold on a tooth. The news of this caused Joannesburg prospectors to head for Vosburg, assuming that the gold had adhered to the sheep’s tooth while it was grazing in the veldt. Ore with 22dwt of gold to the ton had previously been found in the_Vosburg district.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 11 May 1948, Page 5
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