Clue of the Gilded Tooth
CAPE TOWN, May 4. A sheep's head started a gold rush in the Vosburg district, says an Associated Press correspondent. An • Afrikaans clergyman, when preparing a sheep's head for the table, saw a thin layer of gold on a tooth. The news of this caused Johanneshurg prospectors to head for Vosburg, j assuming that the gold had adhered to the sheep's tooth whi'le it was grazing in the Yeldt. Ore with 22dwt of gold to the ton had previousiy heen found in the Vosburg district. ^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^AAAAA/WWWWWSA
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1948, Page 5
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