SCOTTISH GOLDFIELD.
DIGGINGS TO BE RE-OPENED." (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) Uohdon, January 25. Owing" to the failure of the Helmsdale herring fishing season, the Duke of Sutherland is re-opening the gold diggings at Kildonan. The cable message is somewhat belated, for it was announced- early last month that tho Duko of Sutherland had" decided to throw open to prospectors tho gold-bearing area at Kildonan, Sutherlandshire. The decision was arrived at aS' the result of an agitation carried on locally for some months. Quito a little gold rush occurred in the district in 1868-G9, when hundreds of miners spent a miserable winter without adequate shelter or means of subsistence.on the held. Tho results were most disappointing, the value of the gold recovered during the twelve months amounting to less than £1000.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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130SCOTTISH GOLDFIELD. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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