GOLD FIND IN CANADA
NEW RUSH BEGINS VIRTUAL STAMPEDE MONTREAL, Aug. 3. News brought to Montreal to-day of a new discovery of gold deposits at Duparquet Norque, close to the vicinity of the Golconda mines, lias started a second gold rush ill Canada within a few days.
Mr. J. B. DeMille, consulting engineer to the Golconda mines, on whose property the “gold strike” was made, stated that samples of the new goldfield assayed as high as 140 oz. of gold, or about £9BO, per ton. When this leaked out a rush of prospectors began. Reports from Duparquet to-day state there is now a vital stampede among the miners in the region in their eagerness to stake out claims.
It is believed that if the new finds come up to first expectations, Duparquet will see the biggest “stake boom” for years.
The first discovery of gold was made in the Yellow Knife River region, near the Great Slave Lake, and 10,000 people are reported to be converging on the Yellow Knife camp.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 15
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