GOLDEN FLEECE
MODERN DREDGE TO SEEK GOLD
FORTUNE IN THE BALKANS
LONDON December 9
The legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece is recalled by a British firm’s decision to tender at £60,000 for a dredger to be. used: in the auriferous bed of the River Pek, on the frontier of Jugoslavia and Rumania.
The sand, has not been touched since the days of Alexander the Great, 350 years B.C. It was the Pek River up which the argonauts sailed from tlie Black Sea, seeking the Golden Fleece. The peasants of the Pek Valley still use sheepskins to.dredge for gold. They leave the skins in the mountain streams for p weeks, sometimes for months’, enabling the alluvial gold to be caught in the wool. Some of the deposits have not been worked since Attila’s invasion in 445 A.D.
The legend is that Jason and many of the greatest heroes of mytholgoical Gi •eece sailed in the Argo in search of the fleece ofc a sacred ram. With the assistance of Medea, daughter of the royal, owner of the golden fleece, they secured' it and sailed home.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1933, Page 8
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