DISCOVERY OF RICH GOLD FIELDS IN CANADA.

Southland Times, Issue 665, 3 May 1867, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF RICH GOLD FIELDS IN CANADA.

■■ ■ » A correspondent informs us (" G-lobe ") tliat the Canadians are enthusiastic over the discovery of rich deposits of gold in the country of Hastings, Canada West. Indications were first stumbled upon some two months since. "Pay dirt," as a CaHfqrman would say, was" first discovered in the township of Madoc. The Canadian "Government has finally "taken the matter in hand. ' The commissioners have already reported that gold in large quantities exists throughout ?the whole region of which Madoc is the' centre. Specimens of gold, both in quartz and nuggets, have been forwarded to the Government. The deposit is, apparently, a very rich one. Gold has been found at a depth of six feet. One shaft has been sunk twenty feet. It had been stated that 2000 dollars worth of gold had been washed out from a single ton of dirt. The examining commissioner does not confirm this statement. He says, however, that "from his own personal knowledge, he should judge that from 1500 dollars to 2000 dollars worth had been taken from one shaft." The greater part of ther-land in which gold deposits lie is owned by Government- some of the " lga.ds_,V however, are owned by farmers, who are demanding very high prices for their property. There seems to be little, doubt that the discovery is a genuine'bne, for indications are perceptible throughout a tract of land forty miles square, and if there is no deception about the matter, the Canadians have discovered a way not only to pay all their debts, but to give the country all the importance of a new California. The commissioners 'say that the gold of Hastings country is in quaiity richer than that of Australia or* British Columbia. • /*