Bolivia’s Gold.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42795, 24 October 1905, Page 2

Bolivia’s Gold.

A LAWLESS COUNTRY.

A former resident of "Wellington, says a Wellington paper, who went to .■South America in connection with y gold-digging enterprises there, writing from Bolivia to a friend in this city, > says:—“l have just returned from ' a prospecting trip on the Andes mountains, and have been 12,000 feet above the sea. It is a country like Central Otago—barren mountains and small creeks. I lave been four hundred miles up the Rio San Juan de Oro. ; - Prospecting indications are good, and I think there will be a big boom here iu time. We have one dredge built, and start in a week, This is a very lawless country, shouting, stabbing and murder. Money is kind here, and if a man has it he could murder all Bolivia, and go free. There is no law for murder, so the murderers are ; arrested and drafted into the army, and in time are taken out and become policemen. W’e ernplov tw>» hundred Indians at pick and shovel work; wages are on an average, a shilling a (lay.”