FOUR HUNDRED MILES OF GOLD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2069, 8 July 1890, Page 3

FOUR HUNDRED MILES OF GOLD.

The latest sensation in gold mining comes from Ameriea, and, looking at it altogether, it is one calculated to fairly take one's breath away. Pour hundred miles of gold—the metal sticking out in lumps on the sides of a gorge and in nuggeta numerous as the pebbles on the river bank below—such is the ato»y set afloat by a recent exploring expedition in the State of Colorado, The locality of this marvellous find is the Grand Canon of the Colorado river. This, stupendous masterpiece of nature, fashioned in primeval ages by the hand of the Great Architect of the Universe, has long filled men's minds with wonder. Certain adventurous spirits haye looked down with awe from its cliffs on the water, flowing thousands of feet beneath ; others have scaled its almost perpendicular walls and shot its river rapids from end to end of the canon, but until now no one has had any conceptisn of the treasures lying concealed in the vast solitude. Colonel Stanton, the leader of the party of miners who have prospected the Grand Canon, says in his report that the canon is filled with gold. Allowing for evident exaggeration and the usual aptitude of gold miners to create marvels where none exist, the news from Colorado will make a stir in the

world. The thirst for gold, dormant at present for want of fresh fiUds, will be awakened ; and, whether-there be truth or not in the news from Colorado, a rush of gold miners will take place to the Grand Canon. Its solitudes will echo with the sound of miners' picks, and the silence which has reigned theie from time immemorial will be broken by the voices of men, all straining and striving to outdo each other in the finding of the precious metal.