The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-24
NEW GOLD FIELDS.
SPECTATORS HOPING FOR RICH RE-
TURNS FROM MANY COUNTRIES.

in London--On the Zambesi River-Ir
North ,rn and Eastern Thibet 5000 Late
I!epOi Is from South America.
Mr. i. L. Baker, our consul general at
Buenos Ayres, has recently reported 10 thu
state department the discovery of gold IN
Patagonia. According to tho report Of the
commission appointed by the Argentine Re
public 10 examine these deposits, they are oil
"a superior class and there is abundance
both of god and platinum" Mr.. Baker says
the ore is believed to lie richer than that oil
California or Australia. Not the least inter
eStng fact about this discovery Is that the
new gold fields are silly acce sIhle The de-
posts are said to extend from Cape VIRGIN,
on the northern shore of the straits or Ma
Gelan. through which many vesse.s pass
every year, northward along the Atlantic
coast for forty or fifty miles
Among the mining companies organized
last year in London were fourteen projected
20 carry on operations in the gold and dia-
2nond fields of South Africa, three compa-
MES for Asia, twelve for South America, six
for Mexico and Central America, and five
for Australasia,
Among the mountains and foothills that
border the southern and western frontiers OF
the Transvaal hundreds of miners are de-
veloping placer diggings, from which dur
lng the closing week Of last year 900
ounces of gold were received at Natal In
tie same region an Engishman l. now turn
Ing out several tons OF lead day. Tho
civil engineer Anderson reported fifteen
months ago that among thes, same ranges
of hills west and northwest of the Trans
Vaal there were rich deposits of gold. lie
said the natives a. yet would not allow the
country to be properly prospected, but that
1T the region were annexed TO the British
crown there would he no difficulty III de-
Teloping Its resources. This country i in
riuded in the great district over which
Great Britain by treaty with the native
chefs, assumed protectOrate last year
otill further north, among the many
southern atfiuents OF the Iambcsi, Mr.. w.
Montague Kerr recently found rich lndlca-
lions Of gold. He brought home from these
sandy river beds numerous specimens, gen
orally free from ba,e metals lie say the
natives wash tn alluval deposits in wooden
trays, and put the gold they extract in large
qm.i,, which they carry great distances to
trade for cloth and Ornaments \ part OF
tLls gold producing region had never before
been Vi Used by a white man, but il ano her
Far iho Portuguese formerly carried ON
Yto'table diggings, though their methods Of
mining wore cumbrous and expensive 1t
va these nine' together with the ivory /
Lralo that made Tette, far inland on the .
/ambei river, at one time a busy AMI ln-
porJant town.
IBE SOURCES OF THE HoASG Ho.
HTCieTU,sSy, the explorer, Is now telling
Che Russian audiences to whom he Is de-
neriJing hi, last great journey that gold Is
ya y plentiful throughout northern Ihibet
gle says no saw natives mining rear the
sour es Of the Houng river They du only
one or two feet Lelow the s1riace, and
their methods Of washing were OF the most
primitive description Nevertheless" says
Pre-. oyalsky, they showed us whole hand
tIs Of gold in humps as big as peas and
tvl. or thrice rs big Mr.. w. Mesny,
who has also visited tho diggings OF north
tra and eastern Thibet corroboratcs IroJe
yaisay's estimates Of their great value. lie
shy, be saw gold in nuggets from the size
of a Pea 70 that of n hazenut, almost per
fec,iy pure and perfe thy malieablc
TIE discovery of gold two years ago in
Manchuria was another of the numerous
reaIteS OI uIlp t'lSilllneSS bcbNc'' i'u''it
and China As the dggings were only
twenty miles from the Russian possessions,
a number of Russians joined the Chimes,
and Coreaus who were there washing gold.
4 me feature OF the resulting disturbance was
= stirmish between Russian and Chinese
troops IN June last, and then, it is reported,
the intrudng miners, with Russians consent,
Her hustled out OF the forbidden territory.
From Madagascar to Honduras recent
lvpprts have been received of new discover
ies Of gold. An expedition from the Argen-
tine Republic is now supposed to be ascend
iug tile Chuhut river in Patagonia TO see If
Z be reports derived from Indians that gold
"a found at is headwaters among the Cor
dileras are true. Many of these regions
are still practically closed to white men,
and the golden promises of some of them
may never be realized The big nuggets
found An the Tasmania few years ago
nauaed rush 10 her gold fields for while,
hut TO day, although the annual gold pro
duct Of that island amounts to Sl,20O,O00,
only two among 100 mining companies are
wing large dividends New York sun
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"a Cumeicnne of Great Pluck.