Davis County Clipper | 1945-04-27 | Page 6 | Gold to be Had in City's Streets for the Digging

Gold to Be Had in City's Streets for the Digging Digging for gold in the street with penknives is not a sign of lunacy in Kalgoorlie Western Australia Prospectors walking through the main thoroughfare of Hannan street sometimes notice gleaming patches of gold in they the pavements and stoop to chip out pieces with their knives The explanation given is that when I in 1899 the municipal coun coun- council council council cil sought a suitable mixture of metal and concrete they bought ore from the Golden Zone Mine at one shilling a ton While the theore theore theore ore carried four pennyweights of gold to the ton it was unprofitable to recover it but now the tread of thousands of feet has worn the pavements till bits of gold in theore the theore theore ore have begun to show