Show N New Neto elf Gold Rush by Air Started in New Guinea I While the world King Midas depressed de pressed se searches out all possible new sources of gold the territory of New NewGuine Guinea Guine i is the scene of the first great gold rush by air Men picks and heavy machinery I have lave made their way by airplane from the coast into mountains and jungles of the worlds world's second largest island I developing a mining c camp mp civilization with amazing r rapidity The great air rush was at its I height in 1929 and 1930 as placer gold was found in accessible creeks of the district Later a period of general prospecting began and the airplanes took mining engineers and andl equipment to the mountain sites of apparent lodes In the middle of 1930 the gold mining min min- ing ng leases in the mandated territory numbered 47 7 miners' miners homestead leases had b been cn made and 47 business areas were staked staked out In the fiscal year ended June 30 1920 gold tion Uon in the Hie Mor be gold fields was ounces valued at pounds sterling and an expanding f future fu fu- u ture production was indicated |