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Show Gold to Be HadIn Had in City's Citys ' ' 'Streets Streets ' I ' 's s 'sStreets Streets for the Digginge Digging ? e/ e eDigging / Digging for gold in the streetwIth streetwith street 'with with ' wIth penknives penkIuves is not a sign ot of oflunacy otlunacy lunacy WesternAustraha WesternAustralla WesternAustralia in Kalgoorlie Kalgoorl1e Western Australla Australia Prospectors walkIng through walkingthrough the main mam thoroughfare of 1 \ Hannan ofHannan street sometimes somehmes nO notice noticegleaming noticegleaming lce j / gleammg gleaming patches of goldIn gold in the thepavements thepavements thepavements pavements and stoop to chip outpIeces out outt outpieces ' ' t 'pieces pieces ' pIeces with their knIvesThe knives knivesThe . The explanation explanabon given is thatwhen thatwhen that swhen ' when in 1899 the municipal councll coupcil coun coup council cll cil sought a suitable mixture of ofmetal o ( ' ' metal and concrete they bought " > ore from the Golden Zone Mine MUle Mme Mmeat ' 1 * \ t at one shilling shlllmg a ton While the : < , ! ore carried carned four pennyweIghtsat pennyweights at of ofgold o ( ' gold to the ton it was unprofitableIII unprofitableto unprofitable III * .to to . to recover it but now the treadf treadof treadof tread lfof f of thousands of feet fect has worn theP thepavements thepavements the . 'fpavements fpavements ' P pavements till t1l1 bits of gold in ther thex theore the 1ore r- r x - rore ? ore have begun to show sho\ sho shoii \ { v m , - |