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Show SOLOMON'S MINE AGAIN Finding of King Solomon's mine, search for which has caused the death of thousands, has been reported by a prospector In Broken Hill, northern Rhodesia. He declares that he discovered it while following a wounded buck, but refuses to give the exact location except that it Is la the center of a mine concession. For more than 300 years men have been searching for the legendary mine. In Solomon's day it was said to be so fabulously rich In gold that silver became of little value in his court. The search has gradually narrowed down to an area of about 250,000 square miles. Arabs tortured many natives in an effort to extract information infor-mation about it and many Portuguese Portu-guese tramped hundreds of miles la search of it |