People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD. [ARTICLE]

A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD.

REMARKABLY RICH DISCOVERY MADE BY MINERS,.. They Also Murder a Colony of Native* Story of 'Wealth and Bloodshed Brought from the Antipodes by the Mirowera. Va ncouver, B. C. t March 14.—The Kt earner Mirowera's mail brings an astonishing story from the distant gold fields of western Australia, hardly creditable if it had not been borne out by the arrest of the perpetrators of the terrible massacre. A mine of fabulous richness has recently been found. Nuggets containing between 50 and 150 ounces of pure gold are being picked up on the surface' of the ground. The story of the discovery made men mad with lust for wealth and prospectors pushed on for hundreds of miles in the wilderness, far beyond where white men had over been. They had scarcely enough food and water to keep them alive. Nearly all were forced to return ard many were ill with raging fever. The fate of these desperate men did not deter eight new arrivals from forming. a syndicate and, with heavy packs of provisions, water and rifles, started from Ninety-Mile point, the extreme limit of Coolgardie, to prospect the interior. They started. Dec. 1 and as nothing was heard of them it was supposed t! \v had met death. Dan Huberts' n, one of the syndicate, returned from his camp, 120 miles from Coolgardie, Jan. and confessed - to the police that after discovering a mountain of gold, the party, returning to eam'p\ found* .that h band of blacks had stolen' ;>l4. their provisions. The syndicate pursued tiv blacks to their village and butchered the entire encampment, shooting the men and braining til*--women and children- The other murderers have been arrested. The s did i ill of quartz which the syndicate l found is 70 feet high, -V> feet wide hn the-base and 15 feet at the summit "htod' is said to be full of gold.