The "Linger and die" temporary bridge over manuherikia river at Alexandra New Zealand скачать в хорошем качестве

The "Linger and die" temporary bridge over manuherikia river at Alexandra New Zealand

Got gold fever? "Linger and die" is guaranteed to have gold down there about thirty meters down but the manuherikia river guards her treasures with severe yearly floods😂 Now part of the Alexandra township, only one miner successfully recovered gold here and walked away with money in his pocket, when the river flooded. Wisely he sold and passed on the claim before losing any money and in 1899 and 1902 the area was dredged by the new claim holders, the Golden Link Dredging Company who took over the gold lease. In 1901 they too struck the gold, worth £2000 or $300,000 today, but then faced disaster when the riverbank collapsed onto the dredge. Recovery of the dredge cost more than £8000 or 1.2 million New Zealand dollars today. Subsequent later tunnelling efforts also ended in disasters with miners swamped by waterlogged silt and gravel. legend says a gold bearing reef lays under the township from this point to beyond the centennial park, forever just out of reach😁