DENVER, Colo., Sept. 21.--W. C. Wynkoop, editor of the Mining Industry, will leave here tomorrow for Africa, where he goes in the interests of an English syndicate to look for and inspect the wonderful gold mines spoken of in Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines." Mr. Wynkoop will complete his arrangements in New York and sail the last of the week.

Source:

Unknown, "Will Seek Rider Haggard's Ophir," The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Tuesday, 22 September, 1891, p. 2.