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...home-grown citizens of Jackson, Calif. this week got shocking news: the fabulous Argonaut gold mine will close down within a month; its 225 miners must look for other jobs. Reason: guns, tanks & ships are not made from gold; WPB has turned down all appeals for needed supplies and equipment...
...Jackson the Argonaut is an institution, a legend, the town's chief claim to a niche in history. Grizzled, bourbon-swigging, pistol-packing prospectors first struck the Argonaut about 1848, were soon whooping it up in the noisy, ramshackle saloons & cafes of nearby Jackson. Broken and empty bottles so cluttered the muddy, wagon-rutted streets that the town got its first name: Botilleas. On the great oak that stood on Main Street more than ten men were strung up. When nearby Double Springs was made county seat in 1851, civic-minded Jacksonians dashed over on horseback, hijacked the county...
...historymaker, the Argonaut was also a moneymaker. Deep in the heart of the incredibly rich Mother Lode vein, its 6,000-ft. shafts have carried up over $19,000,000 in gold since 1850. Much of this went to Jackson barkeepers, storekeepers and bawdy-house keepers, helped keep the town going when the expected factories and payrolls never appeared. Now the show is almost over...
...most remarkable sheep since the time of Jason the Argonaut nibbled, stared, bleated last week in a new home at Middlebury, Vt., where they are now beginning the third chapter of their careers, in the care of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Though they do not have golden fleece, they may be almost as valuable to U.S. farmers, wool-wearers and mutton-eaters. Their unique characteristics...
Died. George Jean ("Big Frenchy") De Mange, 47, cagey onetime hoodlum, highjacker and bootlegger, latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...