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...spring of 1933 I went to the Goodnews section of and succeeded in securing options and leases on some 85 20-acre placer platinum-bearing claims and turned this deal to a group of placer miners from Flat, Alaska, who formed a company known as the Goodnew Mining Co. This company placed a dragline scraper mining outfit on this ground in 1934 and although they were held up by the marine strike of that year they succeeded in recovering some 3,000 oz. The hand miners took out about 2,000 oz. that season also. Last summer, 1935, the Goodnews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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