Word: moneta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twenty men were at work on the Burke-Bromley claims alone, clearing topsoil. Diamond drillers would start work soon. A tent city sprouted nearby and hundreds of gold-seekers lived in sleeping bags. Little Foleyet (pop. 2,000), twelve miles north, was jammed. Big mining firms like Hollinger, Mclntyre, Moneta and Vincent were buying up claims at fancy prices. The Canadian National Railways was already making emergency stops a mile from the strike site, and there was talk of putting in a spur...
Finds. Near Moneta, Wyo., a hunter found an unopened letter in a clump of sagebrush. It was addressed to his mother-in-law, postmarked May 12, 1939. In Hobart, Mich., Ray Loomis found a set of false teeth in his potato patch, returned them to a neighbor who had lost them...