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Finally-bingo!-a shiny new sedan piled smack into the mound. Satisfied onlookers crowded around to console the driver, who stood in the sand and held his smashed nose...
...Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
Burke casually struck the mound with a pick, heard a ping and felt rock beneath. He and Bromley pulled away the moss. Said Burke later: "I was pretty excited. Free gold in flakes...
...kept the news to themselves, staked all the claims the law allows (nine each) before rushing out to Sudbury to register their find. When they did, they carried a first sample of ore that assayed $665 a ton, and an estimate, based on preliminary probing, that their gold-bearing mound was an outcrop of a 3,500-ft.-long vein...
...first test rangy, graceful Jackie Robinson had to pass was a session at the plate in spring training. On the mound were some fastball pitchers, some of them Southerners. There was a feeling that one of them might try "spinning his cap" (pitching at his head). They didn't, but Jackie Robinson was blazing the way for other Negro ballplayers and he Was jittery...