Word: nass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ccedrice Robinson '50 allowed himself to be quoted yesterday as saying, "When it comes to style, Princeton boys have webbed feet, But, Nass...
True or not, the tale Nass River Indians had to tell, half a century ago, was enough to parch the lips of any prospectors. This is what they said: not far from their hunting & fishing grounds at Observatory Inlet, 500 miles north of Vancouver, was a "mountain of gold." Two prospectors, led there by Indians, found only "fool's gold" (iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find...