Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ISIDORE WINKLEMAN Portland, Ore...
...reality, to American life. It is the same in a great city as it is on the farm, the daily routine whether in an office, in a tall building or plowing a 40-acre field, fighting chinch bugs or grasshoppers, or going down in a mine to get ore, standing at a loom, sweating at a forge, or working in a forest. All these are real. No falsetto here. No emotional stuff-but hard reality. . . . Landon has always touched reality. He has always faced life at first hand. He is no theorist, and the Lord be praised...
South of Ottawa, in the sleepy little Canadian town of Arden, Ont., with a population of 255, there was last week a great hullabaloo. Eleven miles beyond Arden two prospectors named Newton and Alexander had staked gold claims. Ore from these diggings, assayed by the Canadian Mines Department, was reported to contain $200 to $600 of gold per ton. Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., had bought the claims and was about to start drilling while dozens of mining engineers, hundreds of prospectors were stalking Arden's once placid streets. Again Depression, which steeps most men in gloom and poverty...
...Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money until after 1926 when new ore deposits were discovered. Not until 1933 did its earnings exceed $2,800,000 a year; last year it earned...
...cash for a third interest and he himself did not want to mortgage the house he owned in Reno. Finally he borrowed $1,000 without security from a generous friend, made the down payment and bought equipment. Crudely he dug out three sacks of ore, trekked them out by packhorse and sent them to the San Francisco Mint. They were worth $84.45. His ore assayed at the bonanza rate of $1,495 gold and 20 oz. of silver per ton. If the Jumbo vein held out, George Austin was a very rich...