Word: placers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson, Roger F. Turner, 36-year-old Boston lawyer, was asked to compete. Out of active competition for over two years . . . Turner was given two hours to brush up on his "school figures" and the following day ended up in second place, a good 30 points over third-placer Erie Reiter. The following night Turner maintained his lead by a sparkling free skating performance while Reiter dropped back into fourth position...
...analyzing and was informed that the sample was a very good grade of crude platinum. Of course this information leaked out another stampede was under way. During the next year a number of other "strikes" were made and for the next six years almost 2,000 oz. of placer platinum were mined each year...
...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...
...Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...rebuttal Government officials insist that Alaska is self-sufficient without an outside market; that her placer mining offers plentiful jobs at $1 to $2 a day in nonfarming seasons, that the Alaska potato was good enough to be used during the War as a dining-car attraction on the Northern Pacific Railroad...