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...wooded south shore of Ontario's Mackeith Lake swarmed with prospectors, mining engineers, drillers, bulldozer drivers, government geologists, get-rich-quick investors. The lure: gold. Ontario has had many a gold strike, big & little, and this latest, made by a lucky prospector in his fifties named Burke, looked as if it might...
Like every prospector who has struck it rich, Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault was out to have the time of his life. Last week in Toronto he picked up $100,000 as part payment for his Yellowknife gold strike (TIME, May 13), and lit out for New York's White...
...slow-speaking, nail-hard adventurer was walking around the town of Yellowknife last week in a bright golden haze. Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault, a trapper and prospector in the Northwest Territories, had staked out 20 likely-looking claims about 50 miles north of Yellowknife last year. Last week Beaulieu Yellowknife Mines, Ltd. agreed to pay him $100,000 cash for his properties, give him 250,000 shares of stock (worth 50? a share to start) in the new company organized to develop them...
...stepfather, Frank Fowler, who tried to make ends meet by selling Egg Wonder Powder, a baking preparation, and Eureka pants-hangers. He also had a grandfather, an old prospector who still hoped to strike it rich in the Colorado hills and spent much of his free time dosing himself with quinine, calomel and the secret remedies of one Gun Wa, a Chinese doctor. Most important of all, Gene had a grandmother, a pious, masterful woman whose hair had once been admired by General Lew Wallace...
...long-shanked, ruddy-faced man carrying a geologist's pick has stomped his hobnailed boots through the lobby of Mexico City's Hotel Geneve. Every evening he has returned, dusty or muddy, frequently carrying a heavy bag. The hotel's turistas speak of him as "The Prospector...