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...Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining property option, and mining stock of value undetermined. To avoid any misunderstanding, Testator Alvord...
Sounding Board for Premier Hepburn is a new and potent force in Canadian journalism, launched with the money of bleak, eccentric William Henry Wright, onetime butcher, soldier and prospector, today credited with having Canada's largest annual income ($6,000,000). This comes from the famed Wright-Hargreaves Mine, largely developed by Old Prospector Wright, who lives 90 miles north of Toronto in the small town of Barrie...
...years ago the Old Prospector shrewdly agreed to help give "Mitch" a leg toward Ottawa and the Prime Ministry. Mr. Wright was persuaded by his onetime mining broker, rambunctious young Clement George McCullagh, who bought two newspapers and today Canadian journalists call him "an incipient Hearst." Far from rich himself, Mr. McCullagh paid $2,325,000 for the Toronto Mail and Empire. Its 120,000 circulation was the largest of any Canadian morning paper, and he merged it with the Toronto Globe (85,000) which he had bought for just under $900,000. Today another $4,000,000 is being...
...prospector and promoter named Gilbert LaBine, who had started a company called Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd., was driving his dogsled across the frozen surface of Canada's Great Bear Lake, which is cut by the Arctic Circle. He spotted a vein of curious, glossy stuff which looked something like anthracite coal, with gleams of yellow, pink and green, recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly...
Authorities of Chiriqui Province chartered planes, flew to the mine to investigate the discovery while the Government, which under its buried treasure law is entitled to half the prospector's find, rushed a police guard to the scene to control a stampede of treasure-hunting natives. Authorities believe that the tunnel belonged to the almost-legendary La Estrella mine, worked by the Spanish conquerors. Fabulously rich, it became "lost" in the passing of four centuries. Indians, outraged by the cruel treatment of the Spaniards, are supposed to have ambushed a mule-drawn treasure train, killed the white...