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...Walker also showed that the recent treasury order, permitting gold to be sold abroad at the world price, which was heralded as a boon to the mining companies, was also a step toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this...
...Prospector Near Romeo, Mich., J. W. Fowler, 73, near-blind pauper worn from a lifetime of prospecting for gold, was informed that a $15,000 legacy had been awaiting him for 70 years. Asked what he would do with his money, Prospector Fowler's dim eyes gleamed. Said he: "I know of a wonderful mining country in Canada where a man can make a fortune...
Died. Frederick Worthen Bradley, 70, longtime mining engineer and prospector, president of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., which earns dividends on dirt containing only 90? worth of gold to a ton, produces about half the gold output of Alaska: in Placer County. Calif...
...small shaft was driven into the ground nearby; mining engineers rushed from San Francisco. The discovery of a "lost bonanza" was confirmed. Once more Virginia City was a boom town. Piute squaws came down out of the hills. Divorcees in fur coats motored over from Reno. But no lucky prospector stood to profit. The mineral rights of the whole area have long belonged to great mining companies...
Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...