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...Afton & other mines in the Temagami District of Northern Ontario, financier Stuyvesant Fish & party put on old clothes, examined gold-bearing ore. Back in Manhattan Prospector Fish was secretive...
Last week the directors of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. declared their initial dividend, a 50? payment that marked the first return on a classic promotion. Just 20 years ago a Canadian prospector stumbled on a rusty streak of sulphide ore in the ancient rocks of northern Manitoba. Having grub-staked the prospector and his five partners, John E. ("Jack") Hammell made them a proposition: $100,000 for each prospector, $1,000,000 for himself if he could get it. Laughing uproariously, the prospectors agreed...
Thirty years ago a young gold prospector named Thomas E. Latimer returned from the Klondike, married a girl of Hilliard, Ohio. Three months later they separated. Prospector Latimer lost track of his wife, heard only that a son was born but soon died...
...boom was dwindling, his luck was beginning to go too, when he met two compatriots in like case, and the three of them agreed to pool their resources, go prospecting for gold. Curtin, like Dobbs, was a greenhorn at the business, but luckily Howard was an oldtime prospector. He led them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each had about $15,000 worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them...
...Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin doors, stood guard until dawn with his son Jacobus Jr. Next morning the stone was weighed at 726 carats, took rank as the fourth largest ever found. Cut as a single stone it would...