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Thorn Carson. Twenty-two years ago, copper smelting furnaces were loaded from the top and by hand. Each furnace, filled to capacity, held only 240 tons. These facts, known to all miners, were particularly familiar to a vagabond prospector, George Carson, called the "Desert Rat." For 23 years, he had wandered from mine to mine, pursuing an idea. The idea was a smelter which men could load from the side, which might hold twice or three times as much ore as the old top-charging furnace...
Natural Gas. Of 15 natural gas companies furnishing 16 billion cubic feet of gas each year to 32 communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana-Southwest Gas Utilities Corp. was formed. President is Charles G. Laskey, bland, onetime prospector of the district served...
...Alaska's snowy Klondike where men are after gold, gold, GOLD! The villain, of course, is named Jack Locasto (Harry Carey). He has plenty of gold and a whiskey passion for the unspeakably lovely heroine (Dolores Del Rio). But she is properly enamored of a poor but handsome prospector (Ralph Forbes), who hopes some day to give her a house with 100 windows. He suffers life and near death and blizzard, finally finds gold, comes back to save dark Dolores from the clutches of Mr. Locasto. There is a gorgeously gory fight which ends when the hero prospector hits...
...poem "The Prospector," Kipling has brought forth the romance and thrill connected with the life of "him who entereth into the waste places of the world." It is curious, though natural, how much the same color of feeling attaches itself to pioneers in the fields of thought and society...
Albert Bacon Fall, 65, had the more startling career and faces the more dismal future. From a cattle prospector he rose to be Secretary of the Interior under President Harding. Born in Kentucky, he spent most of his youth in the saddle in the territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group...