Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-24 | Page 24 | Revival of Interest in Gold is Sending Prospector Back to Hills

Revival Rev vaI of Interest Interest in Gold GoW Is h w Sending p Prospector p Back c tf to Hills Hit s I CS ANGELES tiP- tiP A. A val revIval of t Interest in gold Jold mining du due partially partially par par- Jar Jar- to world hunger hunget for tile tho VOlIo VOl yellow yel Io low metal and a go Jeri general eral r l depression in other ml mineral erah Is sending th the pro prospector back Into the hills bills and amI gullies gre great l Ro southwest thiv st st. The traditional figure fIgue of ot arly southwestern history his n c ments menta little chan changed ed from the days of or th the first first big gold rush is' is seen Been again throughout the prospect country of or California Arizona and Nev Nevada daas as a a. colorful adjunct to the themen men arid and z machinery o of the modern mining corporation For Por the tho r renewal newal of or gold digging activity has spread has spread as M well to the tho big operators and many concerns blasting nj Into Iota moun mountains of at quartz qu with fresh vigor report rich ore discoveries in in- channels r where only the surface c was scratch scratched d in the h d days ls l's ot of the Aag Argonauts m A striking feature feature- of or the revival In California's gold fields Is the ac activity ac- ac in deep placers near the the- Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- ra flyer flyer- in Butte Buto county where more more more- than twenty companies companie are tr t n now w exploring and ana dev developing prehistoric river rl channels hannel Important evidence of ot the sudden I awakening In the tIle gold In ir Inthe I Ithe th the m e ent tr of t r ol old oh 1 mining properties Among acrs the Immense proper properties le b 0 o e e old oh I Carson Hill Gold Cold Mines inc have changed sed h hands and several sever l once n c mines at Bodio arc area being rejuvenated sc Several d projects have hav been launched I l around Goldfield Ne where collapse of ot the Ute silve an and c copper mar markets h hae- hae I turned u c the attention of or largo large operators R and d leading prospectors of the thc state tate to gold possibilities Mere Here too old i shafts shaft ar are are- being sunk deeper and fam famous old mines are drawing interest than at any time since the World war Occasional word of ot strikes strikes- s' s in n old gold camps reaches towns in the mining area aren and on once e famous names name such a as BUn BUn- fr frog g. g Cherry Creek and SUrer silver CIt City again are being bandied about t to give flavor flayer to this now fever royer for tor gold The gold revival is regarded as economic economic- in origin Gold mining slumped for a decade after the war d due e l largely t to the tho high cost of ot la labor let let- bor machinery and supplies Too ot other liner minerals 18 were at comparatively high levels Jien ow operating costs based on moro more efficient mining mining- and millIng millIng milling mill- mill Ing methods the tway wa way for lor or renewal t de depression I de-I in silver sliver copper copper lc lead d tungsten and other metals whipped the tho attention of ot the operator and prospector b ba back tk k to to ing gold prices and the steady demand for that metal So So with the tho prospector of or tr tradition tradition dl- dl tion trudging as of old toward ard tile the frontiers of or t the e gold gold- country the big g operators rs Is are aro following With ma machines and proc processes s 's s' s which which- not only permit only permit working ot of deposits of-deposits deposits once considered practically worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less but but which riak and promise to p put t gold cold mining on ona on a a industrial ba basis 18