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Show Romance Gone From Gold Fields. Gold stampedes have lost their romantic ro-mantic trappings. An honest-to-good-ness stampede after real gold has Just trken place In Rata via and Kameel-boom Kameel-boom district. South Africa. There were no six-guns, such as distinguished the mushing for precious metnl In the western states and Australia. Aus-tralia. Boots, spurs, liquor, gambling paraphernalia have gone by the boards. None of those once necessary adjuncts ad-juncts to the proper staking of a claim remain essential. Stampeders of 1923 traveled In automobiles and motorcycles. Within two hours of the time the first stake was planted the field had been entirely covered. The show was over and nobody was killed. The new field Is confidently expected ex-pected to produce gold, but the least observing can see that It will never produce a Bret Harte. |