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"ANOTHER KLONDYKE”

DIGGERS RUSH INTO CALIFORNIAN DESERT. NEW YORK. December 28. A new gold rush, which started at Mojave, in the California Desert, a few days ago, lias jammed the town’s lodging houses with prospectors and covered all adjacent hills with the tents of hopeful diggers. A strike made there in September of last year by Mr George Holmes, a former university student, has turned out to be richer than it was thought, and the inevitable description of the deposit as “ another Tonopah, or goldfield, or Klondyke ” may not be much too extravagant. Mr Tasker Oddie, formerly a Senator from Nevada, and now mining adviser to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, who is on the spot, described the deposit to-day ns a “ large and extremely rich one which may be of great importance to California and the nation.” and declared it was " almost a joke it wasn’t discovered before.”

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Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5

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"ANOTHER KLONDYKE” Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5

"ANOTHER KLONDYKE” Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5