ALASKA MINING REVIVAL
SEATTLE, Nov. 1
Revival of gold prospecting in Alaska, with more miners on the creeks next spring than for many years, was predicted hero to-day by Mr, Jolm W. Troy, Governor of Alaska, as a result of the high price quoted by the United States •.Government for the glittering metal. Close to £100,000,000 in gold has been taken oiU of Alaska since it was bought, bv tho United States for £1,440,000.' It will he profitable for men to go back to claims they once abandoned because costs of production were too high, Mr. Troy' said. So Alaska is looking' forward.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 10
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