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NOW
Another California Gold Rush Is On!
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- - -n7HE greatest of modern gold
rushes is on! Cars by the hun-
dreds loaded with gold hungry men
and women are pouring through the
streets and heading for the hills in
the vicinity of Crescent City, Cali-
fornia.
The cars have been newly serv-
iced and are loaded with everything
from picks to washing pans.
Not since 1856 has Crescent City
-a town of 2,500 people-seen any-
thing like this latest California gold
rush.
Every room in the hotel and mo-
tels is filled-bars and restaurants
are virtually stripped. All the slot
machines in this easy-going commun-
ity clank endlessly.
Everyone from bartender to cafe
waitress is considered an authority
on gold.
The press says that thus far only
two experts are sold on the project.
Tom Cronin, a sixty-year-old pros-
pector, who staked the original claim
is one, and Assayer Ernest Hey, who
assayed the first bit of ore and called
it rich, is the other.
His findings still show a gold con-
tent in the yellow, decomposed ore of
anywhere from 18 to 75 dollars a ton.
He says: "This is no phony, be-
lieve me. It just happens that this
plateau never was affected by the
grinding forces of erosion. That's why
the gold is hard to check.
"It's still combined with ferrous
materials which ordinarily would
have been eaten away by erosion.
What we've got to do is to erode away
this iron mechanically. Once freefrom that the gold can be recovered
easily by ordinary methods.
"All we need is a small pilot plant
here that should not cost much more
than $6,000. We can run twenty
tons a day through it at a cost under
three dollars and fifty cents a ton. If
that doesn't add up to a rich strike,
I never saw one."
No mineralogist has yet been able
to prove Hey is wrong. Several
thoughtful citizens, including Presi-
dent Bernard McClendon of the Del
Norte Miners Association, have
shipped off ore samples to other as-
sayers.
Until reports of these checks are
received, Del Norte's modern bo-
nanza remains the greatest of mo-
dern gold rushes.
Man's insatiable lust for gold
caused Chatterton to write:
"Where the pale children of the feeble sun
In search of gold through every climate run:
From burning heat to freezing torrents go,
And live in all vicissitudes of woe."
And Vergil asked: "To what dost
thou not drive the hearts of men, O
accursed lust for gold!"
The poet Shelley seems to have
fathomed the secret of humanity's
mad rush for the yellow metal. He
says:
"Commerce has set the mark of Selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud,
The mobs of peasants, nobles, priests, and
kings,
And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.
But in the temple of their hireling hearts
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn
All earthly things but virtue."('
JJOW we wish that men wo
manifest the same eagernu
for that which is "better than gold'
The Psalmist had a proper serm
of values and said: "The judgment
of the Lord are true and righteous al
together. More to be desired are
they than gold, yea, than much fine
gold." (Psalm 19:9-10)
And the wise man Solomon said .
"Happy is the man that findeth wij
dom, and the man that getteth un-
derstanding. For the merchandise d
it is better than the merchandise d'
silver, and the gain thereof than fine
gold." (Proverbs 3:13-14)
The Apostle Peter refers to some.,
thing better than gold when he says:
"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were
not redeemed with corruptible thing
as silver and gold . . . but with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot'
(1 Peter 1:18-19)
To be bought out of the slave mat-
ket of sin and Satan and to be des-
tined to be with and like Christ i
glory by virtue of His precious shedf
blood is, as the chorus put it:
"0 yes, my friend, there's something m
Something more than gold;
To know your sins are all forgiven
Is something more than gold."
Joaquin Miller exclaimed:
"O God, how poor a man may
with nothing in this world but gold.
My Wish
"I do not wish to see my sins more plaij
But this to know, Thy love without a stait
I would not see the vileness of my heart;
But this would know, how pure and tna)
Thou art.
I would forget my paltry life so small,
And know Thy greatness, Thou, my all
in all.
Oh teach me not how deep my spirit's nigh
But flood me with Thy beams, 0 perfect
light."
(Anon.)
NOW
"Behold, NOW is the accepted time: behold NO
is the day of salvation."-2 Corinthians 6:2.
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