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Prospecting Boom In Rand District Forces New Mills
In Rand mining camps of the Rand district prospectors push for gold with cyanide plants rising beside tailings. Old timers like Mr Page and George Benke push dry wash and tungsten finds while Buckboard and Baltic mills prepare for operation. Investors from San Francisco and Kern County show interest as new leases and options emerge and geologists scout promising quartz and placer ground along Gold Hill and Fiddlers Gulch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randsburg
Gold Hill
Fiddlers Gulch
George Benke
Alma Claim
White Horse
Mr. Page
Great Desert
Rand
George Benko
Alma
Buckboard
Norman-Helohon
E. W. Dawson
Barstow
Baltic
Hatton and Son
Smith
Blaylock-Swift Minnehaha
Reynolds and Son
San Francisco
Calfornia Rand
Kern County