New Gold Excitement Draws Rush to Lake County District
News of a Tonopah style mining boom draws hundreds to a new district 25 miles northeast of Lakeview in Coyoto Hills. Reports claim ore rich with free gold from $200 to $5000 per ton and placer dirt yielding $6 per pan. Predictions run that up to 60000 people may flock here in six months as staking expands and new finds surface.
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Lake County
Tonopah
Nevada
Lakeview
Coyote Hills
California
Bear killed on Agency Plains by two ranchers
A large brown bear estimated about 300 pounds was shot and killed on Agency Plains last Sunday by Charles Dillon and Alfred Parkey using a 22 caliber rifle. The hunters saw the bear cross Parkey’s field near Alt Parkey’s homestead and pursued it on horseback before firing.
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Agency Plains
Charles Dillon
Alfred Parkey
Deschutes
Santiam
McKenzie
Alt
Parkey
Bruin
Land fraud trials in federal court at Portland discussed
The Portland federal court hears the land fraud conspiracy case of W P Mays W N Jones and George Sorenson charged with fraudulently acquiring over 200000 acres of school lands for exchange with government scrip valued at six dollars per acre. Secretive schemes were halted by Secretary Hitchcock and the land reserve was created after the lien land law repeal.
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W. P. Mays
W. N. Jones
George Sorenson
Portland
Blue Mountain Forest Reserve
Hitchcock
F. P. Mays
Heney
Bristol
O. E. 8. Wood
Mays
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