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Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)

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. Felt te Keep Gold Miners Away Dee. 25,1179 By Geri Spieler Chronicle Correspondent San Juan Ridge, The mining company plans on Nevada County tearing the gold from the ground A river of gold runs deep in the earth beneath the forested ridge 15 miles from Nevada City, but the artists and meditative souls Seeking lives of peaceful solitude want the gold to stay where it is — silent and undisturbed. With gold prices soaring close to $500 an ounce, the Placer Service Corp., a subsidiary of the giant St. Joseph Mineral Corp. of New York, has‘moved in, intent on mining the five-to six-mile-long vein of gravel that it believes contains 4 million ounces of gold worth more than $1 billion. with heavy excavation machinery. Many of the people who live in the area, such as poet Gary Snyder and Swami Kriyananda, leader of the 175member Ananda Cooperative Village on San Juan Ridge, see the “pit mining” operation as a noisy invasion of their heretofore peaceful lives of high country isolation. aie “It’s not longhairs against growth, it’s people trying to protect the rural lifestyle they choose,” said Snyder, whose book of: verse, “Turtle Island,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.