Wall Street Journal article on dredging in CA

[rocketsngold]

Anyone see the WSJ article on the dredging ban and lawsuit stuff in CA? (It was in monday's issue)

Someone at work dropped off a copy on my desk for my "entertainment"...

I was pretty disappointed in their coverage... I used to subscribe several years ago, but had since stopped.
After several stories like that for other things I actually knew something about, I found their coverage to be less than factual or balanced.

Made me mad that they didn't even mention that most of those affected by the ban are mining on their own federal mining claims...

For a paper that supposedly defends our private rights and economic interests... not good.

John

[gremlin]

could let them know how bad there reporting is. send them a email and letter.

[Hoser John]

R U suprized John--as the green machine rolls on....right over our rights---oops forgot rights gone.....just us-John

[libertydave]

Are you surprised? Remember that Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp media empire guides the WSJ editorial direction these days.

The WSJ in 1993 did a feature piece on Dave Mack and the New 49ers and had a lengthy article about the adventures and excitment found in suction dredging and gold recovery. It actually influenced the number of people who joined the 49ers and others who came west to the Klamath that summer.

We met a New York lawyer on the river that summer who had left his legal practice and came west to CA with his son for the "easy money". He told us that the WSJ article had been his inspiration. They had purchased a new 6" dredge along with lots of mining gear and they were camping alongside the river. After a few months they had become frustrated with the lack of instant success and sold all of their equipment at firesale prices, packed up their camp and went back east after recovering around 3/4 of an ounce. Others also left with the same level of disappointment. Easy money proved to be a grand dream.

I'm looking forward to hearing the same type of stories that come out of Nome after this summer.

Regards, LD

[gremlin]

Easy money now that is a funny one. its a lot of work just to find a strike. then you got to work that untill it plays out. and do it all over. the paper work is killer, some times it can take days. its easer to find a job and keep it than find gold.