The platinum-group metals have been the subject of considerable discussion in the news media over the past few months, particularly because of their projected use as catalysts in automobile engines. Metals Week of August 27 shows that platinum commands a price of $176.00 per ounce, as compared to $150.00 per...
The following outline of events in the rise and fall of gold mining in southwestern
Oregon is here recorded - almost as an obituary - so that Oregonians may not entirely forget how important this industry was in building up this part of the state.
The following pictorial article on the golden years of eastern Oregon, by Miles F. Potter and Harold McCall, is an abstract from their manuscript of a forthcoming book they are calling "Golden Pebbles."
Potter is a long-time resident of eastern Oregon and an amateur historian of some of the early...