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'I CI I 1 "1 told him flat and simple," says Ben. "You come up this hill to make me any trouble, and you're going to be rolling back down again before you know it." Ben says the Bureau hasn't bothered him since. And now that Ben has leased out his claims to the "slicker" from San Francisco, he sits content on the hillside waiting for the man to strike it rich. "Don't matter much to me anyhow if he does," says Ben. "I got my mountain here, and he's welcome to work on it.

"But," says Ben, rubbing a knobby hand over his sunburned face, "I don't think any of those slickers who come up here looking for gold these days know just how hard the work is." Continued from Paye I A kihor. That's the only way to find gold these days." YOU PROBABLY won't get rich prospecting the hills around Tuolumne, although back in the 1850s the area ihe site of a major gold strike that, bred a pack of little boom towns mines with names like. Eureka and Carters and Cherokee and Summersville. Then the veins ran dry, and the miners left and soon only Tuolumne was left: Now an intersection off Highway 49 with a gas station and a couple of small shops and a restaurant or two. But people are trickling slowly back.

Refugees from the city looking for a little house on a hillside. Campers trying to find a quiet piece of woods and hills. And most of all, weekend treasure hunters and part-time prospectors like the "slicker" who leased old Ben's mining claims. "There's still nothing like gold to get people out of the house, is there?" asks Ken. IT WOULDN'T be correct to say that California is seeing another gold but it's been a long time since people have shown so much interest in the yellow stuff.

The California Bureau of Mines estimates there are as many as dentists, doctors, businessmen and just plain folks out each weekend searching the hills and deserts forbid bottles, silver, uranium and most of all gold. And shops all over the West that sell prospecting gear and mining equipment say business has never been better. Jerry Keene, who runs a place in North Hollywood near l.es Angeles, says the sale of gold panning gear has doubled over last year, and he is selling six times the usual number of metal detectors expensive electronic devices that can cost up to $31)0 apiece and resemble some sort of Buck Rogers vacuum cleaner. "I guess you, could call this the last gasp of the gold rush," says red Taylor, who edits a bi-monthly magazine called "Western Treasures," a bible of sorts for treasure hunters, gold prospectors and the growing army of collectors who comb the deserts in search of old bottles, glass insulators and even rusted beer cans. "I know this much circulation has never been better." The reason for much of the renewed interest can be traced back several months ago, when the U.S.

government started talking about removing the an ounce ceiling'on giild prices. I OR MOST, it is merely a hobby, a chance to get outdoors and root around the desert or the mountains for a weekend, for the weekend treasure hunters, the biggest profits they usually score are a dollar's worth of gold dust and an aching back. But for others, it is a deadly business, like the scuba gear-equipped divers who use surface dredges and underwater mining gear to plumb the bottoms of the Leather River north of Sacramento. "Some of those divers come up with J.lft or $fil) worth of gold a day," says Taylor. "There's money to be made gold mining, if you have the prospectors will tell you that the two most feared varmints in the back country are still rattlesnakes and claim jumpers.

I Arizona's Superstition Mountains, where armies of prospectors have hunted unsuccessfully for the last 70 years for the so-called Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, more than 30 persons have been murdered, some as recently as within the last 10 years. Legend has it that Jacob Walzer, an old Dutchman, blasted the entrance to the gold mine shut when he realized he was dying and could never return to the treasure. Though the story has been discounted by some, there is apparently enough hard evidenceincluding the remnants of some maps found carved in stone that hundreds of treasure hunters have used every-thing from bulldozers to shovels in search of the mine. Last year, the U.S. Forest Service even tried unsuccessfully to run the treasure hunters out of the hills, contending they were scarring the.

rugged mountain range in their frenzied efforts to find the lost treasure. But they are still there, living in tents and small shacks in the mountains that they roam daily, a pick in one hand and a pistol strapped to their waist. "I TELL YOU," says old Ben, pointing to a handful of dirty, torn correspondence from state and federal mining officials, "the government is going to ruin mining with all their durned regulations. People just aren't gonna want all the bother." Uen has had his own run-ins with the people from the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and not long ago a government agent pushed his jeep up to the top of Ben's mountain and told him he'd have to leave, since he wasn't working his claims anymore.

Ladies Men ton, Hfi I i Jpt time and investment." Just how successful some of the more serious gold miners have been, however, is not an easy thing to learn. Trying to get information from many of them is like asking questions of the CIA. If somebody has found a good spot, they just don't want it spread around. "I think there's a mine up tIio.se hills somewhere," old Ben told a reporter, pointing across the river valley to a hazy mountainside. "I hear a couple of brothers up there have hit themselves a pretty good vein.

"But if I was you, 1 wouldn't go poking around there unless you ask first, if you know what I mean." ADRIAN LYONS, who runs the Mother Lode Bottle Shop in Jim-town, knows how elusive a mining claim can be, especially if it's a good one. Lyons had "grubstaked" an old prospector provided him with food and lodging in return for his working an old claim Lyons had taken over near Groveland, a small mining town not far from Yosem-ite National Park. A few years ago, the old prospector wrote Lyons a letter, advising him he had struck some gold on the old site. "Cut don't say anything about it," scrawled the old geezer in a letter to Lyons. "The friends you have in Jim-town aren't really your friends." The prospector urged Lyons to visit him soon: "I will show you some real rock from your property." The letter was signed: "Take care, don't talk Jim." A few months later, Lyons said he visited the site, and the old prospector was gone.

In his place, Lyons discovered a mining engineer who L3rons had once hired to examine the claim. Somehow, the engineer had obtained title to the claim, even though Lyons adamantly swears he never signed anything. "That engineer jumped my claim, sure and simple," said Lyons. "I don't know how he got word about the strike, and 1 don't know what ever happened to Jim, the old prospector. "But he's there now, and the only way I can get him off is by hiring a lawyer, and I don't have the money right now." THE POTENTIAL for violence is still a part of gold mining, and some of the old "mi.

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