{"id":1608,"date":"2012-11-09T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T10:57:34","slug":"chasing-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themorganreport.com\/blog\/chasing-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard (Rick) Mills
\nAhead of the Herd
\nAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information<\/em>
\nRobert Lee Hatcher was born June 24th 1867 in Montague, Texas. He arrived in Alaska in 1888. Hatcher had started prospecting in White Oaks, New Mexico, came north at twenty-one, spent time prospecting in Atlin, Canada, and southeast Alaska before heading to south-central Alaska.
\nIn September 1906, Hatcher located hard rock gold. The Skyscraper Vein was a quartz gold claim 1,200 feet above the floor of Fishhook Valley and nearly 5,000 feet above sea level. It was on a ridge below Skyscraper Mountain in the southern Talkeetna Mountains.
\nRobert Lee sold a 25 percent interest in his gold discovery for $1500.00 worth of cash and some food. In 1909 Hatcher and his partner, J.H. Carnegie, sold the remaining 75% of the claims for $6000.00. The $7500.00 received for the claims is worth over a quarter of a million dollars today.
\nIn 1910 Hatcher was back in Alaska prospecting on the Kenai Peninsula with a new partner, C. A. “Scotty” McPherson. The Hatcher-McPherson Groundhog claim was sold for $30,000. The purchaser was Samuel I. Silverman who started, and sold stock in, the Seward Gold Company.
\nWithin a year Silverman had sold the Seward Gold Company for $225,000 to a group of British investors. Unfortunately the ledge pinched out, the gold disappeared and the first payment was never made.
\nBy 1943, Robert Lee Hatcher had been responsible for the discovery of the Independence, Martin, Talkeetna, Jam, Ray Wallace and Gold Mint mines.
\nAt the age of seventy-six he announced what he called the greatest gold discovery of his career. There was no interest from investors even though the grade, at an estimated $7 per ton, was very high. In 1933, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt had increased the price of gold from $20.67 to $35.00 per ounce. The increase in price led to more gold mining in Alaska. This expansion continued until the early years of World War II when federal order E-208 shut down gold mines throughout the United States – the United States War Production Board thought gold mining was not essential to the war effort.
\nIn 1950, Hatcher was found in his cabin on Ptarmigan Creek twenty-three miles north of Seward; he was paralyzed on his left side and unable to speak. Robert Lee Hatcher died in Seward, Alaska, 24th September 1950 and was buried October 1st 1950 in an unmarked grave in the Seward Pioneer Cemetery.
\nSeekers Of Gold<\/strong>
\n\u201cYou see we prospectors are a dying breed. The world doesn’t function around us anymore like it used back in the gold rush. The people who care for you can\u2019t understand. What in the world would make you want to risk your life to look for gold? They don\u2019t understand the dream, but in the old days everybody understood. You didn\u2019t have to worry about your wife leaving ya or your friends scorning you because you wanted to find the gold.<\/em>
\nEveryone was doing it. Everyone dreamed of the day when they would be the one to strike it rich. represent freedom for all, but what does it mean to people today? I\u2019ll tell you, a big house and a nice car. People don\u2019t see that it\u2019s so much more than just finding the golden score. It\u2019s not seen as a building block for freedom. It\u2019s been twisted and messed up to the point of being stuck on a scratch and win ticket. That is what is left of the prospector\u2019s dream in today\u2019s world. All the people around you don\u2019t understand, they can\u2019t see the freedom and the hope it brings you when you chase the dream. They just think you\u2019re dreaming, but we know the truth don\u2019t we?<\/em>
\nThe truth is you\u2019re living and they are the ones that are dreaming. Their search for the big car and the nice house. Ha! Illusions I tell you brought onto their brain less minds by a media machine. How I wish I could chase after it still, but the fight\u2019s over for me lad. I\u2019ve got a bad ticker you see, but you can, can\u2019t you son?” he explained eyeing me almost enviously, there is nothing better than standing high up on a mountain top and gazing down upon the world. It makes you feel like your own man. Free from all prison that the world tries to make of your life. You see the world doesn\u2019t want you to be your own man. If they did, they wouldn\u2019t be trying to make you swallow the lie all the time and you know how they do it. Through that little box over there, he said pointing to the television across the room.<\/em>
\nLook at those people over there, he explained pointing to the people staring at the TV. They\u2019re swallowing every word of it and it makes me sick. Our pioneer brothers are rolling in their graves I tell ya. They wouldn\u2019t have wanted it this way, this isn\u2019t freedom. People today don\u2019t know what freedom is. That little box over there tells them that they\u2019re free, but they\u2019re not. You see when somebody tells you something enough times you\u2019ll start to believe it. Tell me you won\u2019t give up, tell me you will follow the dream to the ends of the earth. If not for yourself then do it for your pioneer brothers who help create this world and you become one of them. Remember freedom is worth dying for and I\u2019m not talking about dying in a war fighting for some illusionary freedom that your government tells you have. I\u2019m talking the real stuff that comes from the open spaces and when you spent enough time in the mountains you\u2019ll know what I\u2019m talking about. It will grab your soul and won\u2019t leave you until the day you die. It\u2019s what pushes all great men and once you see it you\u2019ll chase it for the rest of your days.\u201d<\/em>
\nSeekers of gold is dedicated to all the prospectors out there who have searched for the dream and all of those who are still out there searching for it. Daryl Friesen author, Seekers Of Gold<\/strong>
\nConclusion<\/strong>
\nProspectors are today still scouring the bush, in remote, and not so remote places \u2013 chasing the rainbow and its pot of gold – looking for the next discovery. Alaska, Canada\u2019s Yukon Territory and Province of British Columbia are still vast and underexplored places.
\nProspecting is of course the integral first step in the process of discovery, walking the bush and hammering rocks means boots on the ground. It’s people walking through the bush that have found the worlds mines. Staking claims and making a deal with a junior resource company, a vendor\u2019s agreement, is often the second step \u2013 the prospectors claims are turned over to be worked for shares and or cash and a one or two percent net smelter royalty (NSR) from a mine if the showing goes all the way. Most prospectors don\u2019t have the wherewithal, the money raising capabilities or the expertise to develop a showing so this is where a junior would come in. Being publically traded they have access to capital and expertise the prospector most often does not.
\nOnly a few prospectors among the many thousands who search ever find an economic to mine deposit. But prospecting success and drill programs that are targeting these showings should be on every investors radar screen.
\nMost of us can\u2019t be prospectors, but we can dream of discoveries made and money hard won, we too can chase the rainbow through our publically traded junior resource companies. Have you got an exploration, or drill program, on your radar screen?
\nIf not, maybe you should.
\nRichard (Rick) Mills
\nrick@aheadoftheherd.com
\nwww.aheadoftheherd.com<\/a>
\nRichard is the owner of Aheadoftheherd.com and invests in the junior resource\/bio-tech sectors. His articles have been published on over 400 websites, including:
\nWallStreetJournal, SafeHaven, MarketOracle, USAToday, NationalPost, Stockhouse, Lewrockwell, Pinnacledigest, UraniumMiner, Beforeitsnews, SeekingAlpha, MontrealGazette, CaseyResearch, 24hgold, VancouverSun, CBSnews, SilverBearCafe, Infomine, HuffingtonPost, Mineweb, 321Gold, Kitco, Gold-Eagle, The Gold\/Energy Reports, Wealthwire, CalgaryHerald, ResourceInvestor, Mining.com, Forbes, FNArena, Uraniumseek, FinancialSense, Goldseek, Dallasnews, SGTReport, Vantagewire, Resourceclips, Indiatimes, ninemsn, ibtimes and the Association of Mining Analysts.
\nIf you’re interested in learning more about the junior resource and bio-med sectors, and quality individual company\u2019s within these sectors, please come and visit us at www.aheadoftheherd.com<\/a>
\n***
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\nRichard Mills has based this document on information obtained from sources he believes to be reliable but which has not been independently verified.
\nRichard Mills makes no guarantee, representation or warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability as to its accuracy or completeness. Expressions of opinion are those of Richard Mills only and are subject to change without notice. Richard Mills assumes no warranty, liability or guarantee for the current relevance, correctness or completeness of any information provided within this Report and will not be held liable for the consequence of reliance upon any opinion or statement contained herein or any omission.
\nFurthermore, I, Richard Mills, assume no liability for any direct or indirect loss or damage or, in particular, for lost profit, which you may incur as a result of the use and existence of the information provided within this Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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