FROM FORTUNE TO POVERTY
(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, July 4. . The discoverer of the first claim in the Klondike, Charles Anderson, has just died, a poor man, as did the discoverer of gold in Australia, Edward Hargreaves. The discoverer of gold in the Transvaal, George Walker, according to a dispatch, a few years ago, had been awarded a pension of ten shillings a week by the Chamber of Commerce at Johannesburg. Anderson, who went hi over the notorious Chilcoot Pass, where hundreds perished in the winter of 1897-9&, took half a million dollars out of the famous EJ Dorado claim. He lost everything in the San Francisco earthquake and fire, and, at | the age of 66, returned to prospecting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 4
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120FROM FORTUNE TO POVERTY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 4
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