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To: Scott Wheeler who wrote (4834)	1/23/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: Bob Jagow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

offtopic--Not Pharmacology, Scott--Retired now, but a [Berkeley--your neck of the woods--PhD] organiker who was involved in drug intermediates/fine chemicals synthesis among other things. Re my JackGibe--as an offshoot of a NIH-funded program to scaleup the synthesis of anti-cancer and AIDS drugs that I once ran, we ended up the manu of some of these final bulk drugs and some unrelated drug intermediates for Smith-Kline, Bristol-Meyers, Merck and AmCy. BareAllBob

To: Scott Wheeler who wrote (4834)	1/23/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: J.E.Currie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

kiwi (El Nino gold...this is a good spin.) ID#194311: El Nino creates micro Gold Rush in northern California SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 23 ( AFP ) - El Nino- spawned storms are washing gold nuggets from their centuries- old resting places and into the hands of gold panners in northern California rivers - - just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Gold Rush. "El Nino will stir up a lot of gold and open a lot of gold veins," said Mike Smerker, whose grandfather was a Gold Rush prospector. "This year, it wont matter what creek you pan in ... Any creek with enough water in it to pan ... go ahead and try." The storms battering California this winter are promising to replicate the rain that soaked James Marshall when he made his historic discovery of gold in a creek at Sutters Mill on January 24, 1948. Almost overnight, tens of thousands of treasure seekers who would come to be known as "Forty- Niners" raced to the untamed country at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills to seek their fortunes. A reenactment of Marshalls discovery is planned for Saturday, when counties throughout Californias gold territory plan to launch a two- year bash of parties, parades and other events celebrating the Gold Rush. People interested in reliving the era can take trips with companies such as Gold Prospecting Expeditions in Jamestown or Gold County Prospecting in El Dorado County. Virtually the entire population of San Francisco left their homes, crops and livestock as gold fever spread to the coast. In their frenzy to find the their fortunes, treasure- seekers forced local Indians onto reservations or killed them in order to stake claims along the rivers. Rivers were diverted and oak and redwood forests destroyed in the frenzied quest for fast riches. An estimated 12 billion tonnes of earth dug up by miners was dumped into local rivers, killing wildlife and burying farmland. While individuals panned for gold or washed the river soil through large metal screens in boxes called "sluices," companies brought in pressurized hoses to wash away entire riverbanks and hillsides. It is believed that fewer than half of the 90,000 people, most of them men, who set out for California by land or sea got there. The rest died on the way or turned back. Most of the miners did not get rich. However, gold quickly lined the pockets of the merchants who sold shovels, food and other supplies to treasure hunters. It was a lawsuit filed in a San Francisco court by farmers claiming that mining was annihilating farmland that brought the Gold Rush to a close. Both Marshall and Sutter died penniless. Most of the river banks that the Gold Rush prospectors rushed to are now private property and off limits to visitors. People have built homes on the riverbanks. Gold Prospecting Expeditions owns the mile- long stretch of Woods Creek where it takes aspiring gold hunters. On the bank of the river is a replica of an authentic 1949 miners camp. "The secret to finding gold is knowledge... you have to know what you are doing," said Smerker, who works for Gold Prospecting Expeditions. "If you dont do it right, all you get is tired and your back really hurts."