[ Autograph ] (Gold Miner's Letter) Good content A.L.S. from a California gold miner, 4pp. 8vo., Forest City, Ca., Jan. 19, 1997 In part: "'..I had not abandoned the quartz claim you are required to doE100 worth of work on your claim in hopes of striking a pocket it haslooked very poorly, and I may abandon it fortunes are made in mining sometimes very quick E5,500 has been expended ' More desperate content. Fine.