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Document 32720
HERBERT HOOVER. TLS: "Herbert Hoover",
1p, 7¼x10½. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 1941 April 17. To Lawrence
K. Requa, Idaho Almaden Mines Company, Weiser, Idaho. In full:
"Please find enclosed some inconsequential correspondence about this supposed
gold mine called the Gold Circle Consolidated." HOOVER was a mining
engineer and, having graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1895, traveled
around the world as a consultant between 1895-1913. The Weiser Mercury mine was
discovered in 1927. The property was leased after additional finds in 1936 to
LAWRENCE K. REQUA, who formed the Idaho Almaden Company. Between 1939 and
1942, 4,000 flasks of mercury at a value of $750,000 were recovered. We could
find no information about "Gold Circle Consolidated", which seems to give
credence to Hoover's description of it as a "supposed gold mine". The town of
Gold Circle, southwest of Elko, Nevada, was so named because gold mines formed a
circle around the town. So the mine, if it existed, most probably was located in
that area. Slightly creased. 2 file holes and light paper clip impression at
upper blank edge. Fine condition.
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