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Title cards: "Modern gold rush solves problem of jobless and benefits nation" and "Editor's note: Economic authorities estimate every dollar's worth of golds adds $10 to national wealth in banking credit. These pictures show many jobless men earning a daily living by panning gold in the California hills" / Two mine openings with a few people working; a long sluice box and a workers shoveling dirt into it / VS several men and boys with galvanized washtubs; a boy in a baseball cap watches another man panning for gold / A close view of a crushing machine; the older man starts the process of panning again; and he points out a minuscule bit of the metal, and the boy leans in to look at the material and explains the process of using mercury and nitrate acid in the process of extraction / Another man comes by asking how things are going and the boy says they probably made $2. ("It's pretty hard work, but it's better than a breadline in the city" / Note: exact day not known