Entrepreneurs find fortune in gold prospecting equipment
Brothers Tim and Dave Peterson show off their products in the Prospectors Dream shop off of Highway 206 on Feb. 1. The flags hanging behind them represent just some of the countries where Dream Mats are sold. (Avery Howe photo)
David Bjelland sat transfixed in front of the TV screen, cake in hand, shooing off his relatives as they tried to wish him a happy birthday. Recovering from throat cancer, he was not in the mood for a party. His nephew, Dave Peterson, sat down beside him and asked what he was watching.
It was the season finale of the first season of “Gold Rush.”
“I haven’t been prospecting all year and this is my prospecting,” Bjelland told Peterson. “This is it, this is the finale, and I can’t hear!”
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