Word: flin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn...
...from the mining camps of California who quit a good brokerage house job in Manhattan to head for the Klondike. By his account he has won and lost eleven fortunes. He was among the first in the great Cobalt silver rush, but his first big money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer of the mining world," sometimes "Crack-the-North- Open" Hammell...
...Harry Payne Whitney through his playboy son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...
...railroad, which the Government-owned Canadian National eventually built. A 44,550 h.p. power plant was installed on the Churchill River 59 miles farther on in the wilds. Turbines, generators and thousands of tons of supplies were dragged in by horse, barge, tractor and sledge. But by 1930 Flin Flon was nearing its present population of 5,000, and the mine was ready for operation. In that year another $5,000,000 was raised by a bond issue underwritten by J. P. Morgan & Co. Last week as a preliminary to the payment of dividends, the last of that bond issue...
Hudson Bay's board chairman is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, eleven years older and a good deal wiser than the young man of 24 who first paddled and portaged to Flin Flon. He has done his part to uphold the Whitney tradition as the first sporting family of the land, but, like his first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State...