Word: goldstream
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...Grow. Normally, rain controls the blazes that start each summer, but this has been an extraordinarily dry season for Alaska. Chicken, for example, has had no rain since early May. Though lightning started most of the blazes, the woods are so parched that any ignition will do. The Goldstream fire 30 miles west of Fairbanks was started by sparks from a train's hot brake shoe, and an artillery shell fired in military maneuvers is believed to have started the Salcha fire...
...Days. Klondike Mike struck pay dirt at Alaska's Goldstream. He panned out $165,000 in three months, moved on to Iditarod. There he panned $10,000 a week. When he sold out ($250,000 would be a low estimate, says Mike) and headed back for Quebec, he was only 35, had not a worry in the world...
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