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...years ago Aluminum Co. of America announced a plan to build a huge aluminum smelter at Skagway, Alaska, to be powered by harnessing the waters of the upper Yukon River. The project was to cost $400 million. But there was one hitch. The Canadian government wanted the industry to be located where the power came from: in Canada. Last week Alcoa's big plan became just a set of useless blueprints. British Columbia gave the go-ahead for developing the vast power potential of the Yukon to Canada's Ventures Ltd., big mining and metal holding company headed...
...This," said Alaska's Governor Ernest Gruening last week, "is the most important event in Alaska's history since its purchase from Russia." The event: Aluminum Co. of America's announcement of plans for a giant aluminum smelter and two power plants near Skagway on the Canadian border. The cost, $400 million, would make the project the second biggest single investment ever made at one site by U.S. private industry.† It would eventually boost Alcoa's aluminum capacity 60% to 2.1 billion pounds annually, provide year-round employment for 4,000 and create...
When he hitched to Skagway at the start of the Klondike rush of '97, Mike was a strapping, redheaded six-footer from the backwoods of Quebec. He was handy with his fists and his feet, could kick off the bar in the hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains...
From the refinery aviation fuel, gas for the trucks and bulldozers on the Alaskan road will be redistributed to Fairbanks in Alaska, Watson Lake in the Yukon and Skagway on the Alaskan panhandle over another 915-mile pipeline network...
...Route. As events have fallen, The Road gets its finishing touches in time to serve as a memorial of its own necessity. Already an additional route has been pushed quietly from salt water opposite Skagway to a junction with the Alcan, 1 08 miles west of Whitehorse...