Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burst of Prosperity. The uranium rush burst two years ago upon the declining old lumber town of Blind River, Ont. (pop. 2,500) with the news that Toronto Promoter Joseph Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) had quietly staked 1,400 claims covering 56,000 acres of choice mining prospects. On the map, Hirshhorn's claims formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with...
...Model Towns. The old town of Blind River is neither equipped nor located to house and supply the 8,000 to 10,000 workers and families who will be needed when the mines and mills are all at work. For the families of the 2,000 miners who will go to work for Algom and Consolidated Denison, the Ontario government has set aside a lakeside site of 396 square miles for the new town of Elliot Lake, within easy commuting distance of the mines. The mines will be taxed to support the schools, hospitals and public agencies of Elliot Lake...
...unable to wait, moved into Elliot Lake this year, and began building bachelor dormitories for its construction workers, can convert them later into apartments for families. "If uranium proves to be a long-range proposition," said one of Elliot Lake's planners, "we see no reason why this town shouldn't grow to 20,000." For Pronto's executive and professional staff Hirshhorn put up a community of ultramodern ranch houses along the shore of Lake Lauzon...
Hirshhorn also has drawn tentative plans for a second new model town along the shore of Lake Huron's Bootlegger's Bay. Hirshhorn stipulated, however, that his town will be built only if Blind River fails to provide essential services (schools, water and sewage systems...
...Blind River has not let Hirshhorn's proposition deter it from the more immediate business of making a fast boomtown buck. The town council turned down a plan for a general tax reassessment to provide revenue for urgently needed public improvements; all the improving underway is motivated by the familiar old law of supply and demand. Two of the town's hotels have built or are planning to build more bedrooms. Menard's department store, whose basement is given over to the only undertaking establishment in town, has prospered enough to plan a separate $30,000 funeral...