Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pioneers. In Seattle, the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers and The Ladies of the Golden North called off a scheduled meeting because of "bad weather...
Lindsley's vast project will take 20 years or more to complete. A lacework of Yukon rivers and lakes, whose waters now flow north to the Arctic Ocean, will have to be dammed off in the north to form a new lake thousands of square miles in area and nearly 200 ft. deep. The backed-up waters, under one plan, would force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters...
...development must be carried out in stages, and the first stage-a $250,000 survey of Yukon's lakes and rivers-is already under way, will be finished late this summer. The first $5,000,000 capital has been raised by sale of debentures, and Ventures expects to raise more as needed Next spring, the first 25,000-h.P. pilot power plant will be started...
Classmate of F.D.R. No man is better equipped by experience than Thayer Lindsley to launch the Yukon project. The publicity-shy Ventures president has been one of the most successful operators in Canadian mining ever since he went to Canada from the U.S. in the early '20s with a nest egg of $30,000 in cash. Lindsley, a Harvard classmate of Franklin Roosevelt, got his initial capital and mining know-how operating an iron mine in Oregon, but it was in Canada that he came into...
...last week's shareholders' meeting, Lindsley let his aides expound most of the details of the great Yukon project. He said little except to summarize the plan with a shattering understatement: "The implications this may have on [the company's future] are far-reaching...