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Bill Johnson, 64, from Snohomish, Wash., a veteran of the Yukon who says that prospecting in Yellowknife "is easier than anywhere else," was chief cook at the Con mine until 1938. Since then he has staked 34 claims, now has several hundred thousand shares of gold stock worth anywhere from 17? to 50?-a share...
...prison terms and an arrest last December. Digging into his secretive past, police found at least eight instances in which Forger Cline's buttermilk-drinking friends had died, leaving him legacies totaling $82,000. They also found that he left one of the coldest trails south of the Yukon...
After training its new members on the slopes of New England, the club plans within the next few months to take a trip to the St. Elias Range in the Yukon and to conduct a number of expeditions to local rock and ice areas as the club swings back into its peacetime stride...
...implications of this discovery are great, Leet emphasized. It will prove useful in modern mineral prospecting by the painless method of remote control, a vast improvement over the "pick, pan, and pray" system employed during the Yukon and 1849 gold rushes...
...answer was the Yukon town of Whitehorse-as a bank clerk once more, but a bank clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...