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Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
...LAST SURPLUS GOES TO SMITHSONIAN," read a streamer headline. "Weather: Friday, probably followed by Saturday." Lead story concerned a Federal resettlement project. "Twelve hundred inhabitants of Alaska's Yukon Valley, discouraged by the failure of gold mines in the vicinity, yesterday arrived in New York City and began colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond...
...Winter adventures in the Unknown Yukon" will be the subject of a lecture by Bradford Washburn this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Brattle Hall for the benefit of the Cambridge Tuberculosts and Health Association...
Washburn was the leader of the National Geographical Society's Yukon Expedition which made the first crossing of the great Saint Elias Rauge, and succeeded in erasing from the map one of the last spots of unexplored territory on the continent of North America. Tickets may be obtained at the door...
...Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska's delegate in Congress. During the War he served in the finance division of the Army, later married a blonde girl named Gudrun Andersen, daughter of a Yukon prospector. They moved to Breckenridge, Tex., the heart of a contemporary oil boom. The night they arrived there was a little shooting and three corpses were laid out on a billiard table in one of the town's play parlors. Emil Hurja started the Breckenridge American. All his life...