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The Roy Rogers chain was sold in 1990 to Imasco, then the parent company of During the acquisition, in January 1968, the competing roast beef chain Several major Big Boy franchisees accepted Marriott's offer and became Roy Rogers Marriott divided the United States into 33 franchise regionsThe first Roy Rogers restaurant opened in April 1968 in the Bailey's Crossroads section of Falls Church, Virginia, on the corner of Leesburg Pike and Carlin Springs Road (5603 Leesburg Pike). Many just abandoned their claims and drifted south out of Alaska.Mines, though, continued to be active up and down Poorman Road into the 1990s. March 1, 2009 Mike Coppock. Local restaurants delivered in 45 minutes. Small towns sprung up with names like Chicken, Franklin, Jack Wade, Steele and the largest, Fortymile, where Harper opened a general store and a saloon employing the Interior’s first bartender, the legendary Bill McPhee.Fortymile has produced more than a half million ounces of gold and is still growing.
Within three years, Circle had a population of 700 as well as an opera house and 28 saloons.The Circle Mining District has been active ever since, producing more than a million ounces of gold and climbing; all from small family claims.
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With gold hovering from $900 to $1,000 an ounce, I encountered that look over and over during my months in Alaska.Spectacles like gold rushes are not a thing of the past in Alaska. “We could not find a donkey train engine so the train we are using is using a converted lawnmower engine I bought in town.”His youngest, a daughter, ran to make sure the water hose feeding the drill was not knotting up.“How much is Dan paying you?” I asked, believing, whatever it was, it was not enough.
Districts such as Fairbanks, Cape Nome, Circle, Council-Solomon, Iditarod, Willow Creek and Juneau all have had from one to seven million ounces of gold taken out since 1880.The largest gold deposit ever discovered in North America took place in March 2002 when a deposit a mile and a half long and a mile wide with a thickness of 1,500 feet was found near remote Iliamna Lake in Southwest Alaska.One reason for Alaska’s vast mineral wealth is geologic; the land is a crazy quilt of 22 tectonic plates that have collided against each other over time.
The Fortymile Gold Rush drew all the Sourdoughs into the area. Today, Wiseman has 12 male and nine female residents.Three years went by before another gold strike—one of the largest in Alaska and the most accessible. The three men also taught these greenhorns how to survive minus-50 degree winters and mosquito-infested summers.Not far from one of the trading posts, 25 miles upstream on the Fortymile River, Howard Franklin struck gold in September 1886.
In his 60s, he had driven his compact pickup truck from Mississippi all the way to Alaska.Arriving in Homer, he spent nearly $1,000 having the vehicle transported by the ocean ferry Popof can be one of Alaska’s most stunning vistas with its emerald grasslands and powerful mountain backdrops.
But, not today. Then winter came, and temperatures plunged to a constant minus 60.
Barnette began promoting the area as the next gold bonanza.
Reporter Ernie Pyle covered the rush. The Ruby-Poorman’s signature is that it still has not ended. From 1902 to 1914, the value of gold came to $63 million.Hollywood and novels would have one believe Fairbanks marked the end of the Alaska gold rushes, but nothing could be further from the truth.Downstream from Fairbanks, by several hundred miles, gold was found along Ruby Creek in 1907. 3500 South Howell Avenue.