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| Keywords: Bonanza Mine, near Kennecott, ca 1912 (THWAITES 388).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 2 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites PH Coll 247 864<br/>In the summer of 1900 prospectors Clarence Warner and Tarantula Jack Smith were exploring the east side of the Kennicott Glacier As they drew closer to the limestone-greenstone contact they could not miss the magnificent green cliffs of copper perches on the mountainside Their discovery was staked as the Bonanza mine outcrop A young and ambitious mining engineer Stephen Birch later purchased this claim Birch was financially backed by some of the most influential families of the time including the Morgans and Guggenheims Originally called the Alaska Syndicate it became the Kennecott Copper Corporation in 1915 The mining company was named after the Kennicott Glacier It was misspelled as Kennecott with an e instead of an i Along with the building of the mine and mill works the corporation controlled the entire transportation route It funded 196 miles of railroad from Kennecott to Cordova and organized a steamship line that shipped the ore to the smelters in Tacoma Washington From the first shipment of high grade copper ore in 1911 to the final shipment in 1938 approximately 200 million worth of copper traveled the Copper River Northwestern Railway to the port of Cordova At its peak the Kennecott Copper Corporation employed about 600 people approximately 300 in the mill camp where the ore was processed and 200-300 lived in the mines up the mountain Subjects LCTGM Kennecott Copper Mine Alaska ; Kennecott Copper Corporation--Facilities--Alaska--Kennicott; Kennicott Glacier Alaska Subjects LCSH Copper mines and mining--Alaska--Kennicott depicted place Kennecott Alaska ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 388 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW375 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Kennicott Glacier Kennecott Alaska | ||||
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