Viewpoints
Ketchikan to Hyder link
By Gary Benedict
March 09, 2009
Monday
Pete Cessnun and Ken Eichner told me years ago about a route
up to LeDuc Glacier from around the Rudyard Bay area. At the
start of the work on what was to become the Granduc Copper mine
there was a road grubbed out from the Behm Canal to where there
is now the head of an 11.5 tunnel that comes out at the Granduc
mill site.
From there a 32 mile road takes you into Hyder. None of this
route is in the MFNM. The grubbed out road was put in as much
of the original work involved Ketchikan, this road led to where
the ore body is. The 11.5 mile tunnel (ehich would have to be
widened) took the ore to the mill site and the 32 mile road took
the concentrates to salt water.
Gary Benedict
sealaskainn[at]yahoo.com
Hyder, AK
About: "I have lived in
Hyder for almost 50 years and know the area and the old stories."
Received March 06, 2009 - Published
March 09, 2009
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