Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Kennecott, Alaska in the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park...

The smelter and other facilities, 27 stories tall-click
...over in the corner of this lovely park, it sits,
Kennecott, a company town, now dead and in the pits;
the mine was in the mountains, way over there,
but the ore was processed in this town, it was in their care.

Built by the Guggenheim family and J.P. Morgan, who were already rich,
they took a hundred million dollars, and left us with a ditch,
the place was name for a glacier, Kennecott in name,
see, you can do a lot - if you have the funds and fame.
The Kennecott Glacier-click
Another view of the mills-click
A small river of water, from a very large river of ice-click

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