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The village of less than 500 people in 1898 became a boom town by 1900 with some 10,000 lumberjacks within a 10-mile radius of the town. Bemidji’s resident population more than doubled from 1900 to 1910. The housing supply simply could not keep up with demand. ....
US government gives high priority status to Graphite One’s Alaskan project Drill platform at Graphite One’s Graphite Creek project in western Alaska. Credit: Graphite One In mid-January Graphite One’s (TSX: GPH; US-OTC: GPHOF) Graphite Creek project in Alaska was designated as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the US. government’s Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Committee (FPISC). The approval comes after the project was originally nominated for HPIP designation by Alaskan governor Mike Dunleavy in October, 2019. In his 2019 nomination letter to the FPISC, Governor Dunleavy wrote that designating Graphite Creek as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project “will send a strong signal that the US. intends to end the days of our 100% import-dependency for this increasingly critical mineral.” ....
GCI is refueling 22 mountaintop repeater towers throughout Western Alaska this summer using only helicopters. Heather Handyside is a spokeswoman for the telecommunications company. She says because of vast distances and land claims, putting lines in the ground was never feasible. So towers had to be built, often in highly remote locations, like Cape Nome, Blueberry Point outside Unalakleet, and the Igichuk Hills north of Kotzebue. “We have to set up a repeater system, or a microwave system, that relies on, essentially, point-of-sight microwave signals. So, these 22 sites are critical to the system to ensure that we continue to have this ring of connectivity serving Western Alaska.” ....