- WILLIAM H. LANG. W. H. LANG is at the head of one of the
large ditch enterprises of
- Seward Peninsula [Alaska]. He is the general manager of the
Flambeau Ditch and Mining Company, which is constructing a thirty-mile
ditch from the Flambeau River to Hastings Creek. This ditch will
cover a large area of valuable mining ground.
- Mr. LANG is a native of Rock County, Wisconsin, and was born
September 25, 1856. He was
- educated in the public schools of Eau Claire. When he was
a young man he and his brother formed the Line Construction Company.
The business of this company was constructing and building, and
its field of work was in Northern Wisconsin. Several electric
light plants were constructed by the company. Another feature
of the company's work was the building of lumbermen's log driving
dams. Mr. LANG followed this character of work until 1897 when
he started for the Klondike by way of White Pass. He spent two
years on the Yukon in the business of mining. He returned home
in 1899. and in the following spring went to Nome on the Robert
Dollar. During his first two years in the Nome country' he mined
on Hungry, Oregon and Bourbon Creeks. In 1903 he organized the
Flambeau Ditch and Mining Company and has been associated with
the enterprise as general manager ever since.
- Mr. LANG was married in 1878 in Minneapolis. Minn. Mrs. LANG
was formerly Miss Celia
- KELLY. They have two children. Will and Cora, both of whom
have reached maturity, the latter being the wife of W. J. HEISER.
The family resides in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Lang is a careful
and prudent business man and an upright, honorable citizen. The
economical management of his company's affairs in the Nome country
is attested by the low cost of the ditch work he has done. As
one of the ditch promoters and builders in this country he is
doing much for the development of the resources of Seward Peninsula,
and when his company consummates the work in which it is engaged,
the result of Mr. LANG's labors should be more than satisfactory
to himself and his associates.
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- [Taken from "Nome and Seward Peninsula" by E.
S. Harrison; (c)1912 The Metropolitan Press, Seattle; pp. 206-207]
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