Caption on image: 2524  On verso of image:  Ice jam at 40 Mile.  Huge ice blocks driven up bank to cabins.<br>Fortymile is located at the junction of Bullion Creek and North Fork Fortymile River, 37 miles southwest of Eagle, Yukon-Tanana Highway.  It is a former telegraph station established in 1903 by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and originally called North Fork after the stream.  The prospectors called it Fortymile.
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Ice--Alaska--Fortymile; Log cabins--Alaska--Fortymile</li></ul>
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