Prospectors

Canada’s Yukon Territory aims to start a new Klondike rush -this time for natural gas, and oil too if there is any, in Canada’svast northwestern corner next to Alaska.

Despite $15 oil and the whopping $810 million federal CentralGulf of Mexico lease sale three weeks ago, oil and gas prospectorshad enough shekels remaining to make the Texas General Land Officesale April 7 the largest high bids sale in 22 years and the seventhlargest in the history of the 150-plus-year old agency.