My Journey to ALASKA

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Found this old mineshaft on Hunker creek where Bob had claim,just had to go down it

 

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Oh i forgot to say it was only 2mts deep it had been filled in.

This is the map of the area of where he worked his claim. they had to file this claim with the authorities in Seattle but first they had to have US citizenship and then a piece of land measuring 100yds x 50yds was the claim,gold was found originally on Rabbit Creek later changed to Bonanza creek

 

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This photo is the gang of men and woman working on No 10 above ( the claims were numbered and also "above" and "below" the creek) Bob is third from the left on the back row.

 

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This is the placer claim form

 

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http://yarmouthhistory.ca/yarmouthhistory/Klondike/Pages/5._From_Bennett_to_Dawson.html

here is a link to the treacherous journey the stampeeders made from Lake Bennet to Dawson and the klondike,many would no see the Dawson. great number would die of starvation disease and drowning.

I copied and pasted this link.

 

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here's another link to actual recording tapes of the first settlers in Wiseman inc Bobby Jones and the integration with the Eskimo people looking to trade with the White settlers.

http://jukebox.uaf.edu/GatesN/html/mapmenu.htm

 

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In the early days in Dawson the gold was in the creeks and easy to find but as time went on that source dried up and then mines were dug and then water canons were used to wash the paydirt down to settling ponds were it was seperated from the gold and later the giant dredgers came in they dug themselves lagoons and excavated as they went along,they were giant floating buildings processing the the ground and separating stones and soil then finally the gold and spewing the waste at the rear of the dredger known as tailings,these can be seen clearly on google earth at dawson alaska(abbreviated to ak)

 

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on the front boom there was a buckets conveyor scooping up the dirt by the ton and transferring the spoil to a series of conveyors which then sifted the spoil through various sized mesh screens until the finest soil was washed and the gold separated

 

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And this what they were all after "the motherloade"

 

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the nugget was found in1995 the largest ever found from the Nolan area where Bob mined.

this next photo was also gathered from the Nolan mines.

 

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the nugget was found in1995 the largest ever found from the Nolan area where Bob mined.

this next photo was also gathered from the Nolan mines.

 

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We stayed in Dawson for a few days before moving on to Whitehorse.
here are some pics of strange to me vehicles.

 

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and another

 

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what is this doing here???

 

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This guy had come from Norway into Russia and across the Bearing sea.

I think is was a Haflinger?

 

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and more

 

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random or what?

 

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Maybe waiting for the AA recovery

 

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This might be a bit morbid but i couldn't pass by without taking a pic the pipework fascinated me.amazing what you can do with common steel waterpipe

 

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We are on the move again from Dawson to Whitehorse.