1: Personal history.
born -- Taylor, Washington\ Seattle -- city watershed\ father -- in Alaska 1897-1907\ Dawson -- made a stake\ Gates, Bill\ rapids\ Swift Water Bill\ Peru\ location notices\ stump ranch -- grew up on\ animals -- raised\ milk -- sold\ Renton, Denny -- coal mine in Taylor, WA\ Iverson's sawmill\ logging camps\ high school dropout\ money -- saved\ Alaska -- moved to\ Anchorage|

2: Coming to Alaska.
Seward\ Ketchikan\ sister -- married neighbor boy\ National Guard\ 101st Airborne Squadron\ engineer\ missions -- during the war\ Seward\ Hoffman, Joe -- Representative in Territorial House\ Standard Oil tanker\ worked -- unloading tanks\ money\ Anchorage|

3: Living in Anchorage, coming to Fairbanks, and learning the mining business.
Anchorage -- stayed 3 years\ woodsaw\ Fairbanks\ mining -- learning the business\ claim -- stake\ tent\ food\ supplies\ prospecting\ Fairbanks Creek\ job -- driving points\ English Dredging Company\ Hightman, Bill -- superintendent\ foreman\ Maloney, Jimmy -- boss|

4: Mining in Fairbanks.
Last Chance Creek\ sinking -- working shaft\ boiler\ boiler house -- built a small one\ Kirk, Jim\ hole -- thaw\ oldtimers -- helping him\ Fish Creek\ Burke, Jerry\ Murphy, Jack\ Wright, Mike\ Kirk, Jim\ sink hole\ ground -- thawing\ shaft -- hanging ropes\ buckets -- hoisting\ progress|

5: Mining in Fairbanks continued.
gravel\ shaft\ panning\ bedrock\ drive tunnel\ moss roof\ snow -- melted\ boiler house\ tent\ digging\ ditch\ water\ prospector\ Fairbanks\ bears -- weren't a problem\ job -- sinking holes\ Lower Goldstream\ FE Company\ black-balled\ digging ditches\ sluice water ditch|

6: Prospecting the mining claims and working for Charley Samson.
prospecting\ mining claims\ Lower Alder Creek\ hole -- 100 feet deep\ anchor cribbing\ bedrock\ mine -- 5 feet of gravel\ carbide lamps\ pay dirt\ steam\ Fairbanks\ Samson, Charley -- working for\ Upper Emma Creek\ Mickey -- Charley's partner\ pay value\ nuggets|

7: Working in mines.
sleeping -- slept in corner\ Smith, Jack -- worked for\ Emma Creek\ Black Alley Carlson -- engineer\ ring bell\ shaft\ cribbing -- placed around shaft\ gravel\ cribbing -- hoist to\ shaft -- timbered\ drift -- caved in\ shaft -- live water in\ pillars -- none\ mine -- ruined, shut down\ Fish Creek\ Dome Creek\ Engelbritzen, Louie\ Dutch Kid\ Smallwood Creek\ good pay\ drifted 1960s\ spring\ windlass -- sank hole|

8: Working in mines continued.
Lindsay, Jack\ working shaft\ drill hole prospect\ Engelbritzen, Louie\ shaft -- picked off loose rocks\ Dome Creek\ Whitner, Paul -- had lease\ drill hole\ drift mine\ project\ cabin\ cellar\ trap door\ drift mine -- bought complete\ steam hoist\ Burke, Jerry\ boiler -- 2-cynlinder steam hoist\ Sather, Chris -- hauled boiler down creek\ Kirk, Jim|

9: Working on the drift mine and falling down while in the shaft.
boiler house -- built\ hoist house\ blacksmith house\ younger brother -- helped with the work\ other brother -- came with friends\ bedrock\ Ford Model T\ Road Commission\ hoisting engineer -- hired neighbor\ Keys, Ed\ blacksmith work -- thawed ground with steam\ steam points\ wheelers -- wheel pay dirt\ drive points\ pay dirt -- steady flow of\ dogteam\ Summit Roadhouse\ steam points\ shaft -- fell down backwards\ ladder connection\ boiler house -- crawled over to it\ cabin -- brought to\ ambulance|

10. Mining, getting married, and taking over Chuck Herbert's lease from Callahan Mining Company.
St. Joseph Hospital -- spent 21 days\ hoisting engineer\ leg -- in a cast\ crew -- thawed ground\ brother -- insisted on being boss\ patching things together\ sluicing the dump\ FE Company -- bought his claim\ Burke, Jerry -- formed a partnership\ Fort Knox Mine\ gold mining\ Army\ Parker, Carl -- mined with 1948-49\ Portage Creek -- Circle Hot Springs District\ Mitchell Truck and Tractor\ Ghemm Company -- formed\ equipment -- contracting and renting\ Herbert, Chuck\ Callahan Mining Company\ Ghemm company -- sold shares\ Livengood|

11: Working with his sons and mining in Livengood until 1998.
sons -- 3\ working together\ Livengood Creek\ Franklin, Glen\ Smith, Harold -- brother-in-law\ Upper Walkers Fork -- dropped claims in 1940\ Fortymile -- staked claims\ Callahan Mining Company\ Herbert, Chuck\ assessment work\ Walkers Fork\ Fred -- son, partner\ Dorothy -- wife\ Livengood -- mining|

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