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1: Introduction
and getting started in the mining
business.
placer goldminer\ Patty, Ernest N. -- hired him\ chief
accountant -- dredging operation\ Coal
Creek and Woodchopper\
government -- shut down goldmines\ operating dredging\ Yukon
Placer and Mining Company\ Herbert, Chuck\ Stampe, Leonard\
Schmidt, Harold\ partners\ Jack
Wade Creek\
Walkers
Fork\ Fortymile
River\ Preston, George\ D8
CAT's\ credit\ paperwork\ loan -- payback loan in 3
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2: Getting
started in the mining business and paying back the
loan.
equipment -- hauling\ Fortymile Junction\
Tok\
Taylor Highway\ Walkers Fork\ Boundary\ trip -- took 17
days\ slickplate\ sluicebox\ Mt. Fairplay\ Fortymile River\
caribou\ acquiring ground\ Canyon
Creek\ Davis Creek\ Poker
Creek\ small dredge -- Canyon Creek\ Stampe, Leonard -- on
Jack Wade Creek\ Schmidt, Harold\ Herbert, Chuck\ Walkers
Creek\ responsibility -- bookwork, payroll, income tax\
dredging company -- Canada\ problems\ operation -- acquired\
loan -- paid off\ Mr. Preston -- retired|
3: Acquiring
ground to expand mining
operation.
Canada\ dredging company -- acquired it\ Sixtymile
operation\ open cut ground\ CAT operation\ Schmidt, Harold\
Sixtymile -- took over dredge operation\ Stampe, Leonard --
moved to Canada\ Herbert, Chuck -- acquired ground on
Ballaret Creek\ Henderson Creek\ creeks -- tributaries of
the Yukon River\ Dawson\ Stampe, Leonard -- mined out
ground\ Lousetown Bench\ Klondike River\ Walkers Fork\ Davis
Creek\ Pokers Creek\ Cannon Creek\ Jack Wade Creek\ Big Gold
Creek -- had dredge\ dredge -- took over\ camp\ Schmidt,
Harold -- open cut operation on Glacier and Miller Creeks\
Bedrock Creek -- acquired\ Mineral Creek -- acquired\
Big
Gold Creek -- dredging\
CAT's\ Glacier Creek -- open cut done in the 1960s\ Herbert,
Chuck and Stampe, Leonard -- quit mining\ Schmidt, Harold
and Franklin, Glen -- acquired operation by buying out\
Yukon Consolidated Gold Company\ Dominion Creek\ Quartz
Creek\ Eldorado Creek|
4: Operating
costs rising in mining, the low price of gold, and quitting
mining.
consulting work\ dredging\ Big Gold Creek\ Glacier Creek\
Mineral Creek\ Miller Creek\ Bedrock Creek\ Stampe, Leonard
-- finished Ballaret Creek and Henderson Creek\ Schmidt,
Harold -- took over Dominion Creek\ Quartz Creek\ Eldorado
Creek\ Franklin, Glen -- started CAT operation\ mining --
finished ground\ mining -- quit\ gold -- price increase\
demand -- mining engineering\ placer mining -- experience\
consulting work\ Toronto\ prospects -- outside the U.S.\
Haiti\ Mexico\ Italy\ prospects -- within the U.S.\ Idaho\
Oregon\ Nevada\ California\ deal -- hard to make a workable
one|
5: Story
of traveling to Italy to check for gold in a gravel plant
for John Hamilton.
Hamilton, John -- promoter\ Italy\ gravel plant\ gold\
bucket -- full of sand and gravel\ panning\ lean pickings\
screen -- used to separate fine gold\ mining -- getting back
into\ Sather, Pat\ Fairbanks
Creek\ claims -- helping
with|
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