Inventory to the

Mining Recorder records 1895-1972 held at Yukon Archives

1983 Reprinted 2016

Last modified: 2016-06-29

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION – PLACER MINING RECORDS IN YUKON ...... i

I-1 APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS FOR PLACER MINING, 1896-1971 ...... 1

I-2 RECORDS OF APPLICATIONS FOR PLACER MINING, 1896-1934 ...... 7

I-3 REGISTERED DOCUMENTS (PLACER MINING), 1897-1971 ...... 11

I-4 RECORDS OF PLACER DOCUMENTS RECEIVED, 1896-1961 ...... 21 Document Registers ...... 21 Assignments, Etc...... 22

I-5 RENEWAL GRANTS FOR PLACER MINING, 1906-1972 ...... 25

I-6 CERTIFICATES OF WORK FOR PLACER MINING, 1898-1906 ...... 27

I-7 RECORD BOOKS FOR PLACER MINING CLAIMS, 1895-1971 ...... 29 Record Books ...... 29 Klondike Creek Books – Conversion List...... 43 Black List ...... 45 Red List ...... 50

I-8 INDEXES OF ORIGINAL LOCATORS, 1896-1942 ...... 56

I-9 INDEXES OF FREE MINERS CERTIFICATES, 1898-1906 ...... 57

I-10 ROYALTY LEDGER BOOKS, 1898-1909 ...... 59

I-11 WATER RIGHTS RECORD BOOKS, 1900-1963 ...... 63

I-12 MISCELLANEOUS PLACER MINING RECORDS & III MISCELLANEOUS MINING RECORDER RECORDS, 1895-1972...... 65

II QUARTZ MINING RECORDS ...... 68

APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY ...... 69

INTRODUCTION – PLACER MINING RECORDS IN YUKON

Placer gold drew increasing numbers of prospectors and miners to the North during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Most came from the United States, and brought with them American concepts of self-administered mining camp law.

Canadian authorities gradually accepted the necessity of imposing Canadian mining regulations in Yukon, and in1894 Inspector Charles Constantine, NWMP, was sent to take up residence at the settlement of Forty Mile on the Yukon River. He was appointed “Agent of the Dominion Government”, and was charged with administering the mining regulations of the North West Territories. These dated back to 1889, and had been designed for application on the prairies.

During the years that followed, many confrontations developed between local miners, officials on the spot, and politicians in Ottawa regarding the scope and content of Yukon’s mining regulations. At stake were the prosperity of individual miners, as well as the level of government revenues to be derived from mining.

Between 1894 and 1906, Yukon mining regulations were frequently altered and adjusted by Federal Order-in-Council. In some cases regulations were changed up to three times in a single year, in an attempt to satisfy the demands of the mining community, and still provide sufficient levels of government revenue. In 1906 a Yukon Placer Mining Act was approved by Parliament. This was amended in minor respects in subsequent years, however its provisions have remained the basis of placer mining law in Yukon up to the time of writing (in 1983).

During the Klondike Gold Rush federal Ministers of the Interior exercised control over four main variables in their efforts to devise equitable mining regulations for Yukon. These dealt with: • The size of placer claims and the fees and procedures for registering claims • The fees and procedures for renewing placer claims and registering their successive ownership • The levying of royalties on placer gold • The registration of miners through Free Miners certificates

The size of placer claims was of central importance to miners, as this largely determined the extent of the economic base to which a miner could gain access. Claim size varied greatly as the table below shows: Table 1. Length of Creek Claims 1889-1906 Date of Regulation Length of Claim 1889 (NWT Regulations) 100 feet Dec. 24, 1894 500 feet Aug. 16, 1897 100 feet Jan. 18, 1898 250 feet Jul. 31, 1905 500 feet 1906 (Yukon Placer Mining Act) 500 feet

The regulations provided for larger discovery claims, and also prescribed the fees to be charged for registering a claim. At the height of the gold rush, provisions were even made to reserve

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certain claims by the crown for sale at auction. Grouping claims and granting hydraulic concessions was a practice that proved highly controversial in the early years of the century.

After registering a placer claim, the miner was entitled to work the property for one year, at the end of which certain conditions had to be met in order to continue to mine. At first only an annual claims renewal fee was charged. At different times this was as high as $100 and as low as $15. In 1898, however, the Certificate of Work was introduced, a concept which was refined in the years that followed. Generally it required a miner who was renewing, to file an affidavit verifying that $200 worth of work had been done on the claim in the past year.

Over the years a detailed fee structure evolved, under which Mining Recorders charged for a wide range of additional services. The regulations for 1902 even authorized mining recorders to charge 25¢ for giving out information verbally. The fee structure continued to be adjusted until it was enacted into legislation in 1906, from which time it has remained largely unaltered (as of 1983).

The mining recorder was also responsible for collecting royalties on gold productions. A ten percent royalty was first levied in 1897, with a twenty percent royalty due on gold taken from claims producing in excess of $500 a week. Royalties were unpopular and difficult to collect, and were reduced over the years.

The twenty percent surtax was removed in 1898, as were royalties on claims producing less than $2,500 a year. This exemption was raised to $5,000 in 1901, when the rate of royalty dropped from ten to five percent. The Placer Mining Act of 1906 reduced the royalty to only two and one- half percent, and placed the onus for payment on the shipper exporting the gold from the Territory. In estimating the royalty payable, gold was to be valued at $15 an ounce. These provisions were still in force at time of writing (in 1983).

Another means of regulating and deriving revenue from the mining industry was through a licensing system. In 1898 the regulations introduced a requirement that all persons and companies involved in mining must have a Free Miners Certificate, which authorized its owner freely to engage in mining. The cost was $10 a year, though by 1905 this had been reduced to $7.50 for the first, and $5 for subsequent years. Higher fees applied to mining companies. The Yukon Placer Mining Act of 1906, however, abolished the Free Miners Certificate.

Other matters with which placer regulations have dealt include the grouping and relocation of claims, the assignment of water rights, and the abandonment of claims. Special hydraulic and dredging regulations have also been put into force over the years to control larger scale mining. Since 1970, the Northern Inland Waters Act has superseded some sections of the Yukon Placer Mining Act, controlling the allocation of water rights for placer mining today (as of 1983).

The Act of 1906 provided for the appointment of mining recorders for each mining district in the Territory. The Act ordered, and still requires (as of 1983), these officials to maintain all documents relating to mining property and to keep the following books: 1) Records of Applications 2) Record of Refused Applications 3) Record Book 4) Record of Abandonments 5) Record of Documents Received

The earliest placer mining records still in existence date from 1896. Prior to devolution, mining records were maintained under the auspices of the federal Department of Indian and Northern

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Affairs. In the early 1970s the historic significance of these records was recognized and arrangements were made to organize and microfilm non-current mining records and to transfer originals to Yukon Archives for permanent retention.

The present organization of these records reflects, as closely as possible, that devised for them at the time they were microfilmed. Under this system, placer records were divided into eleven subject classifications (I-1 to I-11) and two miscellaneous groupings (I-12 & III). For the most part, the records have been assigned the headings under which they appeared in the microfilm, even when these headings seem to have been assigned incorrectly. In order to clarify such errors, certain records have been listed twice, once under the category assigned at microfilming, and again under what appears to be a more correct heading. Only one miscellaneous heading has been retained.

The records listed in this inventory have not been assigned an accession number by Yukon Archives, with the exception of accession 81/41 (GOV 365 f1) and accession 91/75R (GOV 365 f2). This inventory was formerly known as Inventory to the Records of the Yukon Government fonds Series 10, Mining Recorders Records (Placer) 1894-1972 held at the Yukon Archives.

Yukon Archives provides public access to the mining records in its custody. These records have proven a valuable source to genealogists and environmental researchers, as well as representing a major source of information concerning past and possible future resource use in Yukon. For further information regarding the Mining Recorder records, please consult the online description.

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I-1 APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS FOR PLACER MINING, 1896-1971

In order to obtain a placer mining grant, a miner had to stake the ground intended to mine and record the claim at a mining recorder’s office. This was done by completing an application form which included such information as the miner’s name, address, Free Miners Certificate number, when and where the claim was located, as well as its size. Occasionally a sketch map accompanied the application, particularly after 1940.

Applications were given consecutive numbers. Between 1896 and 1900, series of numbers were frequently used more than once.

There were three means of locating a particular application within I-1. Daily registers were kept of grant applications received at mining recorders’ offices. These registers are listed in section I-2, and are mainly chronological in organization. Records were also kept of every change in ownership that took place on individual claims. These books, organized by creek, are listed in I-7. A record was also maintained of the first miner to obtain the grant of a newly staked claim. These alphabetically arranged volumes are listed in I-8.

The following list has been prepared showing the various series of numbers used on grant applications, the years they were used, and the Yukon Archives location in which they are stored:

Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 368 0-555; 3524-3995; 4278-6158 1896-1898 GOV 368A 603 - 1,300 1897 GOV 369 101 - 200 1898 GOV 370 201 - 400 1898 GOV 371 1 - 250 1907-1908 GOV 372 251 - 750 1907-1909 GOV 373 1 - 598 1897 GOV 374 1 - 100 1898 GOV 375 1 - 2,905 1898 GOV 376 4 - 200 1898-1899 GOV 377 201 - 400 1899 GOV 378 401 - 699 1898 GOV 379 701 - 900 1898 GOV 380 901 - 1,229 1898 GOV 381 401 - 499 1899 GOV 382 500 - 699 1899 GOV 383 701 - 1,000 1899 GOV 384 751 - 1,250 1907-1909 GOV 385 1,001 - 1,551 1899

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 386 1,301 - 1,850 1897 GOV 387 1,851 - 2,249 1897 GOV 388 2,250 - 2,699 1897 GOV 389 2,700 - 3,199 1897 GOV 390 3,200 - 3,415 1897 GOV 391 6,001 - 6,379 1898 GOV 392 6,380 - 6,500 1898 GOV 393 7,170 - 7,686 1899 GOV 393 8,405 - 8,859 1900-1901 GOV 394 8,860 - 9,299 1901 GOV 395 9,300 - 9,753 1901 GOV 396 9,501 - 10,000 1908-1918 GOV 397 10,001 - 13,199 1898-1899 GOV 398 13,200 - 18,449 1898 GOV 399 18,450 - 18,750 1898 GOV 399 19,112 - 19,500 1898 GOV 400 19,501 - 19,999 1898-1899 GOV 401 20,000 - 20,459 1898-1899 GOV 402 20,460 - 20,899 1899 GOV 403 20,900 - 21,399 1898-1899 GOV 404 21,400 - 21,500 1899 GOV 1021 21,501 - 22,100 1899 GOV 1022 22,101 - 22,700 1899 GOV 404 22,701 - 23,099 1899 GOV 405 23,100 - 23,599 1899-1900 GOV 406 23,600 - 23,999 1900 GOV 407 24,000 - 24,500 1900 GOV 408 24,502 - 25,349 1900-1901 GOV 409 25,350 - 25,899 1901 GOV 410 25,900 - 26,339 1901-1902 GOV 411 26,340 - 27,000 1900-1902 GOV 412 28,251 - 28,699 1898-1900 GOV 413 28,700 - 29,099 1898-1902

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 414 29,100 - 29,500 1900-1902 GOV 415 35,001 - 35,499 1901 GOV 416 35,500 - 35,999 1901 GOV 417 36,000 - 36,500 1901 GOV 417 37,001 - 37,189 1901 GOV 826 f5 37,196 - 37,301 1900-1901 GOV 508 37,210 - 37,325 1901 [See later in list for other documents in GOV 508] GOV 418 37,272 - 37,947 1901 GOV 505 37,400 - 37,500 1901-1902 GOV 419 37,950 - 38,400 1901 GOV 420 38,401 - 38,900 1901-1902 GOV 421 38,901 - 39,400 1902 GOV 422 39,401 - 39,800 1902 GOV 423 39,801 - 40,180 1901-1903 GOV 424 40,181 - 40,497 1902-1904 GOV 425 40,751 - 41,100 1902 GOV 426 41,101 - 41,500 1902-1903 GOV 427 42,001 - 42,569 1901 GOV 428 42,570 - 43,000 1901-1902 GOV 429 43,032 - 43,500 1901-1903 GOV 430 43,501 - 43,900 1902 GOV 431 43,901 - 44,400 1902 GOV 432 44,401 - 44,800 1902 GOV 433 44,801 - 45,300 1902-1903 GOV 434 45,301 - 45,700 1903 GOV 435 45,701 - 46,000 1903 GOV 436 50,002 - 50,900 1898-1899 GOV 437 50,901 - 51,240 1899-1904 GOV 438 54,001 - 54,334 1903-1904 GOV 439 57,001 - 57,350 1902 GOV 440 57,351 - 57,669 1902-1903 GOV 441 57,670 - 57,999 1903-1905 GOV 442 58,000 - 58,250 1905-1906

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 826 f6 64,001 - 64,164 1902-1903 GOV 443 64,172 - 64,350 1903-1904 GOV 444 64,501 - 64,798 1903 GOV 445 65,001 - 65,500 1901 GOV 446 65,501 - 65,850 1901 GOV 447 65,851 - 65,999 1901 GOV 448 66,000 - 66,450 1901 GOV 449 66,451 - 67,100 1901-1903 GOV 450 67,101 - 67,499 1903 GOV 451 67,500 - 67,750 1903-1904 GOV 452 73,001 - 73,400 1903-1904 GOV 453 73,400 - 73,899 1904-1905 GOV 454 73,900 - 74,300 1905 GOV 455 74,301 - 74,500; 74,651 - 74,749; 75,929 - 75,954 1902-1906 GOV 456 77,501 - 77,897 1905-1906 GOV 457 77,900 - 78,000; 78,251 - 78,385; 78,751 - 78,796 1903-1908 GOV 458 79,002 - 79,088; 79,501 - 79,750 1903-1906 GOV 459 90,001 - 90,399 1906 GOV 460 90,400 - 90,700 1906 GOV 461 90,701 - 91,099 1906-1907 GOV 462 91,100 - 91,369 1907 GOV 463 91,370 - 91,462 1907 GOV 463 92,751 - 92,810 1907 GOV 464 93,001 - 93,399 1907 GOV 465 93,400 - 93,699 1907 GOV 466 93,700 - 94,000 1907 GOV 467 95,001 - 95,250 1907 GOV 468 96,251 - 96,599 1906 GOV 469 96,600 - 96,999 1906 GOV 470 97,000 - 97,400 1906 GOV 471 97,401 - 97,799 1906-1907 GOV 472 97,800 - 98,200 1907 GOV 473 98,201 - 98,249; 100,001 - 100,022 1906-1907

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 508 8,501 - 8,750 1908 [See earlier in list for other documents in GOV 508] GOV 474 11,751 - 12,000 1909 GOV 474 12,501 - 12,659 1909 GOV 475 12,650 - 12,750 1909 GOV 475 15,501 - 15,750 1909 GOV 476 16,751 - 17,000 1909-1910 GOV 477 18,001 - 18,250; 18,886 - 18,999 1909-1911 GOV 478 19,000 - 19,135; 19,886 - 20,135 1910-1911 GOV 479 23,136 - 23,384; 24,384 - 24,885 1911-1912 GOV 480 26,386 - 26,799 1912 GOV 481 26,800 - 27,249 1912 GOV 482 27,250 - 27,600 1912 GOV 483 27,601 - 27,999 1912 GOV 484 28,000 - 28,349 1912-1913 GOV 485 28,350 - 28,800 1913-1914 GOV 486 28,801 - 29,349 1898-1955 GOV 487 29,350 - 29,849 1913-1964 GOV 488 29,850 - 30,349 1914-1915 GOV 489 30,350 - 30,999 1913-1915 GOV 490 31,000 - 31,500 1915-1917 GOV 491 31,501 - 32,000 1915-1918 GOV 492 32,001 - 32,600 1912-1922 GOV 493 32,601 - 33,200 1920-1929 GOV 494 33,201 - 33,749 1924-1931 GOV 495 33,750 - 34,100 1931-1934 GOV 496 34,101 - 34,500 1933-1935 GOV 497 34,501 - 34,899 1934-1938 GOV 498 34,900 - 35,399 1934-1939 GOV 499 35,400 - 35,849 1939-1945 GOV 500 35,850 - 36,227; 36,978 - 36,999 1942-1948 GOV 501 37,000 - 37,349 1948-1953 GOV 502 37,350 - 37,800 1953-1965 GOV 503 37,801 - 37,977 1965-1966

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 504 38,478 - 38,871 1966-1971 GOV 505 [see earlier in list for GOV 505] GOV 506 1 - 197 1904-1907 GOV 506 Applications Refused - no numbers 1902-1914 GOV 506 224 - 406 1902-1911 GOV 507 409 - 714 1912-1939 GOV 507 Applications Refused - no numbers 1940-1943 GOV 508 [see earlier in list for GOV 508] GOV 824 f1 156 - 226 Certificates of Title 1901 GOV 827 f5 53 - 62 Certificates of Title 1901

6 I-2 RECORDS OF APPLICATIONS FOR PLACER MINING, 1896-1934

This section contains three main types of records. They were all compiled to provide access to the Applications for Placer Mining Grants contained in section I-1.

Most volumes in series I-2 are registers, detailing information about particular numerical blocks of grant applications. The volumes usually give the applicant’s name, the date and the claim applied for, all in the order the applications were received.

Some of these volumes are arranged geographically by creek and claim number, including some copies of creek record books that were later incorporated in the record books listed in section I-7.

Books described as “re-locations” record transactions in which a claim forfeited or abandoned by one miner is taken up by another.

GOV 288 - GOV 301: See also section I-7 GOV 305 - GOV 313: See also section I-7 GOV 367: See also sections I-7 and I-8

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 288 Copy of original application books 1896-1898 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Dawson area GOV 289 Relocations 1st June, 1899 1899 Arrangement: By creeks Coverage: Indian River and Troandike Mining Divisions, Sundries GOV 290 No. 1 Applications 1896-1898 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Dawson area GOV 291 Relocations Stewart River 1899 Arrangement: By creek Coverage: Thistle, Kirkman, Scroggie, Ballarat, Tulare, Selwyn GOV 292 Applications #2 1898 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Yukon generally GOV 293 #3 Applications 1898 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Dawson area GOV 294 Locations 1900-1907 Arrangement: Creeks arranged in book alphabetically; applications under each creek listed in numerical order Coverage: Yukon generally

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 295 Placer Mining Grants 1898-1899 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Dawson area GOV 296 Placer Mining Grants 1899 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Dawson area, including some accounts from Gold Commissioner’s office GOV 297 Relocations 1898-1899 Arrangement: Numerical Coverage: Dawson area GOV 298 Locators Clear Creek and Barlow 1900-1906 Arrangement: Alphabetical sections list mines and their claims in order of staking Coverage: Barlow and Clear Creek district GOV 299 Record Book Tributaries of Klondike and Hunker 1898 Arrangement: By tributary and claim number Coverage: Tributaries of Klondike and Hunker GOV 300 Record Book: Klondike River tributaries 1898 Arrangement: By creek and claim number Coverage: Bear, Quigley, Too Much Gold, Alki, and Lucky GOV 301 Pending Applications, Extension of Boundaries 1906-1909 Arrangement: Chronological Coverage: Dawson area GOV 305 Pending Applications of Relocations 1900-1901 Arrangement: Entries under creek name in chronological order Coverage: Dawson area GOV 306 Pending Applications 1903-1907 Arrangement: Entries under creek name in chronological order Coverage: Dawson area GOV 307 Record of Applications, Tributaries of Sixty Mile 1914-1917 River Arrangement: By creek and claim number Coverage: Sixty Mile area GOV 308 Quartz, Stewart River District 1897-1898 GOV 309 Dawson Mining District – Quartz No date Arrangement: Index to mineral claims by location GOV 310 Quartz 1898-1902 Stewart River Bills of Sale GOV 311 Quartz 1931-1934

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 312 Quartz 1908-1931 GOV 313 Quartz 1898-1899 GOV 367 Index to Placer Grants Stewart 1898-1902 Arrangement: Alphabetical sections list miners and their claims in order of staking Coverage: Stewart River area

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I-3 REGISTERED DOCUMENTS (PLACER MINING), 1897-1971

Most documents pertaining to the ownership of placer claims were registered in the mining recorders’ offices. Included were liens, mortgages, assignments, and bills of sale. These documents were given consecutive numbers when received, with some series of numbers being used more than once.

There are two ways of obtaining access to documents in I-3. Daily registers of placer documents received were maintained by mining recorders. These are mainly organized chronologically and appear in I-4. Record books were also maintained listing all documents registered that affected a particular claim. These records are organized by creek and claim number and appear in I-7.

The following list has been prepared showing the various series of numbers used in registering documents, the years they were used, and the Yukon Archives location in which they are stored:

Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 510 1M - 428M June 1897 - November 1898 See GOV 1189 f2 for register which cross-references these documents GOV 511 1A - 200B July 1898 - February 1899 GOV 512 201B - 331B January 1899 - June 1899 GOV 513 1A - 14N March 1898 - May 1899 GOV 514 1-0 - 26-0 1899 19 - 45 1899 224 July 1899 1 - 233 January 1899 - May 1899 GOV 515 001 - 200 April 1897 - March 1899 GOV 516 201 - 350 February 1898 - July 1898 GOV 517 351 - 799 August 1897 - October 1898 GOV 518 701 - 1400 August 1897 - October 1898 GOV 519 1401 - 1800 September 1897 - December 1899 GOV 520 1 - 500 June 1897 - February 1899 GOV 521 501 - 944 June 1897 - April 1899 GOV 522 2 - 99; 1 - 145 June 1896 - December 1897 GOV 523 2 - 550 January 1896 - July 1898 GOV 524 551 - 700 October 1896 - December 1897 GOV 525 5 - 538 August 1899 - June 1904 GOV 526 671 - 1155 March 1900 - September 1903 GOV 527 1156 - 2100 March 1898 - December 1906 GOV 528 2101 - 2300 January 1898 - June 1899

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 529 2301 - 3000 March 1898 - June 1899 GOV 530 3001 - 3300 February 1898 - September 1899 GOV 531 3301 - 4500 (3301 - 3500; 4251 - July 1897 - August 1899 4500) GOV 532 4151 - 4500 November 1897 - July 1899 GOV 533 4501 - 4825 1898 - 1899 GOV 534 4751 - 5450 September 1897 - August 1898 GOV 535 5451 - 5889 January 1897 - September 1898 GOV 536 5901 - 8831 September 1896 - August 1898 GOV 537 10,001 - 10,550 August 1897 - November 1898 GOV 538 10,551 - 11,000 August 1897 - October 1898 GOV 539 13,227 - 13,337 April 1914 - October 1917 GOV 540 15,001 - 15,500 July 1897 - October 1898 GOV 541 12,501 - 12,860 July 1906 - June 1909 GOV 542 12,861 - 13,226 (also numbered as April 1905 - December 1914 15,260 - 26,445) 15,052 - 15,125 (also numbered as 15,126 - 15,259) GOV 543 15,501 - 16,000 October 1897 - December 1898 GOV 544 18,751 - 19,300 August 1897 - October 1901 GOV 545 19,301 - 19,749 June 1897 - December 1898 GOV 546 1 - 500 January 1897 - December 1898 GOV 547 501 - 1050 January 1897 - December 1899 GOV 548 1051 - 1350 October 1897 - May 1899 GOV 549 1351 - 1650 February 1898 - May 1899 GOV 550 1651 - 1900 March 1898 - June 1899 GOV 551 1801 - 2200A 1897 - 1898 GOV 552 2201 - 2450 September 1896 - December 1899 GOV 553 1901 - 2000 July 1898 - December 1899 GOV 554 2451 - 2600 A December 1897 - June 1898 2451 - 2600 B February 1898 - June 1899 (Numbering system duplicated here) GOV 555 2601 - 2750 August 1897 - August 1898 2601 - 2750 June 1898 - August 1899 (Numbering system duplicated here)

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 556 2751 - 2875 August 1897 - September 1899 GOV 557 3501 - 3900 June 1898 - September 1899 GOV 558 3901 – 4100 December 1898 - September 1899 4001 – 4100 4101 - 4150 GOV 559 4101 - 4250 October 1897 - August 1898 GOV 560 4826 - 5200 September 1898 - August 1899 GOV 561 5201 - 5600 May 1898 - November 1899 GOV 562 5601 - 5875 March 1898 - November 1899 GOV 563 5876 - 6050 August 1897 - September 1899 GOV 564 6051 - 6500 September 1898 - September 1899 GOV 565 6501 - 6900 June 1898 - November 1899 GOV 566 6901 - 7250 October 1898 - December 1899 GOV 567 7251 - 7550 January 1899 - December 1899 GOV 568 7551 - 7850 June 1898 - September 1899 GOV 569 7851 - 8050 January 1899 - November 1899 GOV 570 8051 - 8450 September 1898 - November 1899 GOV 571 8451 - 8900 February 1897 - December 1899 GOV 572 8901 - 9275 February 1898 - January 1900 GOV 573 9276 - 9600 March 1899 - February 1900 GOV 574 9601 - 9900 April 1899 - February 1900 GOV 575 9901 - 10,200 March 1899 - April 1900 GOV 576 10,201 - 10,500 April 1899 - April 1900 GOV 577 10,501 - 10,800 March 1899 - March 1900 GOV 578 10,801 - 12,000 February 1899 - April 1900 GOV 579 12,001 - 12,300 April 1899 - April 1900 GOV 580 12,301 - 12,600 June 1899 - December 1900 GOV 581 12,601 - 12,900 June 1899 - November 1900 GOV 582 12,901 - 13,250 October 1898 - November 1900 GOV 583 13,251 - 13,500 August 1898 - July 1900 GOV 584 13,501 - 13,700 June 1899 - November 1900 GOV 585 13,701 - 13,900 August 1898 - October 1900 GOV 586 13,901 - 14,200 October 1898 - August 1900 GOV 587 14,201 - 14,525 January 1900 - December 1900

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 588 14,526 - 14,701 May 1899 - November 1900 GOV 589 14,701 - 15,000 August 1899 - December 1900 GOV 590 15,001 - 15,350 November 1899 - December 1900 GOV 591 15,351 - 15,575 November 1899 - November 1900 GOV 592 15,576 - 15,799 January 1900 - July 1901 GOV 593 15,801 - 16,100 January 1900 - December 1901 GOV 594 16,101 - 16,400 July 1899 - January 1901 GOV 595 16,401 - 16,700 January 1900 - January 1901 GOV 596 16,701 - 17,000 March 1900 - February 1901 GOV 597 17,001 - 17,250 April 1899 - April 1901 GOV 598 17,251 - 17,500 January 1901 - August 1901 GOV 599 17,501 - 17,900 January 1901 - September 1901 GOV 600 17,901 - 18,200 February 1901 - July 1901 GOV 601 18,201 - 18,500 February 1901 - June 1901 GOV 602 18,501 - 18,800 February 1901 - July 1901 GOV 603 18,801 - 19,150 October 1900 - July 1901 GOV 604 19,151 - 19,500 February 1901 - June 1901 GOV 605 19,501 - 19,800 August 1899 - July 1901 GOV 606 19,801 - 20,100 June 1899 - August 1901 GOV 607 20,101 - 20,400 March 1901 - August 1901 GOV 608 20,401 - 20,750 February 1901 - August 1901 GOV 609 20,751 - 21,000 February 1901 - August 1901 GOV 610 21,001 - 21,300 November 1900 - September 1901 GOV 611 21,301 - 21,600 March 1901 - August 1901 GOV 612 21,601 - 21,900 January 1901 - September 1901 GOV 613 21,901 - 22,200 March 1901 - October 1901 GOV 614 22,201 - 22,500 May 1901 - October 1901 GOV 615 22,501 - 22,800 April 1901 - November 1901 GOV 616 22,801 - 23,150 January 1901 - November 1901 GOV 617 23,151 - 23,400 May 1901 - October 1901 GOV 618 23,401 - 23,600 July 1901 - November 1901 GOV 619 23,601 - 23,900 January 1901 - December 1901 GOV 620 23,901 - 24,200 November 1900 - November 1901

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 621 24,201 - 24,500 March 1901 - November 1901 GOV 622 24,501 - 24,750 March 1901 - November 1901 GOV 623 24,751 - 25,100 December 1900 - January 1902 GOV 624 25,101 - 25,400 March 1901 - January 1902 GOV 625 25,401 - 25,700 March 1901 - July 1902 GOV 626 25,701 - 26,000 January 1902 - August 1902 GOV 627 26,001 - 26,300 February 1900 - May 1902 GOV 628 26,301 - 26,600 January 1902 - June 1902 GOV 629 26,601 - 26,900 January 1902 - May 1902 GOV 630 26,901 - 27,200 May 1901 - May 1902 GOV 631 27,201 - 27,500 June 1901 - May 1902 GOV 632 27,501 - 27,800 April 1902 - June 1902 GOV 633 27,801 - 28,100 June 1901 - July 1902 GOV 634 28,101 - 28,400 June 1900 - September 1902 GOV 635 28,401 - 28,700 August 1901 - August 1902 GOV 636 28,701 - 29,000 August 1899 - September 1902 GOV 637 29,001 - 29,300 April 1902 - August 1902 GOV 638 29,301 - 29,575 February 1902 - July 1902 GOV 639 29,576 - 29,900 June 1901 - August 1902 GOV 640 29,901 - 30,150 February 1902 - September 1902 GOV 641 30,151 - 30,400 May 1902 - September 1902 GOV 642 30,401 - 30,700 July 1902 - September 1902 GOV 643 30,701 - 30,925 April 1902 - October 1902 GOV 644 30,926 - 31,150 June 1901 - November 1902 GOV 645 31,151 - 31,500 June 1902 - October 1902 GOV 646 31,501 - 31,750 October 1901 - October 1902 GOV 647 31,751 - 32,000 January 1902 - December 1902 GOV 648 32,001 - 32,300 January 1902 - October 1903 GOV 649 32,301 - 32,600 January 1902 - January 1903 GOV 650 32,601 - 32,900 March 1902 - January 1903 GOV 651 32,901 - 33,200 August 1902 - February 1903 GOV 652 33,201 - 33,450 June 1902 - March 1903 GOV 653 33,451 - 33,700 March 1903 - April 1903

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 654 33,701 - 34,000 April 1903 - May 1903 GOV 655 34,001 - 34,300 April 1903 - May 1903 GOV 656 34,301 - 34,600 May 1903 - June 1903 GOV 657 34,601 - 34,900 September 1902 - May 1903 GOV 658 34,901 - 35,200 May 1903 - July 1903 GOV 659 35,201 - 35,500 June 1903 - July 1903 GOV 660 35,501 - 35,800 July 1903 - June 1903 GOV 661 35,801 - 36,100 August 1903 - August 1903 GOV 662 36,101 - 36,400 August 1903 - August 1903 GOV 663 36,525 - 36,700 July 1903 - September 1903 GOV 664 36,701 - 37,000 September 1903 -October 1903 GOV 665 37,001 - 37,250 July 1903 - October 1903 GOV 666 37,301 - 37,500 October 1903 - October 1903 GOV 667 37,501 - 37,750 October 1903 - November 1903 GOV 668 37,751 - 38,000 November 1903 - December 1903 GOV 669 38,001 - 38,250 November 1903 - December 1903 GOV 670 38,251 - 38,500 September 1903 - January 1904 GOV 671 38,501 - 38,800 January 1904 - March 1904 GOV 672 38,801 - 39,100 April 1903 - April 1904 GOV 673 39,101 - 39,400 April 1904 - May 1904 GOV 674 39,401 - 39,700 March 1904 - May 1904 GOV 675 39,701 - 40,000 June 1904 - June 1904 GOV 676 40,001 - 40,300 May 1904 - July 1904 GOV 677 40,301 - 40,600 July 1904 - June 1904 GOV 678 40,601 - 40,900 August 1904 - August 1904 GOV 679 40,901 - 41,200 August 1904 - September 1904 GOV 680 41,201 - 41,500 September 1904 - September 1904 GOV 681 41,501 - 41,800 May 1904 - November 1904 GOV 682 41,801 - 42,100 June 1904 - January 1905 GOV 683 42,101 - 42,400 January 1905 - March 1905 GOV 684 42,401 - 42,700 March 1905 - June 1905 GOV 685 42,701 - 43,000 May 1905 - June 1905 GOV 686 43,001 - 43,300 June 1905 - July 1905

16 Registered Documents (Placer Mining)

Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 687 43,301 - 43,600 July 1905 - August 1905 GOV 688 43,601 - 43,900 August 1905 - September 1905 GOV 689 43,901 - 44,200 September 1905 - October 1905 GOV 690 44,201 - 44,500 September 1905 - November 1905 GOV 691 44,501 - 44,800 November 1905 - February 1906 GOV 692 44,801 - 45,099 May 1905 - April 1906 GOV 693 46,000 - 46,300 March 1906 - May 1906 GOV 694 46,301 - 46,600 February 1906 - June 1906 GOV 695 46,601 - 46,900 June 1906 - July 1906 GOV 696 46,901 - 47,200 July 1906 - August 1906 GOV 697 47,201 - 47,500 August 1906 - September 1906 GOV 698 47,501 - 47,800 February 1906 - July 1906 GOV 699 47,801 - 48,099 September 1906 - October 1906 GOV 700 49,000 - 49,300 September 1906 - September 1906 GOV 701 49,301 - 49,600 August 1906 - September 1906 GOV 702 49,601 - 49,900 September 1906 - November 1906 GOV 703 49,901 - 50,200 March 1906 - December 1906 GOV 704 50,201 - 50,500 July 1906 - February 1906 GOV 705 50,501 - 50,800 February 1906 - March 1907 GOV 706 50,801 - 51,100 March 1907 - March 1907 GOV 707 51,101 - 51,400 April 1907 - May 1907 GOV 708 51,401 - 51,700 May 1907 - June 1907 GOV 709 51,701 - 52,000 May 1907 - June 1907 GOV 710 52,001 - 52,099 June 1907 - July 1907 53,000 - 53,150 GOV 711 53,151 - 53,475 July 1907 - August 1907 GOV 712 53,476 - 53,800 July 1907 - September 1906 GOV 713 53,801 - 54,100 August 1906 - September 1907 GOV 714 54,101 - 54,400 September 1907 - October 1907 GOV 715 54,401 - 54,700 September 1907 - September 1907 GOV 716 54,701 - 55,000 October 1907 - November 1907 GOV 717 55,001 - 55,300 November 1907 - February 1908 GOV 718 55,301 - 55,600 June 1908 - May 1908

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 719 55,601 - 55,900 May 1908 - May 1908 GOV 720 55,901 - 56,150 June 1908 - July 1908 GOV 721 56,151 - 56,475 August 1908 - September 1908 GOV 722 56,476 - 56,800 September 1908 - November 1908 GOV 723 56,801 - 57,100 November 1908 - December 1907 GOV 724 57,101 - 57,400 August 1906 - May 1909 GOV 725 57,401 - 57,700 April 1909 - June 1909 GOV 726 57,701 - 58,000 July 1909 - August 1909 GOV 727 58,001 - 58,300 August 1909 - October 1909 GOV 728 58,301 - 58,600 October 1909 - November 1909 GOV 729 58,601 - 58,900 July 1909 - March 1910 GOV 730 58,901 - 59,200 April 1910 - September 1909 GOV 731 59,201 - 59,450 July 1905 - August 1910 GOV 732 59,451 - 59,700 August 1910 - October 1910 GOV 733 59,701 - 60,000 October 1910 - November 1910 GOV 734 60,001 - 60,250 December 1910 - May 1911 GOV 735 60,251 - 60,550 April 1911 - July 1911 GOV 736 60,551 - 60,800 August 1911 - October 1911 GOV 737 60,801 - 61,100 October 1911 - November 1911 GOV 738 61,101 - 61,400 February 1911 - April 1912 GOV 739 61,401 - 61,650 April 1912 - July 1912 GOV 740 61,651 - 62,000 June 1912 - December 1912 GOV 741 62,001 - 62,300 December 1912 - June 1913 GOV 742 62,301 - 62,600 August 1910 - September 1913 GOV 743 62,601 - 62,850 September 1913 - December 1913 GOV 744 62,851 - 63,150 December 1913 - June 1914 GOV 745 63,151 - 63,400 June 1914 - September 1914 GOV 746 63,401 - 63,650 September 1914 - June 1914 GOV 747 63,651 - 63,900 December 1914 - October 1915 GOV 748 63,901 - 64,200 October 1915 - June 1916 GOV 749 64,201 - 64,450 September 1915 - July 1916 GOV 750 64,451 - 64,700 March 1917 - July 1917 GOV 751 64,701 - 65,000 August 1917 - February 1918

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 752 65,001 - 65,250 February 1918 - June 1918 GOV 753 65,251 - 65,500 June 1918 - February 1919 GOV 754 65,501 - 65,800 February 1919 - August 1919 GOV 755 65,801 - 66,100 August 1919 - July 1920 GOV 756 66,102 - 66,400 March 1919 - April 1922 GOV 757 66,401 - 66,700 March 1922 - September 1923 GOV 758 66,701 - 67,000 August 1923 - August 25, 1925 GOV 759 67,001 - 67,275 August 1925 - June 1928 GOV 760 67,276 - 67,500 November 1927 - August 1929 GOV 761 67,501 - 67,800 August 1929 - April 1932 GOV 762 67,801 - 68,100 February 1932 - March 1933 GOV 763 68,101 - 68,400 October 1933 - May 1935 GOV 764 68,401 - 68,700 July 1935 - June 1937 GOV 765 68,701 - 69,000 June 1937 - October 1938 GOV 766 69,001 - 69,300 October 1938 - July 1940 GOV 767 69,301 - 69,650 August 1940 - May 1941 GOV 768 69,651 - 69,999 May 1941 - September 1945 GOV 769 70,001 - 70,250 May 1941 - April 1947 GOV 770 70,251 - 70,600 April 1947 - January 1948 GOV 771 70,601 - 70,900 February 1948 - November 1950 GOV 772 70,901 - 71,200 November 1950 - September 1959 GOV 773 71,202 - 71,620 September 1959 - October 1971 GOV 774 Miscellaneous Legal Documents Several un-numbered; Registered 1900 Documents GOV 826 f1 1859 – 1947 1905 Registered Documents (Bills of Sale) GOV 826 f2 1950 – 2399 1905-1907 Registered Documents (Bills of Sale) GOV 826 f3&4 3058 – 3188 1903-1910 Registered Documents (Bills of Sale) GOV 826 f7 Several un-numbered and 1245 and 1901-1903 1420; Bills of Sale

19 Inventory to the Mining Recorder records

Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 827 f2 1701 – 1764 1904-1905 Registered Documents GOV 824 f7 Un-numbered 1897-1913 Registered Documents (not all are related to mining) GOV 828 f3 Applications for Grant for Placer 1901 Mining by John Black: 27,961, 27,962 and 27,984

20 I-4 RECORDS OF PLACER DOCUMENTS RECEIVED, 1896-1961

These records have been divided into two main categories. The first encompasses numerical / chronological registers of legal documents dealt with by the Mining Recorder’s Office. The documents referred to are usually those located in section I-3.

The second category of records consists mainly of registers of assignments. These volumes are similar in many respects to the Record Books kept in section I-7. They are concerned with the sale and mortgaging of mineral claims, and refer to documents in I-3.

Among other records included in this section are alphabetical registers of those buying and selling interests in claims, and alphabetical registers of those granting and receiving power of attorney.

Document Registers

Arrangement: By document number unless otherwise noted Coverage: Dawson area or Yukon generally unless otherwise noted GOV 365: See also section I-7 GOV 1189 f1: See also section I-12

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 365 f1 Livingston Creek (copy) 1909-1924 Coverage: Livingston Creek Acc#: 81/41 Note: GOV 365 f1 and GOV 365 f2 are copies of the same register but they differ in quality GOV 365 f2 Livingston Creek (copy) 1909-1924 Coverage: Livingston Creek Acc#: 91/75R Note: GOV 365 f1 and GOV 365 f2 are copies of the same register but they differ in quality GOV 829 Registered Documents Aug 1900 GOV 830 Registered Documents May-July 1899 GOV 834 Registered Documents 1899-1902 Arrangement: Alphabetical by grantor’s and grantee’s name Coverage: Stewart River GOV 835 Registered Documents 1906-1908 GOV 836 Registered Documents Sixty Mile area 1903-1905 GOV 839 Registered Documents Placer 1915-1919 GOV 840 Registered Documents Placer 1908-1911 GOV 841 Registered Documents Placer 1911-1915 GOV 842 Bills of Sale (and registered documents) 1902-1906 Arrangement: Alphabetical by grantor’s and grantee’s name

21 Inventory to the Mining Recorder records

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 843 Registered Documents 1899-1900 GOV 844 Registered Documents Placer 1927-1940 GOV 845 Registered Documents Placer 1918-1927 GOV 846 Registered Documents Placer 1939-1961 GOV 847 Bills of Sale (and Registered Documents) 1905-1907 Arrangement: Alphabetical by grantor and grantee’s name GOV 849 Bills of Sale (and Registered Documents) 1896-1898 Arrangement: Alphabetical by grantor and grantee’s name GOV 853 Receiving Book for Placer Applications - Stewart River District Dec 1898-Dec 1899 GOV 854 Record of Claims Registered in Stewart River District 1898-1899 GOV 1189 f1 Government Auction Sales 1900 Arrangement: Alphabetical index cross-references the various creeks. Claims are listed along with prices received Coverage: Dawson area GOV 1189 f2 Register 1897-1898 Arrangement: Chronological by instrument number Coverage: Instrument number 1m-421m. This cross-references documents in GOV 510

Assignments, Etc.

Arrangement: By creek and claim number unless otherwise noted Coverage: As noted

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 831 Assignments 1898 Coverage: Swedish Creek and tributaries, Hunker, O.K., Empire, Walker, and McDonald GOV 832 Assignments 1898-1899 Coverage: Quartz and Gold Run Creeks and tributaries, Calder, Nine Mile, Ophir, and Rob Roy GOV 833 Assignments 1899 Arrangement: By claim area and concession Coverage: Hunker Creek GOV 837 Assignments 1897-1901 Coverage: Sixty Mile area GOV 838 Assignments 1898 Coverage: Moosehide, Ballarat, Kentucky, Stone, Pocket, Deadwood, Colorado

22 Records of Placer Documents Received

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 848 Power of Attorney 1897-1959 Arrangement: Alphabetical by grantor and grantee’s name GOV 850 Old Bills of Sale 1896-1898 Arrangement: Chronological within sections for each creek. Includes date but not document number. Includes copies of abstracts of title. There are sections on mortgages, releases and agreements Coverage: Dawson area and other creeks GOV 851 Power of Attorney for Staking 1906-1940 Arrangement: Alphabetical by grantor’s and grantee’s name GOV 852 Summary of operations of Mining Recorder’s Office for 1903 July 1903. Includes records of most transactions

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I-5 RENEWAL GRANTS FOR PLACER MINING, 1906-1972

The Yukon Placer Mining Act required miners to renew their claims annually. In order to accomplish this, the miner had to file an affidavit indicating how much work had done on the claim in the previous year. The miner was then given a certificate of renewal.

This section contains duplicate copies of renewal certificates. These documents contain little significant information, and are arranged in numerical / chronological order. Series of numbers were sometimes used more than once.

In some cases affidavits were filed with the renewal certificates. These affidavits give details as to work undertaken during a particular year.

The best access to the certificates of work is through the Record Books in section 1-7. Renewal numbers for claims are listed there by creek and claim number.

A list of the renewal grants follows.

Location Document Numbers Dates * GOV 775 - 783 1 - 24,000 1945-1957 * GOV 783 - 789 A151 - A12,304 1957-1972 * GOV 789 - 796 81,401 - 107,200 1933-1944 GOV 797 76,190 - 76,580 1906-1907 GOV 797 7,751 - 7,993 1908-1909 GOV 798 9,001 - 9,250 1908 GOV 799 - 803 81,163 - 107,200 1932-1943 GOV 803 1 - 1,184 1943 GOV 804 1,185 - 11,800 1943-1948 GOV 805 12,001 - 24,000 1948-1958 GOV 806 A298 - A9,100 1958-1967 GOV 807 A9,101 - 11,519 1967-1971 GOV 807 2,501 - 3,000 1911-1914 GOV 807 9,251 - 9,500 1908-1910 GOV 807 16,501 - 16,750 1910-1911 GOV 824 f6 43,479 - 43,727 1916-1917

* Locations marked with an asterisk contain renewal certificates only, not affidavits showing work done.

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I-6 CERTIFICATES OF WORK FOR PLACER MINING, 1898-1906

Before the passage of the Yukon Placer Mining Act, a variety of requirements were brought into force that made it incumbent on a miner to spend certain amounts of money on the claim each year in order to renew ownership of it.

This section contains duplicate copies of the certificates renewing the miner’s ownership of the claim. These documents contain little significant information and are arranged in numerical / chronological order. Series of numbers are used more than once, and some certificates are un- numbered.

In some cases affidavits were filed with renewal certificates. These affidavits give details as to work undertaken during a particular year.

The best access to the certificates of work is through the Record Books in section I-7. Renewal numbers for claims are listed there by creek and claim number.

Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 509 592 - 731 1902-1903 * GOV 808 1 - 3,293 1899-1901 * GOV 809 3,294 - 4,625 1900-1902 * GOV 809 4,001 - 6,150 1901 * GOV 810 6,151 - 7,999 1901-1902 * GOV 810 3,001A - 3,800A 1902 * GOV 811 4,626A - 6,000A 1902 * GOV 812 8,001 - 10,829 1902-1904 * GOV 813 11,601 - 14,000 1903 * GOV 814 14,001 - 17,999 1903 * GOV 815 18,001 - 19,910 1903-1904 * GOV 816 19,911 - 21,800 1904-1905 * GOV 817 21,801 - 23,814 1905 * GOV 818 23,815 - 25,722 1905 * GOV 819 25,723 - 27,549 1905-1906 * GOV 820 27,550 - 31,869 1906 GOV 821 11,295 - 11,500 1903 GOV 822 14,401 - 14,525 1903-1904 GOV 822 14,701 - 14,850 1903-1904 GOV 823 15,201 - 31,224 1905-1906 GOV 824 f2 un-numbered documents (Affidavits of Witness, 1900-1902 Affidavits of Representation)

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Location Document Numbers Dates GOV 824 f3 733 - 801 (Affidavits of Witness, Affidavits of 1902-1903 Representation) GOV 824 f4 14,951 - 15,050 (Affidavits of Witness, Affidavits of 1904-1905 Representation) GOV 825 most numbered but in no order (Affidavits of Witness, 1898-1906 Affidavits of Representation) GOV 827 f1 802 - 803 and un-numbered (Affidavits of Witness, 1903-1904 Affidavits of Representation)

* Locations marked with an asterisk contain Certificates of Work only, not affidavits showing work done.

28 I-7 RECORD BOOKS FOR PLACER MINING CLAIMS, 1895-1971

This important group of records comprises more than two hundred books giving access by creek and claim number to many of the other classes of records that were maintained by the Mining Recorder. Generally, each major placer creek had one or more books that contained a page for each claim that was laid out on the creek. The books recorded the various transactions, owners, mortgages, liens, renewals, etc., that were registered against each claim. Entries that were made often cross referenced such items as applications for grants (I-1), registered document numbers (I-3), certificates of renewal (I-5), and certificates of work (I-6).

At first it was thought that about ten record books would be enough, but the amount of business necessitated that additional books be incorporated into the system. It was not long however until these too were full and another set of books was required. So it is quite conceivable that in order to trace the history of a claim, a researcher would have to consult at least three bound ledgers.

The middle of a book was reserved for the first or discovery claim on a creek and all other registered claims were then numbered 1, 2, 3, etc., either above or below discovery and entered before or behind the middle page depending on where they were situated in relation to discovery. Occasionally separate books were maintained for claims registered above and below discovery. Books recording claims above were numbered and known as black indexes, claims below being kept in numbered red indexes. Those books that recorded claims above and below discovery, were assigned both a red and a black index number. Right and left limit, refer to the right or left bank of a creek when looking down stream.

When these records were microfilmed in the early 1970s they were each assigned a single consecutive number. These numbers serve as the main GOV location identifier in the list that follows.

The more complex red and black index system is also listed in this section. Also available is the Index to Creeks and Tributaries from the Yukon Archives Finding Aids webpage. It provides an alphabetical listing of creeks and tributaries on which placer claims were registered. The index links each creek or tributary to its main creek or river. The location, outside dates of claim information and the Yukon Archives location for the book or books relating to each tributary are also provided.

Record Books

Arrangement: By creek and claim number Coverage: As indicated GOV 182 - GOV 186: See also section I-8 GOV 187 - GOV 192: See also section I-9 GOV 193 - GOV 228: See also section I-10 GOV 229 - GOV 234: See also section I-11 GOV 288 - GOV 301: See also section I-2 GOV 305 - GOV 313: See also section I-2 GOV 352 - GOV 361: See also section I-12 GOV 365: See also section I-4 GOV 367: See also sections I-2 and I-8

29 Inventory to the Mining Recorder records

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 1 Bonanza Creek and Benches GOV 2 Bonanza Creek Claims GOV 3 Bonanza Creek Claims GOV 4 Bonanza Creek Claims GOV 5 Bonanza Benches 1 - 35 Above Discovery GOV 6 Bonanza Benches from 35 Above Discovery to end of creek GOV 7 Bonanza Benches 22 Below Discovery GOV 8 Bonanza Benches 23 - 54 Below Discovery GOV 9 Bonanza Benches 55 - 104 Below Discovery GOV 9A Bonanza Benches 55 - 104 Below Discovery - Index GOV 10 Bonanza Benches Above Discovery GOV 11 Bonanza Hills Below Discovery GOV 12 Bonanza Hills and Benches GOV 13 Bonanza Tributaries GOV 14 Bonanza Tributaries Above Discovery GOV 15 Stampede Gulch, Magnet, American, Queen, Fox, Monte Cristo, Mosquito GOV 15A Boulder Creek, Tributary at 44 LL, Byrne Gulch, Forty-nine Gulch, Pure Gold, Examiner GOV 16 Victoria and Adam Gulches GOV 17 Cripple Creek, Trail creek, Lovett Gulch GOV 18 Lovett, Trail, Cripple GOV 19 Two Skookums GOV 20 Bonanza Tributaries GOV 21 Eldorado (Benches) GOV 22 Eldorado Creek GOV 23 Gay, Chief, Donald Creek, French, Glacier, Nugget GOV 24 Chief Gulch GOV 25 Gay Gulch - benches and hillsides GOV 26 French Gulch GOV 27 French Hill GOV 28 Eldorado Hills and Benches (1-16) GOV 29 Eldorado Hills and Benches GOV 30 Eldorado Benches

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 31 Eldorado Creek and Tributaries GOV 32 Dominion Creek and Tributaries GOV 33 Dominion Creek to 150 Below Discovery GOV 34 Dominion 150 to end GOV 35 Dominion Creek - Hills and Benches GOV 36 Dominion Creek - Hills and Benches GOV 37 Dominion Creek (1898) Hills and Benches GOV 38 Dominion Creek Benches GOV 39 Dominion Creek Benches GOV 40 Dominion Hillsides GOV 41 Dominion Hillsides 13 Above - 72 Below Discovery GOV 42 Dominion Hillsides 73 Below - 172 Below Discovery GOV 43 Dominion Hillsides 173 Below - 248 Below Discovery GOV 44 Dominion Hills and Benches to end GOV 45 Dominion Creek Claims GOV 46 Dominion Creek Claims 151 Below Lower Discovery to end GOV 47 Dominion Tributaries GOV 48 Dominion Hills GOV 49 Dominion Creek GOV 50 Sulphur Creek GOV 51 Sulphur Below Discovery GOV 52 Sulphur Above Discovery GOV 53 Sulphur Tributaries GOV 54 Sulphur Creek, Sulphur Hills, Green Gulch, Brimstone Creek, Friday Gulch GOV 55 Swedish Creek, Gold Run and Tributaries GOV 56 Gold Run, Creek and Hillside Claims and Tributaries GOV 57 Gold Run Tributaries GOV 58 Gold Run Hillsides GOV 59 Gold Run Creek Claims, Hills and Tributaries GOV 60 Quartz GOV 61 Quartz Creek Claims and Tributaries GOV 62 Quartz Benches GOV 63 Quartz Creeks, Hills and Tributaries

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 64 Hunker Creek GOV 65 Hunker Creek Claims GOV 66 Hunker Creek Claims GOV 67 Hunker Benches to 33 Below GOV 68 Hunker Creek Benches below Discovery GOV 69 Hunker Creek Hills and Benches 34 to 65 below Discovery GOV 70 Hunker Benches 66 to 79 Below Discovery GOV 71 Hunker Creek - Hills and Benches opposite hydraulic reserve GOV 72 Hunker Hills GOV 73 Mint Creek GOV 74 Henry Creek Hillsides and Benches GOV 75 Hunker Hillsides and 80 Pup GOV 76 Hunker Tributaries GOV 77 Hunker Tributaries GOV 78 Gold Bottom, Last Chance GOV 79 Gold Bottom Creek and Tributaries GOV 80 Gold Bottom Benches GOV 81 Gold Bottom, Creek, Hill, Bench and Tributaries GOV 82 Last Chance Creek GOV 83 Last Chance Benches Above Discovery GOV 84 Last Chance Benches Below Discovery GOV 85 Last Chance, Tributaries, Hills and Benches GOV 86 Last Chance Creek and Tributaries Creek, Hill and Bench Claims GOV 87 Bear and Lindow Creeks GOV 88 Bear Creek GOV 89 Lindow Creek GOV 90 All Gold Creek Pups and Hillsides GOV 91 All Gold Creek and Tributaries GOV 91A [GOV 91A not used] GOV 91B All Gold Creek Everett Group GOV 92 All Gold Creek, Benches GOV 93 All Gold Creek, Hills on Tributaries GOV 94 Klondike Hills and Benches

32 Record Books for Placer Mining Claims

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 95 Potato, Charlotte Ros. Tarantula; Dawson and Benches, Townsite GOV 96 Klondike Bonanza Reservoir Group GOV 97 Canyon, Little Blanche, Moosehide and Klondike Tributaries GOV 98 Klondike River Tributaries; Yukon River Tributaries; March R., Meta Cr., Jean Cr., Flat Creek GOV 99 Goring, Matson Hills GOV 100 Klondike and Tributaries; Hills, Benches and River Claims GOV 101 Klondike and Tributaries; Jackson Gulch, Rabbit Gulch, All Gold Creek; Flat Creek, Goring Creek, Germain Creek GOV 102 Moosehide Creek, Ballarat Creek GOV 103 Rosebud Creek, Below Discovery and Tributaries GOV 104 Reindeer and Rosebud Creeks GOV 105 Enslay Creek GOV 105A Yukon Tributaries, 12 Mile, Ballarat, South Fork of Sixty Mile River (Eldorado Benches) GOV 106 Yukon River Tributaries GOV 107 Cary Creek GOV 108 Donohue and Tributaries GOV 109 Dawson, Benson, Elwell GOV 110 California Hill GOV 111 Kirkman Creek and Tributaries GOV 112 Yukon River Tributaries; White River, White Island, Cassie Creek; Limestone Creek, Ballarat GOV 113 Ballarat and Tributaries; Tulare and Tributaries GOV 114 Thistle Creek GOV 115 Thistle Creek Hillside and Benches GOV 116 Thistle Creek and Tributaries; Blueberry, Scotch, Lando GOV 117 Thistle Creek and Tributaries GOV 118 Thistle Creek Hills, Benches and Tributaries GOV 119 Yukon and Tributaries Hill, Bench and River Claims GOV 120 Yukon River Tributaries GOV 121 Rosebud, Eureka, 60 Mile Canyon GOV 122 Gladstone Creek GOV 123 Indian River and Tributaries

33 Inventory to the Mining Recorder records

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 124 Strathcona Creek GOV 125 Indian River and Tributaries GOV 126 Foster Creek, Montreal Creek, Bishop Creek GOV 127 Montana Creek, Steele’s Fork, Indian River Tributaries GOV 127A Tributaries of Montana Creek GOV 127B Tributaries of Montana Creek GOV 128 Indian Creek Hills GOV 129 Indian and Montana Creek GOV 130 Eureka and Tributaries GOV 131 Eureka Benches GOV 132 Eureka Creek GOV 133 Henderson Creek GOV 134 Henderson Tributaries, Sixty Creek Tributary, Moosehorn GOV 135 Henderson Tributaries Above Discovery, Moosehorn Tributaries, Straker GOV 136 Henderson Tributaries Below Discovery, and Left Fork GOV 137 Henderson, Eureka Creeks GOV 138 Black Hills Creek and Tributaries GOV 139 Black Hills Creek, Hills and Benches GOV 140 Black Hills Creek and Tributaries GOV 141 Maisey Mae Creek, Partridge GOV 142 Scroggie Creek and Tributaries GOV 143 Scroggie Creek Tributaries GOV 144 Stewart River and Tributaries GOV 145 Stewart River Tributaries; Brewer and Barker Creeks GOV 146 Stewart River Tributaries GOV 147 Creeks - Clear (Quartz) Bell, All Gold, Willow, Spruce GOV 148 Clear Creek and Tributaries GOV 149 Clear Creek GOV 150 Clear Creek and Tributaries GOV 151 Clear Creek and Tributaries GOV 152 Clear Creek and Tributaries GOV 153 Clear Creek and Tributaries GOV 154 Stewart River Tributaries

34 Record Books for Placer Mining Claims

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 155 Indian River Tributaries, Opher; Little Blanch, Glacier, Sixty Mile Tributaries, Boucher GOV 156 Poker Creek and Tributaries of Forty Mile River GOV 157 Forty Mile River and Tributaries GOV 158 Glacier, Miller GOV 159 Glacier and Tributaries GOV 160 Big Gold Bedrock, Sixty Mile; Five Mile GOV 161 Hobo, New Zealand, Perron Creek; Ten Mile, Sixty Mile GOV 162 Hill Claims on the North Fork; Sixty-Mile River GOV 163 Little Gold creek GOV 164 Creek Claims on the North Fork; Sixty-Mile River GOV 165 Tributaries of Sixty Mile River; Boucher, California, Leonard, Rainy, Alice, Helen GOV 166 Forty Mile and Tributaries GOV 167 Ten Mile and Tributaries; Matson Tributaries GOV 168 Matson GOV 169 Matson Creek Tributaries, Borden GOV 170 Sixty Mile and Tributaries GOV 171 Sixty Mile area, Matson Creek; Ten Mile Creek, Schwartz Gulch, Moose Creek GOV 172 Firth River GOV 173 Firth River Area GOV 174 Ellis Creek Below Discovery GOV 175 Tributaries O’Brien, White River Pond, Bear, and Caladonia GOV 176 Tributaries of White River, O’Brien Creek; Tributaries, Pilot and Nansen Tributaries GOV 177 Flint Creek, Buck Creek, Mary Creek; Pauline Creek, Smare Creek GOV 178 Rude Dip, Victor and Tributaries GOV 179 Victor, Bird, Isaac and Tributaries GOV 180 Russell Creek and Tributaries, Liberty, Stoddart, King, Major, Rogers, Porcupine, Johnson, Nabob, Jay, Patricia GOV 180A [GOV 180A not used] GOV 180B Yukon Tributaries, Carlyle, Ballart, Stewart Tributaries, Scroggie Creek

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 181 Whitehorse District, Selwyn River and Tributaries GOV 182 Index of Original Locators 1896-1901 Placer Claims GOV 183 Index of Original Locators 1898-1905 Placer Claims GOV 184 Index of Original Locators 1903-1914 Placer Claims GOV 185 Index of Original Locators 1903 Placer Claims [Duncan] GOV 186 Index of Original Locators 1914-1942 Placer Claims GOV 187 Free Miners Certificates Issued, Outside Offices 1898-1903 GOV 188 Free Miners Certificates, Creeks and Outside Offices 1898-1906 GOV 189 Free Miners Certificates, Index 1898-1899 GOV 190 Free Miners Certificates, Index Stewart & Mayo 1902-1906 GOV 191 Free Miners Certificates, Index 1903-1905 GOV 192 Free Miners Certificates, Index 1905-1906 GOV 193 Index Royalty Ledger 1900-1901 GOV 194 Royalty Reports 1898-1902 GOV 195 Royalties, Bear Creek, Quartz Creek, A&B Redfords 1898-1901 GOV 196 Royalties, Bonanza Creek Tributaries 1898-1901 GOV 197 Royalties, Gold Hill, French Hill, Cheechako Hill 1898-1900 GOV 198 Royalties, Dominion Creek 1898-1901 GOV 199 Royalties, Dominion Creek 1898-1901 GOV 200 Royalties, Eldorado Creek 1898-1901 GOV 201 Royalties, Eldorado Creek (Hills) 1898-1900 GOV 202 Royalties, Hunker Creek & Anderson Concession 1898-1899 GOV 203 Royalties, Sulphur Creek 1898 GOV 204 Royalties, Dominion Creek 1899 GOV 205 Royalties, Dominion Creek 1899-1901 GOV 206 Royalties, Eureka Creek and Pups No date GOV 207 Royalties, Gold Run Creek 1899-1901 GOV 208 Royalties, Pup at 3A/ L/D Dominion Creek, Green Gulch 1899 GOV 209 Royalties, Hunker Creek (Hill) 1899-1901 GOV 210 Royalties, Hunker Creek Tributaries 1899-1901

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 211 Royalties, Hunker Creek Hills 1899-1900 GOV 212 Royalties, Sulphur Creek 1899-1901 GOV 213 Royalties, Bear Creek & Tributaries 1900-1901 GOV 214 Royalties, Lower Bonanza & Tributaries 1900-1901 GOV 215 Royalties, Dominion Creek & Pups B/D 1900 GOV 216 Royalties, Dominion Creek Hills and Benches 1900 GOV 217 Royalties, Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks, Gulches & Tributaries 1900-1901 GOV 218 Royalties, Hunker Creek & Tributaries 1900 GOV 219 Royalties, Canyon, Quartz, Eureka, Little Blanche, Boulder 1901 GOV 220 Royalties, Dominion Creek, Tributaries & Pups 1901 GOV 221 Royalties, Dominion Creek & Pups 1901 GOV 222 Royalties, Eureka Creek right fork 1901 GOV 223 Royalties, Gold Run Creek 1901 GOV 224 Royalties, Gold Run Creek 1901 GOV 225 Royalties, Hunker Creek, Hills and Tributaries 1901 GOV 226 Royalties, Sulphur Creek 1901 GOV 227 Royalties, Sulphur Creek, Hills, Benches & Gulches 1900-1901 GOV 228 Royalties, Forty Mile 1902-1909 GOV 229 Water Rights Jul 16, Hunker, All Gold, Flat, Goring, Leotta, Too Much Gold, 1900 to Strickland and Tributaries Mar 3, 1920 GOV 230 Water Rights Jan 10, Klondike and small Tributaries, Rock, Bear, Yukon and small 1900 to Tributaries, Indian and small Tributaries, Eureka, Forty Mile, Dec 2, Quartz, Sulphur, Duncan, Clear, White, Nansen 1920 GOV 231 Water Rights Jun 6, 1900 Bonanza and Eldorado and their Tributaries, Glacier, Wadleigh, to Nov 7, Moose and Tributaries, Miller, Bedrock, Pat Murphy, Scott 1938 GOV 232 Water Rights Jul 5, 1900 Dominion, Goldrun and their Tributaries, Henderson, Thistle, to Feb 28, Selwyn River and their Tributaries, Black Hills, Lower Stewart 1934 GOV 233 Water Rights Aug 2, Sixty Mile District 1902 to Jan 21, 1918 GOV 234 Water Rights Feb 28, Dawson area 1934 to Jul 23, 1963

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 235 Record Book, Montana Creek a Tributary of Indian River GOV 236 Record Book, Rosebud Creek, Discovery & above GOV 237 Record Book, Combination Creek GOV 238 Adams Creek and Tributaries, American Gulch, All Gold Creek GOV 239 Record Book, Bradley Creek, Tributary of Lepine Creek GOV 240 Record Book, Arizona Creek and Lepine Creek and Tributaries GOV 241 Index of Quartz Claims 1898-? GOV 242 Alphabetical listing of Quartz Claims GOV 243 Record of Applications Quartz GOV 244 Alphabetical list of Quartz Mining Claims in Mayo District 1923 GOV 245 Registered Documents, Quartz Creek 1901-1903 GOV 246 Index of Bills of Sale, Quartz Creek GOV 247 Record Book of Quartz Mining Claims GOV 248 Record Book of Mining Claims GOV 249 Record Book of Quartz Mining Claims GOV 250 Record Book of Quartz Mining Claims GOV 251 Index of Mineral Claims, Mayo GOV 252 Applications for Mining Locations GOV 253 Leases, Mayo District GOV 254 Quartz Royalty Ledger, Mayo GOV 255 Mineral Claims, Mayo Division of Dawson Mining District Vol. 3 GOV 256 Mineral Claims, Mayo Division of Dawson Mining District Vol. 2 GOV 257 Mineral Claims, Mayo Division of Dawson Mining District GOV 258 Record of Mining Claims, Mayo GOV 259 Haggart, Dublin Gulch, Abbot Fisher, Gill, Iron Rust, Dry, Lynx, Swede, Hyde, Philip Chasni, Murphy Barbara, Snowshoe, Fell, Ross Twenty Mile GOV 260 Tributaries of Duncan, Lightening, Christal, Mayo Lake, Minto, and McQuesten River GOV 261 Duncan, Parent, Stones Williams Creeks GOV 262 Mayo Lake Tributaries

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 263 Ledge, Lester, Cascade, Empire, Steep; Edmonton, Battleford, Davidson Field, Martin, Spring, McInnes, Mayo R. Dippy Perhaps, Curly, Gull GOV 264 Parent, Williams, Stones, Ross, Keystone, Christal, and Belliveau GOV 265 Duncan, Blackmore, and Platinum Creeks GOV 266 Duncan Creek its Tributaries, Hillsides and Benches GOV 267 Highet, Right Fork Minto, Bennett, Rudolph, McRae, Morrison and Tributaries, Minto and Tributaries, McQuesten River - Hillsides Left Limit of Highet GOV 268 Highet Creek Book GOV 269 Mayo Placer Mining Claims GOV 270 Duncan and Tributaries 1937 GOV 271 Barlow, Duncan, Ross Creeks and Tributaries GOV 272 Minto creek and Tributaries GOV 273 Left Fork of Duncan Above Canyon GOV 274 Dublin Gulch, Secret Creek, Haggart Creek, Duncan Creek GOV 275 Highet Creek - Creek Claims and Benches, Leister Creek, Morrison Pup; Eighty Pup GOV 276 Duncan Creek Claims GOV 277 Haggart Creek, Dublin Gulch, Bawnbay Gulch, Goodman Creek, Platinum Pup GOV 278 Quartz Record Book, Dublin Gulch, Haggart Creek, Vaal Creek, Secret Creek, Galena Creek GOV 279 Quartz Records Book, Mayo GOV 280 Quartz, Mayo GOV 281 Quartz Records Books, Mayo GOV 282 Quartz Records Book, Mayo GOV 283 Grey Copper Hill, Mt. Olive, McKay Hill, Settlemier Hill, Horseshoe Hill, Crawford Elliott Hill, Carpenter Hill – Quartz Records GOV 284 Silver Hill – Lapsed Index Doc’s Quartz GOV 285 Mayo Records Book GOV 286 Mayo Mining Records Book GOV 287 Mayo Registered Doc Book

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 288 Copy of Placer Application Book 1 1896-1898 Arrangement: Chronologically by date of application Lists name, date of location, creek, no. of location, signature of applicant, name of person sworn before, date of grant and no. of application GOV 289 Record of Applications 1899 Indian River Mining Div. Troandike Mining Division GOV 290 Placer Applications Book 1 1896-1898 GOV 291 Record of Applications – Tributaries of Yukon River 1899 GOV 292 Placer Applications Book 2 1898 GOV 293 Placer Applications Book 3 1898 GOV 294 Placer Applications 1900-1907 GOV 295 Record of Applications – Dawson District 1898-1899 GOV 296 Record of Applications – Dawson Mining District 1899 GOV 297 Record of Applications – Dawson Mining District 1898-1899 GOV 298 Record of Applications – Clear Creek & Barlow Creek 1900-1906 GOV 299 Record Book – Tributaries of Klondike & Hunker 1898 GOV 300 Registered Documents – Klondike River Tributaries 1898 GOV 301 Extension of Boundaries 1906-1909 GOV 302 Record Book – Tributaries of Dominion Creek 1898-1899 GOV 303 Record Book – OK, Toronto, Drapeau & Tributaries, ca 1902- Moonshine, Reynolds and Arizona 1910 GOV 304 Record Book – Dominion Creek (1897) ca 1897- 1899 GOV 305 Record of Applications – Dawson Mining District 1900-1901 GOV 306 Record of Applications – Dawson Mining District – Placer 1903-1907 GOV 307 Record of Applications – Tributaries of Sixty Mile River 1914-1917 GOV 308 Record of Applications – Quartz, Stewart River District 1897-1898 GOV 309 Record of Applications – Dawson Mining District - Quartz No date GOV 310 Record of Applications – Quartz 1898-1902 GOV 311 Record of Applications – Quartz 1931-1934 GOV 312 Record of Applications – Quartz 1908-1931 GOV 313 Record of Applications – Quartz 1898-1899 GOV 314 Record Book Quartz #1 1898-1901 GOV 315 Record Book Quartz #2 1899-1912

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 316 Record Book “A” Quartz (By Claim Number) 1901-1907 GOV 317 Record Book “B” 1901-1910 GOV 318 Record Book “C” Quartz (By Claim Number) 1898-1927 GOV 319 Registered Documents Quartz (By Claim Number and Date) 1900-1938 GOV 320 Index of Locators of Mineral Claims 1903 GOV 321 Index of Crown Granted Mineral Claims (By Claim Name) No date GOV 322 Index to Mineral Claims (By Claim Name) No date GOV 323 Index of Quartz Claims (By Claim Name) No date GOV 324 Index of Mineral Claims (By Claim Name) 1903 GOV 325 Index of Mineral Claims (By Claim Name) 1911 GOV 326 Quartz Record Book 1908-1910 GOV 327 Record Book (By Claim Number) 1910-1927 GOV 328 Quartz Record Book (By Claim Number) 1905-1923 GOV 329 Quartz Record Book, A to F ca 1910- 1952 GOV 330 Quartz Record Book, G to O (By Claim Name) 1910-1952 GOV 331 Quartz Record Book, P to Z (By Claim Name) 1910-1952 GOV 332 Quartz Claims, Alphabetical List by Claim, Names, Surveyed 1902-1926 Claims GOV 333 Index of Quartz Claims and Locators (By Claim Name & 1899-1946 Locators Name) GOV 334 Quartz Record Book, P to Z Grant Number 55800-58300 (By 1946-1960 Claim Number) GOV 335 Index to Quartz Claims by Location No date GOV 336 (Quartz Claims) (Alphabetical Index to Creeks - gives Plan 1900-1910 Number) (Alphabetical Index to Creeks – gives Creek or River that Creeks are Tributaries to) (Alphabetical Index to Quartz Claims by Name – gives Lot, Group and Plan Number and Remarks) (Alphabetical Index to Concessions giving the Creek or River Concession is on the Plan Number) GOV 337 Forty Mile, Quartz Record Book, G 1919-1920 GOV 338 (Alphabetical Index to Claim Locators Listing Date, Grantor, 1899-1905 Grantee, and Instrument Number) (Not known if it is Placer or Quartz) GOV 339 Quartz Records – No. 3 - #298A to #350A 1901 January 2 to February 19

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 340 Quartz Records – No. 4 Jun 1898 - Jun 1910 GOV 341 Quartz Claims – Stewart River 1897-1909 GOV 342 Quartz Record Book, Forty Mile District 1901-1905 Cash & Record Book GOV 343 Record Book “7” Quartz Claims, Sixty Mile River Area Jul 1902 - Jul 1904 GOV 344 Index of Original Locators, Conrad, Yukon No date Percy Reid, Mining Recorder (Quartz Claims, Alphabetical by name of locator) GOV 345 Glacier, Sixty Mile, Millar, Little Gold, Big Gold, Bedrock, 1919-1933 Owl, and Babcok Creek GOV 346 Kaskawulsh Division - Marshal, Lamoreux, Deacon, Bowen, 1899-1903 Caldwell, Esmerelda, Cannuck, Jackson, Morse, Kirkland, McIntyre, MacDonald, Bell, Hawking, and Cottonwood Creeks GOV 347 Alsek Mining District - Ka Sha River, Shorty Creek, Alder 1898-1902 Creek, Roberts Creek, Victoria Creek, Fraser Creek, Caribou Creek, Moose Creek, Gold Run Creek, (Quartz Mineral Claims also listed) GOV 348 (Alphabetical Index to Locators Listing Date, Grantees Name, 1903-1907 Instrument Number and Date) GOV 349 (Bill of Sale of Mining Property Sold to Thos. Kelsey of Tagish 1900 – Placer Claim of 19 above Discovery on Alder Creek near the Dalton Trail in the Last Chance Mining District in Yukon) GOV 350 (Index of Creeks and Rivers giving Plan Numbers) No date GOV 351 (Grant for Placer Mining (Renewals) Forms No. 62001 – 62250) 1906-1908 GOV 352 Record Book for Hydraulic Mining Leases 1898-1900 (Alphabetical Index in the Front to Leasees Names) GOV 353 Hydraulic Cash Book / Hydraulic Lease Rentals 1900-1911 GOV 354 Record Book for Hydraulic Mining Leases 1899-1965 GOV 355 Record Book of Copper Locations - Quartz 1899-1900 GOV 356 Record Book for Prospecting Leases 1950-1962 GOV 357 Record Book of Coal Mining Leases 1895-1914 GOV 358 Record Book for Dredging Leases, Coal Leases, Refused 1899-1948 Applications GOV 359 Record of Documents Received - Power of Attorney – Quartz 1908-1958 (Alphabetical Index) GOV 360 Power of Attorney Record (Alphabetical Indexed) 1900-1925 GOV 361 Power of Attorney for Staking Quartz (Alphabetical Indexed) 1931-1945

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Location Title / Description Dates GOV 362 Quartz Record Sheets Unbound (Mayo Mining District?) 1910-1946 #2201-15203 GOV 363 Quartz Record Sheets Unbound (Mayo Mining District) 1910-1946 #15204-16517 GOV 364 Quartz Record Sheets Unbound (Mayo Mining District) 1910-1946 #16519-55572 GOV 365 f1 (Livingstone Creek – Whitehorse Mining District Placer Claims) 1909-1924 Acc#: 81/41 Note: GOV 365 f1 and GOV 365 f2 are copies of the same register but they differ in quality GOV 365 f2 (Livingstone Creek – Whitehorse Mining District Placer Claims) 1909-1924 Acc#: 91/75R Note: GOV 365 f1 and GOV 365 f2 are copies of the same register but they differ in quality GOV 366 Watson Lake District (2 pages only) 1943-1945 GOV 367 Index to Placer Grants Stewart River (Arranged Alphabetical by 1898-1902 Individual’s name. Instrument Number, Date and Description of Claim Given)

Klondike Creek Books – Conversion List

Yukon Archives Creek Name Black Series GOV Numbers Numbers (same as listed in (cross-reference) I-7) 1-14 Bonanza 8, 13 15-20 Bonanza 51-52, 56, 88, 98 21-22 Eldorado 9A 23-27 Eldorado 28-31 Hills, Benches 25 32-49 Dominion 2, 14-15, 36-37, 45, 125-129 50-54 Sulphur 112-114 55 Swedish 56-59 Gold Run 60-63 Quartz 64-77 Hunker 56 78-81 Gold Bottom 60-62 82-86 Last Chance 121-122 87-89 Bear 90-93 All Gold 65-68

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Yukon Archives Creek Name Black Series GOV Numbers Numbers (same as listed in (cross-reference) I-7) 94-101 Klondike River 71 102 Moosehide 73 103 Rosebud 73 104 Reindeer 76 105 Enslay 106, 112 Yukon River Tribs 80, 84 107-111, 113 Misc. 114-118 Thistle 119-120 Yukon River 85 121 Rosebud 88-98 122-126 Misc 127A, 127B, 128- Montana Tribs. 99-103 129 130-132 Eureka 117-118 133-137 Henderson 112-114 138-143, 147-153, Misc 119-120 156-157, 168-169 144-146, 154 Stewart River 121-123 155 Indian 158-159 Glacier 160- 162, 164 Sixty Mile 163 Little Gold Creek 176 165 Tributaries of Sixty Mile River 9A 166 Forty Mile and Tributaries 72 167 Ten Mile 170-171 Sixty Mile 172 Firth River 173 173 Firth River Area 174 Ellis Creek below Discovery 134 175 Tributaries O’Brien, White River Pond, Bear, and 135 Caladonia 176 Tributaries of White River, O’Brien Creek; Tributaries, Pilot and Nansen Tributaries 177 Flint Creek, Buck Creek, Mary Creek Tributaries, 136 Pilot and Nansen Tributaries 178 Rude Dip, Victor, Isaac and Tributaries 138 179 Victor, Bird, Isaac and Tributaries 139

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Yukon Archives Creek Name Black Series GOV Numbers Numbers (same as listed in (cross-reference) I-7) 180 Russell Creek and Tributaries, Liberty, Stoddart, 172 King, Major, Rogers, Porcupine, Johnson, Nabob, Jay, Patricia 181 Whitehorse Dist., Selwyn River and Tributaries 18

Black List

Black Volume number refers to original creek book number.

Black Vol. Location Title / Description 2 GOV 32 Dominion Creek and Tributaries 8 GOV 5 Bonanza Benches 1 – 35 above Discovery 9A GOV 165 Tributaries of Sixty Mile River - Boucher, California Leonard, Rainy, Alice, Helen 12 GOV 141 Maisey Mae Creek, Partridge 13 GOV 2 Bonanza Creek Claims 14 GOV 33 Dominion Creek to 150 below Discovery 15 GOV 34 Dominion Creek 150 to end 16 GOV 125 Indian River and Tributaries 17 GOV 123 Indian River and Tributaries 18 GOV 181 Whitehorse Dist., Selwyn River and Tributaries 19 GOV 138 Black Hills Creek and Tributaries 20 GOV 139 Black Hills Creek, Hills and Benches 21 GOV 149 Clear Creek 22 GOV 150 Clear Creek and Tributaries 23 GOV 151 Clear Creek and Tributaries 24 GOV 152 Clear Creek and Tributaries 25 GOV 135 Above and Moosehorn Tributaries, Straker, Henderson Tributaries 26 GOV 107 Cary Creek above and below Discovery 27 GOV 108 Donohue and Tributaries 28 GOV 126 Foster Creek, Montreal Creek, Bishop Creek 29 GOV 114 Thistle Creek 30 GOV 115 Thistle Creek Hillside and Benches

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Black Vol. Location Title / Description 31 GOV 116 Thistle Creek and Tributaries, Blueberry. Scotch, Lando 32 GOV 109 Dawson, Benson, Elwell 33 GOV 156 Poker Creek and Tributaries of Forty Mile River 34 GOV 112 Yukon River Tributaries, White River, White Island, Cassie Creek, Limestone Creek, Ballarat 35 GOV 113 Ballarat and Tributaries, Tulare and Tributaries 36 GOV 91 All Gold Creek and Tributaries 37 GOV 105A Yukon Tributaries, 12 Mile, Ballarat, South Fork of Sixty Mile River (Eldorado Benches) 38 GOV 127B Tributaries of Montana Creek 39 GOV 104 Reindeer and Rosebud Creeks 41 GOV 105 Enslay Creek 43 GOV 89 Lindow Creek 44 GOV 122 Gladstone Creek 45 GOV 35 Dominion Creek – Hills and Benches 46 GOV 93 All Gold Creek, Hills on Tributaries 47 GOV 92 All Gold Creek, Benches 51 GOV 153 Clear Creek and Tributaries 51 GOV 10 Bonanza Benches above Discovery 52 GOV 11 Bonanza Hills below Discovery 54 GOV 18 Lovett. Trail, Cripple 55 GOV 63 Quartz Creeks, Hills and Tributaries 56 GOV 3 Bonanza Creek Claims 58 GOV 98 Klondike River Tributaries, Yukon River Tributaries, March River, Meta Creek, Jean Creek, Flat Creek 59 GOV 99 Going, Matson Hills 60 GOV 66 Hunker Creek Claims 61 GOV 72 Hunker Hills 62 GOV 85 Last Chance, Tributaries, Hills and Benches 63 GOV 140 Black Hills Creek and Tributaries 64 GOV 118 Thistle Creek Hills, Benches and Tributaries 65 GOV 45 Dominion Creek Claims 66 GOV 46 Dominion Creek Claims 151 below Lower Discovery to end 67 GOV 47 Dominion Tributaries

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Black Vol. Location Title / Description 68 GOV 76 Hunker Tributaries 68 GOV 77 Hunker Tributaries 70 GOV 119 Yukon and Tributaries, Hill, Bench and River Claims 71 GOV 100 Klondike and Tributaries, Hills, Benches and River Claims 72 GOV 166 Forty Mile and Tributaries 73 GOV 97 Canyon, Little Blanche, Moosehide and Klondike Tributaries 76 GOV 167 Ten Mile and Tributaries, Matson Tributaries 77 GOV 168 Matson 78 GOV 169 Matson Creek Tributaries, Borden 79 GOV 110 California Hill 80 GOV 145 Stewart River Tributaries, Brewer and Barker Creeks 81 GOV 111 Kirkman Creek and Tributaries 82 GOV 142 Scroggie Creek and Tributaries 83 GOV 143 Scroggie Creek and Tributaries 84 GOV 106 Yukon River Tributaries 85 GOV 133 Henderson Creek 86 GOV 136 Below and Left Fork Henderson Tributaries 87 GOV 134 Henderson Tributaries, Sixty Creek Tributaries, Moosehorn 88 GOV 14 Bonanza Tributaries above Discovery 89 GOV 15A Boulder Creek, Tributary at 44 LL, Byrne Gulch, Forty-nine Gulch, Pure Gold, Examiner 90 GOV 15 Stampede Gulch, Magnet, American, Queen, Fox, Monte Cristo, Mosquito 91 GOV 16 Victoria and Adam Gulches 92 GOV 19 Two Skookums 93 GOV 17 Cripple Creek, Trail Creek, Lovett Gulch 95 GOV 6 Bonanza Benches from 35 above Discovery to end of Creek 96 GOV 7 Bonanza Benches 22 below Discovery 97 GOV 8 Bonanza Benches 23 – 54 below Discovery 98 GOV 9 Bonanza Benches 55 – 104 below Discovery GOV 9A Bonanza Benches 55 – 104 below Discovery -Index 99 GOV 22 Eldorado Creek 100 GOV 28 Eldorado Hills and Benches (1 – 16) 101 GOV 29 Eldorado Hills and Benches

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Black Vol. Location Title / Description 102 GOV 27 French Hill 103 GOV 117 Thistle Creek and Tributaries 104 GOV 65 Hunker Creek Claims 105 GOV 67 Hunker Benches to 33 below 106 GOV 69 Hunker Creek Hills and Benches 34 to 65 below Discovery 107 GOV 70 Hunker Benches 66 –79 below Discovery 108 GOV 71 Hunker Creek – Hills and Benches opposite hydraulic reserve 109 GOV 75 Hunker Hillsides and 80 Pup 110 GOV 79 Gold Bottom Creek and Tributaries 111 GOV 80 Gold Bottom Benches 112 GOV 51 Sulphur below Discovery 113 GOV 52 Sulphur above Discovery 114 GOV 53 Sulphur Tributaries 116 GOV 157 Forty Mile River and Tributaries 117 GOV 130 Eureka and Tributaries 118 GOV 131 Eureka Benches 119 GOV 61 Quartz Creek Claims and Tributaries 120 GOV 62 Quartz Benches 121 GOV 82 Last Chance Creek 122 GOV 83 Last Chance Benches above Discovery 123 GOV 84 Last Chance Benches below Discovery 124 GOV 144 Stewart River and Tributaries 125 GOV 40 Dominion Hillsides above and below Discovery 126 GOV 41 Dominion Hillsides 13 above Lower Discovery – 78 below Lower Discovery 127 GOV 42 Dominion Hillsides 73 below Lower Discovery – 172 below Lower Discovery 128 GOV 43 Dominion Hillsides 173 below Lower Discovery – 248 below Lower Discovery 129 GOV 44 Dominion Hills and Benches to end 130 GOV 56 Gold Run Creek and Hillside Claims and Tributaries 131 GOV 57 Gold Run Tributaries 132 GOV 58 Gold Run Creek Claims, Hills and Tributaries 134 GOV 174 Ellis Creek below Discovery

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Black Vol. Location Title / Description 135 GOV 175 Tributaries O’Brien, White River Pond, Bear, and Caladonia 136 GOV 177 Flint Creek, Buck Creek, Mary Creek Tributaries, Pilot and Nansen Tributaries 137 GOV 146 Stewart River Tributaries 138 GOV 178 Rude Dip, Victor, Isaac and Tributaries 139 GOV 179 Victor, Bird, Isaac and Tributaries 140 GOV 24 Chief Gulch 141 GOV 25 Gay Gulch – Benches and Hillsides 142 GOV 26 French Gulch 143 GOV 88 Bear Creek 144 GOV 95 Potato, Charlotte Ros., Tarantula, Dawson and Benches, Townsite 145 GOV 96 Klondike Bonanza Reservoir Group 146 GOV 161 Hobo, New Zealand, Perron Creek, Ten Mile, Sixty Mile 147 GOV 127A Tributaries of Montana Creek 148 GOV 127 Montana Creek, Steele’s Fork, Indian River Tributaries 150 GOV 23 Gay, Chief, Donald Creek, French, Glacier, Nugget 152 GOV 36 Dominion Creek – Hills and Benches 153 GOV 37 Dominion Creek (1898) Hills and Benches 154 GOV 38 Dominion Creek Benches 155 GOV 39 Dominion Creek Benches 158 GOV 91B All Gold Creek Everett Group 159 GOV 74 Henry Creek Hillsides and Benches 160 GOV 103 Rosebud Creek below Discovery and Tributaries 162 GOV 124 Strathcona Creek 163 GOV 59 Gold Run Creek Claims, Hills and Tributaries 164 GOV 81 Gold Bottom Creek, Hill, Bench and Tributaries 165 GOV 54 Sulphur Creek, Sulphur Hills, Green Gulch, Brimstone Creek, Friday Gulch 166 GOV 170 Sixty Mile and Tributaries 167 GOV 48 Dominion Hills 169 GOV 158 Glacier, Miller 170 GOV 159 Glacier and Tributaries 171 GOV 160 Big Gold, Bedrock, Sixty Mile, 5 Mile

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Black Vol. Location Title / Description 171 GOV 171 Sixty Mile Area, Matson Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Schwartz Gulch, Moose Creek 172 GOV 180 Russell Creek and Tributaries, Liberty, Stoddart, King, Major, Rogers, Porcupine, Johnson, Nabob, Jay, Patricia 173 GOV 172 Firth River 174 GOV 68 Hunker Creek Benches below Discovery 175 GOV 162 Hill Claims on the North Fork Sixty Mile River 176 GOV 163 Little Gold Creek 177 GOV 164 Creek Claims on the North Fork Sixty Mile River 178 GOV 129 Indian and Montana Creeks 179 GOV 137 Henderson, Eureka Creeks GOV 365 Livingstone Creek

Red List

Red Volume number refers to original creek book number.

Red Location Title / Description Vol 1 GOV 102 Moosehide Creek, Ballarat Creek 2 GOV 32 Dominion Creek and Tributaries 3 GOV 64 Hunker Creek 4 GOV 13 Gold Bottom, Last Chance 5 GOV 78 Bonanza Tributaries 6 GOV 155 Indian River Tributaries, Opher, Little Blanche, Glacier, Sixty Mile Tributaries, Boucher 7 GOV 1 Bonanza Creeks and Benches 8 GOV 121 Rosebud, Eureka, Sixty Mile, Canyon 9 GOV 21 Eldorado (Benches) 9 GOV 60 Quartz 9 GOV 87 Bear and Lindow Creeks 10 GOV 55 Swedish Creek, Gold Run and Tributaries 12 GOV 50 Sulphur Creek 13 GOV 94 Klondike Hills and Benches 14 GOV 141 Maisey Mae Creek, Partridge

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Red Location Title / Description Vol 15 GOV 153 Clear Creek and Tributaries 23 GOV 68 Hunker Creek Benches, below Discovery 25 GOV 104 Reindeer and Rosebud Creeks 29 GOV 74 Henry Creek Hillsides and Benches 30 GOV 124 Strathcona Creek 32 GOV 103 Rosebud Creek, below Discovery and Tributaries 36 GOV 122 Gladstone Creek 37 GOV 89 Lindow Creek 39 GOV 90 All Gold Creek Pups and Hillsides 40 GOV 93 All Gold Creek, Hills on Tributaries 41 GOV 92 All Gold Creek, Benches 42 GOV 164 Creek Claims on the North Fork Sixty Mile River 43 GOV 146 Stewart River Tributaries 44 GOV 38 Dominion Creek Benches 50 GOV 23 Gay, Chief, Donald Creek, French, Glacier, Nugget 52 GOV 96 Klondike Bonanza Reservoir Group 53 GOV 39 Dominion Creek Benches 54 GOV 25 Gay Gulch – Benches and Hillsides 55 GOV 24 Chief Gulch 56 GOV 95 Potatoe, Charlotte Ros. Tarantula Dawson and Benches, Townsite 57 GOV 26 French Gulch 61 GOV 127 Montana Creek, Steele’s Fork Indian River Tributaries 62 GOV 179 Victor, Bird, Isaac and Tributaries 63 GOV 178 Rude Dip, Victor and Tributaries 64 GOV 136 Below and Left Fork Henderson Tributaries 65 GOV 44 Dominion Hills and Benches to end 66 GOV 159 Glacier and Tributaries 67 GOV 134 Henderson Tributaries, Sixty Creek Tributaries, Moosehorn 68 GOV 2 Bonanza Creek Claims 69 GOV 33 Dominion Creek to 150 below Discovery 70 GOV 34 Dominion Creek 150 to end 71 GOV 125 Indian River and Tributaries 72 GOV 123 Indian River and Tributaries

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Red Location Title / Description Vol 73 GOV 110 California Hill 74 GOV 181 Whitehorse District, Selwyn River and Tributaries 75 GOV 138 Black Hills Creek and Tributaries 76 GOV 77 Hunker Tributaries 76 GOV 139 Black Hills Creek, Hills and Benches 77 GOV 149 Clear Creek 78 GOV 150 Clear Creek and Tributaries 79 GOV 151 Clear Creek and Tributaries 80 GOV 152 Clear Creek and Tributaries 81 GOV 135 Above and Moosehorn Tributaries, Straker, Henderson Tributaries 82 GOV 107 Cary Creek, above and below Discovery 83 GOV 108 Donohue and Tributaries 84 GOV 114 Thistle Creek 85 GOV 115 Thistle Creek Hillside and Benches 86 GOV 116 Thistle Creek and Tributaries, Blueberry, Scotch, Lando 87 GOV 109 Dawson, Benson, Elwell 88 GOV 156 Poker Creek and Tributaries of Forty Mile River 89 GOV 112 Yukon River Tributaries, White River, White Island, Cassie Creek, Limestone Creek, Ballarat 90 GOV 113 Ballarat and Tributaries, Tulare and Tributaries 91 GOV 91 All Gold Creek and Tributaries 92 GOV 160 Big Gold, Bedrock, Sixty Mile, 5 Mile 93 GOV 15 Stampede Gulch, Magnet, American, Queen, Fox, Monte Cristo, Mosquito 94 GOV 158 Glacier, Miller 95 GOV 43 Dominion Hillsides, 173 below Lower Discovery – 248 below Lower Discovery 96 GOV 17 Cripple Creek, Trail Creek, Lovett Gulch 97 GOV 15A Boulder Creek, Tributary at 44 LL, Byrne Gulch, Forty-nine Gulch, Pure Gold, Examiner 98 GOV 70 Hunker Benches 66 to 79 below 99 GOV 9 Bonanza Benches 55 – 104 below Discovery GOV 9A Bonanza Benches 55 – 104 below Discovery -Index 100 GOV 22 Eldorado Creek

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Red Location Title / Description Vol 101 GOV Tributaries of Montana Creek 127B 102 GOV 130 Eureka and Tributaries 103 GOV 53 Sulphur Tributaries 104 GOV 172 Firth River 105 GOV 75 Hunker Hillsides and 80 Pup 106 GOV 79 Gold Bottom Creek and Tributaries 107 GOV 28 Eldorado Hills and Benches (1 - 16) 108 GOV 14 Bonanza Tributaries above Discovery 109 GOV 67 Hunker Benches to 33 below 110 GOV 117 Thistle Creek and Tributaries 111 GOV 52 Sulphur above Discovery 112 GOV 80 Gold Bottom Benches 113 GOV 29 Eldorado Hills and Benches 114 GOV 8 Bonanza Benches 23 – 54 below Discovery 115 GOV 82 Last Chance Creek 116 GOV 69 Hunker Creek Hills and Benches 34 – 65 below Discovery 117 GOV 83 Last Chance Benches above Discovery 118 GOV 61 Quartz Creek Claims and Tributaries 119 GOV 84 Last Chance Benches below Discovery 120 GOV 144 Stewart River and Tributaries 121 GOV 40 Dominion Hillsides above and below Discovery 122 GOV 36 Dominion Creek – Hills and Benches 122 GOV 41 Dominion Hillsides 13 above Lower Discovery - 72 Lower Discovery 123 GOV 37 Dominion Creek (1898) Hills and Benches 123 GOV 42 Dominion Hillsides 73 – 172 below Lower Discovery 124 GOV 57 Gold Run Tributaries 125 GOV 56 Gold Run Creek and Hillside Claims and Tributaries 126 GOV 131 Eureka Benches 127 GOV 16 Victoria and Adam Gulches 128 GOV 5 Bonanza Creek Claims 129 GOV 7 Bonanza Benches 22 below Discovery 130 GOV 145 Stewart River Tributaries, Brewer and Barker Creeks

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Red Location Title / Description Vol 132 GOV 133 Henderson Creek 133 GOV 143 Scroggie Creek Tributaries 134 GOV 142 Scroggie Creek and Tributaries 135 GOV 27 French Hill 136 GOV 65 Hunker Creek Claims 137 GOV Yukon Tributaries, 12 Mile, Ballarat, South Fork of Sixty Mile River 105A (Eldorado Benches) 138 GOV 111 Kirkman Creek and Tributaries 139 GOV 6 Bonanza Benches from 35 above Discovery to end of creek 140 GOV 19 Two Skookums 141 GOV 71 Hunker Creek – Hills and Benches opposite hydraulic reserve 142 GOV 51 Sulphur below Discovery 143 GOV 157 Forty Mile River and Tributaries 144 GOV 126 Foster Creek, Montreal Creek, Bishop Creek 145 GOV 58 Gold Run Hillsides 146 GOV 62 Quartz Benches 147 GOV Tributaries of Montana Creek 127A 150 GOV 46 Dominion Creek Claims 151 below Lower Discovery to end 151 GOV 76 Hunker Tributaries 152 GOV 47 Dominion Tributaries 153 GOV 98 Klondike River Tributaries, Yukon River Tributaries, March River, Meta Creek, Jean Creek, Flat Creek 154 GOV 169 Maston Creek Tributaries, Borden 155 GOV 99 Goring, Matson Hills 156 GOV 129 Indian and Montana Creeks 157 GOV 30 Eldorado Benches 160 GOV 10 Bonanza Benches above Discovery 161 GOV 59 Gold Run Creek Claims, Hills and Tributaries 162 GOV 18 Lovett, Trail, Cripple 163 GOV 170 Sixty Mile and Tributaries 164 GOV 167 Ten Mile and Tributaries, Matson Tributaries 165 GOV 137 Henderson, Eureka Creeks 166 GOV 168 Matson

54 Record Books for Placer Mining Claims

Red Location Title / Description Vol 167 GOV 165 Tributaries of Sixty Mile River, Boucher, California Leonard, Rainy, Alice, Helen 168 GOV 54 Sulphur Creek, Sulpher Hills, Green Gulch, Brimstone Creek, Friday Gulch 169 GOV 3 Bonanza Creek Claims 170 GOV 63 Quartz Creeks, Hills and Tributaries 171 GOV 72 Hunker Hills 172 GOV 66 Hunker Creek Claims 173 GOV 11 Bonanza Hills below Discovery 174 GOV 128 Indian Creek Hills 175 GOV 119 Yukon and Tributaries, Hills, Bench and River Claims 177 GOV 166 Forty Mile and Tributaries 178 GOV 48 Dominion Hills 179 GOV 81 Gold Bottom Creek, Hill, Bench and Tributaries 181 GOV 140 Black Hills Creek and Tributaries 182 GOV 100 Klondike and Tributaries, Hills, Benches and River Claims 183 GOV 118 Thistle Creek, Hills, Benches, Tributaries 184 GOV 120 Yukon River Tributaries 185 GOV 85 Last Chance Tributaries, Hills and Benches 186 GOV 45 Dominion Creek Claims 187 GOV 180 Russell Creek and Tributaries, Liberty, Stoddart, King, Major, Rogers, Porcupine, Johnson, Nabob, Jay, Patricia 188 GOV 49 Dominion Creek 189 GOV 20 Bonanza Tributaries 190 GOV 86 Last Chance Creek and Tributaries Creek, Hill and Bench Claims

55 I-8 INDEXES OF ORIGINAL LOCATORS, 1896-1942

These volumes contain the names of those miners who were the first to obtain the crown grant of a particular placer claim. The date and location of the claim is noted.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by name Coverage: Dawson and area or Yukon generally unless otherwise noted GOV 182 - GOV 186: See also section I-7 GOV 367: See also sections I-2 and I-7

Location Title / Description Dates GOV 182 Index of Original Locators 1896-1901 GOV 183 Index of Original Locators 1898-1905 GOV 184 Index of Original Locators 1903-1914 GOV 185 Index of Original Locators 1903 Coverage: Duncan area GOV 186 Index of Original Locators 1914-1942 GOV 367 Index to Placer Grants Stewart 1898-1902 Coverage: Stewart River area

56 I-9 INDEXES OF FREE MINERS CERTIFICATES, 1898-1906

The names of all miners purchasing Free Miners Certificates were recorded in alphabetically arranged index books. Most certificates were issued in Dawson. At various times, however, it was possible to buy these certificates in cities in southern Canada, as well as at offices located in local Yukon communities. These indexes noted the miner’s name, certificate number, and the issuing office.

This important group of records contains the names of nearly all stampeders who engaged or hoped to be engaged in mining.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by name of miner unless otherwise noted Coverage: Dawson area or Yukon generally unless otherwise noted GOV 187 - GOV 192: See also section I-7

Location Title/Description Dates GOV 187 Free Miners Certificates for outside offices 1898-1903 Arrangement: Alphabetical, subdivided for cities from which certificates were issued. Coverage: Issuing offices include Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Atlin, Bennett and Whitehorse, and others GOV 188 Free Miners Certificates, Creeks and outside offices 1898-1906 Coverage: Issuing offices include Vancouver, Tagish, Grand Forks, Dominion, Hunker and others GOV 189 Index of Free Miners Certificates 1898-1899 GOV 190 Index of Free Miners Certificates 1902-1906 Coverage: Stewart and Mayo, most certificates issued from Duncan GOV 191 Index of Free Miners Certificates 1903-1905 GOV 192 Index of Free Miners Certificates 1905-1906 GOV 828 f2 Free Miner’s Certificate Receipts 1899 Arrangement: Numerical (53001 - 53250) Coverage: Issued at Tagish

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I-10 ROYALTY LEDGER BOOKS, 1898-1909

These ledgers were maintained to record the royalty paid on gold production. Royalties were most important before 1901 when an increase in the allowable exemption made this tax inapplicable to the vast majority of miners.

Royalty Books list such information as quantity of gold mined, value of production, exemption allowed, and royalties paid. The title of each book states the geographic coverage of the volume. Where more detailed information as to coverage is listed, this has usually been drawn from the book’s table of contents.

Arrangement: By creek and claim number unless otherwise indicated Coverage: As indicated GOV 193 - GOV 228: See also section I-7

Location Title/Description Dates GOV 193 Index – Royalty Ledger 1900-1901 Arrangement: This index cross-references the Royalty Ledger for Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks, GOV 217. It is organized by creek and gives page numbers for entries for individual claims Coverage: This includes Canyon, Quartz, Bonanza, Eldorado, French, Adams, Cheechako, Skookum, Monte Cristo GOV 194 Royalty Reports (2 copies) 1898-1902 Arrangement: This appears to consist of copies of pages from royalty ledgers that were produced for examination by an auditor Coverage: Mainly Bonanza GOV 195 Bear Creek, Quartz Creek above and below, Redfords 1898-1901 Coverage: Includes Matson and Doyle concession GOV 196 Tributaries of Bonanza 1898-1901 GOV 197 Gold Hill, French Hill, Cheechako Hill 1898-1901 GOV 198 Dominion Creek 1898-1901 Coverage: Claims above and below Lower Discovery GOV 199 Dominion Creek 1898-1901 Coverage: Claims above and below Upper Discovery GOV 200 Eldorado 1898-1901 Coverage: Creek claims, French Gulch, Ora Grand Pup at 13, Gay Gulch GOV 201 Eldorado 1898-1900 Coverage: Hillside claims GOV 202 Hunker Creek and Anderson Concession 1898-1899 GOV 203 Sulphur Creek 1898 GOV 204 Dominion Creek 1899 Coverage: Creek, Hillsides and benches

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Location Title/Description Dates GOV 205 Dominion Creek 1899-1901 Coverage: Hillside claims above and below Upper Discovery GOV 206 Eureka Creek and Pups No date Arrangement: By miner’s name GOV 207 Gold Run Creek 1899-1901 Coverage: Creek claims, hillsides and benches GOV 208 Pup at 3 above Lower Discovery, Dominion, Green Gulch 1899 Coverage: Tributaries of Dominion, Tributaries of Sulphur GOV 209 Hunker Creek (hill) 1899-1901 Note: Included insert of fragment of “Return of Royalty collected at Hunker Detachment” dating from 1901. GOV 210 Hunker Creek Tributaries 1899-1901 Coverage: Last Chance, Gold Bottom, Hard Luck, Eighty Pup (below), Neury Gulch, Nester Creek, Benches Last Chance, Tributaries Fifteen Pup GOV 211 Hunker Creek Hills, Tributaries 1899-1900 Arrangement: By collecting NWMP Inspector William Hamilton Scarth GOV 212 Sulphur Creek 1899-1901 Coverage: Above and below Discovery and hillside GOV 213 Bear Creek and Tributaries 1900-1901 Coverage: Includes Lindow Creek GOV 214 Lower Bonanza and Tributaries 1900-1901 Coverage: 62 – 113 below, various benches and hills, Lovett Gulch, Trail Creek, American Gulch, Gulch at 8/A below GOV 215 Dominion Creek 1900 Coverage: Above and below Upper Discovery, above and below Lower Discovery, Pups GOV 216 Hillsides Left Limit Dominion 1900 Coverage: Above and below Upper and Lower Discovery GOV 217 Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks, Gulches and Tributaries 1900-1901 Arrangement and Coverage: See Index, GOV 193 GOV 218 Hunker Creek and Tributaries 1900 Coverage: Includes section on Anderson Government Concession GOV 219 Canyon, Quartz, Eureka, Little Blanche, Boulder 1901 Coverage: Includes A. Macks discovery on Quartz and the Left Fork and 18 Pup on Eureka GOV 220 Dominion Creek, Tributaries and Pups 1901 Coverage: Above and below Upper Discovery, hillsides, No. 3 and 15 Pups, Caribou Creek, Little Dominion, Lombard, Dougherty Concession

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Location Title/Description Dates GOV 221 Dominion Creek and Pups 1901 Note: Annotation on this states “Cancelled and transferred into Ledger No. 27”. This is apparently Yukon Archives GOV 220. GOV 222 Eureka Creek Right Fork 1901 Coverage: Claims above Discovery GOV 223 Gold Run Creek 1901 Arrangement: By date royalty paid GOV 224 Gold Run Creek 1901 Coverage: Creek claims and hillsides GOV 225 Hunker Creek Hills and Tributaries 1901 GOV 226 Sulphur Creek 1901 Arrangement: This book is organized by date royalty collected GOV 227 Sulphur Creek Hill, Bench, Gulch 1900-1901 Coverage: Sulphur hillsides, Green Gulch, Meadow Gulch GOV 228 Forty Mile 1902-1909 Arrangement: By date royalty paid

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I-11 WATER RIGHTS RECORD BOOKS, 1900-1963

These books provided a record of applications for diverting water for placer mining purposes. Entries list the number and date of application, the applicant’s name and file number, the creek and location from which water was to be taken, as well as the locations at which water was to be used. The names of those protesting the diversion were entered, along with the remarks. The grant number, date of issue and amount of fee were also recorded when water rights were granted.

Arrangement: By creek unless otherwise indicated Coverage: As indicated GOV 229 - GOV 234: See also section I-7

Location Title/Description Dates GOV 229 Water Rights Register and Cash Book Jul 16, 1900 to Coverage: Hunker, All Gold, Flat, Goring, Leotta, Too Mar 3, 1920 Much Gold, Strickland and Tributaries GOV 230 Water Rights Register and Cash Book Jan 10, 1900 to Coverage: Klondike and small Tributaries, Rock, Bear, Dec 2, 1920 Yukon and small Tributaries, Indian and small Tributaries, Eureka, Forty Mile, Quartz, Sulphur, Duncan, Clear, White, Nansen GOV 231 Water Rights Register and Cash Book Jun 6, 1900 to Coverage: Bonanza and Eldorado and their Tributaries, Nov 7, 1938 Glacier, Wadleigh, Moose and Tributaries, Miller, Bedrock, Pat Murphy, Scott GOV 232 Water Rights Register and Cash Book Jul 5, 1900 to Coverage: Dominion, Goldrun and their Tributaries, Feb 28, 1934 Henderson, Thistle, Selwyn River and their Tributaries, Black Hills, Lower Stewart GOV 233 Water Rights Register and Cash Book Aug 2, 1902 to Coverage: Sixty Mile District Jan 21, 1918 GOV 234 Water Rights Register Feb 28, 1934 to Arrangement: Indexed alphabetically by creek name. Jul 23, 1963 Included quantity of water taken and duration of right Coverage: Dawson area

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I-12 MISCELLANEOUS PLACER MINING RECORDS & III MISCELLANEOUS MINING RECORDER RECORDS, 1895-1972

These records do not appear to fit in any of the other sections of placer mining records. They include records of hydraulic and dredging leases, trust account receipts, and a record of auction sales of government claims.

Note: In 2016, additional records were added to this section. The added records appear to have been missed in earlier versions of the inventory.

GOV 352 - GOV 361: See also section I-7 GOV 1189 f1: See also section I-4

Location Title/Description Dates GOV 352 Record Book for Hydraulic Mining Leases 1898-1900 Contents: This encompasses an alphabetical index of persons applying for hydraulic leases. The leases themselves are described and correspondence relating to the lease is listed GOV 353 Hydraulic Cash Book / Hydraulic Lease Rentals 1900-1911 Arrangement: Chronological GOV 354 Record Book for Hydraulic Mining Leases 1899-1965 Contents: Leases are presented in numerical order. Transactions concerning the lease are recorded GOV 355 Record Book of Copper Locations - Quartz 1899-1900 GOV 356 Record Book for Prospecting Leases 1950-1962 Arrangement: Chronological Coverage: Dawson area and Yukon generally GOV 357 Record Book of Coal Mining Leases 1895-1914 GOV 358 Record Book for Dredging Leases, Coal Leases, Refused 1899-1948 Applications Arrangement: Dredging leases are arranged by creek, river or area and are indexed. There is a section for coal leases and a section for refused applications GOV 359 Record of Documents Received - Power of Attorney - 1908-1958 Quartz Arrangement: Alphabetical GOV 360 Power of Attorney Record 1900 -1925 Arrangement: Alphabetical showing persons extending and receiving power of attorney GOV 361 Power of Attorney for Staking Quartz 1900-1925 Arrangement: Alphabetical GOV 824 f5 Water Right Applications 1908-1918 Coverage: Numbers 7,501 - 7,507

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Location Title/Description Dates GOV 826 f8 Application to use and divert water 1902-1903 Coverage: Number 809 GOV 827 f3 Deposits made by Crown Timber & Land Agent 1898-1906 GOV 827 f4 Deposits made by Crown Timber & Land Agent 1900-1904 GOV 827 f6 Application & Affidavit of Discoverer of Quartz Mineral 1902 Claims – Robert S. Browne (Emiline Mineral Claim) GOV 827 f7 Notes on Mining Recorders Records No date Contents: These were probably prepared at the time of microfilming in the 1970s GOV 828 f1 Timber, Grazing, Hay, Coal and Mining Lands General 1899-1900 Receipts 11,400 - 11,599 Coverage: Issued at Tagish Lake Recorder: Robert C. Miller GOV 828 f4 Trust Account Interim Receipts 1921 Coverage: These are from the Mining Recorder’s Office, Whitehorse GOV 855 Placer Groupings 1918-1971 Includes Partnership Agreements GOV 855 Grant of Right to Divert Water and Construct Ditches 7,501 - 7,507 1908-1918 9,125 - 9,249 1928-1951 GOV 856 Royalty Certificate 1 - 26 1902-1912 Royalty Certificate 101 - 200 1920-1921 Royalty Certificate 901 - 1,900 1931-1941 Royalty Certificate 2,201 - 3,800 1941-1962 Royalty Certificate 501 - 800 1962-1965 Royalty Certificate 801 - 1,000 1965-1967 Royalty Certificate P51 - P333 1967-1971 Free Certificate Export of Gold 2,778 - 2,877 1924-1936 Extension of Record (Y166744, Y166772, Y166816) 1964 GOV 857 Certificate of Partnership 1 - 1,000 1899-1901 Certificate of Partnership 1,001 - 1,564 1903-1904 Certificate of Partnership 1,565 - 2,591 1904-1907 Certificate of Partnership 3,126 - 3,897 1901-1906 GOV 931 Prospecting Leases 1934-1956 Includes letters, Applications for Renewal of Grant for Placer Mining and Affidavit of Applicant, and Applications for a Lease to Prospect and Affidavit of the Applicant GOV 932 Grant of Right to Divert Water and Construct Ditches 9,250 - 9,305 1951-1972 GOV 1158 Mining Recorder Placer & Quartz File Listing No date Contents: These were probably prepared at the time of microfilming in the 1970s

66 Miscellaneous Records

Location Title/Description Dates GOV 1178 Index to Locators of Mineral Claims - Placer? No date Arrangement: Alphabetical GOV 1179 Index to Locators of Mineral Claims – Quartz No date Arrangement: Alphabetical GOV 1180 Index of Survey Plans – Placer & General 1899-1948 Documents date of filing, date of survey, class of survey (e.g. placer, quartz, hydraulic, base line, topographic, road, etc.), area, applicant, location, surveyor, return sent to Ottawa, and remarks. “Red” handwritten in ink on binding. Arrangement: Numerical by plan number (1 - 1,453) GOV 1181 Miscellaneous Plans and Maps 1899-1952 Documents class of survey, date, locality, and remarks. Arrangement: Numerical by plan number (1 - 690) GOV 1189 f1 Government Auction Sales 1900 Arrangement: Alphabetical index cross-references the various creeks. Claims are listed along with prices received Coverage: Dawson area

67 II QUARTZ MINING RECORDS

Yukon quartz mining records were microfilmed along with the Territory’s placer mining records, and these records were transferred to Yukon Archives at the same time as the placer mining records. The quartz mining records (GOV 858 – GOV 930) however have not been listed in this inventory, though a separate interim inventory of the records is available (Canada. Dept. of Interior. Mining Recorder. Series 10 Hard Rock Quartz Mining Books). A few quartz mining records however are listed within the placer mining records section.

68 APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY

Code Term Description U 1/2 upper half L 1/2 lower half L.L. left limit left bank of river looking downstream R.L. right limit right bank of river looking downstream A/D above discovery upstream from discovery claim (Claim 0) B/D below discovery downstream from discovery claim (Claim 0) pup tiny creek benches and hills the areas parallel to the water course but removed from the creek bed (up the side of the hills in the valley)

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