YUKON-CHARLEY RIVERS The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska

1 Ibid.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid., 1-2.

4 Ibid., 2; Patty, "Alluvial Golds Inc. Annual Report, 1947," 1.

5 Ibid., 4.

6 Patty, "Alluvial Golds Inc. Operating Report, 1952," 4.

7 Patty, "Gold Placers Inc. Operating Report, 1946,", 4-5.

8 Ibid., 1.

9 Ibid., 1-2.

10 Patty, "Gold Placers Inc. and Alluvial Golds Inc., Operating Report, 1947," 6.

11 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, October 28, 1947, p. 1 and Patty, North Country Challenge, 193-96.

12 Patty, "Gold Placers Inc. and Alluvial Golds Inc., Operating Report, 1947," 4-5 and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, October 30, 1947, pp. 1, 6.

13 Daily News-Miner, October 29, 1947, pp 1, 3.

14 Daily News-Miner, October 31, 1947, p 1.

15 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, November 1, 1947, p. 1 and Patty, North Country Challenge, 193-96.

16 Patty "Gold Placers Inc. and Alluvial Golds Inc., Operating Report, 1947," 1.

17 Ibid., 4.

18 Patty, "Alluvial Golds Inc., Annual Report, 1948," 1.

19 Ibid.

20 Patty, "Gold Placers Inc., Annual Report, 1948," 1-2.

21 Ibid., 3.

22 Patty, "Alluvial Golds Inc, Operating Report, 1949," 1-2.

23 Ibid., 4.

24 Ibid, 6-7.

25 Ibid.

26 Patty, "Gold Placers Inc., Operating Report, 1949," 1.

27 Patty, "Alluvial Golds Inc. Operating Report, 1949," 10.

28 Patty, "Gold Placers Inc., Operating Report, 1950," 1-2 and Dan Coben, Interview with Dave Schmitz, June 19, 1997, Fairbanks, Alaska.

29 The machine shop was located two miles above the dredge at the time of the fire. It had remained at that location since it was originally constructed in 1936. Ironically, the company had planned on dismantling the shop and moving it to a more convenient location one-half mile below where the dredge was working, near the confluence of Coal Creek and Beaton Pup, where it remains today.

30 Dan Coben, Interview with Dave Schmitz, June 19, 1997, Fairbanks, Alaska.

31 The 16" lathe, capable of handling stock with a diameter of 16 inches, remains on the property and in the machine shop today. Coben Interview, op. cit.