Document 67: Letter Home from John H. Lindsay

John H. Lindsay Collection, MSS 12, Acc. 82/173, Yukon Archives, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.

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Fox Gulch, Yukon Territory
April 3, 1899

Bonanza Creek is crowded with travellers going up and down....There is a great many men here out of employment and they keep running around from one creek to another trying to get something to do but there are more men here than there is work for them to do and in the creeks they will soon have to stop work on account of water running in on them....

 

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