Photographic Print
Archival Item
1996.42.17
Black-and-white photo, captioned 'Str. Clifford Sifton Shooting Miles Canyon."
Original photos taken by Henry Dow Banks when he was a member of the Mysterious 36, prospecting the Shorty Creek area in 1898. Original albums in the collection at MacBride Museum.
"Although most of the stampeders who came to the Yukon looking for the Mother Lode in 1898 headed straight for the Klondike region, some thought there were bonanzas to be found all over the territory. The Mysterious 36 was one such group. Funded through an unknown benefactor, the group travelled from Seattle to Juneau and arrived in Pyramid Harbor in early spring. They erected a military-style camp and prepared to hike up the Chilkat River valley. The 36 were not nearly as unnoticed as they had hoped. Mysterious, perhaps but not unobserved. The group headed inland and began prospecting across large areas of what is now Southwest Yukon. While some of the 36 were exploring the region, other members of the group undertook the building of the main camp at Shorty Creek in April, 1898. They built a bunkhouse and dining hall. Throughout the summer months, the group spread out and prospected for gold with little luck. By September they were gone. Some men talked of returning the following year with hydraulic mining equipment but they didn’t and the claims lapsed."
https://yukon-news.com/2009/07/09/keeping-secrets-on-the-gold-rush-trail/;A wooden sternwheeler; 120.0 feet long, with 24.0 foot beam and 4.5 foot hold. Gross tonnage 291.41, registered as 183.59 tons.
Powered by a pair of horizontal high-pressure steam engines built in 1898 by Wolff & Zureker of Portland, Oregon. The cylinders had 10 inch diameter and 48 inch stroke, producing 6.6 NHP. 1898-1899, built at Lake Bennett; MacBride says it was by a syndicate of women from Kansas, Affleck says John Julian built it for the Dominion Steamboat Line Company Ltd.
http://explorenorth.com/library/ships/clifford_sifton.html
https://yukon-news.com/2009/07/09/keeping-secrets-on-the-gold-rush-trail/;A wooden sternwheeler; 120.0 feet long, with 24.0 foot beam and 4.5 foot hold. Gross tonnage 291.41, registered as 183.59 tons.
Powered by a pair of horizontal high-pressure steam engines built in 1898 by Wolff & Zureker of Portland, Oregon. The cylinders had 10 inch diameter and 48 inch stroke, producing 6.6 NHP. 1898-1899, built at Lake Bennett; MacBride says it was by a syndicate of women from Kansas, Affleck says John Julian built it for the Dominion Steamboat Line Company Ltd.
http://explorenorth.com/library/ships/clifford_sifton.html