Saturday, August 26, 2006

More for the Hibbard Porter fans!

The archives has "Ferguson's Directory", which lists Yukon People back in 1899. Among these people is: "Porter, Bert, DC, YT, miner." This, I would bet, is our man, Hibbard.

Also, in the Yukon Minfile, Yukon Geological Survey (Minfile 105L 003, page of 0f 2), under "Little Salmon", the writer suggests that this was probably ORIGINALLY staked by Hibbard Porter, as the latter described his finding as being in the Glenlyon Range, 35 miles from the Pelly River...

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home