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 In 1883, George Pilz, an assayer from Sitka, travelled in with some Chilkats and four prospectors including H. Franklin and Mattison [Henry Madison]. Pilz took a look up the Klondike River while the others prospected the Fortymile River. Pilz and George Harkrader left the country and Franklin and Mattison stayed at Forty Mile with what supplies could be spared and some from Fort Reliance.((George E. Pilz, "Reminiscences: Pioneer Days in Alaska." Copied from the original manuscript, property of Mr. Charles E. Brunnel, College Alaska, 1935.))
+In 1885, Franklin joined Mike Hess, [John] Matson, and [Thomas] Boswell to work a Yukon River gravel bar about 125 miles above the mouth of the Pelly River. They each took out $500 for their summer’s work. They moved to Fort Reliance in the fall and planned to prospect on the White River the next summer. Hess described the route into the country in the first issue of Sitka’s //The Alaskan// newspaper.((//The Alaskan// (Sitka), 28 November 1885.))
 In 1886, Franklin and Madison prospected the Stewart River to the falls and up the McQuesten River as far as they could take a boat.((Snow Papers in Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 25.)) Franklin, Madison, and Boswell, all from Juneau, were working a river bar together.((//The Alaskan// (Sitka), 19 February 1887.)) Franklin did not think that gold could be found on a river with that type of vegetation. They left the Stewart for the Fortymile River, and the Day brothers made over $30 a day on a Stewart River bar rejected by them.((Snow Papers in Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 25.))