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 In 1902, Lowe was partnered with Captain Paddy Martin in half of a building on Front Street where Lowe sold wholesale liquor as part of Martin’s Arctic Trading Company. Martin and Lowe were in a long dispute with Ernest Levin and Fred Trump over ownership of the land that they had all purchased from Samuel Graves, president of White Pass & Yukon Route and owner of the Whitehorse townsite. They settled the dispute by cutting the lot in half.((Delores Smith, “Lowe represented city on Yukon council.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), June 1994.)) In 1902, Lowe was partnered with Captain Paddy Martin in half of a building on Front Street where Lowe sold wholesale liquor as part of Martin’s Arctic Trading Company. Martin and Lowe were in a long dispute with Ernest Levin and Fred Trump over ownership of the land that they had all purchased from Samuel Graves, president of White Pass & Yukon Route and owner of the Whitehorse townsite. They settled the dispute by cutting the lot in half.((Delores Smith, “Lowe represented city on Yukon council.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), June 1994.))
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 +In July 1904, Bob Lowe and H.A. Munn of Victoria were contracted to each deliver 225 tons of hay, 200 tons of oats and 12 tons of bran to the Yukon police stables before September 15th. Lowe furnished the southern end and Munn the Dawson end. H.A. Munn was formerly a partner in the sawmill and scow business at Bennett with Mike King.(("Feed contracts have been let." //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 12 July 1905.))
   
 A territorial election was held on 13 January 1903. Robert Lowe, Mr. Dixon and Dr. Sudgen all filed nomination papers and won the Whitehorse positions in an election where there were fifteen candidates for five Council seats. In 1905 and 1907, the incumbent Robert Lowe was elected by acclamation.((David R. Morrison, //The Politics of the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909.// Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968: 50, 70, 84.)) Lowe was re-elected in 1920, 1922, and 1925.((Steve Smyth, //The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations, Volume 1: The Yukon Chronology.// Northern Directories Ltd., Whitehorse.)) As a councillor he secured funding to build wagon roads to the copper mines. He unsuccessfully attempted to secure $100,000 from the federal government for the construction of a smelter.((“Copper Belt People.” http://www.yukonrails.com/wp-content/uploads/Copper-Belt-People-FNL.pdf)) A territorial election was held on 13 January 1903. Robert Lowe, Mr. Dixon and Dr. Sudgen all filed nomination papers and won the Whitehorse positions in an election where there were fifteen candidates for five Council seats. In 1905 and 1907, the incumbent Robert Lowe was elected by acclamation.((David R. Morrison, //The Politics of the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909.// Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968: 50, 70, 84.)) Lowe was re-elected in 1920, 1922, and 1925.((Steve Smyth, //The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations, Volume 1: The Yukon Chronology.// Northern Directories Ltd., Whitehorse.)) As a councillor he secured funding to build wagon roads to the copper mines. He unsuccessfully attempted to secure $100,000 from the federal government for the construction of a smelter.((“Copper Belt People.” http://www.yukonrails.com/wp-content/uploads/Copper-Belt-People-FNL.pdf))
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