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 A local bank chose Mulrooney to run the Gold Run Mine which was deeply in debt and Mulrooney had it back in the black in eighteen months. She was sued by the mine owners for improperly letting lays on mining properties, and the bank holding the mortgage sued her for the debt.((“As Precious as Gold. Belinda Mulrooney - The Richest Woman in the Klondike.” Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2019 website: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/belinda.html))  A local bank chose Mulrooney to run the Gold Run Mine which was deeply in debt and Mulrooney had it back in the black in eighteen months. She was sued by the mine owners for improperly letting lays on mining properties, and the bank holding the mortgage sued her for the debt.((“As Precious as Gold. Belinda Mulrooney - The Richest Woman in the Klondike.” Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2019 website: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/belinda.html)) 
  
-In 1899, the Fairview Hotel was under lease to Gates and Cox, well known and popular residents of Dawson.(("A Most Successful Lady Miner," Dawson Daily News (Dawson), Midsummer edition, 1899.) The hotel burned in the 1899 fire.((Ted Stone, //Alaska & Yukon History along the Highway.// Red Deer College Press, 1997: 25-97.)) +In 1899, the Fairview Hotel was under lease to Gates and Cox, well known and popular residents of Dawson.(("A Most Successful Lady Miner.//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), Midsummer edition, 1899.)) The hotel burned in the 1899 fire.((Ted Stone, //Alaska & Yukon History along the Highway.// Red Deer College Press, 1997: 25-97.)) 
 In 1900, Mulrooney married Charles Eugene Carbonneau, a champagne salesman and a barber from Montreal, who claimed to be a French count. They were separated by 1904 and divorced in 1906.((“Belinda Mulrooney.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_Mulrooney.)) His reputation was tarnished in the Klondike by the 1902 bankruptcy of the Anglo-French Klondyke Syndicate and accusations of his salting the No. 12 Gold Run claim.((Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond, //Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur.// Swallow Press, 2000: 317.)) In 1900, Mulrooney married Charles Eugene Carbonneau, a champagne salesman and a barber from Montreal, who claimed to be a French count. They were separated by 1904 and divorced in 1906.((“Belinda Mulrooney.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_Mulrooney.)) His reputation was tarnished in the Klondike by the 1902 bankruptcy of the Anglo-French Klondyke Syndicate and accusations of his salting the No. 12 Gold Run claim.((Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond, //Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur.// Swallow Press, 2000: 317.))
   
-Mulrooney moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in October 1904 and established the Dome City Bank with her younger sister Margaret. She eventually retired to Yakima, Washington, built a large mansion, and supported her family for as long as she had money.((Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond, //Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur.// Swallow Press, 2000: 270 -316.))+Mulrooney moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in October 1904 and established the Dome City Bank with her younger sister Margaret. She eventually retired to Yakima, Washington, built a large mansion, and supported her family for as long as she had money.((Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond, //Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur.// Swallow Press, 2000: 270-316.))
  
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