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 James Edwin Peters (d. ~1932)
-James Peters was working in Seattle at Schwabacher Hardware in 1896.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20.)) He was prospecting on Livingstone Creek in 1894.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 6.)) He was in Dawson as early as 1898.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20.)) In 1900, his claim on Lower Discovery, Livingstone Creek yielded $10,000.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 6.)) He bought [bought-out from a partner?] the lower half of Discovery Claim on Livingstone Creek from Arthur Johnson in 1913. He worked until June 1914 on Summit Creek in the Livingstone mining district. He was forced to suspend operations due to lack of water for sluicing and started a sawmill to cut sluicing lumber for a 6500' flume. He owned four claims and had options on more. He planned to start hydraulicking on the upper end of Discovery.((//Mining and Scientific Press,// 17 October 1914.)) Peters purchased the [upper end of?] Discovery Claim on Livingstone Creek from Percy Sharpe in 1924.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20, f.4.))
+James Peters was working in Seattle at Schwabacher Hardware in 1896.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20.)) He was prospecting on Livingstone Creek in 1894.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 6.)) He was in Dawson as early as 1898.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20.)) In 1900 and again in 1903-4, he had a Free Miners Certificate for Tagish and Hootalinqua. In 1903, he worked for the Big Salmon Hydraulic Co, a publicly-traded placer mining company camped near Livingstone Creek. In 1905-07 certificates he is listed as being from Whitehorse.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 49-50.))
+Peters bought the lower half of Discovery Claim on Livingstone Creek from Arthur Johnson in 1913. He worked until June 1914 on Summit Creek in the Livingstone mining district. He was forced to suspend operations due to lack of water for sluicing and started a sawmill to cut sluicing lumber for a 6500' flume. He owned four claims and had options on more. He planned to start hydraulicking on the upper end of Discovery.((//Mining and Scientific Press,// 17 October 1914.)) Peters purchased the [upper end of?] Discovery Claim on Livingstone Creek from Percy Sharpe in 1924.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20, f.4.))
 Peters worked as a freighter during the winter. He was listed as a Livingstone Creek freighter in 1911/12 and a miner and a freighter at Livingstone in 1915/16 in the //Polks Gazetteer// for those years.  He carried the mail once a month to Livingstone on the winter road using two horses and a sleigh.((Yukon Archives, Yukon River Oral History Project, 81/32, tape 6, Johnny Hoggan.))
 In 1918, Peters was living on the Stewart River at the Alberta Road House on the Overland Trail. He was a widower. In 1920, he worked on the Winter Mail Service and in 1921 he was a purser on a Yukon River steamer. In the 1920s, he was a stableman for White Pass Winter Mail Service and worked as a Yukon Gold Co. point man thawing ground ahead of the dredges.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20.))
+In the 1930s, Peters was in Seattle and hoping to return to Livingstone. He wrote to friends, worried about the wellbeing of his horse.((Leslie Hamson, “Livingstone Creek, Yukon: A Compendium History.” Prepared for Heritage Resources, Yukon Government, May 2006: 49-50.))