Yukon who is who

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Jerome Armandren Chute
	
J. A. Chute was an old-timer in the Klondike and a practical miner. He managed the rich ground on Gold Run Creek controlled by him and his partner, Dr. A. E. Wills. The partners began acquiring claims, the right to operate claims, and mortgages on Gold Run in 1899 and by November they had a hundred men working on five claims.((Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond, //Staking Her Claim.// Ohio University Press, 2000: 237-238.))

By 1902, many small claims were being consolidated into large tracts of land for more intensive mining. Many of the claims at the lower end of Gold Run had been consolidated by Chute and Wills and Charles Carbonneau started to reorganize the rest. Chute and Wills were willing to sell as they had mortgages and huge debt. Charles wanted to create a company financed by outside investors to create some income for the Carbonneaus and Chute and Wills and finance mining on a larger scale. The Gold Run (Klondike) Mining Company was incorporated on 1 October 1902 and seven English subscribers were listed. Chute, Wills, and Carbonneau had different ideas on operating the mine and Belinda, for a while, had power of attorney to side with Wills.((Melanie J. Mayer and Robert N. DeArmond, //Staking Her Claim.// Ohio University Press, 2000: 246-255, 267.)) 
	
By 1911, there were only twenty-six people living on Gold Run Creek, including four women and two children.((Michael gates, “Gold Run Creek was once a busy place.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 15 November 2013.)) Yukon Gold extended their operations to Gold Run Creek in 1911 with the purchase of Chute and Wills Co. ground and the Crueger Concession.((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers: Dredging the Klondike 1898-1966.// Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., 1977: 130.))