Yukon who is who

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George McCue
	
George McCue came into the country in 1887.((Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.)) In September 1886, Howard Franklin discovered coarse gold in an area of exposed bedrock on the Fortymile River. He staked a claim about twenty-five miles up from the mouth of the Fortymile at a place that became known as Franklin Bar.((Warren Yend, //Gold Placers of the Historical Fortymile River Region, Alaska.// U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2125, 1996: 6-8.)) Franklin mined with two partners, Bill Stewart and George McCue. They located a 1500-foot claim for the three of them and a discovery.((Herbert Heller, //Sourdough Sagas.// New York: Ballantine Books, 1967: 95.)) George McCue signed the founding charter of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Forty Mile in December 1894.((Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.))