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James Edwin Peters (d. ~1932)
	
James Peters was working in Seattle at Schwabacher Hardware in 1896 and was in Dawson as early as 1898. He was active in the Livingstone Creek mining area from about 1901 to 1932.((Yukon Archives, Livingstone Creek Papers. Mss 82/193 f-20.)) He 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.))