Yukon who is who

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C. A. Thomas
	
C.A. Thomas and six other American engineers arrived in Dawson in mid-March 1906 to engineer the Yukon Ditch. Thomas became the Guggenheim's resident manager. There was growing animosity between Joe Boyle (Canadian Klondyke) and Thomas (Yukon Gold). When Boyle discontinued servicing Dawson with power, Thomas' house was the first one to go off the grid. Boyle offered town power at a new low rate and raised Yukon Gold' s rate from 7.5 to 30 cents.  Boyle's Canadian #4 was dredging toward Guggieville and Thomas feared changes in the drainage system would flood the Guggieville shops. He sought a court injunction which was denied. Later the ownership of the ground was contested, and Yukon Gold won $11,700 in damages. Appeals continued until 1917.  In 1913, Thomas cancelled the power contract with Canadian Klondyke. Boyle was cutting the power back in the spring and fall forcing the dredges to quit. Thomas had to rely on the Twelvemile plant.((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers.// Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977: 94, 197-198.))