Andrew(?) Anderson

Captain Anderson was working under fur trader Francois Mercier in the 1870s. About 1879, Francois Mercier towed Jack McQuesten's goods to Ft. Reliance when McQuesten’s boat proved to be unworthy. Mercier then travelled down to Charley's Camp and started a station for McQuesten's opposition and then returned to St. Michael and left Anderson in charge. McQuesten heard that fall about men in boats at the headwaters of the Yukon River. McQuesten supposed them to be prospectors and Densmore and Slim Jim came in about that time. When he returned in the spring, he found that high ice had jammed in the slough at Ft. Yukon and smashed the boat. McQuesten thought there was not much lost as she was very old and liable to blow up at any time. For the last three years McQuesten had been running her  above Tanana Station.((McQuesten letter, Snow Collection. AHC; Yukon Archives, George Snow 80/89 reel #47.))  

McQuesten recalled that he met the steamer //St. Michael// returning from Fort Reliance. Captain Anderson had expected a large number of furs but got but a very few and so, disgusted with the First Nation trappers, he took the windows and stove out of his house and abandoned the station.((Jack McQuesten, “Recollections” page 10 in Terry Haynes, “The Best Days are Gone: A Visit to Alaska’s Fortymile.” Bureau of Land Management, September 1977: 82.)) [This might have been sometime between 1881 and 1886.] 

Andrew Anderson ran the Meat (or Beef) Cache Roadhouse on the Yukon River about four kilometres below Big Creek. The roadhouse got its name during the winter of 1899-1900 when Anderson kept about 8 tons of beef for Dumbarton and Gardiner. Charles Emmet Carpenter settled a mile above this roadhouse in 1902, on five acres of land just inland from the slough on the old wagon road. Carpenter ran a roadhouse for several years.((Malcolm's Murder in the Yukon quoted in Mike Rourke, //Yukon River: Marsh Lake to Dawson City.// Houston B.C.: Rivers North Publications, 1997: 114.))