Jack Alverson

Jack Alverson was a pioneer in the Mayo Mining District. He gained mining experience in the Colorado silver mines and other places in the United States.  Jahnke and Gill, on Haggart Creek, used his overshoot water wheel invention that raised water to a dump box and sluice and supplied the power for hoisting gravel. Alverson was the original staker of the Webfoot quartz claim. He joined the partnership of Jack Hawthorne and Ruth Ferguson, who had an interest in the Sourdough Hill claim. Ferguson supplied the money and Alverson and Hawthorne supplied the mining experience and labour. ((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 3, 7, 385.)) 
The famous Silver King quartz claim was originally staked in 1906, restaked in 1912, and produced ore from 1914 to 1916 when Jack Alverson and Grant Huffman worked the drift. ((“Geological Specimen: Galena,” 2018 website: http://www.yukonmuseums.ca/treasures/kcmm/07.html))