E.L. Bushnell
	
E.L. Bushnell and L.C. Palmer of Oregon talked to an Alaskan newspaper about their plan to take the 26' X 6' beam steam launch //Witch Hazel// over the Chilkoot Pass and downriver to the Fortymile River starting on 1 April 1895. The article contains a good description of the boat.((//Alaska Searchlight,// Juneau, 4 March 1895.)) Bushnell and Frank Atkins hauled the boat in pieces over the pass using block and tackle, and she was reassembled at Lake Bennett. They took her to Forty Mile where the hull was abandoned and the machinery taken into the goldfields.((Murray Lundberg, “Yukon River Sternwheelers: the F. H. Kilbourne.” //ExploreNorth,// 2019 website: http://www.explorenorth.com/library/ships/kilbourne.html)) Author Tappan Adney said Atkins and Bushnell were from Portland, Oregon and the hull was abandoned at Fort Cudahy.((Edwin Tappan Adney, //The Klondike Stampede.// UBC Press, 1994: 390.)) The //Witch Hazel// was the first river steamer to run Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids.((Murray Lundberg, “Yukon River Sternwheelers: the F. H. Kilbourne.” //ExploreNorth,// 2019 website: http://www.explorenorth.com/library/ships/kilbourne.html))
	
After gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek in the Klondike, Bushnell and Bill Roberts staked ground on American Creek. They staked Claims 4 and 5 Above and maybe 3 as well. There was a canyon in the middle of the claims and they built a flume 600 feet long. They had to go downstream four or five miles for logs and only had a couple of dogs to help. They whipsawed by candle light and worked ten hours a day. The ground paid off. When Stiles got in with Big Alex McDonald, Bill Roberts and Bushnell worked out the ground except for one or two years they let it out on a lay.((Yukon Archives, Jack Devine in Coutts 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.))