George Thomas Coffey (d. ~1928)
	
George Coffey came to the Klondike from San Diego in 1898. He initially worked with Caribou Consolidated Mines. As early as 1901-1902, bench claims were being ground sluiced with water raised to various levels. On King Solomon Dome, the Goheen group of seventeen claims, and thirteen claims on Fox Gulch, and three creek claims on Boulder Creek were brought under the control of the Anglo-Klondike Mining Company. Coffey, the company manager, introduced numerous low-cost devices. Water was flumed and siphoned from a point on Boulder Creek about three miles above its mouth and for a few months in the spring and autumn a supply of 200 inches with a head of nearly 200 feet was available. Ordinary drifting would have cost three times a much. A description of these operations is in //Sessional Papers of Canada 1904,// No. 142, Appendix B.((Harold A. Innis, “Settlement and the Mining Frontier” in A.R.M. Lower, //Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada.// Canadian Frontiers of Settlement, Volume IX. Toronto: Macmillan Company. 1936: 232-234.)) Coffey’s drawing of the extensive workings on Solomon Hill showed an early drifting operation and the area hydraulicked by his company.((Chester Wells Purington, //Methods and Costs of Gravel and Placer Mining in Alaska.// Issue 263, Geological Survey, U. S. Printing Office, 1905: 84-85.))
	
In August 1903, a royal commission appointed to investigate the issue of hydraulic concessions arrived in Dawson. The commissioners were lawyer Byron Britton and engineer Benjamin T.E. Bell. Robert Anderson, who had a concession, and George Coffey, manager of the Anglo-Klondike Company, testified before the Britton Commission and Anderson made some comment about Coffey that he took offense to. Outside the hearing, Coffey attacked Anderson, drove him into a gutter and beat him until policemen arrived to break up the fight. Coffey was fined five dollars for fighting on a public street.((Edward F. Bush, “//The Dawson Daily News:// Journalism in the Klondike. Political Agitation and Journalistic Ferment, 1900-09.” Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 21. Parks Canada, page 50. 2019 website: http://parkscanadahistory.com/series/chs/21/chs21-3d1.htm))
	
The Anglo-Klondike Company was taken over by the Guggenheims in 1906. Coffey remained as hydraulic superintendent for Yukon Gold, and he became the resident manager after 1920. His summer home was at Claim 14 Below Bonanza Discovery. Coffey left the Klondike in December 1925, leaving Grant Henderson, son of Chester Henderson, in charge. Around 1927, Henderson announced that all the Klondike holdings of Yukon Gold had been taken over by the new Treadgold consolidation.((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers.// Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977: 134.))