Jack Carpenter
	
Jack Carpenter and his partner Marsh staked Black Hills Creek in 1920. The creek had originally been staked in 1898 but little mining was done and the original claims lapsed. In 1936, Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp drilled the ground and found $1,000,000 in dredgeable ground, but not enough to make it profitable with rising costs. In 1936, Carpenter was living in the Black Hills Roadhouse on the old winter stage road.((H.S. Bostock, //Pack Horse Tracks – recollections of a geologists life in British Columbia and the Yukon 1924 – 1954.// Yukon Geoscience Forum, 1990: 131.))

Jack Carpenter and Billy Forbes were long-time prospectors in the Mount Freegold area. The Yukon Archives holds a photo of the partners at Forbes cabin around 1937.((Yukon Archives, Back Coll. 90/19-2 PHO 389 #278)) Carpenter and Forbes worked with other men in the area building a camp for the Timmons Corporation when they invested in a mineral deposit near Mount Freegold.((Yukon Archives, John Scott, //A Life in the Yukon.// Unpublished manuscript, 1992: 51-52.)) Carpenter had prospected every gold field in the Yukon and was still very active in 1947. He wrote and recited verse and entertained at the Yukon Order of Pioneers social hour.(("Traditions of YOOP, famous northern lodge, carried on by sons of pioneers at Dawson." //The Alaska Weekly// (Seattle), 1947 in Yukon Pioneers search file at Yukon Archives))