Jacob A. "Jake" Davidson
	
Jake Davidson was one of the four original stakers on Duncan Creek in 1901. He sold the upper end of his upper Discovery claim to Jack Turner et al in 1903. Jake Davidson, James Corkery, William Hodge Williamson, and Harry McWhorter prospected widely in the Duncan Creek area after the stampede. Davidson was one of the first to stake on Highet Creek and he was the first man to find galena and stake a silver claim in the Duncan Creek mining district.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 47-48, 59, 361, 463.))
	
During the summer of 1904, Davidson and Gordon cut an all-season road with good grades from Gordon 11 miles to Duncan Creek. The road was in competition to the Mayo Road and, if a bridge had been built over the Mayo River at the outlet of Mayo Lake, the road could have been completed to Duncan Creek near Beliveau Creek. The distance would have been fifteen miles instead of the 24 miles by the Mayo Road.((Joseph Keele, "The Duncan Creek Mining District" in H. S. Bostock, ed., //Yukon Territory: Selected Field Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada 1898 to 1933.// Geological Survey of Canada, 1957: 143.)) 
	
Davidson staked Hell's Gate claim in August 1903 and then left to prospect in the Beaver River area in 1905. Before he left, he gave a specimen from the Hell’s gate claim to his partner Harry McWhorter. Even though it contained more than 300 oz/ton of silver, McWhorter did not get excited at that time, and the assays did not reach Davidson.((R.J. (Bob) Cathro, “Great Mining Camps of Canada 1: The History and Geology of the Keno Hill Silver Camp, Yukon Territory,” //Geoscience Canada,// Vol. 33, No. 3, August 2006. 2018 website: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/GC/article/view/2686/3103))
	 
In 1905, hearing about a silver discovery in Ontario, Davidson left for Cobalt and formed the Young-Davidson Mines with Weldy Young. In 1907, he staked Discovery Claim on Davidson Creek which flows into the Mayo River near the mouth of Mayo Lake and entered into a partnership with Herbert G. Wilson in 1908. Wilson later bought Davidson out. In 1913, Harry McWhorter staked the very successful Silver King claim on what was the Hell's Gate quartz claim.((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 47-48, 59, 361, 463.))