John Fax John Fax owned a two-acre farm on Klondike Island. His neighbour, Hanry Daum, had a one-acre farm. Fax had 5,000 head of cabbage, 1000 celery plants and half an acre in potatoes. He also has a ton of carrots and lots of radishes, green onions, lettuce and other small truck. The Dawson newspaper reported that he kept four tons for winter use.(("Home Grown Vegetables." //The Semi-Weekly Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 11 September 1901.)) A 1901 photograph, sold as a postcard, shows [brothers?] Nicholas and John Fax in their vegetable garden on an island in the Yukon River.((Nicholas Fax photo, 1909. Photographer Adams and Larkin. Dawson City Museum, 1984.77.6.))