Fred Hutchinson
	
Fred Hutchinson was a very reliable miner who came into the country in 1885. While he was using a rocker box on a river bar, he lived all summer on only flour, fish, and enough bacon to fry them with. [Amazingly] he did not get scurvy.((Yukon Archives, W. D. Johns, Robert Coutts fonds, 78/69 MSS 092 f.20.)) In the summer of 1886, he worked on the bars of the Salmon River or on Cassiar Bar, twelve miles above the mouth on the Yukon River.((//The Alaskan// (Sitka), 13 November 1886.)) 

Hutchinson mined on Franklin Gulch in 1887 and followed a paystreak that extended under the water. In the winter he chopped a hole in the ice without breaking through and forced the ice down to the bottom. He created a dam this way and was able to mine by building a fire and thawing the pay dirt. He was the first to work through the winter and the following year two others followed his lead.((Edwin Tappan Adney, //The Klondike Stampede.// UBC Press, 1994: 241-42.)) Fred Hutchinson signed the founding charter of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Forty Mile in December 1894.((Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.))