Dick Lowe (d. 1907)
	
Dick Lowe was an experienced and respected miner before he became wealthy in the Klondike. He mined and found gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1876. He started a transportation business but lost everything in the Indian War. He worked as a muleskinner before coming north.((Ken S. Coates and William R. Morrison, //Land of the Midnight Sun; A History of the Yukon.// Edmonton: Hurtig Press, 1988: 84.)) He arrived in the Yukon River drainage in 1890 and mined near Circle City, Alaska.((Dawson City Museum, YOOP microfilm.)) 
When Bonanza Creek was officially surveyed for the first time, small fractions of claims were left unowned. One fraction, just above Bonanza Discovery, was staked by Dick Lowe, a member of William Ogilvie’s survey crew.((Deb Vanasse, //Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2016: 133.)) He tried to sell it for $900 but no one was interested in such a small claim. His second exploratory shaft recovered $46,000 in eight hours. The claim proved to be the richest claim per square foot ever mined in the Yukon.((Ken S. Coates and William R. Morrison, //Land of the Midnight Sun; A History of the Yukon.// Edmonton: Hurtig Press, 1988: 84.)) 
	
Mining engineer J.B. Tyrrell was at Dick Lowe's claim during a clean-up in 1898. The gold filled six gold pans, piled up with coarse gold. Each pan weighed from forty to fifty pounds and the total assessed value was $40,000. Joe Irvine was the foreman on Dick Lowe's claim on Bonanza Creek. There is a photo in the Tyrrell Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of Irvine holding a gold pan with 40 oz. of gold in July 1898.((Katherine Martyn,// J.B. Tyrrell: Explorer and Adventurer.// Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1993: 49.))	
	
Lowe arrived in San Francisco in October 1898 on the steamer //Cottage City.// A San Francisco newspaper reported that Lowe was the richest passenger, having recovered $250,000 from his Bonanza Creek claim.((“Dick Lowe brings gold from Klondike.” //San Francisco Call// (San Francisco), 29 October 1898. California Digital Newspaper Collection, Volume 84, Number 151. 2018 website: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18981029.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1)) 
	
Some of Lowe’s gold was stolen from his claim and some of his money was spent in the saloons of Dawson and Grand Forks. He tried to win back his wealth in other gold rushes but finally died in poverty at Fairbanks, Alaska.((Pierre Burton, //Klondike The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899.// McClelland and Stewart, 1972 revised edition: 397.))