Neal McArthur
	
Neal McArthur was a Scot.((Michael Gates, //Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon.// Vancouver: UBC Press, 1994: 77, 172.)) He came into the Yukon River basin in 1888 and 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.))
	
Neal McArthur was president of a miner's meeting in Forty Mile when two men were about to have a duel. They were stopped by McArthur who threatened to hang the winner. This account is written up in John Grieve Lind's manuscript at the Yukon Archives, in Ogilvie's //Early Days on the Yukon// and in Jack London's “Men of the Fortymile.”((Michael Gates, //Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon.// Vancouver: UBC Press, 1994: 77, 172.)) Author Walden tells this same story but places it in Circle City in 1896. As Walden tells it, the Miner's Meeting met in Jack McQuesten's Circle City store and in this case, the chairman was Jim Belcher.((Arthur T. Walden, //A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon,// New York: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1928: 49-52.))
	
Neal McArthur was a partner of Dougal McArthur’s in Circle, Alaska when they heard about the rich strike in the Klondike. Neal went first to stake a good claim. Dougal followed with their provisions and camping outfit and had to make two trips of very hard work. Dougal reached Dawson two days before Christmas to find that Neal had prospected the claim and found it to be very rich. They received an offer to buy and sold the claim for $50,000.((A.C. Harris, //Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields.// H.J. Smith & Simon Publishing Co., 1897: 84-85.))