Eli Newbrook Corporal Newbrook was in the first Yukon detachment of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officers to arrive at Forty Mile in 1895.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Lost Moose, 1995: 18.)) After gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, Inspector Constantine allowed his NWMP officers to take time off to stake claims. E. Newbrook was among those who reported finding “good money.”((//Seattle Daily Times// (Seattle), 11 September 1897; //San Francisco Examiner// (San Francisco), 15 July 1897; //Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), 18 July 1897 in Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 292 (footnote #497).))