H. N. Steele H. N. Steele was interviewed after a season rocking for gold on Bonanza Bar on the Fortymile River in 1887.((//The Alaska Free Press// (Sitka), 15 October 1887.)) He had done well with two nuggets, one weighing $15.30 and the other, mixed with quartz, contained about $30 of gold.((Wm. A. Redmond, "Down the Yukon." //Overland Monthly,// June 1891: 623. YA Coutts Coll. 78/69 MSS 080 f.41.))