Arthur Newton Christian Treadgold (1863 – 1952)
	
A.N.C. Treadgold was an Oxford educated Englishman.((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers.// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977:  X.)) In 1897, Treadgold was hired as an assistant to Canadian geologist J.B. Tyrrell to work in the Yukon.((Katherine Martyn, //J.B. Tyrrell: Explorer and Adventurer.// Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1993.)) The Canadian government issued large tracts of land in long-term leases to companies and syndicates so they could develop large-scale hydraulic mines. The largest concession was issued to A.N.C. Treadgold who also managed to also get leases on the richest creeks: Bonanza, Eldorado, Bear and Hunker.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike. Political Agitation and Journalistic Ferment, 1900-09.” Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 21. Parks Canada, 2019 website: http://parkscanadahistory.com/series/chs/21/chs21-3d1.htm)) Treadgold’s old boss, geologist J.B. Tyrrell had started a consultancy and after 1901, was mainly occupied with the operations of his own hydraulic concession company and he put much of his own time and money into the operation.((T. West, “Joseph Burr Tyrrell.” Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, staff report, Unpublished manuscript.))
	
The Dawson newspaper //Klondike Nugget// was ferocious in its attack on the government. A royal commission, appointed to investigate the concession issue, arrived in Dawson in August 1903 and their judgement in the Britton Report defended the concession. Treadgold’s largest lease was cancelled in June 1904 as he lacked the capitol to mine the ground.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike. Political Agitation and Journalistic Ferment, 1900-09.” Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 21. Parks Canada, 2019 website: http://parkscanadahistory.com/series/chs/21/chs21-3d1.htm))
	
Treadgold went on to control Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp, one of the most successful dredging companies in the Klondike. His story is covered in detail in Lewis Green’s //The Gold Hustlers.//((Lewis Green, //The Gold Hustlers.// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1977.))