E. A. Auston
E. A. Austin was a former Yukon Gold engineer working in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1933. That year in March he was named Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp (YCGC) manager. Up to this point, under A.N.C. Treadgold’s tenure, the company dredges worked even when the ground had not been thawed ahead of them. Austin’s term was cut short through his ill health, but he instituted a program of development that was based on sound mining policy and that served the company well as it was developed and refined by his successor W.H.S. McFarland and his assistant R.E. Franklin.1) Austin photographed operations of the mining company such as dredging and hydraulicking using a 6.5“ x 8.5” whole-plate camera.2)