Dugan

In the spring of 1883, Dugan and party left Juneau to prospect on the Yukon River. They found some rich ground and, in September, sent an Indigenous man out to get them supplies for the winter. They reported rich placers yielding $150 a day each. Another party left Juneau after Dugan and returned in September to report placers paying $25 a day. More than 200 prospectors in all passed over the Chilkat River and the portage of twenty-four miles to the chain of lakes leading to the Yukon River. The coastal Tlingit controlled the entrance and charged $6 a hundred weight for packing, and furnishing guides and canoes.¹⁾