Joseph B. Dyer

In September 1897, J. B. Dyer took a thousand pounds of potatoes from Forty Mile to Dawson and sold them at $1 a pound. This was a very low price in those days. The potatoes were grown at Forty Mile and harvested by a woman who was Joe Dyer’s partner’s wife.1)

1)
“Truck Gardens in Alaska.” The New York Times (New York), 14 September 1903.