Ruth Ferguson

Ruth Ferguson partnered with Jack Hawthorne to work her interest in the Sourdough Hill quartz claim in the Mayo Mining District. Hawthorne had come to the Yukon in 1922 to work as a teamster hauling ore from the Keno Hill mines to the boat landing at Mayo. Jack Alverson, a pioneer in the Mayo district and the original staker of the Webfoot claim, joined the partnership. Ferguson provided the operating money and expedited goods and equipment while Hawthorne and Alverson supplied the labour. In 1929, they struck an ore offshoot of the Silver King vein. Ferguson and Hawthorne sold the claim to Treadwell Yukon.¹⁾