George G. Langtry

George G. Langtry and Patrick McGlinchey were members of Bean’s prospecting party in the Yukon interior in 1880. They returned in 1881 and, with two others, successfully mined the thawed gravel bars of the Big Salmon River that summer. They were the first producing miners on the Yukon.1) Monroe and Langtry were only two miners on the Pelly River in 1887. They were working a couple of gravel bars below Granite Canyon, and they made $10 to $20 per day.2)

1)
Harold B. Goodrich. “History and Conditions of the Yukon Gold District to 1897” in Josiah Edward Spurr, ed., Geology of the Yukon Gold District, Alaska. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897: 110.
2)
George Dawson, Report on an exploration in the Yukon District and adjacent northern portion of British Columbia, 1887. GSC, Whitehorse: YHMA 1987: 134, 179-80.