Michel Murray (d. 1914)

Mike Murray prospected on the Stewart River above Lansing and in the Rogue River country in the early 1900s.1) Murray found fine gold ten miles further up the south fork of the Stewart River in 1904.2) Murray died of exposure at Donjek in February 1914. He was on his way to the new Chisana new gold discovery in the St. Elias Mountains.3)

1)
R. C. Coutts, Yukon: Places & Names. Sidney, B. C.: Gray’s Publishing Ltd. 1980.
2)
The Yukon Sun (Dawson), 12 January 1904.
3)
“Died on trail to Chisana gold strike. An old Yukon Pioneer who died at Chisana, the new Alaska Digging.” Pioneer cemetery. Funeral Feb. 19, services at the Catholic Church, “hundreds of old timers were at the funeral,” among them Tom O'Brien, Chs. Vifquain, Jos. Beaufore, J. Allard, omi. LMR Vol. 2, page 243, CR Vol. 2, “S.250”. Yukon Government, Yukon Historic Sites, Dawson Cemeteries Database.