Joseph Samuel Peters
Joseph S. Peters located a claim on Lower Dominion near Dawson in April 1899.1) In 1898 or 1899, Peters and George Black discovered gold on Livingstone Creek. The partners mined 200 ozs. in four weeks.2)
Clem Emminger talked about the Livingstone strike. He said there were five people involved with the discovery of gold at Livingstone: Louis Kiser, George Black, Bob Chestnut, Joe Peters, and someone else. They came from Dawson and from Big Salmon. They found some but not much at Mendocina Creek and then they found Cottoneva Creek where they found the best prospects. They called the creek Cottoneva because Louis Kiser was from Cottoneva county in California. Then they found better gold on Livingstone Creek. They sent someone down to Dawson via Big Salmon to record the five claims. After the man had left they found that the richest claims were the ones recorded for the Crown – ten for them, and ten for the crown was the rule. The Northern Commercial Co. then proceeded to buy that rich ground from the Crown. George Black must have sold his claim because Emminger never heard of him working there.3) Burs, Chestnut and Peters engaged in running a tunnel with the hopes of striking the Livingstone bedrock in November 1901.4)
Joseph Samuel Peters was given Free Miner's Certificates in 1903/04 and 1905/06. He was listed as being in Hootalinqua, on the Yukon River near the mouth of the Teslin River, in 1903/04, and in Whitehorse in 1905/06. He was listed as a Livingstone miner in 1911/12 and 1915/16 in the Polks Gazetteers.