Charles Timothy Stone (b. 1906)

Charles T. Stone was a partner of Mrs. Malvina Brosseau. Brousseau applied for a 160-acre homestead on the left limit of Field's Creek in 1922. She died in July 1924 and left no will. Her heirs took no action over the homestead and Charles Stone made a legal declaration in 1927 and applied for legal ownership. Stone, of Dawson and then Keno Hill, was a freighter and a farmer, and he declared that he was a full partner in Brosseau's business affairs in the Mayo district. He had performed over $1000 worth of labour and expense in connection with the said homestead. He hauled manure twenty miles from the Treadwell Mine for two months to fertilise the ground that was very light. He cultivated and worked seven score of the ground for three years from 1924. He applied for possession of the ground as he had paid over $1600 of debts owed by the late Mrs. Brosseau.¹⁾

In 1924, Charles Stone applied for 160 acres of un-surveyed land on the Mayo-Keno road. Mr. James Hope McNeill, Superintendent of Roads and Buildings swore that Stone had built his residence in September 1924 and took up residence there at about the same time. He had lived on the land, more or less continuously from then until 1933 [probably when the affidavit was sworn]. His family was not living with him. In 1924, he broke ten acres. In 1925, he broke another ten acres and cropped ten. In 1926, he broke no acres and cropped twenty acres, and he worked this ground until 1933.²⁾

A homestead lease near Field Creek, and one mile up from the mouth, was awarded to Malvina Brosseau in February 1930. It was recommended that the homestead be cancelled, and Stone make a new application for the land. The land was surveyed by H.G. Dickson as Lot 243, Group 1054 and approved in January 1935. The land was transferred back to the Crown through a tax sale transfer in 1963.³⁾