H. N. Steele

H. N. Steele was interviewed after a season rocking for gold on Bonanza Bar on the Fortymile River in 1887.1) He had done well with two nuggets, one weighing $15.30 and the other, mixed with quartz, contained about $30 of gold.2)

1)
The Alaska Free Press (Sitka), 15 October 1887.
2)
Wm. A. Redmond, “Down the Yukon.” Overland Monthly, June 1891: 623. YA Coutts Coll. 78/69 MSS 080 f.41.