Shiuhyi “Jimmy” Sugiyama (d. 1949)

Jimmy Sugiyama mined on Ten Mile Creek and Brewer Creek in the Dawson area in 1914-15.¹⁾ In the late 1920s, he and Massa Sakata were in the cookhouse staff at the mess hall in Wernecke.²⁾ Sugiyama bought the Galena Hotel in Keno from Harry Yamasaki.³⁾ Sugiyama had a reputation of never turning a hungry man away.⁴⁾

In 1936, Sugiyama posted a notice on his hotel door: “I am closing my hotel business in Keno and I am going mining. All those owing accounts, please pay at once. Jimmy Sugiyama, Keno, YT.” Jimmy Sugiyama and his partner Fred Osata did find ore on their claim. Sugiyama sank a shaft on a prospect on Galena Hill in 1930, worked on it full time in 1936, and kept the claim until 1949 when the public administrator sold the property. His name lives on in the district with the Sugiyama vein.⁵⁾