W. W. Tinkham

W.W. Tinkham was an old-timer of the Klondike, and staker of the Tinkham bench on Gold Hill whose hundred sq. feet of ground yielded a fortune. In August 1904, he travelled through the Fortymile country visiting almost every creek where gold had been discovered and men were at work. He commented that $10 an hour to the shovel would be considered good even in the Klondike and that it was an average yield for a group of claims on Lost Chicken. Much of the output came from mines on the American side but the bulk of gold passed through the business houses and banks in Dawson as the miners could get better value for their dust there. Tinkham was looking at the country from a hydraulic point of view and as a dredging proposition and was very enthusiastic about both schemes.¹⁾