Pete A. Wyberg [also spelled Wiburg] (d. 1901)

Pete Wyberg came into the country in June 1885 with Richard Poplin, Frank Morphat and Jerry Bertrand. They passed Thomas Boswell's party on Chapman's Bar and went up to Steamboat Bar about seven miles further up. Boswell's party cleaned up $6,000. Poplin's got $3,500 according to Jack McQuesten, and $35,000 according to William Ogilvie. In the late summer, Slim Jim Wynn cleaned up $6,000 on Wynn's Bar 100 miles up the Stewart. Boswell went to Ft. Reliance for supplies but did not tell Ladue and other miners of the rich bars on the Stewart.1)

In 1893, Wyberg and his partner Bill Liggett owned Discovery Claim on Miller Creek and took out about $6,000 in gold.2) Pete Wyberg signed the founding charter of the Yukon Order of Pioneers at Forty Mile in December 1894.3) Wyburg and Frank Bowker were appointed to a committee on constitution and bylaws.4)

P. Wyborg [sic] was the original staker on Claim No. 26 Below Discovery on Bonanza Creek.5) The Bennett Sun newspaper announced Peter Wyberg’s marriage in May 1899.6)

In 1909, Pete Wyberg arrived in San Francisco with 257 pounds of gold in an old tin box.7) In contradiction, Peter Wyberg’s death at Dawson was announced in a 1902 The Douglas Island Newsletter, 2 October 1902.

1)
Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, Gold & Galena. Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 22.
2)
“From the Far-away Yukon.” The Northwest Mining Review (Spokane, Washington), 1 April 1894.
3)
Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.
4)
F. W. Clements, “Yukon Order of Pioneers Shed Light on History.” Daily Alaska Empire, 18 April 1918.
5)
Original Locators Bonanza & Eldorado. ”Yukon Archives, D. E. Griffith, “Forty-Milers on Parade.” Coutts coll. 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.
6)
“Peter Wyberg Married.” Bennett Sun (Bennett City), 31 May 1899.
7)
Yorkville Enquirer (San Francisco), 5 October 1909 or 10 May 1909.