Jack Carpenter
Jack Carpenter and his partner Marsh staked Black Hills Creek in 1920. The creek had originally been staked in 1898 but little mining was done and the original claims lapsed. In 1936, Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp drilled the ground and found $1,000,000 in dredgeable ground, but not enough to make it profitable with rising costs. In 1936, Carpenter was living in the Black Hills Roadhouse on the old winter stage road.1)
Jack Carpenter and Billy Forbes were long-time prospectors in the Mount Freegold area. The Yukon Archives holds a photo of the partners at Forbes cabin around 1937.2) Carpenter and Forbes worked with other men in the area building a camp for the Timmons Corporation when they invested in a mineral deposit near Mount Freegold.3) Carpenter had prospected every gold field in the Yukon and was still very active in 1947. He wrote and recited verse and entertained at the Yukon Order of Pioneers social hour.4)