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Joseph B. Dyer
In September 1897, J. B. Dyer took a thousand pounds of potatoes from Forty Mile to Dawson and sold them at $1 a pound. This was a very low price in those days. The potatoes were grown at Forty Mile and harvested by a woman who was Joe Dyer’s partner’s wife.1)
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“Truck Gardens in Alaska.” The New York Times (New York), 14 September 1903.
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