Douglass H. Ferry
Doug Ferry met his wife Eudora Bundy when they were both students at Stanford. He became an engineer with Yukon Gold, and in 1911 Eudora travelled north to Dawson to marry him. The Guggenheims were operating nine dredges and twenty–two hydraulic mines when Eudora arrived in Dawson. One of the dredges was at Gold Bottom. Doug Ferry’s drill camp at Gold Bottom on Hunker Creek was about fifty men. There were four drill crews, six shaft-sinking crews, teamsters for hauling wood and water. Doug was unable to meet her boat so Margaret “Peggy” Strong met Eudora and made her welcome. Doug left his horse at the Pinkerton stable downtown. He and his best friend, Hoyt Perring, stayed at the company dormitory, called Wholoomoloo Cottage, while in the town. There were hot showers, good meals and a recreation room with card tables, a piano, books and magazines. After the wedding, people arrived to greet the new Mrs. Ferry. These were the “Ping-pongs,” and they formed a social stratum in town which included the government set, employees of the two banks, the engineering and office forces of the big mining companies, the leading lawyers and professional men, the Royal North-West Mounted Police, heads of the big commercial companies and various others. They Ferry’s rented a four-room cabin on Hunker Creek from two old prospectors. The back of the cabin was built into the hill. The windows at the back were four feet up the wall on the inside and at ground level on the outside. Doug had to walk a quarter of a mile to a spring to get water. The Gold Bottom Hotel was a mile downstream from the cabin.1)