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W. E. Geiger

W. E. Geiger was listed as captain of the Portus B. Weare on 9 August 1895.¹⁾ W. E. Geiger was still captain of the Portus B. Weare sternwheeler in September 1897. Klondike stampeders were in a panic to leave because the word was there would be no food for the winter. Ice in the river was preventing boats from getting through to Dawson. Ed Lung and his partners were about twenty-five miles below Dawson when they saw the steamer Weaver [Weare] fighting her way upstream. They asked about food but a deck hand answered that there was not much food because they were trying to get to Dawson to pick up passengers. The sternwheeler Bella arrived at Forty Mile, headed up to Dawson, before the Weare arrived on her way back downriver. The Weare was frozen in at Circle City, Alaska on her way downriver.²⁾ In 1905, Geiger organized a trading company to operate on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska and he bought the riverboat Quickstep for the business.³⁾