Ike Williamson sitting on a box smoking a pipe, with crewmen from the Porcupine Gold Mining Company, Porcupine, Alaska, circa 1907
Caption on image: Porcupine Gold Mining Co. Draper and Co. PH Coll 324.2 The Porcupine Mining District was established in November of 1898 after S.W. Mix and two of his friends discovered gold near the Porcupine River. The three men staked claims and by 1899 $50,000 in gold had been recovered and th...
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