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and they hauled their supplies around. They drifted on down to

Dawson arriving…

NANCY HUSTON

…On his birthday, September 1. In the newspaper clippings that

Dad had (it said) that on September 1, on his 31st birthday, he landed

in Dawson City.

TOM FIRTH

He worked for Big Alex McDonald (at one time the richest man in the

Klondike).

NANCY HUSTON

He used to write Alex McDonald’s cheques for him because apparently

he (Big Alex) couldn’t read or write. So our grandfather wrote the

cheques and then witnessed his signature. He (Big Alex) was one of

those who actually made it rich.

TOM FIRTH

We did a rough calculation. My father said he’d written out a

return – what we call a royalty cheque. Because there was no personal

income tax, they paid tax royalties on the gold produced, and this tax

royalty cheque was for $50,000 based on $18 fine ounce value of

gold. Our grandfather wrote out the cheque for (Big Alex) and sent

it into the government. Now, if you take today’s dollars and the value

of gold today, the man’s personal income was probably (the equivalent

of) 5 or 6 million dollars. There was a lot of money flying around up

there. A lot of these fellows were illiterate, so T.A. (grandfather)

found that he could use his skills by assisting them with their

properties, their claims, writing up lay agreements, and witnessing

their signature or their “X.” He coined the expression that his pen was

mightier than his pick. (Gold Rushers, WWW)

This is proof of how a man looking for gold could head to the north,