Gold Rush Database Sources
Placermining Applications Volume
2 of 2 (16,256 entries)
After gold was discovered in 1896 on Bonanza Creek,
thousands of claims were staked along tributaries of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers.
The Yukon Gold Commissioner's Office issued "Placermining Grants," enabling
prospectors to become miners and work their claims for "placer" findings
(mineral deposits containing gold, left by glaciers or rivers ). This, the first
of three Placermining Grants volumes, lists almost 20,000 numbered grants and
the names of their owners.