. The Yukon Territory, its history and resources . the Hudsons Bay Companys officer was notifiedto leave Fort Yukon by the United States government officers,as it had been ascertained that this post was situated withinUnited States territory. A post was then established atRampart House, but in 1890 Mr. J. H. Turner, of the UnitedStates Coast Survey, found that this new post was also inUnited States territory, and in the following year the HudsonsBay Company established a post twenty miles further up thePorcupine. FIRST GOLD DISCOVERY. In 1869 minute specks of gold had been found in theYukon by
. The Yukon Territory, its history and resources . the Hudsons Bay Companys officer was notifiedto leave Fort Yukon by the United States government officers,as it had been ascertained that this post was situated withinUnited States territory. A post was then established atRampart House, but in 1890 Mr. J. H. Turner, of the UnitedStates Coast Survey, found that this new post was also inUnited States territory, and in the following year the HudsonsBay Company established a post twenty miles further up thePorcupine. FIRST GOLD DISCOVERY. In 1869 minute specks of gold had been found in theYukon by some of the Hudsons Bay Companys men. In 1873 one Arthur Harper and a party left BritishColumbia to ])rospect on seveial ri\ors in the Yukon Territory,and the result of this |)rospecting was summed up by Harperin a conversation with Mr. Ogilvic as follows: ISTothina onthe Xclson, prospects on the , nothing on the Mackenzie,good prospects on the Peel, some ou tlie Porcii|iiii(\ and pros-pects c\erywhere on the ^iikon. Har[)er and his [)arly. HISTORICAL SKETCH 9 prospected for some distance ii]i the Wliitc river, l)ut not beingsuccessful they desccmlod flic idvcr to St. .MichacU, where someof them entered tlu- service of the Alaska ComniorrMnlCompany, then trading in flic \ alley. The Alaska Commercial Company for many years subse-quent to the retirement of the Hudsons Bay Company had apractical monopoly of the trade of the Yukon, carrying intothe country and delivering at various points along the river,without regard to the international boundary line or thecustoms laws and regulations of Canada, such articles of com-merce as were required for the prosecution of the fuT trade,and latterly of placer mining, these being the only two existingindustries. With the discovery of gold, however, came theorganization of a competing company known as the XortliAmerican Transportation and Trading Company, having itsheadquarters in Chicago and its chief trading and distributingpost at
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