And when we get down to
Tulsequah we find the miner-
al all staked up and was
only 8 days too late. George
. Backon and his friend was
ahead of uss so Tom Williams
got a registered trap line
and we settle for the winter
trapping. This was in Septem
-ber 1930 and in the sprindq
of 1931. We all four of uss
sold two hundret and fifty
Beaver pelts to Mr. Billy
Strong, the Taku trading Co.
Manager and in July 1931 we
come back to Atlin. I stay
in Atlin. I have done some
trapping around Atlin town up
tell March 1932. I go to
Pike River to cut 16 cords of
wood for the Dominion Govern-
ment telegraph line man Mr.
Blake. I finish cutting the
wood on March 15, 1932. I
got two dogs and they was as
good as five dogs. ther nams
Budd and Jimmy. Jimmy is the
leader.:and Budd is the wheel
dog. I tick good care of
them.

Dogs at them days worth a
lots of mony so I got one red
fox and 14 coyots worth 14
to 15 dollars, and red fox
worth $55 and 6 good linx
worth $55 dollar each. I
sold 6 linx at $330, 14 coyot:
$168, 1 red fox $55, total
$553. Sold them to late
Mr. Clarence M. Sands, the
fur buyer in Atlin.

So again I go back to work
for Mr. E.W. Pillman as a far
farm hand untill July 1932 I
got married to Rosie Tate of
Telegraph Creek and in late
September I go to Teleqraph

Creek. There I settle for 20
years. Mr. Harper Reed was

the Indian Agent at that
time and in the year of 1934
I bought 6 traps off a trap-
per at 20 Mile River north
of Nahlin telegraph station
and Mr. Harper Reed the Ind-
ian agent bought the traplin
-e off of the white man Mr.
Janes MNcdonald. There, eve-

ry winter I trapp furs and
in the summer I go to work
for Mr. George Ball at the
Dimond B. Ranch cutting hev
with mowmachine and two
horses pull the macheen.
Thes two horses being bought
from Louise Schulz of Atlin.
The horse names is Strawber-
ry Roon and Nick and in the
fall I go out as cooking for
hunters. For George Ball
and I all so go out cooking
for the Hudsons Bay hunters
for two seasons.

Finly
-t year 1948 summer working
for the Nelson Brothers at
Port Edward for 5 seasons
1948-9-50-1-52 as a carpin-
ter forman for 6 man as a
repair crew under the Reduc-
tion Plant that was the Late
Johnny Bob, Andie Quack,
Landrie Frank, Buster Dick
and two other boys from Port
Edward. The last work I
finish at Port Edward for
Nelson Brothers was a boiler
houses thats 1952 and I quit
going to Port Edward.

Then I come back to Tele-
graph Creek and in the fall
of 1952 September 30 I and
my son Pete Patrick Jack
left for Atlin. We was 14
days on road to Atlin over
the Atlin telegraph Dominion
telegraph trail. We had one

- pack horse (Buddon) and a

little black pet dog - Jimmy.
We arrive in Atlin October 1é¢
1952. We meet Malven Bickwir
at 8 mile on the Odonald
road.

I stay in Atlin 4 days then
I go to Whitehorse at that
time the Marwell Constructior
was building the federal
building in Whitehorse. There
I ask the forman for a car-
penter work and I got it. I
was the only Indian carpin-
ter in the whol crew and I
finish at November ll. Then
I move back to Atlin and in.
the spring of 1953 in May the
Department of Highway forman

I go to Prince Ruper #..~ t

Good Hope Lake, June 1956,
for the Department of High-
WAYS.

Mr. T.G. Coleman ask for me
so after working hours I see
Mr. Coleman and he ask me if
I would be interesdit in cut-
ting brush and trees of the
sides of Odonald road, so TI
take the jop in June 1953
and in the fall of 1953 .
September, my boss Mr. Cole-
man transfers us, me and my
son Pete Jack to north end
of Atlin Lak to build a glac-
er fence to ceep the glacer
off the road and when we fin
-ish that fence we move back
to Atlin's and the forman
Mr. Coleman give 75 cords of
wood to cutt for the glacer
controll which we finish in
March.

I finly got my stedy jop.
In 1954 George Jack and Arn-
old Ezerza and Peter Jack,
my son and my self we build
the Department of Highways
refueg cahins one at Hich-
cock Creek and one at the
Yukon boundary, one at the
Telegraph Creek on the Atlin
highways.

And in 1955 I build on
grage for the Department of
Highways in Atlin and in.’
1956 I was transferred to