Sternwheeler Clifford Sifton, c1900. Transportation; Celebrations Inscription verso: The valley surface

Inscription verso: The valley surface is stripped of sod and the frozen gravel is thawed with water in order to loosen the gold-bearing gravels in the spring

Dianne Bredenberg June 25 - 1940

They appear to be eating

Note Fred G

Sternwheeler Clifford Sifton, c1900. Transportation; Celebrations Inscription verso: The valley surfaceBlack and white view of a sternwheeler coming through the Five Finger Rapids on the Yukon River. The Clifford Sifton Sternwheeler may have been one piloted by Captian John Shannon in his days in the Yukon in 1900 1910. Caption: The Str Clifford Sifton coming out o five finger rapids photo J. Doody