The Main Ditch, c1920. Celebrations; Transportation The Dawson Amateur Athletic Association

The Dawson Amateur Athletic Association building is in the background

A view of the damage following the flood of 1944

Ralph Troberg is on the left in the photo

Inscription recto: Peel River Indians in Dawson with Game

The Main Ditch, c1920. Celebrations; Transportation The Dawson Amateur Athletic Associationblack and white view of a trestle. Related to 1997. 213. 1. 42 Caption: The Main Ditch (two views) Water was brought in from the Tombstone Mountains about seventy miles away through open ditch, wooden flume, and steel pipe and carried, by an "inverted siphon [sic]", across the Klondike River Valley, to Jackson Gulch and up Bonanza Creek to mines there.