The area's creeks were quickly staked and most of the thousands who arrived in the spring of 1898 for the Klondike Gold Rush found that there was very little opportunity to benefit directly from gold mining.
Územie bolo čoskoro vykolíkované a väčšina z tisícov zlatokopov, ktorí sem prišli na jar roku 1898 zistila, že je len veľmi malá šanca zbohatnúť na ťažbe zlata.