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moose and fish; every season when the berries were ripe, my brother and cousins would go out picking blueberries and raspberries along with low-bush cranberries. Our garden was a continuous job to work on; it was huge. We always had fresh brown eggs from our chickens and kept a horse for years. Most of the moose we got, dad shot off the porch, but a lot of them he got up in the Gilmore country. Mom kept records in the '50s, and the budget was about $200 a month, with most of the expense being gasoline and electricity. Mom worked continuously, and she knew how to do everything in a homesteader lifestyle. In winter we'd go to relatives or neighbors and Mom and Dad would play canasta or pinochle with them. Everyone had a social life back then. You just didn't sit in front of the TV. Nobody needed a lot of money back then, and we were all self-sufficient. OLD BONES In the late '50s we'd go out to Engineer Creek up the Steese Highway and look for prehistoric bones. Like many locals, we knew about the old bones in the frozen muck and tailings. We knew where every old cabin in the area was, and we'd scrounge old bottles and junk around the abandoned cabins and ghost towns. Mom and Dad would bring back gravel from Olnes so we could pan gold during the winter months. That's what we did for recreation. When I was 10, I built my first sluice box with my dad's table saw. I took it out to Engineer Creek, and there was some good gold in the clay -- lots of little nuggets. When I was 13 I got into motorcycles, and we'd drive out the mining trails and spend our time collecting rocks and old rusted iron. In the summer of 1967 Fairbanks flooded, and the water had come right up to the Birch Hill Cemetery entrance on the Steese Highway and clear out to the Fairbanks airport. It rained and rained until everything was really saturated -- then it really dumped! They needed people to run around during the flood and check on people, so my brother and I would ride our motorcycles out on McGrath Road and out the Steese checking on people. FINDING PAYDIRT Eventually I went to college and got my degree in forestry and worked for the state, but gold beckoned me. My cousin Ray and I had been gold prospecting up the Chena River at Van Curler's Bar where we had a claim just below the old runway. One time we ended up staying up the Chena three weeks because it rained so hard. We were running out of food and ended up eating bouillon cubes. Ray and I stayed in a 6-by-8 cabin on Sullivan Creek and were always paranoid about grizzlies, especially when they'd leave tufts of hair on the outside logs. At Palmer Creek not far away, I ended up killing a charging grizzly. In the '80s we sold 72 mining claims near Gilmore Dome to the guys that put together Fort Knox gold mine. We did quite well on that, and eventually we built a lodge on the old homestead with the proceeds. Then we bought 13 patents on Dome Creek and mined old drift mine tailings, which were real good.PDF Image | Chena Hot Springs Road
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