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Lowe's Fraction.
The sign reads: "The
waters of Bonanza, Eldoradoand Big Skookum Creeks washed
their gold to the gravels of the pie-shaped fraction just
above Carmack's Discovery Claim. Severed from a claim
that proved too large after legal survey, it was
reluctantly staked in 1897 by the survey's chairman, Dick
Lowe, who promptly tried to sell it for $900. But because
the claim was too small, just 26 metres (86 feet) at its
widest point, no one was interested in buying it, and he
finally resolved himself to labour. Lowe's Fraction hid
$500,000 in gold: he had lucked into the single richest
piece of ground in the Klondike. To celebrate his good
fortune, Lowe went on a bender that lasted until his
death in 1907. A pauper."
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