Leo Jackson: Interview Outline: Section 12 Activities with the tugboat and Klery Creek mining Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-09 Leo Jackson talks with Bill Schneider, Hazel Apok, and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on February 28, 2002.

Bill Schneider: Can you tell us more about the -- the activities with the tugboat? How did they come upon buying a tugboat that you were talking about?

Leo Jackson: Well, how -- who first brought 'em up, I don't know. Used to come in with a barge, and they haul food up on a barge using horses. That's what I heard.

Bill Schneider: Oh.

Leo Jackson: They start getting tugboats up. Tell me they used to use horses to haul the food up, the groceries. Which came in on a ship or barge or whatever.

Bill Schneider: Uh-hum.

Leo Jackson: And they -- they used to have a lot of horses there in Kiana hauling stuff up to Klery Creek, too, the mining camp.

Hazel Apok: Who used to own the horses?

Leo Jackson: Gee, I don't know.

Hazel Apok: Oh.

Bill Schneider: Did you ever see pictures of that?

Leo Jackson: No, huh-uh.

Bill Schneider: I guess that mining activity was something up there, huh?

Leo Jackson: Huh?

Bill Schneider: I guess they had quite a bit of mining up Klery Creek?

Leo Jackson: Klery Creek is a lot of gold -- gold mining there.

Bill Schneider: Uh-hum.

Leo Jackson: Right now, no one -- no one is mining. I guess there's some gold yet, but hardly anybody goes -- goes out.

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