Jack Hugh Lee
Leaves Kodiak
By JO and BOB BAITER
Alaskan sourdough John
Hugh Lee, known to all his
friends as Jack, left Ko
ttk last month for Wide Bay,
tip the Alaskan mainland,
where he expects oil com
panies to begin drilling this
saauser and he airs to be in
rn the ground floor. Jack is
eighty-five years old and fifty
twoof those yean have been
0CBt prospecting in the terri
Jad Lee says, ‘‘I am going'
•a hwJd a cabin which will * do
Hr a post office for the time1
There is a lot of brush (
ti he cleared away oa my
iMvrtead and in July I’m ge
iag to cat some hay for
horses.”
Born in Canada, near Perth,
Ontario, he speaks kindly of
that country’s beech, maple
and hickory trees and tells of
white frost on the praries
near Calgary that wouldn’t
wet your shoes.
At the age of fourteen Jack
was driving a team of horses
carrying grub for the Canda
dian army during an Indian
uprising in the Northwest
territory. He worked his way
clear across the continent
railroading and mining. While
prospecting near Sandon,
British Columbia, he hoard
about the Alaskan gold rush.
After dreaming about gold
nuggets the size of hen’s
eggs he hurried to Seattle.
On the 9th day of April, 1898
Jack arrived in Cook Inlet and
went ashore at Sunrise on
Tumagain Arm. This first
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j summer in Alaska he blazed a
trail with a Captain Glenn, of
the U Si Arftiy, from Knik 4o
Big Delia and on to Fairb nks.
In ihe spring of 1900 Jack
teamed up with Hans Stevens
and together they set out to
prospect the Alaskan main-;
land. Their first stop was Cold
Bay and on the 1st of August!
instead of finding gold they i
discovered oil. The seepage1
amounted to about 15 gallons a 1
day.
That winter Jack teamed up
with Captain Lathrop and to
gether they pushed the idea of
oil development on the main
land. This was only the begin-'
ning, and during the next fi'f* (
teen years they worked p»-|
gether up and down the coast
of Alaska. >
During Jack’s fifty-two I
years in the territory he ha*
prospected, mined coal, fur
traded, piloted steamships, |
watched and felt the Katmai
volcanic eruption of 1912 from j
only 19 miles away, and pla-j
cermined on Kodiak Island.1
Only a novel could hold all of
the tales that are to be told
about this remarkable man’s,
life.
Anna May Vokacek, U. S.
[Commissioner, says, “Jack
I Lee has known me since I was
a baby. Mother, Mrs. Jessie j
Mary Dolen, has known him
since the days when Valdez j
was a boom town.’’
When asked about her re- j
action to Jack’s trip to Wide
Bay this spring, Anna May
said, “Once it gets in theirj
blood, it never gets out It’s*
always the next shovel full or j
the next pan full.’’ j
All that any of uS can say is i
“Good luck, Jack!”
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