Template:Did you know nominations/John Beaton (miner)


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:53, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

John Beaton (miner)

 * ... that prospector John Beaton triggered an Alaskan gold rush by a discovery his team made on Christmas Day, 1908? On Christmas Day, 1908, Beaton, Dikeman, and young Murdock Beaton hit high-grade pay at a depth of twelve feet near the head of Otter Creek.... When the Iditarod opened to navigation in the spring of 1910, there were at least two thousand people ready to stampede to the new district.
 * Reviewed: Chinese alligator

Created/expanded by Arbitrarily0 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:00, 25 March 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Compact, neutrally well written and illustrated by a PD photograph. Reliably cited and long enough, submitted in time. Interesting hook No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:29, 30 March 2019 (UTC)