The Alaska Gold Story
A true story written 3/2017
Howard Yasgar
My wife and I had gone on a cruise to Alaska.
When we reached Sitka, we signed up to go salmon fishing side trip.
There were only four of us fishing on the boat that day.
There was my wife and I and a couple of fellows from Michigan.
The captain, his name was Blackie was doing everything himself, he was steering the boat, baiting the hooks, absolutely running himself ragged.
We were so impressed with Blackie that when we returned to Miami, we invited him and his wife to come and visit us in Florida, and the following year they did.
When they came to Florida we couldn’t help but notice that Blackie’s wife had a beautiful gold necklace and Blackie had a gold ring, a gold necklace with a gold pendant and a gold watch.
Blackie noticed me looking at his necklace and said that there was an unusual story behind where all the gold came from.
Blackie said that years before he was working in Alaska as a mechanic, repairing the trucks that traveled on the Ice road, and it was there where he met his future wife who was working as a waitress.
Once they got married, they needed to find a place to live. So they shopped around until someone told them about a log cabin that was available.
They went to look at it, and found the cabin to be a bit remote, but the price was right and they rented the cabin.
One day the toilet stopped working and Blackie went to fix it.
He removed the tank top and saw that the bottom of the tank had about a half inch of darkish mud with gold flecks.
He cleaned the toilet tank out and brought it to town to the local gold assayer, who melted all down.
It ended up being several ounces.
Now that’s a story.
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