Return to:   "Letters from a Gold Miner: Bigger John "B. J." Bower a.k.a. Billy Bowers, 1867-1949 - Among the placer miners who worked the goldfields of Cleary Creek, Iditarod, and Ruby, one strapping young man was known as Billy Bowers." Bigger John "B. J." Bower The Tillecum Mining Co. on Cleary Creek The Tanana Gold Fields Circle Hot Springs Lodge, 1944-1945. Cleary Creek, Alaska Discovery, Cleary Creek All Cleary Creek, Alaska "1/2 Ton of Gold Dust, 12/23/1910." Ruby, Alaska, Oct. 1911
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