This is the location as seen from the Google imagery. The gold-seekers appear to have come down over the old river channel, which can still be seen in this aerial. Old photos indicate two bridges once spanned this river. The existing channel to the south was there even then, but the older channel is dried up.
The tents you see in the background would have been in the area of the modern bridge.
The arrow shows where I shot the image. That entire area jutting into the river is my property--the historic Klutina River landing of 1898-99. The bar and model railroad is straight north of the arrow. (Click).
Somewhere to the east of my property (right) was land dedicated for a CRNW railroad depot. At one time this was part of a survey for a railroad north from Chitina to Chena, near Fairbanks.
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