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The beginning of the end of the Fortymile Gold Rush came in August of 1896 when 'Lying George' Washington Carmack reported the first gold strike in the Klondike. At first no on believed him. But as more and more reports of the risk strikes to the east reached the Fortymile, many miners left to week their fortune in the new gold fields. Within a few years the once-boooming towns in the Fortymile region were abandoned and forgotten. Some of the original Fortymile miners returned to the area after the Klondike Gold Rush passed. From 1887-1890 the Upper Yukon region was the richest and most productive mining area in the region. During those three years the area produced 1,200,000 ounces of gold, accounting for 5 percent of Alaska's total gold production. The report provides a history of the area.