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The Mayo district had been known only as a gold producing area until ca. 1916. Fred Bradley, a metallurgist and President of the Treadwell Company, was interested in exploring and mining silver in the Mayo area. He hired Livingston Wernecke, a young mining engineer to explore and deal in this area on the Company's behalf. Through Wernecke's efforts the Treadwell Yukon operations were always profitable, until the Second World War made operation difficult. Operations closed down October 21, 1941 and Wernecke and his pilot Chuck Gropstics were killed in a plane crash, October 31, 1941. The mining camp was stripped, then the mill, tramline and buildings were sold in 1946 to United Keno Hill Mines who resumed operations in the area.
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