Healy's manager had written a letter complaining that the Yukon needed proper justice.
In July 1895 the first detachment of 20 Mounties arrived at Fortymile under the command of Insp. Charles Constantine. Their duties were to control the liquor trade, collect customs duty on imported goods, enforce mining regulations, and administer justice. But the biggest problem they had to contend with was the environment: temperatures of -60 in the winter and hordes of mosquitoes in the summer!
"No crime of any seriousness has been committed," Insp. Constantine wrote in his year-end report in 1895.
