 The community around the post continued to grow through commerce with prospectors in the gold rushes of 1861, 1874–77, and 1897.As in Skagway, businessmen looking to make money off the miners built many gambling halls, dance halls, and bars.Thousands of miners traveled up the Stikine River into the Cassiar District of British Columbia during 1874, and again to the Klondike in 1897.