Smith, Heber

1898-1899

Discovered claim Mineral Creek Area, 6/20/98 with F.G. Bartlett, H.D. Bartlett, F.W. Hoyt, H.E. F. King, C.B. Smith, J.W. Smith, and W.S. Baker. Filed 3/17/99. VMDR, 64, 102; Locator, 10/15/98, Claim No. 6 on O’Brien Creek, witness J. Manker, W.D. McGee, TMDR, p. 21; Locator, 10/15/98, Quartz Claim “Dora” witness J. Manker, W.D. McGee, TMDR, p. 22; Locator, Placer Claim No. 28 above Canyon, Manker Creek, 7/28/98, TMDR, p. 30; Locator, 10/12/98, No. 3 on Hertle Creek, witnesses W.C. McGee, J. Manker, TMDR, p. 31; QCMDR, 1898, Witness to Speddy, p. 39; Locator, p. 43; witness to Moyes, p. 50; to Harry (H.E.F.) King, p. 78; C.J.M. [Messer] has just returned from prospecting trip with C.B. Smith of Stamford CT (a shoe seller well known in New England); H. Smith (New York City ice dealer); N.D. Benedict of Litchfield CT (a photographer); Luther Wait of Ipswich MA (a former postmaster); and Harry H. Sweet of Hornersville [sic] N.Y. (engineer on the Erie Railroad). Notes the effects of rumors and high hopes. For two days some good-looking dirt made him a wealthy man in his own mind, but “then came the man with nitric acid.” long letter with much additional information. C.J.M. letter 7-14 to 9/5 in Boston Evening Transcript, 9/17/98; Witness to W. Jaynes (7/31/99); Witness with WW. Surrt to location notice A. Jones & H.L. Moore at Chisna, 9/21/99, VMDR, p. 147; Bruce, H. Smith, Oscar Peterson, Malmgren, & Leveross Arrived in Valdez 11/7/98 from interior; going outside to get pack animals and return in Feb; Brown in Glenn and Abercrombie, p. 623;

1901

Tin strike in Kotsina District in The Copper River Valley. . .The Valdez News, 1:1. 3/06/01; Donates to Chamber’s Glacier Creek diversion fund, The Valdez News, 1:16. 6/25/01;