Passenger, steam schooner National City, departing Portland, OR, 3/14/98 with “by far the larger number of her passengers” bound for the Copper River, but a few for Dyea/Skagway, Portland Oregonian, 3/15/98; [Note: William and John Williams, J.E. Forbes, F.A. Henry, and O. Peterson came up together on the National City]; QCMDR, 1898, p. 1;