Meals, Andrew Jackson

1898-1899

Second-class passenger on steamer Excelsior, departing Seattle, 2/27/98 for Valdez, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/28/98; Arrived in Alaska, March 1898, C1900; Partner with Hazelet, Hazelet Diary. Arrived in Valdez fall of 1899 with Dempsey and Hazelet reporting on richness of the Chistochina. Went over Glacier in 1900 to Chesna with Hazelet, and Meals. TVN, , 1:1. 3/06/01; Powell visits claim on Chistochina, Powell, Abercrombie 1900, pp. 133-134; Power of Attorney , Book 3 (F&J) pp. 170ff; Meals, ML, Bk.3 (Bks.J&F), pp. 186; Notice of Location by Power of Attorney, ML, Bk.3 (Bks.J&F), pp. 194ff;

1898-1900

J. Meals, C. Hazelet, A.T. Potter, Will Keeley, R. Evans and L. Gillespie will leave 1/26/1900 to work the claims that Meals and Hazelet made in Alaska; taking equipment, provisions, dozen horses and a dozen cattle about 250 miles inland, Holt County Independent (O’Neill NE), 1/11/1900; Hazelet party, 1900. Hazelet Diary. Feb. 2, 1900; With partners and laborers along Copper River Trail between 6/28/1900-10/1/1900, C1900; Ben Booher’s Diary gives age as 47, weight 200;