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; Witnesses W.H. Crary claim on Copper River 7/28/1898. Crary, Diary Ms. , p. 11; QCMDR, 1898,Witness to J.W. Hardy, QCMDR, p. 81; Brown sends in relief effort to bring Gardner from relief station, 4/29/99. Brown Abercrombie 1900, p. 40;