Amy, W.S.

Amy, W.S.

Pre 1898

Passenger boarded the steamer Wolcott in San Francisco, left Seattle for Copper River, 11/20/97, Seattle P-I, 11/21/97;

1898-1899

Passenger boarded the steamer Wolcott in San Francisco, left Seattle for Copper River, 11/20/97, Seattle P-I, 11/21/97; Cashman stops at Amy’s Cabin at Copper Center, Thanksgiving, 1898. Cashman in Abercrombie 1900, p. 166; Hazelet stays at Amy’s cabin at Copper Center, Hazelet Diary, 10/18/98; May 8, 1899, Powell camps with Amy, Louvrous, Finch, Fish, Fitch who are sledding outfits over the divide (Thompson Pass), Powell, Trailing, p. 146; “10 men from Valdez stopped at Co. City — Dan Kain, Brown, McClellan, Bates, Hamlin, McCormack, Fitch, Leverose, Amy, and Senders,” Dooley Diary, 5/20/99; “Amy and McClellan came up on way to divide,” Dooley Diary, 6/4/99; Part of group that found Nicoli Copper Vein, Millard,TVN, 1:1, 3/6/1901; Oscar Rohn reports McClellan, Amy and Millard got through Keystone Canyon before Rice, Young, Donwey & Holman parties did on June 19th 1899 and are building trail at Tsaina when they catch up.meets McClellan, Amy, Millard & others on Tsaina, Abercrombie, 1900, p. 113ff; QCMDR, 1899: witness for Chisholm, p. 159; Locator, July 30, 1899, p. 159; Co-locators – Kain, Amy, McClellan, Sweeny, July 5, 1899, p. 160; Locator, p. 164; Signer of Petition to the President from Quartz Creek and Teikell Mining Dist, May 8, 1899 requesting Capt. Abercrombie be given “permission to employ [on the trail to interior Alaska] those men who need work, and thus enable them to remain in the country. With a good trail those who have means will be able to bring in machinery, and the development of the country will be accelerated.” NARA RG 107, Entry 80. Office of the Secretary of the War Department: 1667-103;

1898-1900

Location notice for “California Quartz Claim,” on Surprise Cr. which empties into the Kotsina river, by D.R. Greenig for Amy, located 9/1/1900, witness, C. Simonsted, filed 10/5/1900, Valdez MDR, p. 137; Location nootice for “Tonsina,” located 8/31/1900 on right hand gulch of Mineral Creek a branch of the Tonsina about 4 miles from Summit Lake,” Valdez MDR, p. 158;

1901

Arrives in Valdez from Copper Center, The Valdez News. 1:30. 9/28/01, p. 4;