Cole-Dempsey claim, next to Manker at mouth of Miller Gulch; very rich, being worked by Chisholm who had labor problems; Dempsey bought Chisholm out, The Valdez News, 1:21. 7/27/01;
Dempsey mortgages to Wm. Chisholm of Seattle for $1100 gold coing “the lot and building sutuated on the northwesterly corner of Keystone and Hobart more particularly described as the old Keystone property and numbered Lot 7 Block y of the town of Valdez together with the tenements, etc. belonging there. Book A of Mortgages, pp. 54, redeemed 10/29/1902, p. 54; Mortgages 1/2 lot 7, block 7 and all of lot 9 in Block 6 for $594.00 to William Chisholm of Seattle, Oct. 28, 1902, to be repaid in 6 months (April 28, 1903) with 10%interest per annum, Bk. A Mortgages, p. 154 (no note saying this was paid);