McDowell, Bert.

1898-1899

Arrived Alaska, March 1898, C1900; UKMDR, October 1898, Locator, p. 43; spends night with Groo at “Moose Camp,” 12/15/98; Groo visits Onstead, McDowell, at Quartz Creek, Groo Diary, 1/31/99; “Jack Seaman and Burt McDowell came up to stake claim for Company,” Dooley Diary, 4/7/96;

1898-1900

Along Copper River Trail between 6/28/1900-10/1/1900, C1900; Location Notice: “The Discovery” on Slate Creek, discovered and located 6/20/1900, by: D.B. Lavell, C.H. Kramer, Jack Beck, Robt. Coles, B. McDowall, Sam Taylor, Jim Manker, J.B. Newcomb, J. Jacobson, J. Miller, filed 9/6/1900, Valdez Mining District Record, 1900, p. 54; Witness to Leavell and Kramer’s “Cheer Up Placer Claim,” on Slate Creek, Valdez Mining District Record, 1900, p. 56-57; witness to H. Miller’s Travis claim, 4/13/1900, p. 38, Chisna MD.Records, 1900; See notice of protest against signers of “Discovery” claim on Slate Creek by Herbert Spencer Gray, 7/28/1900, p. 180, Chisna MD.Records, 1900;

1901

Arrives in Valdez with Pollard “after a hard trip to the headwaters of the Kuskokwim”. The Valdez News. 1:29. 9/21/01, p. 4;