Charles Reed Settlemier
Lawyer Charles R. Settlemier was Andrew Hart’s lawyer in May 1915 when Hart applied for an exemption from representation and from payment of renewal on placer claims on Henderson Creek and tributaries while he was at war. He had one third undivided interest in the claims, and they were in Settelmeyer’s name, as trustee. A memo on 28 May 1915 from the Gold Commissioner to Berton, the mining recorder, recommended that this happen even through the legislation to allow it was not final. A memo on 27 May 1915 from mining recorder Berton referred to Hart’s application to lay over forty-four claims on Henderson Creek. The claims included Discovery Claim on Eleven Pup; six claims on Sixty Pup; and the rest above and below on Henderson. There was a declaration that Hart’s 1/3 interest was free and clear and that he bought his claims with cash before he enlisted.1) A letter from Settlemier asked for the exemption of seven claims on Henderson Creek and tributaries, dated 3 July 1915. A letter from the Gold Commissioner exempted creek claims 6, 13, 15 above and 1, 16, and 27 below on Henderson Creek; creek claim 10 below on left fork of Henderson, and a third of each claim belonging to Andrew Hart.2)
The Yukon Sun and the Yukon World, could not survive Dawson’s declining population and were gone by August 1909, leaving the Dawson Daily News as Dawson’s only paper. The men behind the publication were revealed in March 1924 as editor Arthur Hazelton Dever (American by birth), and a trio of managers: Charles Reed Settlemier, Harold Malstrom, and Otto Frederick Kastner.3) Charles Settlemier was the editor of the Dawson Daily News for fifteen years.4)
In 1924 Charlie Brefalt sunk a shaft for Charles Settlemier and Claude Bermingham and struck good ore.5) That year, Settlemier moved to Keno to develop his mining interests. The new editor of the Dawson News kept the newspaper going with more efficient linotype equipment and a smaller staff.6)
In 1933-34, Brefalt worked the Bermingham-Settlemier property with Elmer Gustavson.7) Kay Yasunga [Japanese?] was one of the mine cooks at the Settlemier and Bermingham camp at the Arctic and Mastiff claim on Galena Hill in the 1920s.8)