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All of this helps. Thank you Heather! He arrived in Seattle around 1898-99 after leaving the Klondike Gold Rush. Lived briefly in Seattle then Nooksak were he started the Nooksak Mining Co. and interested investors from Everett and Seattle. My Uncle, Charles Franklyn Bernard, Jr. was born 22 Sep 1902 at 1414 E Pine, Seattle. I had not heard of the other address until now.

In about 1903 they had a house built on South Alki (I think maybe about 2525 Chillberg Ave). My Uncle, watched them float the lumber across from the mill (probably told to him by his older brother Ronnie). In the Winter of 1904 after being voted out of running the mine (?) he was offered shares in
Goldfield, NV. The house that he built there is still standing, but listed as the Jennie B Elder home (two buildings away from the courthouse). My grandfather, Lawrence Brooke Bernard was born 8 Feb 1905 in South Alki and they followed to Goldfield after his birth. Fall of 1905 the family moves to Berkeley, CA (renting).

Maude writes:

“We know many thousands of men, women and children on the United States disappear each year and are never heard from again, so Charles happened to be one of the number. In February 1906 he said he was going on a prospecting trip in Nevada for some fellows he knew and was never heard from again.” Maude and family stayed in Berkeley during the San Francisco earthquake (18
Apr 1906) and left two weeks after to go back to South Alki. Maude sells the house on Alki between 1906-1911 and is living in a tent on the beach in front of the house. We are not sure if C.F. (yes, this is how he usually lists his name) is really missing or died on his trip to Nevada. We all wonder how Maude could sell the house without some kind of legal process for his death….as of yet we can’t find any.
Kathy

page 1560 under Mines and Ming
Fred L Fehren Company, 230-231 Pioneer Building

page 493
Fehren, Fred L, Company – Architects, Real Estate Investments, Insurance, Loans, Financial Agents, Farm and Timber Lands, Mines and Mining and Care of Estates , 230-231 Pioneer building, tel Main 145. (see right side lines.) [I have no idea what see right side lines means but that is what it says]

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article on the Pioneer Building which includes a photo taken in 1900.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Building

Hope this helps
Heather McLeland-Wieser
Reference Librarian
Seattle Public Library

Kathy had this to say via email:

“Thank you so much for posting the information. If you would please pass it on to the person that responded how much I appreciate it. Now I have a starting point to see which company he was involved in.”