Peavine's name was Charles Gordon Harvey, and he
first came to Smithers from Seattle in 1913. He settled
in Driftwood Canyon, becoming a not-too-successful copper
miner and a very successful farmer. He had arrived in
the valley with a six-month old son, Gordon.
Gordon, in
later
years, said this about the trip: “That summer
they rode horseback to Smithers with me... strapped
to the saddle. When we reached the Sealy
Ranch, foreman Bill Kirton took us by wagon over a
rough mining road to our property on Harvey Mountain,
on the
way to Silver King Basin.”
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