Possibly involved with mining claims in Colorado in the 1890s
Decision of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to Public Lands, from January 1898 to May 1898. vol. XXVI, pages 485-487. https://books.google.com/books?id=kc9DAAAAIAAJ
Appears in photograph with Nevada Governor Emmet D. Boyle (who was in office 1915-1923) and Nevada Senator Key Pittman (in office 1913-1940), William Sproule of the Southern Pacific Railroad and other southwestern mining and railroad magnates. NOT the same person as U.S. Army physician Major Walter Reed, M.D., September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902.