Established a large stock and timber farm up-country. It was near enough to the line for him to obtain a permanent contract to supply the Railway with about 200,000 cu. ft. of timber per annum

North - Trader - Carpenter; associate of Dr. A.E. Atkinson c. 1900; arr. Kikuyuland from Naivasha 1901; arrested for pretending to be missionary in Kikuyuland July 1902; Nairobi at July 1902 accused of illegally hunting elephants; Listed as prospector, resident at Nakuru (EAM) 14/3/1903; dep. Kampala with F.R. Vincent & large caravan going down the River Nile 11/4/1903; ill at Wadelai July 1903; Land Grant application, Njoro 5/4/1905

Boyes - Friend of John Boyes - trader and hunter. Posted bail of 10,000 rupees for John Boyes when he was in prison in Mombasa

Kenya Diary - 1902 - Fort Hall - a carpenter by trade ...... he tells the converted [by 2 immoral 'White Fathers'] that they cannot be true Christians until they have slept with a Christian. He sleeps with one or two of these ladies every week.

Kenya Diary cont. .. arrested by Meinertzhagen and he recommended that Smith be deported .......... I have put in an official report to Tate about the missionaries at Tusu, and they are going to be removed, having completely shocked Tate's sense of decency. ....... Smith is quite open about his immorality and can see no harm in it.
SE - C.E. Smith - Njoro - Mar 1909
Playne - There are few men who know their Africa in general, and their BEA in particular, better than Mr C.E. Smith. He is an engineer by trade, but farmed in Natal for 5 years, after which he went to the Transvaal to work at his trade, and later on found his way to Rhodesia prospecting. Twelve years ago he came to BEA. He has travelled in the Congo territory and the Abyssinian border, and practically all over the Protectorate. His farm consists of 2,000 acres, of which a quarter is planted with wattle. ....  Mr Smith has built a homestead himself 1 mile from the railway station and within 100 yards from the line. He has also put up some 6 miles of fencing, 6 wire, posts 10 feet apart. All this is the single-handed work of 4 years. A river with 3 miles frontage forms one boundary, and over 100 acres if necessary can be irrigated. .............. Mr Smith is under contract with the railway to supply 200,000 cubic feet of timber per annum for 35 years.
Land - 1907 - C.E. Smith - Fuel, 1623 acres, Njoro, 28-11-04, Registered 22-8-07
Land - 1907 - C.E. Smith - Grazing, 370.75 acres, Njoro, 28-11-04, Registered 22-8-07

Gazette 9 June 1920 - Claude Edgar Smith of Pietermaritzburg d. 13 Nov 1918 Johannesburg - probate,