. Alaska News Notes
Dan Callahan, of Fairbanks, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Terri
torial House from the Fourth division,
as an independent.
Henry Moses, pioneer fur buyer of
Alaska, is planning’ on staging a movie
play at Sitka. It will be basel upon
early historical scenes
George Kordic, an escape from the
Morningside asylum for the insane,
was apprehended at Fairbanks recently
and will be returned to the asylum.
Grub prices are reported to be lower
in the Tolovana district than have ever
been known in the history of the camp,
and a great impetus has been given to
i mining.
C. R. Brook, a former resident of
Fort Yukon, bnt later a miner in the
Koyukuk, has been appointed deputy
marshal at Fort \ ukon, succeeding O.
Spencer, resigned.
Charles Sumr.er (Nick) Carter, an
old-time Alaska prospector and her
mit, was found dead on the beach at
Tyonic recently. The deceased was a
■ member of the Pioneer and Masodic
orders.
The third of a series of slides of the
Alaska Juueau breakwater dump oc
curred recently, carrying' away about
: 2000 feet of the breakwater, accompa
nied by the stacker and about 40 feet,
of the conveyor.
People coming to Dawson from the
North Fork of the Klondike say that
- never before has there- been seen so
- much game in fchaA country. Moose,
caribou and wild ducks'abound, and
black bear are-plentiful.
An indictment against Jack Suther
land. of Hyder, charging him with
criminal libel in connection with cer
tain anonymous letters written to the
Territorial Board of'Pharmacy regard
ing a Hyder druggist? -was recently
■ dismissed in the district court at
. Hyder.
Attendants at the- Government ex
perimental farm at Sitka have made
complaint to United States Commis
sioner DeArmoud that deer have in
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Serviefe On the Inoka
. River
Ask the People.of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko' River
vaded and are eating the strawberry
plants at night. The attendant ask
permission to shoot them with small
animals away, but the commi inner
says he cannot And any precedent in
law for such a course, and advise tho
birdshot for the purpose of scarim the
building of a high fence about th ex
perimental farm.
The Alaska Gastineau Mining om
pany has disposed of a large amo ut of
camp and mine equipment to S . s &
Carlson, aoad contractors, for their
camp at Cordova, and to the Kei :ott
mine and the Prince William Sound
Water, Power, Light & Telephone Co.
at Valdez.
The hull of the Alaskan Engir, “ring
Commission launch Sunbeam has :>een
acquired by the Mu McKinley Gold
Placers, Inc., and will be refitted im
mediately and put in shatie for use on
the Kantishna river and its tributaries.
A new dO-horsepower Sterling engine
is being installed.
A letter received by a Juneau riend
from Delegate Dan Sutherland states
that while he was campaigning in
Alaska his good, old father passed
away, at the advanced age of 1. It
was further stated that his mother,
who is 79 years of age, is now with
him in Washington on a visit.
A pet fawn which broke toose from
somebody's yard in Juneau, recently,
has been enjoying the wild state along
the Basin road. The fawn had a collar
around its neck and a piece of rope
dangling from it. The deer is perfectly
tame and has been making friends
with all passers-by on the Basin road.
The Alaska Gastineau Mining Com -
pany, at Thane, recently received an
order for $100,000 worth of its mining
machinery from the Consolidated Min
ing & Smelting Company of Canada,
with a plant at Trai[. The machinery
sold constitutes practically all of tin
coarse crushing mill, locomotives and
cars.
Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alasl
April 28th, 1922
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing v
der the laws of the State of Calif
ornia, whose postoffice address
Mills Building, San Francisco, Cal
ornia, has made application, through
James M. Streeften, its authoriz
agent, whose post office address
Nome, Alaska, before the Uni'
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska,
for a United States Patent for the
consolidated placer mining claim
known as, THREE STAR ASSOC*
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW DIS
CO VERY ON YANKEE CREEK
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In
noko Mining and Recording District.
Territory of (Alaska, and designate i
by the United States Surveyor Gen
eral of said territory as Mineral
Survey No. 1274; the exterior
boundaries of said placer claim, ac
cording to the plat and field notes
of said survey, now on file in said
land office (with a magnetic varia
tion of 20 deg. 12 min. E.), being
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 ft. in ground, in earth mound,
scribed 1-1274-38., whence U. S. L.
M. No. 1274 bears S. 52 deg. 38
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 46 deg.
39 min. W., 3034.2 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 28 deg. 48 min. W-,
646.15 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
34 deg. 28 min. W., 662.65 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. 06
min. E„ 2769.1 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
84.12 acres.
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three
Star Association Placer, this survey,
a hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 3-1274-3S., and
1-1274-.; whence U. S. L. M. No.
1274 bears N. 61 deg. 34 min. E.,
2996.95 ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 09
min. E., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 898.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg.
34 min. E. 700.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 34 deg. 28 min. E., 662.65
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
12.389 acres.
NUMBER SIX BELOW DISCOV
ERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 2, No. Seven
Below on Yankee Creek Placer, this
survey, a hew spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 2-1274-7B.,
and 1-1274-6B.; whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1274 bears N. 57 deg. 43 min.
32 sec. E., 3666.52 ft.; thence S. 36
deg. 57 min. W., 909.39 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
j_ _._"m _hm™-.* —rzn-iL .I'.-gg-r
36 deg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
min., E., 808.0 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 19.908 acres.
Expressly excepting and excluding
from this application the Three Star
Association placer of this same survey,
total area applied for 32,387 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on the
N. E., No. Ten Fraction, unsurvey
ed; on the S. E., claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
5 Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
unsurveyed, and on the N. W.,
claims unknown and unsurveyed.
U. S. L. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
spruce post, 3 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
3 ft. in ground, situated on sloping
hillside in prom nent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, Latitude - 03 deg
03 min. N. Longitude - 150 deg. 19
min. W.
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