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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922. at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
McGrath, alaska. mar 21. 1923
New Map of Alaska
Shows Results of 30
Years’ Exploration
The ( nited States Geological Survey >
nas uist published a new map of.
Alaska, measuring 50 by 32 inches,
which embodies the results of all ox- I
plorations male up to 1923. The Sur-!
'ey began its work in Alaska in 1889, j
•when the late Professor T. C. Russell
was sear, to examine the Yukon valley.
The Yukon, firth in sice of North
American rivers, was then unsurveyed,
though its general course had been
sketched by explorers. Some of the
other large rivers of Alaska had also
been trace! by explorers, but there
were many other water courses hun
dreds of miles loDg, entirely unknown
except for the hazardous journeys of a
lew prospectors and fur traders.
Topographic surras began in 189S
and have been continued up to the
present. A total area of over 200,900
square miles, or about 35 per cent of
Alaska’s total area, has been explore!
jy the Geological Survey. Adding to
ihis the areas surveyed by the U. S.
•ouiisL auu ueouenc survey along tne
shore line, by the International Bound
ary; Commission along the Canadian
'rotftier, and by other federal agen“iee,
shows that over half of Alaska has
been mapped. Tn addition to the re
sults from the official surveys, the Geo
logical survey, has in its possession a
large amount of data relating to the
physical features of Alaska, obtained
:roa private sources, but resulting,
chiefly from ourneyo of the indefatiga
ble Iprospector
Ali this- information has now been
co-ordinated and cempiled in a new
general map of Alaska under the di
rection of R. H. Sargent, whose fifteen
yerrs’ experience in the surveying of
Alaska has enabled him to make the
best cartographic interpretation of ma
terial of such varying degrees of ac
curacy. Tills work was begun before
the war, and in 1915 a preliminary edi
tion of the Alaska map was published.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Mitarod, Alaska
and at
705 L. G. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice in all Courts.
Since then it has been revised and is
now issued as “Map of Alaska (E)", on
a scale of about 40 miles to the inch.
It can be purchased for 25 cents from
the Director of the United States Geo
logical Survey, Washington. D. C. It
is printed in four colors, and shows
the drainage, glaciers, railroads, and
the principal settlements and wagon
roads. The relief is not indicated on
this map, except for the location of the
higher peaks. Another map of Alaska
on the same scale, dow in print by tte
U. S. Geological Survey, will show tie
mountain ranges and plateaus. As le-s
than half of the Territory is sufficiently
well surveyed to permit of contouring,
the relief on this man will be shown by
shading.
The surveying of Alaska’s area of
586.400 square miles, upon which the
Geological Survey has been engaged
for a quarter of a ceuturv, has been
difficult. Every means of transport has
been used by the explorers, including
dog teams in winter, boats, C3m>es,
rafts, and pack horses in summer. B
single season’s work has sometimes in
volved journevs of 1.000 miles by dog
team, 1,500 miles by canoe, or 800-miles
by horses. There is still much of
Alaska that must be explored by the
same methods, but the completion if
the Alaska railroad and the construc
tion of many wagon roads and trails
have greatlv facilitated the work of
the surveyors.
Seattle Alaska Letter.
Publicity Department, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce.
Seattle, Feb. 13 —Judge George
Schofield, of Nome, was a recent guest
of honor of the Alaska committee of i
the Chamber of Commerce In an ad-:
dress Judge Schofield said that thirty I
eight governmental troarils, with coco-1
ordination, each intent on doing bus:
Dess through a maze of regulations, j
oppress Alaska and make it impossible !
to get things d-me there in an evident |
and businesslike way. Judge Schofield,
who went to Alaska in 1883, urged the
following steps:
1. Abolition of the multiplicity of;
government boards.
2. Appointment of a Western man
as Secretary of the Interior.
3. Instead of forcing the pros>>ect<ir
to do SIOO a year asses-ax-nt work on a
claim, require him instead to pay $20
per cla.m into the federal treasury.
4. Abrogation of the present- con
tract bei ween the Government and the
FouIk fur interests, which, he 'Caid,
have a monopoly on the seal far busi- ;
cess of the Territory. Seattle, he said,
should bo allowed to bid for that bu.>i- .
ness.
5. Protection for Amerieau traders
doing business with Siberia.
6. A federal ofl survey for Worth
western Alaska.
7. Development of Alaska’s peat-de
posits to solve the fuel problem id
Northwestern nla^ka.
8. A listi survey of the Beriug sea,
where there are great banks of halibut
and cod.
9. An investment clearing house in
Seattle where Alaskans with worth
while rnicing propositions could pre
sent them to men who might be inter
ested ic financing them.
10. Better lights for Alaska coast.
Judge Sehofield urged investigation
as to the feasibility of a tin smelter at
Seattle..
The Chamber’s Washington repre
sentative wires that a party of seventy
wealthy tourists will make a trip to
Alaska this summer, under the direc
tion of the Brooklyn Eagle, to dedicate
Mb McKinley national park.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
United States Land Office Nome,
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
.—Mineral Application No. 0550
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
| that William Schneirla, whose post
! office address is Ophir, Alaska, has
made Application before the United
States I^and Office at Nome, Alaska,
on behalf of himself, and his co
owners, Jacob W. Schneirla Charles
Schneirla, and Edward Schneirla,
for a United States patent for the
Consolidated placer mining claim
bearing, p'lacer gold, known and des
cribed as No. 13 Above Gold Run
and No. 14 Above Gold Run, sit-i
uated on Little Creek, a tributary
of the Innoko River, about twelve
miles southeast of the town of Ophir
in the Innoko Mining & Recording
District in the Tcrrjto' y of Alaska,
said Consolhlated Placer Mining
Claim being designated by the Unit
ed States Surveyor General of said
District as United States Mineral
Survey No. 1279. the exterior boun
daries of which, according to the
plat and field notes now on file in
this office with a magnetic varia
tion of 24 deg. 37 min. E. are as
follows:
NUMBER THIRTEEN ABOVE
GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
A hewn spruce nost. 4 ft. long, t
ins. sq.. in earth mound scribed 1-12
79-13Ab; whence: U. S. L. M. No.
1278 bears N. 66 deg. 22 min. 50.
sec. E., 1003.09 ft.; thence S. 471
deg. 47 min. W. 681.7 ft. to (>r. No
2; thence N. *5 deg. 29 min. W 6 10
ft. to Cor. Mo. 3: thence N. 28 deg.
51 min. E. 701.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4
thence S. 45 d°g. 49 min. F. 808 0
ft. to Cor. No. 1. and niece of be
ginning. containing 11710 cres.
NUMBER FOURTEEN ABO,rE
GOLD PUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
Identical -with Cor. No. 2. No.
13 Above, this survev. previous1?
described; whence:- U. S. L. M.
No. 1278 bears NF. 52 deg. 54 min.
12 sec. E. 1680 23 ft: thence S.
5? deg. 52 mi’1. W 624.6 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; theneg N. 38 deg. 55 min.
W. 514.9 ft. to Cor. No ?■ thence
N. 40 deg. 39 mm. E. 560 9 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; identical \yi‘h Cor. No.
3 No. 13 Above this survey, pre
viously described; thenep 8. 45 deg.
29 min. E. 640.0 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 7.800 acres.
Total ecrp<5 contained in "aid Con-1
solidated Claim i= 19.540 acres.
Raid Consolidated ptoen- Claim
is situated on Tattle Creek, a tri
butarv of the Tnnobo River, about
twelve miles aontheact of +he town
of Onhir jn the InPoko Minina- &
Recordirg District in the Territory
of Alaska.
Th" adjoinin'* claim® are on tihe
no’-f hpicf No. 12 Above on Lit+’e
C^eek TJrsurveved; on tke south
WP^t Vo. 1 R ^T>OVp o^* T ttflp C*root
UP'jnrVP,Tf'^' fho n e**s+ OTTfl
®nu*hea<rt claims unknown and un
surveved.
TT. R. Location Monument M0
1 278 i>5 a h»wn '"■'roce nocf 9 jns
so 5 ft. ahove ground V>lu"
wi+h ^otui mound around pome and
chi'eVd TT R. Tj. AT. Mo. 7079.
whence:- W. Twin P««V hopni m
49 dc*. 20 min. E. E. Twin Pent;
hears N. 51 deer. 4 0 ?mo. E. at0 -j.
Dome hears Motth 22 do?. 42 min.
Lat 02 do<*. 0.1 s°e. N.
Lon?. 1TR do'* or; m;n W.
JO^N RTrvnRArK
Register of United States Land Office, i
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOP
PATENT
United States Lard Office at Nome
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
Mineral Application No. 0546. |
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that William -Schneirla. whose post
office address is Onhir, Alaska has
made anplication before the U. S.
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, on be
half of himself and his co-owners,
Jacob W. Schneirla. Charles Schneir
la and Edward Schneirla. for
United States patent for the Asso
ciation Placer mining claim, bear
in? piaefer gold, known and descri
bed as No. 1 Below Gold Run ot
the r’athergill Association P’acer,
on Little Creek, a tributary of In
noko' RiVer, and situated about ten
miles'southeast of the town of Onhir
in tne lnnoko Minin? and Record
ing district in the Territory of Al
aska, said-'Association Placer claim
being designated by the U. S. Sur
veyor Geheral of said Territory as
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1275; the
exterior boundries of which, accord
ing to rni^ Tilat and field notes
thereof on file in said Land Office,
with a magnetic variation of 24 deg.
35 min. E., is as follows:
“Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
A hewn -puce p si 4 I . long. 4 in. i
sq., in earth mound, scribed J-1275
B; whence U. S. L. M. No. 1274 :
bears S. 68 deg. 21 min., E., 26 7.85’ i
ft.; Thence S: 44 deg. 2!) min E. i
1291 ft. to Cor. No. 2; Thence S. i
37 deg. 01 min W. 5101.8 ft. to "
Cor. No. 3; Thence N. 56 deg. 22 i
min. W. 739.3 ft. to Cor. No. 4; i
Thence N. 31 deg. 17 min E. 5360 '
ft. to Cor. No. 1, the place of be- 1
ginning, containing 120.205 ?cre3. 1
The adjoining c’aims are. on tJ'.'.e i
southwe t Discovery on little Creek
on the northeast No. 2 Below Cold
Run on Little Creek, both 'mrsur*
/eyed and claimant's unknown; and
>n the north”oat ^ s'"-'*'ieast
claims unsurveyed -nr) claimants
inknown.
U. S. L. M. No. 1275 is a 'heVra
;pruce post 8 in. equare, 8 It 'long,
•hiseled U. S. L. M. 1275, gitatited
in the left limit of Little ( reek,
ibout 50 feet above the bed thereof^
vhence West Twin Peak beans ■"N.
>3 deg. 29 min. E.; East Twin
7eak bears N. 57 deg. 56 mmi'E.';.
Roch on top of high mountain at
he head of Little Creek bears
?. 34 deg. 6 min. W.; lat. 6.TTdeg.
i min N.; long. 156 deg. 22 mm. W.
JOHN SUNDBACK
Register U. S. Land OMce.
Big River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold
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New Dog Houses
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Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim .Valley
Napamute, Alaska,
Will receive by first boats larger and more-varied
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Good Prices for Your Fur
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
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Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim*
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Best possible meals. Private rooms. .
New dog kennels^ and the best of lower, river-rhsh
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