. Alaska News Notes
H. I. (Cow) Miller, of Fairbanks, has
been appointed overseer for the Alaska
Road Commission gangs in the Kan
' tishna section.
The Ketchikan sawmill, Eldon J.
Daly, manager, has secured an order
for 2,000,000 feet of spruce lumber for
shipment to Australia.
The first broadcasting radio tele
phone set north of fifty-three was in
stalled at Nome recently by Captain C.
H. Burkhead, of' the U. S. Army Sig
nal Corps.
It has been decided by the board of
regents of'the Alaska Agricultural Col
lege to beautify the grounds. Three
acres of ground surrounding the school
have been seeded with blue grass and
the buildings painted
Seventy-five thousand pounds of hal
i ibut-were brought into Seward a few
< davs ago from the-banks'outside. The
• schoonew Roald-' Amundsen had 22,000
> pounds, the Gladstone 22,000, the Dem
ocrat-24,000, andf the Sundvig 7.000
pounds.
While the steamer Admiral Evans
was at Aiitak -recently a large whale
was entangled in the trap of the com
< pany*there and two tugs were trying to
get it out. At every swish of the
« cetacean’s tail part of the trap would
go and considerable damage was being
done.
Former United States Marshal L. T.
. Erwin, of Fairbanks, who recently un
> derwente. serious operation at Roches
f ter,-Minn.,► has» 'informed , Fairbanks
if friaBdg of -his -recovery. He has been
*> -discharged from the hospital as cured,
. and writes that he may make a trip to
Blaska this-year.
It is .reported that Clark Davis, who
is developing coal lands and building a
railroad from the coast to the Bering
t rivercoal fields, has raised $1,500,000
to complete the worby'-which includes a
y $600,000- wharf that will give Katalla
. good harbor facilities, aDd he is now on
the ground to proseoute the work.
Herb Miller, working on the Idaho
•. group, known also as the Burns &
Miller claims on. Little Eldorado, in
i t he Fairbanks district, has a gang of
t welve men at work and has launched
into more extensive operations than
h ave been recorded on that creek in
recent years. He- is looking forward
i to a successful season and a substantial
output from- the old creek.
An effort 13 being made by the Ne
nanacity council todnduce the Alaska
/ Road Commission to open up adjacent
farm 1 ands by the construction of a
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Fairview, Innoko River
wagon road from Nenana to some point
soutij of the town, of sufficient .aogth
to tap the large agricultural lands
traversed by the Alaska railroad. The
land is now practically inaccessible for
the lack of such a road as has been re
quested.
D. Kleinstarink, known as "Steam
Shovel Dick,” died at Nome recently,
after an illness of some time. He was
found in his cabin, unconscious and
paralyzed, and taken to the hospital,
where be later passed away. He was
a native of Holland, a botanist by edu
cation, but followed mining since com
ing to Alaska. He was at Ham part in
1898, and went to Nome in 1900, where
he resided until his death.
Many fish trap robberies have been
brought to the attention of the federal
authorities at J-uoeau, according to a
statement made by U.'S. Attorney A.
C. Shoup. The robberies are spread
over almost all of Southeastern Alaska.
In one day recently nine robberies
were reported from Ketchikan, all ]
jrora traps located in that district, and
iu addition to these a number of rob
beries have been reported from traps
in Chatham strait and in the vicinity
of Sitkoh bay.
According to advices brought to Ne
nana recently, Rudolph Lambert and
Alois Keim, two well known old-time
prospectors of that region, were re
cently called by death, Lambert's
body, which was in an advanced stage
of decomposition, was found by a
searching party composed of Dan Koch,
Chris Nelson and Charles Christensen,
at the head of Little Moose creek, on
June 11. He had last been seen on
Mav 15, when he visited the camp of
Charles Rawlius on CaoyoD creek.
Keim became ill about May 25, and wae
alone in his cabin for a number of days
until Mike Lodi came along and ren
dered what assistance he could. Lodi
sent a message to Eureka, 35 miles dis
tant. bv Charles Rawlins, but when i
the messenger returned with medicine
nrovided by Dr. Sutherland, Keim was
dead.
Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska
April 28th, 1922. j
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing un
der the laws of the State of Calif
ornia, whose postoffice address is j
Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif
ornia, has made application, through !
James M. Streeften, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is1
Nome, Alaska, before the United j
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska, j
for a United States Patent for the!
consolidated placer mining claim |
known as, THREE STAR ASSOCIA
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In-j
noko Mining and Recording District,,
Territory of Alaska, and designated
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;t
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of '
34.12 acres. j
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three j
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. 99
min. E., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 898.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thenoe 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., 909.30 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 deg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
land place of beginning, containing
an area of 19.998 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
IN. E., No. Ten Fraction, unsurvey
ed; on the S. E., claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
T> I Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
wnsurveyed, and on the N. W.,
elaims unknown and unsurveyed.
U. >S. L. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
spruce ipost, 3 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
3 ft. in ground, situated on sloping
hillside in ^prominent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, Latitude - 63 deg.
03 mifi. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 1?
min. W.
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