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ary 1. 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. APR 11. 1923
Seattle Alaska Letter.
Publicity Department, Seattle Cham!
ber of Commerce.
Seattle. March (1. The first auction
sale by the Seattle Fur Exchange [
proved an outstanding success. $200,000 '
worth of furs, principally from Alaska, !
being sold. Forty buyers, representing ,
firms in New York, St. Louis, Quebec. ;
Chicago and Sat) Francisco, attended
and bid on the furs offered. Officers of i
the Exchange report that a strong up- j
ward tendency was shown and all the
furs offered were sold at satisfactory
prices. The skins sold included blue !
fox, silver fox, black fox, red fox and j
nnnk. Todate the business has brought j
two Eastern representatives to Seattle
permanently, these men having bought
homes with a view to remaining here j
sso that they may be on the groimd floor
for all sales.
In the Washington legislature, in
session at Olympia, a memorial has |
been introduced asuink Congress to ex
tend the benefits of the federal high
way act to Alaska.
Col. James G. Steese left Saturday
Ifor Alaska to assume charge of all
means of transportation in the Terri
tory for the federal government. Under
a, new consolidation plan decided upon
by the Secretary of the Interior, Col.
Steese will have charge of the new j
Government railroad, the Territory’s |
roads and trails, Government steamship
service, and rivers and harbors.
“i have no policy to announce,” de
clared Alaska's new transportation
boss ‘‘The consolidation will not take
place for another month, and until that
time I will be busy learning the details
of the operation of the Government
railway.”
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The vear 1022 closed with an increase
of $20,780,401 in the commerce of
Alaska as compared with that of the
preceding year. Exports from the Ter
ritory more than doubled the imports,
leaving the balance of trade in favor of
Alaska. Perhaps the largest increase
in exports was in canned and other fish,
due to a revival of the canning indus
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Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
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Practice in all Courts.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
try. The canned salmon pack of 1922
was 220,785,073 pounds, valued at $29,
487,020* as compared with values in 1921
| of, $19,559,028. The total imports of
i lie Terrftory were $20,847,417. while
the exports were #59,887,550. All of
| the exports except $1,.'571,490 came to
| the States. The Territory obtained till
of its Imports from the States exeept
' injr $09,011.
Lumber and pulp shipments were
added to the exports, and it is under
! stood that a number of pulp and paper
companies are negotiating for pulp
areas from the forest service.
Travel to and from Alaska showed a
large increase over that of previous
years, a total of 19,867 persons entering
the Territory from the United States!
and British Columbia during the year. \
A number of residents of the Territory j
took advantage of improved transporta
tion and cheaper rates to spend the!
winter in the States.
In spite of serious gold mining re- j
verses experienced in Alaska during
the last few years, the mineral output I
of the Territory for 1922 was approxi
mately $18,000,000. or an increase over
1921 of more than 81,000,000. This in
crease was primarily due to a larger
output of copper.
The report of John C. McBride, col
lector of customs, shows Alaska’s trade
for the month of January to have to
taled $657,000. with fish products sec
ond at 8120,754, and fox furs totaling
over $60,000. _
The Chamber of Commerce has tele
graphed a resolution to Secretary of
Commerce Herbert Hoover, commend
ing his attitude In extending salmon
fisheries reservations in Alaska. The
resolution, which was signed by A. S
Kerry, head of the Alaska department,
holds that some such action was neces
sary to preserve the salmon industry.
Acknowledgment of the resolution was
received with the information that the j
department had limited the fishing to
certain reservations and that commer- !
cial fisheries could carry on operations |
only with a permit from the depart- \
rnent. Secretary Hoover has outlined
a plan under which every local fisher
man can secure a permit at the begin
ning of the season. To date 78 permits
have beeQ issued.
By the declaration of $750,000 divi
dends on the 28th of December the i’re- >
mier Gold Mining (rfPmpany. at Hyder,
brought its disbursements for the year
up to $2,250,000. The dividend is at
i lie rate of 15 cents per dollar share.
The Seattle Chamber is advised from
Washington rhat a resolution to inves
tigate gold and silver production in the
Ini ted States for the purpose of stimu
lating future output has been passed.
Word lias also been received of the
ratification of the halibut ireatv by the
United States and Canada, providing a
closed season on halibut lishing in the
waters of the Pacific ocean, from No
vember 15 to February 15.
PRESS SQUIBS.
The new watch on the llhine seems
to have an iron hand. Brooklyn Eagle.
Money may talk, hut it is certainly
not speaking German these days.— *
Asheville Times.
•■\Ve ought to amuse our criminals,”
says an Ohio editor. We should catch
’em tirst. — Newark Star-Eagle.
The coal industry is said to be over
developed, and coal prices seem to he
in the same tix.—Omaha World-Herald.
The chief trouble with the country
just at present seems to be too many
authorities and not enough authority.
—Baltimore Sun.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
United States Land Office Nome,
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
....Mineral Application No. 9550
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that William Schneirla, whose post
oi*. e address is Ophir, Alaska, has
mac’o Application before the United
States Land Olfice at Nome, A, ka,
on behalf of himself, and his co
owners, Jacob W. Schneirla Charles
Schneirla, and Edward Schneirl..
for a United States patent fo. the
Consolidated placer mining i iaim
hearing placer gold, known and des
cribed as No. 13 Above Gold K n
and No. 14 vbove Gold Run, sit-:
anted on Little (reek, a tributary'
of the Innoko River, about twelve
miles soutihea*-1. of the town of ); hir
in the Innoko Mini* g & Recording
District in the Territory of Alaska,
said Consolidated 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-j
tion of 24 deg. 37 min. E. are as
follows:
NUMBER THIRTEEN ABOVE
GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK j
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
• A hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4
ins. sq., in earth mound scribed 1-12 '
79-13Ab; whence: U. S. L. M. No.
1278 bears N. 56 deg. 22 min. 50 i
sec. E., 1003.09 ft.; thence S. 47
deg. 47 miri. W. 681.7 ft. to Cor. No
2; thence N. 45 deg. 29 min. W. 6-10
ft. to (’or. No. 3; thence N de; .
51 min. K. 701.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 45 deg. 49 t "n. F. 868.0 j
ft. to Cor. No. 1. an i place of be-i
ginning, containing 1 1.740 acres. |
NUMBER FOURTEEN ABOVE i
COLD RUN ON LITTI E CREEK
Beginning: at Cor. No. 1.
Identical with Cor. No. 2. No.
13 Above, this survey, previously I
described; whence:- U. S. 1 . M.
No. 1278 bears N. 52 deg:. 54 min.
12 sec. E. 1080.23 ft; thence S.;
52 dej?. 52 min. W 624.6 ft. to Cor. ;
No. 2; thence N. 38 des;. 55 min. j
W. 514.9 ft. to Cor. No. • thence
N. 40 dep. 30 min. E. 560.9 ft. to 1
Cor. No. 4; identical with Cor. No.
3 No. 13 Above this surve . pre
viously described; thence S. 45 desr.
29 min. E. 640.0 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of betrinniner, containing:
an area of 7.800 acres.
Total acres contained in said Con
solidated Claim is 19.540 acres.
Said Consolidated Placer Claim
is situated on Little Creek, a tri
butary of the Innoko River, about
twelve miles southeast of the town
of Ophir in the Innoko Minin*? &
Recording District in the Territory
of Alaska.
The adjoining- claims are on the
northeast No. 12 Above on Little,
Creek, unsurveved; on the south
west No. 15 above on Little Creek
unsprveyed: on the northwest and
southeast claims unknown and un- j
surveyed.
IT. S. Tjocation Monument No.
1278 is a hewn snruce nost 8 ins.
sn. 5 ft. above ground, painted blue,
with stone mound around same and
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 1278:!
whence:- W. Twin Peak h"rrs N. j
49 dee-. 30 min. E. E. Twin Peak
hears N. 51 dee-. 4fi min. E. No. 1
Dome bears North 23 degr. 43 min.
Lat 63 det?. 04 sec. N.
Lons-. 156 de*?. 25 min W.
JOHN 8TTNPRACK
Ileeister of United States Land Office. j
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
United State* Land Office at Nome
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
Mineral Application No. 0546.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN |
that William Schneirla, whose post- i
office address is Ophir, Alaska, has
made aopltcation 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- ;
ing placer gold, known and descri
bed as No. 1 Below Gold Run ot
the Fathergffl Association Placer, 1
on Little Creek, a tributary of In- j
noko River, and situated about ten
miles southeast of the town of Ophir j
in the Ymioko' Mining and Record-;
ing district in the Territory of Al
aska, said Association Placer claim
being designated by the U. S. Sur
veyor General of said Territory as!
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1275; the
exterior boundries of which, accord
ing to ,tho plat, and field notes .
i thereof on file in said Land Office,
i with a magnetic variation of 24 deg.
L>5 min E., is as follows:
i “Beginning at Cor. No, 1,
A ht'v n sr.; 4 ft. long. 4 in.
q., in earth mound, scribed 1-1275
B; whence U. S. L. M. No. 1274
21 min., E., 2<17.85
it.- Thence hi ueg. 29 min EL
1291 ft. t< C No. 2; Thence S.
37 deg i m o v\ 5101,8 ft. to
C , r. No. 9 • hone* X. 56 deg. .22
min. W 739.3 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
Tin ce N. 31 deg. 17 min E. 5360
ft. o Cor. No. 1, the place of be
■; nine, < . rdaining 120.205 acres.
The adjoining claims are, on (the
sou'h i P covery on little Creek
on the northeast No. 2 Below Cold
Hun on Little Creek, both unsur
veyed and claimants unknown; and
on the north -:st — < '•'-‘beast
claims unsurveved end claimants
unknown.
U. S., L. U No. 1275 is a hewn
spruce post 8 in. square, 8 ft long,
chiseled U. S. L. M. 1275, sitauted
on the left limit of Little Creek,
about 50 feet above the bed thereof,
whence West Twin Peak bears N.
53 deg. 29 rain. E.; East Twin
Peak bears N. 57 deg. 56 min E.r
Roch on top. of high mountain at
the head of Little Creek bears
S. 34 deg. 6. win. W.; lat. 63 deg
6 min N.; long. 156 deg. 22 min. W
JOHN SUNDBACK
Register U. B. Ij«nd Office.
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