Mayo Camp as Seen
By Fairbanks Man
Jack Bellerby, now at Mayo, Yukon,
tells the story of that camp as he sees
it, in. a letter to the Fairbanks News
Miner, as follows:
MAYO.
11Y JACK BEBLERBY.
This is what I see:
In the Building Line—One business
bouse, the N. C. Co. One large garage
for the Treadwell Yukon [>eople Six
teen cabins by the people who will oc
cupy them.
Transportation—Twenty horses and
two Ford trucks at work on the Mayo
Keno road. Also one passenger flivver
semi-occasionally. Twenty-eight horses
out on pasture and live working around
town at this writing. The Treadwell
people have a new 75 h. p. caterpillar,
which if successful will spell the end
of the horse regime.
Trades—The two mining companies
have machine and blacksmith shops of
their own, as have also Greenfield &
Pickering, who have the ore-hauling
contract for the Guggs. Then there is
one small independent blacksmith shop,
which is not very busy, and a sasb-and
door shop about to open upv to say
nothing of one painter and paperhanger
with not much-todo.
Ore and freight—There were 3,200
tons of ore for shipment out, all gone
now but some 500 ions, and 3r4C0 tons
of merchandise for shipment in. of
which, at writing, about 1,200 tons
have come in.
Prices—.Lots in the- townsite 30x90
are $250 each. Rough lumber is $75
per M.. dressed $130 per M. Priees in
other lines are about the same as in
the Tanana valley.
Hotels, etc.—There are two hotels
doing a good business, one restaurant
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’s Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the.Inoka
River.
Ask -the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko; River
CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
f_
Shoe Repairing
Sign ^Writing
Paperhanging
CHARLES REBHUN
j The Handy^Man
I _
and two small cofTae houses with prices
the same as Fairbanks. No movie show
and no call for one. There is no Bign
of the boom spirit here.
This is what l hear: 350 people in
Mayo, 650-700 in the district. Com
panies will employ 160 men the coming
winter (the payroll now is about 80).
There will be 4,000 tons of ore for ship
ment next spring; that every man on
Keno Hill is rich, and that the boom
spirit is present at Keno City.
Royalty Rates to Be
Paid on Oil Permits
Juneau.—Tn a ruling made in July,
Secretary Fall fixed tbe rate of royalty
to be paid by permittees operating in
Alaska oil districts under government
leases, according to telegraphic infor
mation received by persons to whom
prospecting permits have been grant
ed. The rates range from 5 to 10 per
cent on single leasing units of 2,560
acres and from 5 per cent to 12 1-2 and
33 1-3 per cent on additional assigned
leases.
Under the regulations, permittees
discovering oil are entitled to an abso
lute right to drill on one quarter of the
claim covered by the prospecting per
mit, but the remaining three quarters
is subject tc bids, with the holder of
the original jtermit having the right to
acquire drilling rights by meeting the
, highest bid submitted to the govern
; ment, ^according to Frank A. Boyle,
! register of the local U. S. land office.
J Thus tbe holder of a permit to prospect
2.50 acres who makes a discovery has
j the absolute right to drill on 640 acres,
but must hid against others for the
drilling rights on the remaining 1,920
acres in the unit, with the privilege of
meeting any offer made by other bid
ders, be explained* Where prospect
ing permits not exceeding four in num
ber are assigned to a single individual
or corporation, in the case of discov
eries being made on each claim, the
same procedure is carried out as in
drilling rights.
Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land OSice, Nome, Alaska
April 28th, 1922.
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
Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif
ornia, has made application, through
James M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, before the United
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska,
for a United States Patent for the
consolidated placer mining claim
known as, THREE ST AH ASSOCIA
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In
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
I as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION—
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,
i 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. 01 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. VV. 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., 909.30 ft. to Cor,
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 leg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and 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
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, 8 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 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
min. W.
J. SUNDBACK
Register
Up-to-Date Line of
General Merchandise
J. H. McLean - Tacotna
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of Ail Kinds
INNOKO LUMBER CO.
DIRECT SERVICE
Seattle to Kuskokwim River
Via Inside Passage
Leaves Bethel for Seattle Oct. 10
For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co.
7 Colman Dock. Seattle, Wash.
Provisions Notions Furnishings
Indian Mitts, Moccasins"and Snowshoes
Furs Bought and Sold White Fish and Dog Feed
Dog Harness Collars Sled Lashings Tank Heaters