. Alaska News Notes
Four hundred and twenty-five appli
. cations for homesteads have been acted
upon by officers of the Chugach Na
tional Forest since, the.setting aside, of
that forest.
The heavy snowfall, is driving the
timber wolves out of. the mountains
. and into the lowlands,. according to
prospectors in the vicinity, of Juneau.
The animalSjUre said to be unusually
. bold.
A specially constructed seaplane, to
. carry ten passengers, is being con
structed at Kevport, N. J., to be. used
by a party of wealthy prospectors who
. will visit the Arctic Circle nest sum
mer.
Arguments have started at Juneau
in the suit started by the city against
tho Alaska Electric Light and Power
Company, which recently raised its
rates.without authority from the city
. council.
Otto KoppeD, fur rancher of Katalla,
stated that he and partner had intro
. duced marten and other fur bearers on
Big Kayak island, but that some mis
. creaats had introduced poison and
cleaned them out
Ed Laherty, who was badly frozen
last winter and has been in the hospital
at Neoana, is getting along finely, forty
pieces of skin having been grafted to
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35c Lb.
v Send Orders to
A. H. Twitchell
Ophir, Alaska
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Auk the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
| iiis knees, nil but one growing. Ilisl
| hands, also operated upon by Dr.
| Homig, are mending nicely.
j Louis Duller., a Seattle junk dealer, i
; aod B. Levine, buyer for the North
: west Steel & Metal 1’roducts Company,
i are in Juneau to buy the remaining
I equipment of the Thane null of the
! Alasku-Gastineau Compauy.
Ketchikan is to have a new hospital,
which is to be operated by Catnoiic
Sisters. The mother superior is com
ing from Vancouver, one of the sisters
j is coining from New Jersey, and an
l other of the stall' will be Sister Jer- i
I tnaiue, formerly connected with the
Seward general hospital.
President Charles E. Bunnell, of the
Alaska Agricultural College & School i
of Mines, has been granted an increase ,
iu his salary of 4i.U(X) a year, which
under the new' arrangement will total
I 40,000. The members of the board ex- :
press themselves as well pleased with
the manner iu which the college is
being conducted.
„ The vigorous prosecution of Coast
aud Geodetic Survey activities in the
i Territory, establishment of a lirsl class
I seismological station at Sitka in con
| nection with earthquake iuvestiga
| tions, and purchase ot a supply base at1
j Dutch Harbor, are features of the au
| dual report of Col. E. Lester Jones, cli
j rector of the bureau, in his annual re
j port to ihe Secretary of the Interior.
The Alaska Electric Light A. Powei
! Company, at Juneau, is now broadcast
j iDg programs every evening from ns
plant, between the hours ot 4 aud 6
o’clock and.uUt) and 9 o’clock. Vocal
and instrumental music, short talks on
topics of the day by Leal speakers ana
interesting dews items make up the j
programs. A number of receiving sets
have been installed by residents of ihe
channel towns, and a surprisingly large
number of amateur sets have been set j
up by the boys uj the town.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOl!
PATENT
United States Land Office Nome,
Alaska, April 22, 1922.
Mineral Application No. 0547
NOTICE IS HEHEBY GIVEN
that William Schneirla, whose post
office address is Ophir, Alaska, ha."
I made application before the United
States Land Office at Nome Aiasia,
on behalf of himself, and his co
owners, Jacob W. Sshneirla, Charles
Schneirla and Edward Schneirla, for
a United States patent for the Con
solidated placer mining claim bear
ing placer gold, known and des
cribed as No. 1 above Gold Run;
No. 2 Above. Gold Run and the
Ferron Fraction on Little Creek in
the Innoko Mining & Recording
District in the Territory of Alas
ka, which said Consolidated claim
is described by the United States
Surveyor General of said District
as Mineral Survey No. 1276, the ex
terior boundries of which, accord
ing to the plat and field notes now
on file in this office with a var
iation of 24 deg. 35 min. E. are as
follows:
NUMBER TWO ABOVE GOLD
RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
A hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 in., sq., in earth mound, scribed
1-1276 2 Ab; whence; U. S. L. M.
No. 1278 bears S. 57 deg. 35 min.
58 sec W., 5788.01 ft.; thence N.
51 deg. 39 min. W. 1181.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 2; thence N. 65 deg. 57
min. E. 699.35 ft. to Cor. N. 3.;
thence S. 57deg. 21 min. E. 1082.
3 ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55
deg. 13 min. W. 760.15 ft. to Cor.
No. 1, place of beginning contain
ing 17.124 acres.
NUMBER ONE ABOVE GOLD
RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
Identical with Cor. No. 4 No.
Two Above on Little Creek Placer,
this survey, previously described
Whence U. S. L. M. 1276 bears S.
57 deg. 19 min. 22 sec. W. 6547.58
ft.; thenpe 57 deg. 21 min. W.
1082.3 ft. to Cor. No. 2; identical
with Cor. No. Three Above on
Little Creek Placer, this survey,
previously described; thence N. 34
deg. 35 min. E. 822.0. To Cor. No. 3
thence S. 70 deg. 41 min. E. 802.2o
ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 17 deg.
27 min. W. 1043 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, containing;
an area ot 19.8U5 acres.
FERKON FRACTION PLACER
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
identical with Cor. No. 4, No.
Two Above on Little Creek Placer
and Cor. No. 1. No. One Above on j
Little Creek Placer, this survey, |
previously described; whence:- U. S.
L. M. No. 1278 bears S. 57 deg.
19 min. 22 sec. W. 6547.58 ft.;
thence N. 17 deg. 27 min. E. 1043
ft. to Cor. No. 2; identical with
Cor No. 4 No One Above, this sur
vey previously described; thence
S. 66 deg. 24 min. E. 112.2 ft. to
Cor. No. 3; thence S. 23 deg. 38
min. W. 1036.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1
to place of beginning, containing
an area of 1.336 acres.
Total Area included in the Con
solidated Claim 38.265 acres.
Said Consolidated Placer Claim is
situated on unsurveyed ground on
Little Creek, a tributary of Innoko
River, a tributary of' the Yukon
River, about ten miles southeast of
the town of Ophir in the Innoko
Mining & Recording District in
said Territory.
The adjoining claims are on the
northeast the Gold Run Associa
tion Claim on Little Creek unsur
veyed; on the southwest No. 3 a
bove Gold Run on Little Creek
unsurveyed; on Lhe northwest and
southeast claims unknown and un
surveyed.
U. S. Location Monument No.
1278 is hewn spruce post 8 in. sq.
5 ft. above ground, painted blue,
with stone mound around same,
and chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 1278;,
whence:- W. Twin Peak bears N.
49; 30 min. E. E. Twin Peak bears
N. 51 dag- 40 min. E. No. 1-Dome
bears N.^23 deg. 4> min. E.
Lat. 63 deg. 04 min. N.
Long. 156 deg. 25 min. W.
■JOHN SUNDBACKr
Register of CJni'ed Si»:e« Laud Office.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
Mineral Application No. 0548 I
United States Land Office at Nome
Alaska. April 22, 1U22.
Not let. IS HEriEBY GIVEN
that William Schneir.a, whose post
aft'ice address is upinir, Alaska, has
made application before the U. S.
Land Utiice at Nome, Alaska on
behalf of himself ami his co-owneis
Jacob W. bchneirla, Charles Schneir
la and Edward Schneiria, for a
United States patem for the Con
solidated Placer mining claim, bear
ing piacer gold, known and des
cribed as No. 0 Above, No. 5 A
bove, and No. 4 Above Gold Run
Placers, on Little Creek, a tri
butary of the Innoko River, and
situated about eleven miles south
east of the town of Ophir, in the
[nnoko Mining and Recording Dis
trict, Territory of Alaska, said Con
solidated Placer mining claim be
ing designated by the U. S. Sur
veyor General of Alaska as U. S.
Mineral Survey No. 1277; the ex
terior boundaries of which, accord
ing to the plat and field notes of
said survey now on file in the
said U. S. Land Office at Nome,
Alaska, with a magnetic variation
of 24 deg. 31 min. E., heing as
follows:
NO. 6 ABOVE GOLD RUN.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1;
A newn spiuee post. 4 ft. long, 4 in.
sq., in earth mound scribed 1-1277
Ab whence U. S. L M. No. 1278
bears S. 53 deg. 13 min. W. 3260.6 .
ft.
Thence N. 39 deg. 25 min. W.
533.1 ft. to Cor No. 2 whence Cor.
No. 4 of No. 8 Above, survey 1278,
bears S. 14 deg. W. 1002.8 ft. dfs
tant; Thence N. 44 deg. 2 min E.
511.2 ft. to Cor. No 3; Thence
3. 29 deg. 9 min. E. 621.9 ft.
to Cor. No. 4; Thence S. 58 deg.
28 min. W. 397.6 ft. to Cor No.
1 the place of biginning, contain
ing an area of 5.922 acres.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, which
is identical with Cor. No. 4 of No.
3 Above, this survey; whence U.
3. L. M. No. 1278 bears S. 53 deg.
14 min. 37 sec, ‘ W. 3658.18 ft.;
rhence N. 29 defe. 9 min. W. 621.9
ft. to Cor. No. 2, dientica! with Cor.
No. 3 of No. 6 Aboove, this survey;
rhence N. 64 deg. 55 min. E. 671.7
ft, to Cor. No. 3: Thence S. 28 deg. I
43 min. E. 7Q2 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 78 deg. 58 min. W.
697.8 ft to Cor. No. 1, the place
of beginning, .containing an area
of 10.827 acres.
NO. 4 ABOVE . GOLD RUN
Beginning at Cor, No. 1, iden
tical with Cor. No. 4 of No. 5 A
bove, this survey, whence U. S. L.
M. No. 1278 bears S. 57 deg. 17
min. 6 sec. W. 4297.52 ft.; Thence
N. 28 deg 43 W. 792 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, identical with Cor. No. 3 of
No. 5 Above, placer, this survey;
Thence N. 41 deg. 32 min E. 546.9
ft. to Cor No. 3; Thence S. 37 deg.
19 min. E. 1075 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
Thence S. 68 deg. 29 min. W. 680.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing an area of 12.
754 acres.
The total area contained in said
Consolidated Placer claim is 29 503
acres.
The adjoining claims are, on the
northeast No. 3 Above Gold Run
' Placer on Little Creek, claim un
' surveyed and claimants unknown -
1 on the southwest No. 7 Above Gold
Run Placer on Little Creek, claim
unsurveyed and claimant unknown;
on the northwest and southeast,
claimants unknown and claims un
surveyed.
U. S. L M. No. 1278 to which
the survey is tied is a hewn spruce
post 8 in. square, 8 ft. long1, chis
; eled U. S. L. M. No. 1278, ^with
j stone mound 3 ft. high and 6 ft
base around same, situated on a
high prominent point on the right
| limit on Little Creek, immediately
above the confluenee of Little
Creek and 'frail Creek, whence.
West Twin Peak bears N 49 deg.
30 min. E.; East Twin Peak-bears
N. 51 deg- 40 min. E,; ane No. /
Dome bears N. 23 deg. 43 mm. E
Lat. 63 deg 4 min, N
Long. 156 deg. 25 min. W.
JOHN SIINDBACK
Register U. S. LaDd Office.
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