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gust 29th. 1'.'23, at the postoffice at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, April 9, 1927.
A FEW POINTERS FOR THE
BENEFIT OF PROSPECTORS
(By Jim Stephens, in Alaska Weekly)
Carbon an Element.
Symbol—C.
Atomic weight—12.00. ,
Specific gravity—.'diamond, 3.5;
graphite, 2.3; am . , m 1.9.
inciting point rvauzea.
Carbon and Carbon Compounds.
Under this heading comes cool, pe
troleum, asphalrum, amber, graphite
and diamond.
Coal is divided into three principal
qualities: Lignite, peat and brown
coal are poor in quality, retaining
many signs of its vegetable origin.
Bituminous cual is a coking coal, quite
high in volatile matter, ash, and
higher than lignite in fixed carbon.
Anthracite coal is very high in car
bon. The uses of coal are so well
known that it is unnecessary to com
ment thereon. It is found in nearly
all the countries of the earth. The
by-products ofiCoking plants are var
ied and many and is the source of
medicines, chemicals, oils and dye
products.
Test.
Testing for coal very seldom comes
in the work of the prospectcr. The
foLowing simple test can be made,
however, and a fairly accurate result
arrived at:
Weigh out 100 grammes of pow
dered coal. Heat a pan of sand and
place the coal in an open dish in the
heated sand; after several hours
weigh and the loss will represent the
moisture. Weigh the grammes of
powdered coal, put this in a clay pipe
and seal with clay; place this over a
flame and drive off ail moisture and
gas; weigh the remaining (coke and
you will have the percentage of vol
atile matter. Weigh the coke and
burn it, saving the ash. The differ
ence between toe weight of the ash
and the coke will be the fixed carbon.
You will then have the per ten to!
moisture, volatile matter, fixed ear
bon and ash.
Petroleum.
Petroleum or coal oil in the crudi
state is a dark colored liquid. It i:
refined by distillation, producing gas
oline, naphtha, benzne and kerosene
Petroleu mis found in many coun
tries, the United States producing
more than one-half of the world’s
supply.
Asphaltum.
Asphaltum is a bituminous minera
substance, used mostly in paving
varnish and insulation.
Diamond
Diamond is a pure form of crystal
ized carbon, variously colored, and is
the hardest of all known substances
Used as jewels and for drilling pur
poses. (Black diamonds called bort.)
The beauty of a diamond is brought
out Ly cutting, which is done in near
ly all cases in Belgium and Holland
b monds are found in gravel wash
ing an din blue rock in South Africa
Amber.
Amber is a fossil resin used ii
making j i.- • mouthpieces and beads
Coals.
Anthracite coal contains from 85 t(
95 per cent carbon.
Bituminous coal contains from 7i
to 85 per cent carbon.
I.irmite coal contains from 60 to 7,'
per cent carbon.
Ceroum an Element.
Symbol —Ce.
Atomic weight—140.25.
Specific gravity—7.0.
Melting point—023 degrees.
We Is back incandescent gas mantels
contain 1 per cent of cerium dioxide
Chief ore is monozite sand.
Chromium.
Symbol—-Cr.
Atomic weight—52.0.
Specific gravity—0.0.
Melting point—1515 degrees.
The alloy ferrochromium is used ir
steel making, also as a pigment and
in photography.
Chromium is used extensively as ar
alloy for steel: fro mchrome steel if
made the finest grades of tool steel.
Chromite (chromic iron) is the
. hief ore of chrome.
Test.
To a small amount of the urigina
solution in a test tube add potassiun
hydrate to excess; a cloudy precipi
tate will result.
Usually found in serpentine, ir
which it forms irregular ■ embeddec
masses or veins.
Chromite principal ore is:
Chromite is the chief ore o:
chrome, called chrome iron.
Chromite, if pure, contains 4G pel
cent chromium.
Cure mite fractures uneven.
Chromite, hardness of, 5.5.
Chromite, lustre submetallic.
Chromite, streak, brown.
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Chromite, coloor iron black to
i brownish black.
Chromite acte don 'very slowly by
nitric acid.
Chlorine an Element,
i Symbol—Cl.
Atomic weight—35.46.
' Specific gravity—1.3.
Melting point—102 degrees.
A greenish yellow gas, used in ex
; tracting gold from ore and in blcach
ing.
i Found in sea water and certain al- 1
j kaline earths.
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ROY FELTER PERISHES IN
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ISOLATED ALASKA SECTION
CIRCLE.—How two malamutes
sped a losing race across one of the
most sparsely inhabited sections of ]
Northern Alaska to summon aid for
their dying master was related by
j Dennis Solomon, Indian ,who has just j
arrived rere from his camp on the .
Black river, one hundred miles north
: east of Circle
The ewo dogs, which belonged to
i Roy Feiter, trapper, arrived at Sol ■
s mon’s cabin bearing notes from the
’f master. The Indian could not n :• <
i the notes because of their wet a
faded condition, but he recogiaz d
; the dogs and surmised that Feiter
j must be ill and in need of assistance.
! So he started for Felter’s cabin with- j
out delay.
When Solomon reached the isolated
camp, Feiter was dead in his cabin.
Signs in the snow outside the cabin
showed that he had made a start with I
the evident intention of making the I
journey to Black river, but finding j
himself unequal to the strain he had
turned back to await the coming of ^
assistance.
Feiter was 33 years of age and a !
veteran of the world war.
In the Probate Court for Kuskokwim
Precinct, Fourth Division of
Alaska, before George W. Hotf
man, Commissioner and ex-officio
| Probate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of .
Thomas Anderson. deceased—No. 2.
t in Probate. *
Notice of Final Account. j i
Notice is hereby given that H. M. j
1 Hansen, administrator of the estate !
i of Thomas Anderson, deceased, has |
i filed his final report in said matter j
i with the Probate Court 'for Kusko- j. ■
! kwim Precinct, Fourth Division of I
Aaska, and that on Monday, the 25th j
day of April, 1927, at 10 o'clock a. m.,
the said final account will be heard j
and considered before the said Pro- j
bate Judge at his office at Napamute,
Alaska, at which time and place ail \
■ persons interested in said estate may |
appear and die their objections in
wr’ting to said final report and may '
' contest the case.
Dated Feb: ary 15th, 1927.
H. M. HANSEN, i
Administrator of Estate of (
Thomas Anderson, deceased.
I First .publication, Feb. 20, 1927.
Last publication, April 23, 1927.
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FORFEITURE NOTICE.
L'o Frank Irwin, his heirs, executors,
assigns and successors in interest:
You, and each of you, are hereby
lotified that the undersigned has ex
pended for annual labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollars
[$100.00) per year for the years 1914,
1915, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, .1922 and
192o upon the following described
nining claims in the Innoko Record
ng District, Territory of Alaska:
No. 4 Above Gold Run Group, on
Little creek, ■ a tributary of Ganes
■reek; »
No. 5 Above God Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
■reek.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claims in compliance
herewith in order to hold the same
'or each aid year and thereafter;
And if within ninety (90) days
ifter the publication of this notice
tou, or any of you, fail to pay your
portion of the amount expended on
he above claims, your interest in
:aid claims will become forfeited to
he undersigned co-ow.ner, according
o the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
WILLIAM .SCHNEIRLA.
First publication, March 5, 1927.
Last publication, June 4, 1927.
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana to Tavern ... 17
; Tavern to Knight’s . 2-1
Knight’s to 19 Roadhouse . 19
19. .Roadhouse to Riffle I'ola.Road
houce . 8
Riffle Pole Roadhouse to Diamond 11
Diamond Roadhouse to Roosevelt.. 11
Roosevet to Lake Minchutnuoa .... 2o
: Lake Minchumina to Lone. Star
1 Roadhouse .t. ..4
Lone Star to Telida . 18
Telida to Tent Roadhouse . 10
Tent Roadhouse to Slow Fork . 6
Slow Fork to East Fork . 22
East Fork to Nicoli ... 10
Nicoli to Big Riiver . 21
Big River Roadhouse to McGrdth.... 25
McGrath to Tokotna . 18
From Nenana to Tokotna .281
Tokotna to Bill Goss’ Roadhouse. . 12
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse to Ophir . 10
Ophir to Jerry’s Roadhouse . 83
Jerry’s to Schermeyer’s Roadhouse 27
Scliermeyer’s to Iditarod . 16
Iditarod to Flat ... . 8
From Nenana to Flat ..... 387
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