Alaska News Notes
Al W. Roberts, a well known pioneer
of Alaska, passed away at his home at
Roosevelt, recently, following a stroke
of paralysis.
Gov. Bone has appointed Dr. W. E
Peterson, of Ketchikan, as a member
of the Territorial board of dental ex
aminers, to fill a vacancy which has
existed for several months.
The Hope section is more prosperous
this season than for many years past,
Over one hundred men are employed
in and around Hope on the various
mining properties.
E. L. Whittemore has leased the
Overland Hotel at Seward to M. E.
Holben. The latter has also purchased
the Seward Grill frorii Charles Cam
eron, and will operate it in connection
with the hotel.
Sam Sing, of the Franklin House at
Sitka, has located a ledge back of that
place. Samples taken show what is
•. believed to be .high values in silver.
The ore is said to resemble the tel
luride ore, of Colorado.
Philip .Carlin, aged 57, died at An
chorage recently.. He was employed
by the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion, and was, transferred from Fair
banks, where he became ill, to the
hospital at Anchorage.
Collector, of Customs John C. Mc
t Bride has appointed William A. Wade,
of Seattle, as deputy collector of cus
toms at Ketchikan, and J. I. Petrich,
,of Juneau, as stepographer in the col
, lector’s office at Juneau.
Clifford Smith, a Fairbanks high
school senior,, has, been recommended
for the Colorado School of Mines award
this year. .Thescholarship is awarded
annually.. It is good for a four-year
« course, and is valued at $1,000.
Miss Gertrude Schlaben, formerly
attending the, Anchorage school, re
cently graduated frorathe Edinburgh,
Te xas. high tchool. Miss Schlaben is
only 15 years of.age, and was the vale
dictorian ot her class. Her father,
Dr. Schlaben. was ..employed by the
Alaskan Engineering Commission as
assistant surgeon.
Seims & Carlson, general contractors
of Spokane, have.secured the contract
to construct the Glacier highway,. Tee
Harbor section, fr^ the —bureau of
roads, U. S. Department of Agricul
ture. The contract amounts to ap
proximately $25Qr00Q, and will connect
Juneau with tidewater on the Lvnn
canal side of the mainland.
It is reported that another big strike
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has been made in the Premier mine, at
Stewart. In diamond drilling from
the No. 4 tunnel the drillers ran into a
new body of ore fully 80 feet widt, all
high grade apparently. This is a new
chute of ore, and does not show on the
surface, which is TOO feet above the
tunnel, so that the actual extent of ithe
ore body is not known.
A petition was circulated recently at
Newtown, a suburb of Ketchikan, urg
ing the city council to forbid the (un
erai Petroleum Company’s oil tank' r
Falls of Clyde from tying up at .he
Tongass wharf. The reason for the
action is said to be. that the signers
fear that the tanker may explode,
causing property damage and loss of
life.
Henry Roden, of Juneau, has pre
sented to President Bunnell, for the
Alaska Agricultural College ind
School of Mines, the history of Captain
Charles Hall’s last two polar expedi
tions. The work was published more
than forty years ago under the author
ity of the United States Government.
It covers the exjieditions of 18(54-60 and
1871 73.
Friends of Jim Rose, an old-time
resident of Ketchikan, are becoming
anxious over his disappearance. Hs
was living in a tent about five miles
north of the town, on the Ward’s Cove
road. His tent is there with its con
tents, as he left it several months ago,
and his friends fear that he may have
gone into the hills trapping and been
overtaken by an accident.
Protests against the issuance of a
permit for the construction of a darn
at Anan creek, on the ground that it,
would destroy that stream for salmon
spawning, have been made to the Fed
eral Power Commission and other offi
cials, according to the Pacific Fisher
man. The construction of the dam is
part of the planned waterpower devel
opment of the Guggenheim interests
on Brad field canal, in connection with
a proposed paper pulp plant.
Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land Office, 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. Streaten, 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 STAR 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 exterioi
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.), beinf
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION—
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewi
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. 3£
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 46 de£
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. tc
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. Of
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 oi
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, <
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 3-12T4-3S., and
1-1274-.; whence U. S. L: M. No.
1274 bears N. 61 deg. 34 min. E.,
2906.9b ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 09
min. E„ <05.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 898.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg.
34 min. E. 709.5 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 .m 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, ft. long
4 ins. sq., set 2 15;. 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.; ..hence S. 36
deg. 57 min. W., 909.30 It. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. > min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 deg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. tc
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 proininent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, Latitude - 63 deg.
03 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
min. W.
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