Alaska News Notes ■
- Charles Milot. a pioneer of Nome, is
in-business in Chicago.
William Eddy, first chief of police at
Ndme, when the consent government I
was in power in 1890, is a resident of I
. Seattle.
Iliex Beach, pioneer of Dawson and
Nome, and Mrs. Beach, are now living
in,a beautiful home at Dobbs’ Ferry,
New York state.
Charles Jewett, former chief of po
lice at Nome, was killed in Seattle last
month when a scalFoid on whicli he was
working was blown, down.
W. ft. Manning,,formerly in charge
of the commissary for the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, is now connect
ed with Gray & Barash, electrical en
gineers, Seattle.
Lute Pease, who served as United
States commissioner for the Kodiak
•recording district under the Noyes
regime, away backs- in 1900, is now a
cartoonist <m'the Newark News.
Jack Crabtree, a former Nome min
ing man, is now in LabraDor. Frank
Waskey, Alaska’s first long-term dele
gate to Congress, who was associated
with Crabtree in mining operations in
the Nome district, is now living near
Seattle.
Two more professors will be added to
the faculty of the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines this year.
They are Robert O. Brown, who will
teaeh civil engineering and mathe
matics, and Leslie Marchand. French
3nd English.
With three new canneries working
and all [jacking plants in the district
operating at full capacity, the salmon
yack lor the Copper river district is 45
»er cent helow normal. It is said that
the fish are rapidlv becoming depleted
In the Copper river.
Attorney L. V. Ray, of Seward, re
cently purchased from Sidney Lau
rence. the Anchorage artist, an oil
painting for which he paid the sum of
*1,800- Mr. Laurence is one of Alaska’s
jbremost scenic artists and his- paint
ings are eagerly sought.
With the Hammond Consolidated
Goldfields Company in full operation,
with two dredges and hydraulic outfits
and other dredges and outfits that have
been idle for several years at work, it
is estimated bv the people of Nome
that the gold output of Nome will be
double that of last year’s 31,300,000 at
least, and that it may reach 33,000,000.
With a barbecued steer served bv
the Women’s Club, all Anchorage re
cently turned out and completed an
• aviation field and a nine-hole golf
course. This is the second golf course
to be constructed iu Alaska, the first
one having been built at Unalaska a
year or so ago by the officers of one of
She revenue cutterO
R. J. Sommers, superintendent for
Ihe Alaska Road Commission, has
charge of the road and harbor work at
Nome during the present summer,
About $160,000 will be spent on the
Seward Peninsula this year by the
Road Commission, including the re
All Kinds of
Rough Lumber
Tokotna Delivery
$80 PERM
John Heino
1_
fitting of the 84-mile railroad from
Nome to Shelton for use as a horse
tramway. The harbor will be dredged
between the jetties.
Captain Stewart D. Her very, who for
three years was stationed at the army
post in Anchorage, has recently been
made professor of military tactics at
the Georgetown Uuiversity, Washing
ton, D. C.
Mrs. Emil Ilurja, a former Fairbanks
girl, who was reported to have been
killed in an auto accident, has written
to friends stating that reports of her
death were much exaggerated. Mrs.
Ilurja is wife of the well-known Alaska
newspaper man, now located in Texas.
Eleven students of the Fairbanks
high school graduated this year. The
graduates were Florence Ilotli, Clar
ence isberg, Albina Miller. William
McCarty, Dorothy McCarty, Lucy De
Wree, Mary Shafer, Tris Hinckley,
Harold Jestland, Frank De Wree and
Lawrence McCarty. Miss Roth was
the valedictorian,
When Policeman LeRoy Moyer re
cently attempted to arrest an unruly
man at Ketchikan, he deputized Olus
Hagbert and Muns Alfeim to help him.
They refused and gave him the laugh.
Mover got his man in jail and then
went back and gathered in Hagbert
and AJfeim, who were assessed $50 each
by ^he commissioner.
Mineral Application No. 0599.
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska, Au
gust, 8, 1923.—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, organ
ized and existing under the Ltws of
the State of California, whose post
office address is Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has made ap
plication through Charles E. Kimball,
its authorized agent, whose post
office address is Nome, Alaska, lie
fore the United States Land Office
of Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for the consolidated
placer mining claim known us No.
4 ABOVE DISCOVERY ON YAN
KEE CREEK, No. 3 ABOVE DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
BENCH CLAIM, RIGHT LIMIT,
OPPOSITE NO. 3 ABOVE DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
FRACTION BETWEEN NO. 2 and!
No. 3 ABOVE DISCOVERY ON I
YANKEE CREEK, BENCH CLAIM
No. 2 ABOVE ON YANKEE CREK,
and No. 2 ABOVE DISCOVERY;
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the Inno
ko Mining & Recording District,
Territory of Alaska, and designated
by the United States Surveyor Gen
eral of said territory as Mineral
Survey No. 1272; the exterior boun
daries of said placer claims, accord
ing 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
as follows:
NUMBER FOUR ABOVE DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No,
1, identical with Cor. No. 4, sur. No.
1271, No. 3 Above on Yankee Creek
Placer, a hewn spruce post, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed 4-1271-5 Ab., and 1
1272-4 Ab., whence U.S.L.M. No. 1270
bears S. 21 deg. 15 min. 02 sec. W.,
2648.82 ft; thence N. 63 deg. 03
min. W. 862.15 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 35 min. E., 701.8
ft. to Cor. No. 3, thence S. 65 deg.
.09 min. E., 753.35 ft. to Cor. No.
4; thence S. 27 deg. 18 min. W.,
780.8 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning, containing an area of
14.199 acres.
NUMBER THREE ABOVE DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No.
1, identical with Cor. No. 4., No. 4,
Above on Yankee Creek, this sur
vey, a hewn spruce post, 4 ins. sip,
set 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribe 4-1272-4 Ab., ami
1-1272-3 Ab., whence U. S. E. M.
No. 1270 bears S. 22 deg. 37 min.
35 sec. W., 3426.31 ft.; thence N.
65 deg. .09 min. W , 753.35 ft. to j
Cor. No. 2; thence N. 8 deg. 55 j
min. E. 659.8 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence S. 78 deg. 43 min. E. 500.5
ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 73 deg.
24 min. E., 317.45 ft. to Cor. No.
5; thence S. 15 deg. 22 min. VV.
808.3 ft. to Cor. Mo. 1 and place
i
of beginning, containing an area of
13.233 acres.
BENCH CLAIM RIGHT LIMIT
OPPOSITE NUMBER THREE
ABOVE—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 4, No. 4
Above on Yankee Creek and Cor.
No. 1, No. 3 Above on Yankee
Creek, this survey, a hewn spruce
post, 4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. above
ground, in earth mound, scribe
4-1272-4 Ab., 1-1272-3 Ab., and
1-1272-3 Bh., thence N- 15 deg. 22
min. E„ 808.3 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence S. 71 deg. 24 min. E., 167.25
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S. 66 deg.
58 min. E., 259.1 ft. to Cor. No.
4; thence S. 7 deg. 31 min. W.,
857.6 ft. to Cor. No. 5; thence N.
65 deg. 38 min. W., 548.1 ft. to
Cor. No. 1, and place of beginning,
containing an area of 9.134 acres.
FRACTION BETWEEN NUMBER
TWO AND NUMBER THREE
ABOVE—Beginning at Cor No 1,
identical Avith Cor. No. 3, No. 3
Above on Yankee Creek, this sur
vey, a hewn spruce post, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 1't. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed 3-1272-3 Ab., and
1-1272-2 F., whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1270 bears S. 10 deg. 07 min.
15 sec., W., 4195.91 ft.; thence N.
9 deg. 33 min. E., 1031.1 ft. to Cor.
No. 2thence S. 54 deg. 46 min.,
E. 761.8 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 24 deg. 10 min. W., 739.85 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 78 deg. 43
min. W., 500.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 12.270 acres.
BENCH CLAIM NUMBER TWO
ABOVE—Beginning at Cor. No. I,
identical with Cor. No. 4, Fraction
between No. 2 and No. 3 Above on
Yankee Creek Placer and Cor. No.
4, No. 3 Above on Yankee Creek
Placer, this survey, a hewn spruce
post 4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. above
ground, in earth mound, scribed
4-1272-2 F., 4-1272-3 Ab., and 1
1272-2 Bh., whence U. S. L. M. No.
1270 bears S. 16 deg. 56 min. 17
sec. W., 4215.56 ft.; thence N. 24
deg. 10 min. E., 739.85 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence S. 60 deg. 07 min. E.,
504.55 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S.
20 deg. 03 min., W., 631.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 71 deg. 24
min. W. 167.25 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence N. 73 deg. 24 min. W., 317.45
ft. to. Cor. No. 1 and place of be
ginning, containing an area of 7.713
acres.
NUMBER TWO ABOVE DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No.
1, identical with Cor. No. 2, Bench
Claim, No. 2 Above on Yankee
Creek Placer, and Cor. No. 3, Frac
tion Between No. 2 and No. 3 Above
on Yankee Creek Placer, this sur
vey, a hewn spruce post, 4 ins. sq.
set 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed 2-1272-2 1th., 3-1272
2 F., and 1-1272-2 Ab.; whence U.
5. L. M. No. 1270 bears S. 18 deg.
00 min. 37 sec. W., 4950.51 ft.;
thence N. 54 deg. 46 min. W., 761.8
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 12 deg.
57 inin. E., 502.7 ft. to Cor. xNo. 3;
thence S. 56 deg. 09 min. E. 726.1
ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 10 deg.
09 min. W. 533.45 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 8.139 acres.
Total area applied for 64.688
acres.
The adjoining claims arc: on the
N. No. 1 Above on Yankee Creek
Placer, unsurveyed; on the S., Sur
vey No. 1271, No. 5 Vbove on Yan
kee Creek Placer arid claims un
known and unsurveyed; on the E.
and W., claims unknown and unsur
veyed.
U. S. L. M. No. 1270 is i hewn
spruce post, situated about 75 ft.
E. of Brow of small bluff on the
right limit of Yankee Creek and
about 60 ft. in elevation of bed of
same. Latitude 63 deg. 01 min. N.
Longitude 156 deg. 20 min. W.
J. SUNDBACK,
Register.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Michael Lucey, vour heirs, executors
and assigns:
You and each of you will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claims No. 2 and No.
2, Above Discovery on Moore creek,
has personally performed the annual
assessment work on the above described
claims for the years 1921 and 1922,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each of said years
has paid for said work, inoludihg the
proportion due from the above named
co-owner.
And you are further notified that
t
unless you pay vour proportion of the
assessment work done on said claims
for each of said years, within ninety
days after the last publication of this
notice, your interests in and to said
property will become forfeited to the
undersigned, as provided by Section
21524 of the revised statutes of the
United States and amendments thereto.
Cecil. Barlow,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Aug. 11, 1923.
Date of last publication, Nov. 17, 1922.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To BeDnett James, John Holmgren,
Charles E. Taylor. George W. Al
brecht, Edward McArdle and Charles
Kuell, and their and each of their
heirs, executors, administrators, suc
cessors in interest, and assigns:
YTou. and each of you, will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claim Good Duck Frac
tion, situated between No. 1 and No. 2
i =r—!_==_==^=i.=
Above Discovery on Moore creek, in
the Mt. McKinley mining and record
ing' precinct, Territory of Alaska, has
personally performed the annual assess
ment work the above described claim
for the years 1920, 1921 and 1922,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each of said years
has paid for said work, including the
proportion due from the above named
parties.
And you are further notified that,
unless you and each of you pay vour
proportion of the assessment work done
on said ground for each of said years,
within ninety days after the last pub
lication of this notice, your and each of
your interests in and to said property
will become forfeited to the under
signed, as provided by Section 2324 of
the revised statutes of the United
States and amendments thereto.
Cecil Barlow,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Aug. 11, 1923.
Date of last publication, Nov. 17, 1923.
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