HOW TO STAKE
PLACER CLAIM
IS DESCRIBED
EXERCISE “GREAT CARE AND
KEEP OFF OTHER FELLOWS
PROPERTY—CLAIM JUMP
ING LIABLE TO BE VERY
UNPOPULAR.
The staking of a Placer Claim in
volves no particular difficulty, if one
will only follow the regulations laid
down in the United States Mining
Laws. You should exercise care
and keep off the other fellow’s pro
perty when you lay out the borders
of your claim as claim jumping is
not popular in Alaska.
When you stake a claim remem
ber that a placer claim is a tract
containing twenty acres and no
more. The exact measurement of
an acre is 208.71 feet on each side
and it is allowable to figure 209
feet to a sidfe if you measure the
claim by pacing the ground off.
There is no liability in overstaking
as the extra ground will revert back
. to the government and be lopped
' off.
First you must erect a discovery
post five feet high and it should be
about four or five inches across the
face. If you cannot obtain a timber
post make a monument of a pile of
stones with a height of approxim
ately four feet at the discovery
point. The location notice may be
written on paper with pencil or you
can use a waterproof ink and place
the paper in a tin can. The can
may then be upended and placed
atop the discovery post with a stone
to keep it in place or if a stone
monument has been erected place
the notice beneath it. It is desirable
the notice be placed in an oiled
wrapper before placing it in the tin
can. A rubber tobacco pouch made
of this material is good for this pur
pose and will protect the paper
against the elements.
Your site for the discovery post
and location notice should be in a
conspicuous spot. It is not neces
sary to find the richest area of
ground included in your claim so
long as the discovery post with the
location notice is set up at a point
where you actually found colors.
Date of discovery, name or names
of locators, name of the claim and
number of acres included therein
should be written in your location
notice. Be accurate, for this is im
portant as the location notice when
executed and filed gives you certain
legal rights which will be protected
by the courts in event of a dispute.)
After erecting the discovery post
or monument and posted your loca
tion notice measure your ground
and set up corner posts or monu
ments to mark the boundaries of
your claim. If timber or wood can- ;
not be secured pile stones up. If;
wood posts are used square off the
tops and carve or burn into them
the proper and necessary corner in
formation such as southwest corner,^
southeast corner, and so on, withj
date, If your' claim is in wooded
territory the corner designations.
OPENING
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12th
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
Jack Solomon, Prop.
may be cut into trees after they
have been blazed. The chances are
that they cannot be destroyed save
by fire or lightning.
A placer claim may be laid out to
take in both banks and shoulders
of a stream or one bank only.
Many gravel bars may be found
with colors, and these are “no man’s
land if below the high water of the
river bed, and these claims are not
open for entry. If the claim is lo
cated on surveyed land it must con
form in shape, size, area and posi
tion to the legal sub-divisions that
have been established by the gov
’ ernment. If the claim is located on
public lands which are unsurveyed
i it may be of any shape made neces
1 sary by the topography of the terri
1 tory in which it is located and pro- j
! vided it does not exceed in area the
prescribed twenty acres per claim, j
In making out the location notice
to be filed with the prescribed au
thorities at the time that the claim
is recorded give every detail pertain
ing to the claim including all infor
mation previously mentioned as a
necessary part of the discovery no
tice which reposes beneath or on
top of the discovery post or monu
ment on the claim. Give general
compass direction of the end and
side lines of the claim and connect
the discovery post in a definite man
ner by approximate distance and
compass direction from some recog
nizable feature such as junction of
streams, distance and direction from
some prominent formation of water
course. If there are adjoining
claims give their names.
Your claim must be registered at
the office of the U. S. Commissioner
for the mining district in which it
lies. The fee for recording is $1.25
and you have ninety days from tfte
date of discovery as writeen on the;
discovery post in which to get your j
claim filed and recorded on the of
ficial books.
FOUND—Two keys attached to a
rubber band, owner can claim same
it the Nugget Office.
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LOCAL NEWS
Hospital Notes
Captain Fred Jensen, well known
old sourdough of Nome is still con
fined to the hospital with little or
no improvement in his condition.
Mrs. Pete Bloomberg was remov
ed from her home to the hospital
Tuesday. Mrs. Bloomberg has been
indisposed with rhuematics for the
past few years and her many friends
hope she will be home again soon.
Miss Charlotte Gaffy, teacher of
the fifth and sixth grades in the
Nome Public School, fell and frac
tured her wrist this morning, en
route to school. She will be confin
ed to the hospital for a few days
before returning to her duties.
Next Train Seward
Manager J. D. Harlan is in receipt
of information from Fairbanks
which states that the next train is
scheduled to leave Fairbanks to con
nect with the steamer Northwestern
at Seward Jan. 16th. However it is
also learned that the steamer is one
day late leaving Seattle for Seward,
and the train schedule may be
changed later to meet the situation.
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PAA At Golovin
Pilot A1 Monsen flying a Pacific
Alaska Airways mail plane report
ed to the office here by phone this
morning that he had arrived at Gol
ovin from Nulato. He remained at
Nulato last night and this morning
the weather was good so he flew as
far as Golovin.
Pilot Monsen requested weather
at Nome, but the blizzard, which
has been blowing all day has re
moved all opportunity for him to
come to Nome today. He will re
main at Golovin until there is en
ough of a break in the weather so
that he may fly into Nome.
Storm Is Continuing
More stormy weather hit Nome
again early this morning, when the
wind picked up and began blowing
from a northeasterly direction. The
temperature is warm, but with the
snow and wind, it is very uncom
fortable. Evidently the storm which
began Monday is one of the reg
ular type which takes three or four
days to blow over.
It has prevented any airplane
flights by the numerous plane trans
portation companies in Nome, whicli
have been scheduled for the past
three or four days.
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laurel And Hardy
In Comedy Friday
At Dream Theatre
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teep awake in order to perform the
unction of man-servant to Diavolo,
he bandit chief, Hardy has a tough
;ime saving him from being killed.
During a seemingly dull moment,
Laurel becomes restless. He begins
lumbling with his hands. He orig
inates the what is called the “knee
sy, earsy, nosey” game, and soon
[he entire household, including the
soldiers, are fumbling all over them
selves in order to master the simple
process of mingling knees, ears and
nose together.
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OLIVER HARDY
IN
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