THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
I
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRED DUROCHER, COUNCIL
MINING MAN SUMMARIZES
OPERATIONS THAT DISTRICT
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follows:
The North Star Dredging Com
pany, Henry Gumm, Fred Mebes,
and Otto C. Steiner, owners,!
completed the construction of a
new dredge hull and the install
ation of machinery and began op
erations about three weeks ago.!
They are operating successfully
on the Neukluk River about a
mile and a half above Council.
The Council Dredging Com
pany, Fred K. Dent and Hugh
Pearson, operators, are operating
at the mouth of Ophir Creek just
above the North Star dredge.
c
They got an early start this spring
and the dredge is working day
and night with .ut stopp.ng. Sat
isfactory cleanups are made thru
out the season.
The Glass Dredging Company,
Clyde Glass and wife operators,
are dredging on Melsing Creek.
This is the dredge formerly oper
ated by Chas. E. Kimball and
which was recently purchased by
the Glass interests. They are at
present digging flotation to an
area of richer deposits which will
no doubt bring them, success be
fore the season closes.
Fred K. Dent has had a crew
of 4 men busy drilling the ground
of Mr. Durocher on Aggie Creek
and Fish River, and expects to
continue active work on Aggie
Creek next season.
Tom Shaw, the old reliable
sourdough mining man is hydrau
licing on Mo. 6 bench, Ophir
Creek. He has been retarded by
lack of sufficient water, but re
cent rains provided plenty of wa
ter for the crew of six men and
the work in hand.
Axel Pearson, John Holm, and
John Swanson have gone up to
Camp Creek and Elkhorn to do
some extensive drilling to prove
up some dredg.ng ground for
TRAVEL WITH
MIROW AIR SERVICE
Serving aU Seward Peninsula
Min in" Camps
Dependable, Fast. Equipment
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK of ALASKA
NOME, ALASKA.
ESTABLISHED IN 1904.
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS CONDUCTED
Checking Accounts Carried For Those Who
Prefer Paying By Check.
Interest Paid On Time Deposits
Gold Dust Purchased
WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
Jack Solomon, Pron.
I
I same mining interests, who are it
is said prepared to install a
dredge.
Bill Brookings is hydraulicing
on Sweetcake Creek, a tributary I
of Ophir Creek, work which had
been retarded by lack of water
but which is now going forward
at a good pace.
Tom Pelatich and Marco Mar
tinovich are tooth mining indiv
idually on Crooked Creek.
More Noxadepaga
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this neck of the woods that gold
i is where you find it, it does not
: come to you without an effort.
There are many more such plac
i es on Seward Peninsula, especial
j ly where it is hard to get your
j supplies to. that will prove up
ihandsome returns for those who
i wish to help, in the development
i of the country and themselves at
the same time, by sticking to it,
just like Messrs Whaley and Nel
son did.
Weather Today
(U S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudy and unsettled weather
continues over the western Div
ision of Alaska with some show
ers and fog over Seward Penin
sula and the lower Yukon valley.
Rain was falling along the Aleu
tians. Gulf and southeastern Al
aska. Fair weather prevails gen
erally in the Pacific* Northwest
States and interior of the western
Canadian Provinces.
Low barometric pressure covers
Alaska and extends well into
western Canada, one center is
charted over the Gulf of Alaska
while another area is observed
| near East Cape, Siberia, accord
I ing to the information of the
Cutter Northland near East Cape.
With this distribution unsettled
; weather with occassional rain will
continue for Nome and vicinity
with moderate to strong south
east winds.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 44 above and the
j highest yesterday 50. Rainfall to
talled .35 inch for 24 hours end
ing at 1 a.m.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Stanley Horton, and to H.
E. Moon, and to Their Heirs, Ex
ecutors and Assigns:
You and each of you are here
by notified that I have expended
lone hundred dollars ($ 100.00) in
; work, labor, and improvements
upon placer claim known as
“No. 1 Slate Creek” an association
of one hundred and sixty acres,
for each of the fiscal years end
ing on July first, 1933, 1934. 1935,
193G, find 1937, in order to hold
said premises under the provis
I ions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States, amount
ing to five hundred dollars ($500.
00), for annual assessment work
for said five years, and
If within ninety (90) days af
ter this notice is served upon
you by publication, you should
fail or refuse to contribute your
oroportionate share of such ex
penses, as co-owner, your inter
est in said placer claim, No. 1
Slate Creek, a tributary of Pil
grim River, in the Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, Second Divi
sion Territory of Alaska, will
become the property of the un
dersigned co-owner, under said
Section 2324, Revised States U. S.
GUNNAR BOWMAN.
Co-owner.
Publish—July 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23,
30, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11,
18 1937.
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE FOR THE NOME LAND
DISTRICT. NOME. ALASKA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1884
Mineral Entry No. 0932
Notice is hereby given that Un
ited States Smelting Refining and
Mining Company, a Maine cor
poration, by and through its at
torney-in-fact, A. M. Hartford,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application for
United States Patent for the Won
der FYaction No. 1 and Wonder
Fraction No. 2 Placer Mining
Claims situated on Wonder Creek,
a tributary of Center Creek, in
the Cape Nome Mining- District
and Precinct, Territory of Alas
ka. and designated as United
States Mineral Survey No. 1884
and particularly described in the
official plat and field notes now
on file in the said Land Office as
follows:
Wonder Fraction No 1
Magnetic variations 17 deg. 00
min. to 17 deg. 45 min. E.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of Won
der Fraction No. 1 Placer, esta
blished on line 2-3 Survey No.
444. Lillian Association Placer, a
fir post 42 in. long. 4 in. square,
18 in. in the ground, in an earth
mound 24 in. base, marked WF
1-1WF-2-3-1884, for this survey,
and from whence U.S.L.M. No.
11 bears N. 77 deg. 24 min. E.
5.289.66 ft. Anvil Rock bears N.
13 deg. 31 min. 30 sec. E, then
ce S. 19 deg. 00 min. W. 143.8
ft. to Cor. No. 2, identical with
Cor. No. 6, Survey 1155, Linda
Association Group Placer, a fir
post 4 in. square, 30 in. above
ground, marked WF-1-2-WF-2-2
1884 for this survey, thence N.
58 deg. 54 niin. W. 659.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No.
4. Survey No. 1861. No. 6 Below
Discovery Placer, a fir post 4 in.
square 30 in. above ground, mark
ed WF-1-3-1884 for this survey,
thence N. 65 deg. 35 min. W. 547.6
ft. to Cor. No. 4, identical with
Cor. No. 5 Survey No. 1861. No.
6 First Tier Bench on the Right
Limit Wonder Creek P:-acer, a fir
post 4 in. square. 30 in. above
ground, marked WF-1-4-1884 for
this survey, thence S. 68 deg. 47
min. E. 1190.2 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 1.481 acres.
Wonder Fraction No. 2
Magnetic variations 17 deg. 00
min. to 17 deg. 45 min. E.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the
Wonder Fraction No. 2 Placer,
identical with Cot. No. 2, Survey
No. 444, Lillian Association Plac
er, a fir post 4 in. square, 24 in.
above ground, in an earth mound
12 in. high, marked WF-2-1-1884
for this survey and from whence
U. S. L. M. No. 11 bears N. 70 deg.
23 min. E. 4502.1 ft. Anvil Rock
bears N. 9 dog. 10 min. E., then
ce N. 77 deg. 06 min. W. 993.0
ft. to Cot. No. 2, identical with
Oor. No. 2 Wonder Fraction No.
1 Placer of this survey, and pre
viously described, thence N. 19
deg. 90 min. E. 143.8 ft. to Cor.
No. 3, which is identical with
Cor. No. 1 Wonder Fraction No.
1 of this survey previously des
cribed, thence S. 68 deg. 47 min.
E. 988.5 ft to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning, containing an
area of 1.630 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on
the north Survey No. 444, Lillian
Association Placer; on the east
Survey No. 1333, Florence Asso
ciation Placer and Survey No.
1155 Linda Association Group
Placer; on the south Survey No.
1155, Linda Association Group
Placer, Survey No. 1885, Wonder
Fraction No. 3 Placer, Survey No.
1861, No. 6 Below Discovery Plac
er, and Survey No. 1861, No. 6
First Tier Bench on Right Limit
Wonder Creek Placer; on the
west Survey No. 1127, Tundra
Lakes Association Placer. The
conflicting claims are Justice
Placer Claim, survey No. 583,
claimant unknown.
The location certificates for
said mining claims are recorded
in the office of the recorder of
the Cape Nome Mining District,
Territory of Alaska, in volume
208, pages 416 and 417 of the re
cords of locations of said district.
The mineral monument to
which these claims are tied is des
cribed as follows;
U. S. L. M. No. 11 is a fir post
6 in. square, 7 ft. above ground,
firmly set in a mound of stone 30
in. high. 60 in. base, marked U.
S. L. M. No. 11 and is situated
on the ridge between Holyoke
and Bourbon Creek 70 ft. E. of
the Bessie road in Lat. 64 deg. 32
min. N. Long. 165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated the 5th day of Aug
ust, 1937.
ALMER RYDEEN
Register
First Publication Auff. 6. 1937.
Last Publication October 6, 1937.
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NEW FALL HATS
Wash Silks—Housedresses
Flannel Slacks
And Other Things
At
Calkins’ Shoppe
PALACE
Liquor Store
Open For Business
Choicest of Liquors
I |
JIMMY HEWITT !
“At The Bat”
CHAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Store
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports.
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
| Location Notices. Vouchers,
Special Power of Attorney forms
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE FOR THE NOME LAND
DISTRICT NOME. ALASKA
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1889
Mineral Entry No. 0929
Notice is hereby given that Un
ited States Smelting Refining and
Mining Company, a Maine cor
poration. by and through its at
torney-in-fact, A. M. Hartford,
whose post office address is Nome.
Alaska, has made application for
United States Patent for the
Pearl Bench Placer Min,ng Claim
situated on the Left Limit of
Cooper Gulch, a tributary of Lit
tle Creek, in the Cape Nome Min
ing District and Precinct Terri
tory of Alaska, and designated as
United States Mineral Survey No.
1889 and particularly described in
the official plat and field notes
now on file in the said land office
as follows:
Magnetic variations of 18 deg.
15 min. to 18 deg. 45 min. E.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the
Pearl Bench Placer, which is id
entical with Cor. No. 2. Survey
No. 759, Gadfly Placer, a fir post
4 in. square, 30 in. above ground,
and marked PB-1-1889 for this
survey, from whence U.S.L.M.
No. 11 bears S 3 deg. 18 min. E.
7,574.5 ft. The E. end of Anvil
Rock bears N. 24 deg. 08 min. W.;
thence N. 83 deg. 44 min. W. 1,
293.3 ft. to Cor. No. 2. identical
with Cor. No. 1. Survey 759, Gad
fly Placer, a fir post 4 in. square,
36 in. above ground, marked PB
2- 1889 for this survey: thence N.
12 deg. 41 min. E. 661.5 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical With Cor.
No. 5. survey No. 1193, No. 4 Be
low Placer, a fir post 4 in. square,
24 in. above ground, marked PB
3- 1889, for this survey: thence S.
75 deg. 43 min. E. 1,189.1 ft. to
Cor. No. 4, a fir post 48 in. long,
4 in. square, set 24 in. in ground
in mound of earth and stone,
marked PB-4-1889; thence S. 1
deg. 22 min. W. 492.5 ft. to Cor.
No. 1 and place of beginning, con
taining an area of 16.310 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on
the north Marie Placer, unsurvey
ed, and other claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the east XYZ
Placer, unsurveyed; on the south
Survey No. 759, Gadfly Placer;
on the west Survey No. 1193, No.
4 Below Placer.
The location certificate for said
mining claim is recorded in vol
ume 171, at page 470 of the re
cords of location of the Cape
Nome Mining District and Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska.
The mineral monument to which
this claim is tied is described as
follows:
U.S L.M. No. 11 is a first post
6 in. square, 7 ft. above ground,
firmly set in a mound of stone 30
in. high, 60 in. base, marked Q.
S. L. M. No. 11 and is situated on
the ridge between Holyoke and
Bourbon Creeks, 70 ft. E. of the
Bessie road in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min.
N. Long. 165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated July 26th, 1937.
ADMER RYDEEN,
Register
, IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
! OFFICE FOR THE NOME LAND
DISTRICT NOME. ALASKA
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1887
Mineral Entry No. 0931
Notice is hereby given that Un
ited Sfatep Smelting Refining and
! Mining Company, a Maine cor
poration. by and through its at
' ;orney-in-fact, A. M. Hartford.
| whose post office address is Nome.
Alaska, has made application for
United States Patent for the
i Acme Placer Mining Claim sit
uated on the Right Limit of Sat
i urday Creek in the Cape Nome
Mining District and Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, and designated
as United States Mineral Survey
: No. 1887 and particularly describ
ed in the official plat and field
notes now on file in the said land
office as follows:
Magnetic variations of 17 deg. ;
45 min. to 18 deg. 15 min. E.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the
Acme Fraction, established on j
line 4-5 of Sur. No. 1117, No. 1
Below Discovery on Saturday
Creek Placer, and which is iden-1
tical with Cor. No. 5, Sur. No. 1,- j
175, Discovery Claim on Lake
Creek, from whence U.S.L.M. No.
11 bears S. 6 deg. 35 min. E. 4.761-1
7 ft. Anvil Rock bears N. 13 deg.1
47 min. W.; United States Signal I
Corps wireless tower bears S. 9 j
deg. 47 min. W.; thence N. 3 deg.
14 min. W. 317.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2,
identical with Cor. No. 4, Sur. No.
1175, Discovery Claim on Lake
Creek: thence S. 48 deg. 45 min. E.
232.00 ft. to Cor. No. 3, identical
with Cor. No. 1, Sur. No. 1224, j
Sunny Day Placer, a fir post 421
inches long marked AC-3-1887;
thence S. 24 deg. 35 min. E. 80.3
ft. to Cor. No. 4, identical with
Cor. No. 1, Sur. No. 445, Lead
ville Claim, a fir post 48 inches
long, marked AC-4-1887; thence j
S. 64 deg. 31 min. W. 210.5 ft. to J
Cor. No. 1 and place of begin-1
ning, containing an area of 0.796
acres.
The adjoining claims are: on
the north Sur. No. 1224, Sunny
Day Placer; on the east Sur. No.
445, Leadville Placer; on the
west Sur. No. 1175, Discovery
Claim on Lake Creek placer, on
the south Sur. No. 1117, No. 1 Be
low Discovery on Saturday Creek
Placer.
The location certificate for said
mining claim is recorded in vol
ume 214, at page 144 of the re
cords of location of the Cape
Nome Mining District and Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska.
The mineral monument to which
this claim is tied is described as
follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 11 is a fir post six
inches square, seven feet above
ground in a mound of stone thir
ty inches high, sixty inches at
the base, marked U.S.L.M. No.
11 and situated on the ridge be
tween Holyoke and Bourbon
Creeks, seventy feet east of the
Bessie road in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min.
N ULon> 165 de«- 22 mm. W.
Dated July 26th, 1937.
ALMER RYDEEN,
Register
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE FOR THE NOME LAND
DISTRICT NOME. ALASKA
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1885
Mineral Entry No. 0930
Notice is hereby given that Un
ited States Smelting Refining and
Mining Company, a Maine cor
poration. by and through its at
torney-in-fact, A. M. Hautford,
whose post.office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application for
United States Patent for the
Wonder Fraction No. 3 Placer
Mining Claim situated on the Left
Limit of Wonder Creek, a trib
utary of Center Creek, adjoining
the Linda Association Placer,
Survey No. 1155, in the Cape
Nome Mining District and Pre
cinct. Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as United States Min
eral Survey No. 1885 and partic
ularly described in the official
plat and filed notes now on file
in the said Land Office as follows:
Magnetic variations 17 deg. 15
min. to 17 deg. 45 min. E.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the
Wonder Fraction No. 3 Placer
Claim, identical with Cor. No. 1,
Survey No. 1861, No. 6 Below
Discovery Placer, a fir post 4 in.
square, 30 in. above ground, mark
ed WF-3-1-1885 for this survey,
from which U.S.L.M. No. 11 bears
N 76 deg. 05 min. 30 sec. E. 5,
366.06 ft., Anvil Rock bears N. 13
deg. 35 min. E.; thence S. 18 deg.
52 min. W. 637.4 ft. to Cor. No. 2,
identical with Cor. No. 1 Survey
1848, Wonder Bench Placer, a fir
post 4 in. square, 24 in. above
ground, marked WF-3-2-1885 for
this survey: thence N. 71 deg. 08
min. W. 128.5 ft. to Cor. No. 3,
identical with Cor. No. 5, survey
No. 1848, Wonder Bench Placer,
a fir post 4 in. square, 24 in. above
ground, marked WF-3-3-1885, for
this survey; thence N. 30 deg. 16
min. E. 650.00 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 0.940 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on
the north Survey No. 1884, Won
der Fraction No. 1 Placer and
Survey No. 1884, Wonder Fraction
No. 2 Placer; on the east Survey
No. 1155, Linda Association Group
Placer; on the south Survey 1848,
Wonder Bench; on the west Sur
vey No. 1861, No. 6 Below Discov
ery Placer.
The location certificate for said
mining claim is recorded in vol
ume 208 at page 416 of the re
cords of location of the Cape
Nome Mining District and Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska.
The mineral monument to which
this claim is tied is described as
follows:
U. S. L. M. No. 11 is a fir post
6 in. square, 7 ft above ground,
firmly set in a mound of stone 30
in. high, 60 in. base, marked U.
S. L. M. No. 11 and is situated on
the ridge between Holyoke and
Bourbon Creek 70 ft E. of the
Bessie road in Lat. 64 deg. 32 mlw.
N. Long. 165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated July 26th, 1937.
ALMER. RYDEEN,
Register
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