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i. OPER LOCATING
Exarnnation of the local min- j
mg it.o.us discloses that there
is cj.'i .iderable laxity regard
ing ilie provision of the min- i
ing :aw requiring locators to
rlescn • the location of their
!s;i \ .h reference to some
"tui object or permanent
rr'.o! *. In plain language
j‘ aIai'iw* wauat
tied to -inme well known or
> v d e mined object of a
perm'inent character
d tv where they are
■ *'. • i It is the intention of
‘hat this description
■ bar that a stran
’ he enabled to as
1 ’ation definitely
-t' reading of the
on in the Recorder’s
As nointed out by Hon.
■'''deT! in "Alaska Min
” "''w running seri
naper, a promi
’ niaih, the mouth of
river, a well known
a - laim. and the stakes
y .purveyors when
■ -p iblie surveys. havt
>1 : o be natural ob
peimanent monu
t happens often,, how
nat objects of such
taracter are unavailable or
'0.1 ar away to be of much
serv e. There are, for in
st.v ;co, numerous local records
i--. - bing locations as “about
■■ - . I .'s faom Hyder near Sai
.-u —lvcr” or “about 4 miles
ine mouth of Texas
v.r on the north side.”
> a descriptions, generally
y aking, are very unsatisfact
ior purposes , of identifi-|
"itio ;, as they convey no ade
quate dea of where a prop
erty actually is located. A
claim so described., may be
my where within a wide radi
os o* fhe point described in
the ’ '"-Jtion notice and ex
c cedingly difficult to find, es
"r'-ml'y in a timbered district
“• '■ h as this,,In -{act we ,, are
Rwtro of several instances in
which locators... have found
comid.^ftble difficulty in find
ing ♦hair, own. properties, a
short time after locating them 1
owing to the absence of land
marks.
To meet such conditions a
variety of means suggest
chemselves. One that is prac
tical in a locality such as this
is to establish what may b<
farmed a location monument
upon some prominent point ol
land or open space at or near
the point where location?
nave oeen maae and where it
can be seen for some distance
~ound-about. The simplest
method of establishing such a
monument is to place in a pile
)f stones on some prominent
open space a small sapling
with the lower barnches cut
ff. Care should be taken to
leave a small cluster of the
foliage at the top of the tree j
and it should be fixed solidly :
in the heap of stones. If prop
erly placed ' such a monument •
will form an excellent land
mark to which claims may be ;
ied. Another method entail
ing but little more trouble is .
to set up a tripod of stripped
-aplings on a nea.*by point of
and, fixing the bases of the
rees in rock heaps and rest
ng the tips of two of the
rees in a crotch on a third. As
che principal value of such
monuments is their perma
nency, care should be taken
fo fix the trees as solidly as
possible in the stone mounds
at their bases. Monuments, of
this type form most effective
landmarks if placed where
‘hey can be easily seen from
/arious ^angles. Claims located
near streams or gulches may
be tied to them in the follow
ing manner, varying the di
rections and distances to suit
conditions.
The X. Y. Claim is located
an the west side of a small
7uleh (or creek) running into
Glacier River about 2 miles
above its mouth. The initial
itake is located about- 200
paces (or feet) from the edge
af the gulch (or creek) and
about 500 feet from its mouth.
3r again this may be varied
yirig a location to a promi
ent cliff or (fluff and describ- ii
», ji,. 'rin. , . . -j-Um »
ing somewhat as follows:
This claim is located approxi
mately 1000 feet distant in an
easterly direction from gray
cliff on the north side of Texas
valley and about 1 mile from
its mouth.
Claims may also be tied to
an unusually large or promi
nently placed tree in the vicin
ity and the tree itself may al
so be blazed in such a way
that it will be noticed at a dis
tance.
Inasmuch as it is an essential
requisite of the law that lo
cations be described with ref
erence to some natural or per
manent land mark, local pros
pectors should find it to their
interest to make every effort
in that direction when making
locations.
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WHICH IS THE FAILURE?
Statistics oft-quoted and
we have no knowledge
of their correctness—indicate
that 67 per cent of mining
/entures succeed. Bradstreet
is credited with these figures,
and we have never seen a
statement from Bradstreet dis
, claiming them, says Mining
Truth.
.. it should be remembered
hat for fifty years mining
was the principal business of
:he west, and the only busi
ness in some sections, barring
he mercantile establishments
that arose to serve the needs
of miners.
Every great city in the West
is a monument to mining.
Denver, Salt Lake, Spokane.
Butte, Seattle, Portland, San
rrancisco, were built princip
ally by mining money; even
Los Angeles and San Diego
owe much of their growth to
mining; although other indust
ries have contributed in larger
proportion than is the cast
with the more northerly cities.
No other industry shows such
a large percentage of success
ful operations.
A business is a success when
the amount of money taken
out plus the present value is
greater than the amount of
money orginally put in. Many
abandoned mining camps rep
resent great mining successes;
meaning that the profits of op
eration, while they lasted,
were much greater than 'the
amounts expended in locating
or purchasing the properties
and extracting the ores from
the ground.
A mining company - that is
still operating, although it
may not yet have paid any
dividends, cannot be reckoned j
either a success or a failure, j
Its history is not yet written.,
But the silliest individual on
earth is the one who takes!
stock in a mining enterprise,,
then loses heart, refuses to
pay assessments, sees his
shares sold for delinquency,'
and then squawks that mining
is a failure. His company may I
later become one of the great
est mining successes in the
world—HE, the poor boob, is
the failure.
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That America spends more
money on chewing gum than
on books is a most convincing
argument in favor of advertis
iff
Just for Fun
Neighbor—I understand your
son got his B. A. and his M. A.
Father-Yes, but it is still his
P. A. that supports him.
The Village Nut thinks a bird
in the hand is bad table man
ners.
Our idea of nothing to argue
about is whether Booth Tark
ington is better looking than
Irvin S. Cobb.
Flappers may wear next to
1 nothing, but it doesn’t cost
that to keep dressed that way.
Time is pictured as a man but
must be a woman, for is it not
said “Time will tell?”
Once upon a time if you de
i tected the odor of tobacco in
a room you took it for granted
that a man had been there.
Some people think every
small boy and every married
man would like to be disobedir
ent, but they are afraid to
take a. chance. ,
“Pop, what do we mean
when we speak of the average
man?”
“An average man, my son,
is one who isn't as good as his
wife thinks he is before she
marries him, nor as . bad as
she thinks he is afterward.”
I We are trying to develop
j speed to the point where we
can start today and get there
j yesterday.
Early to bed and
Early to rise
And your girl goes out
With the other guys.
Housewife: Why didn't you
fix my electric door-bell, as
you promised?
Electrician: I went to your
house, ma’am’, and rang three
times and no one answered.
There was a man in ancient
times* who had a foot twelve
inches long, but it didn’t use
it as a rule.
The Blueberry Kid says man’s
place. is in the home-until he
has had time to shave in the
morning anyway.
Athletics are interfering with
study, says one of our college
presidents. The three R’s of
to-day seem to be Rah! Rah!
Rah!
About the hardest thing to
cure is injured feelings.
“Money is easy,” says the
market report, but it is hard
for some kind of borrowers.
Many a small boy is kept in
after school because his fath
er worked his arithmetic
wrong.
Cement makers use 14,000,
000 pounds of dynamite a
year. May we,.say their busi
ness is Booming?
Science, says a nature .maga
zine, has found no practical
use for the jelly-fish. Well,
neither has public life.
Another Western college has
.banned, the use of automobiles
by students. With this sort of
policy continued, soon there
will be no fun in going to col
lege.
The federal motor law is said
to have -placed 3,000 automo
bile thieves behind the bars,
but the ones not there are the
ones that are causing the
trouble now .
A writer suggests 13 ways
for a wife to lose her husband,
but she might- succeed, we
suspect, without having to
avail herself of all of them.
jT1 "
Chamber
of
Commerce !
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
| Little things are often im
' portant. There isn’t much to
J what flappers wear, but that
little is decidedly important.
The man who starts out to
do something has at least
made a start. Which beats
talking about starting.
It is often a good idea to let
the other fellow believe he is
running the job whether he is
or not.
A telegram was recently fil
ed at the radio reading as
follows:
“Arrived O. K. Send some
money and suit case by wire.”
Adam may have growled at
the briefness of his wife’s
clothes, but he didn’t have a
chance to growl at the expen
siveness of them as the mod
ern Adam does.
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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