BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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A quick reference list of pro
gressive business firms which
advertise in the Herald and
• what they handle.
Assaying—
John Hovland
Automobiles—
Hyder Machine Shop
Automobile Supplies—
Hyder Machine Shop ^
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Banks—
Bank of Hyder
Barber Shop—
Malamute Barber Shop
Bakery Goods—
Quick Lunch.
Ideal Cafe.
Hyder Grocery.
Blacksmithing—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Clothing—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Chinaware Crockery—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Curios—
Hyder Drug Co.
Card Rooms—
Malamute Cigar Store.
Northern Pool Hall.
Drugs—
Hyder Drug Co.
Dairies—
Hyder Dairy
Electrical Supplies—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Explosives—
Salmon River Dock. Co.
Fuel—
Hyder r uel company
Salmon River DoclfCo.
General Supplies—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Groceries—
Hyder Grocery.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Green Goods—
Hyder Grocery.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Gas Engines—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Hotels—
Golden Gate Hotel.
Alaska Hotel
Hardware—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Jewelry—
Nugget Shop.
Hyder Drug Co.
Laundry—
Portland Canal Electric
Machine Shop—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Meat Markets—*
P. Burns & Co.
Notary Public—
Ernest Blue.
Plumbing, Steamfitiing—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Printing—
Hyder Herald.
Pool Rooms—
Northern Pool Hall
Professional—
Ernest Blue, Attorney.
Photo Supplies—
Hyder Drug Co.
Restaurants—
Ideal Cafe
Quick Lunch
Silver Grill
Smokers Supplies—
Malamute Cigar Store.
Northern Pool Hall
Hyder Drug Co.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Golden Gate Hotel
Stationery—
Hyder Drug Co.
Steamship Agencies—
Salmon River Dock Co.
Steamship Lines—
Northland Transptn. Co.
Toilet Preparations—
Hyder Drug Co.
Tranfer Companies—
Sam Potts
Crawford Transfer Co.
Hyder Fuel Co.
T ypewriters—
Hyder Drug Co.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Jerome J. Day:
Ycu are hereby rotified that
the undersigned have expend
ed the sum of Six Hundred
Dollars in labor and improve
ments on the Ibex Group of
lode mining claims, as will ap
pear from Affidavit of Annual
Labor filed for record on the
| 2nd day of July, 1926, in the
office of the Recorder for
Hyder Mining District, Terri
tory of Alaska; said group
consisting of claims known as
Ibex No. 1, Ibex No. 2, Ibex
No. 3V Ibex No. 4, Ibex No. 5
j and Ibex No. 6, and situate
on Texas Creek in said Hyder
Mining District, Territory of
Alaska, the location certifi
cates of which are found on
record in Book 1 of mining
| locations in said District, at
j pages 267, 275, 276, and 277 in
the office of said Recorder at
Hyder, Alaska; said expendi
tures having been made in or
der to hold said mining claims
under the provisions of Section
2324, U. S. Revised Statutes
and other laws of the Unite 1
States and Territory of Alas
ka concerning annual labor
upon mining claims and being
the amount required to hold
said mining claims for the year
ending June 30, 1926.
And you are hereby notified
that if within ninety days
from the .completion of the
publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of such ex
penditure as a co-owner, your
interest in said claims will be
come the property of the sub
scriber’s hereto, yoyr co-own
ers, under the provisions of
said Section 2324.
Dated this 18th day of Sep
tember, 1926.
Jessie K. Jamieson
Frank Reichenback
Patrick Daly
Joe. Grashio.
Publish Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4,
11, 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22,
29, Dec. 6, 13, 20, 1926.
Let us figure on your job
printing.—Hyder Job Shop.
For Sale and For Rent Signs
at the Herald Office.
THE ALASKA MINING LAW
Being extracts from “Alaska Mining Law." by Hon. Henry
Roden, of Juneau. Reprinted by courtesy of the Author.
Fifth Installment.
The law provides that town
site entries may be made upon
mineral- lands of the United
States in the Territory of Alas
ka, but no title shall be ac
quired thereby to any vein of
gold, silver, cinnabar, copper
| or lead or to any valid mining
| claim under existing law. In
i order that a townsite entry
; shall not attach to mineral
| lands claimed by and in the
possession of others, the min
eral lands claimed by and in
possession of others, the min
eral therein contained must be
of such character and value as
: to justify systematic prospect
; ing. Mere indications of the
existence of mineral in the
part covered by the proposed
townsite is not enough; there
must be mineral sufficient in
quantity to indicate or justify
; systematic or continuous pros
| pecting or working of the
claim.
lT~a townsite entry is made,
however, either in whole or in
part upon a valid subsisting
mining claim the rights of the
mineral claimant are hot af
fected thereby. All such rights
are protected by the law and,
if the mineral claimant so de
sires, patent for his claim will
be issued to him upon proper
proof that the mining laws
have been complied with by
him. A mineral claimant may
make a valid discovery of min
eral within a townsite but he
acquires no surface ground if
such surface ground is in the
possession of another. In such
case, if he needs any surface
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CARDS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS,
STATEMENTS, ENVELOPES, INVOICES,
SHIPPING TAGS, SPFCIAL BLANKS,
TICKETS, ETC.
SOCIAL STATIONERY
INVITATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, PRO
GRAMS, CARDS, MENUS, ETC.
ROSTERS, HAND BILES
CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS, FOLDERS,
PLACARDS, ETC.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED
ground within the townsite in
order to operate his mine, he
will have to make his arrange
ments with the owner of such
surface. Where land is taken
up by a numbr of people for
the purpose of eventually en
tering it as a townsite but no
steps are taken to secure pat
ent to such tract, a .prospector
has the right to enter upon
any unoccupied portion of
I such tract and there prospect
for minerals, and if he finds
any, may make a location just
as upon any other- portion ot
the unappropriated public do
main of the United States, for
such tracts remaining unoccu
| pied, are not severed from the
public domain and remain op
i on for exploration and acqui
1 sition under the mining laws
! of the United States and the
Territory. In other words, oe
i cupancy and improvement ot
town lots on public lands seg
regate it from other disposal,
except under the mining laws.
i A prospector may acquire a
mining location within such
lots but cannot acquire right
to any surface ground in the
lawful possession of another.
! The explanations made in
this section, according to the
rulings of the Land Depart
ment, apply to placers as well
as to lode mining claims.
As heretofore stated, no
lands containing valuable min
! eral deposits can be taken up
I except as provided by the min
1 ing laws. Lands more valuable
for agriculture than mining
are acquired under the home
stead laws passed by Congress
for the Territory of Alaska.
Only unappropriated non-min
eral land is subject to home
stead rights and a homestead
entry, prior to the issuance of
patent for the same, will not
ing claim within its bound
prevent the location of a min
aries, if5 the ground is found
to be in fact more valuable;
for the minerals therein con-1
tained than for agriculture,
provided, however, that entry
by the mining claimant can be
made peaceably.. A mineral
claimant may institute pro
ceedings in the Land Depart
ment at atfy time prior to final
proof of entry of the home
stead for patent and have the ,
character of the land declar-.
ed to be more valuable as min
| ral than agricultural land, but
1 in order to succeed he must
' satisfy the Department that
the land contains mineral in
sufficient quantities to war
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rant a prudent man in expend
ing his time and money in the
development thereof. In con
nection with this statement ii
must not be concluded that it
prospector may, at his owi.
will enter upon land lawfully
claimed by a homestead local
or prior to final proof and
proceed to prospect for mine
ral. It must never be forgotte
that no entry can be made
upon any land which involve;
a trespass or breach of the
peace. The mining claimant
if he would take advantage ol
the fact that the homestead
claimant is acting in bad faith
and has taken up in his locat
ion land more valuable for
mining than farming, must so
make his entry as not to incur
a breach of the peace. Aftei
the issuance of patent, the
title to the homestead becomes
vested absolutely in the home
stead claimant and no mineral
claimant can then attack it.
The location of a homestead,
being made for agricultural
purposes and for none other,
does not of itself sever the
land taken up from the public
domain in so far as it affects
another entering thereon foi
the purpose of making a min
eral location, irrespective ol
whether or not the homestead
claimant knows that his land
contains mineral. If he knows
and desires to get the ben
efit of his knowledge he
should proceed to perfect
a mining claim*, and if he
knows and does not do so he
then leaves the ground open
for location as a mining claim
by some other party. But, as
we have repeatedly stated, no
one has a right to enter within
the boundaries of a homestead
by force or stealth, and a min
er cannot initiate a mining
claim within a homestead lo
cation unless he can enter and
make his discovery peaceably
and openly. He may attack
the validity of the homestead
in the land office when the
homestead claimant makes
his application for patent or
he may otherwise get the Land
Department to act in the
premises.
After patent has been issued
to the homestead claimant, or, >
perhaps rather, after he has |
fully complied with the home- j
stead laws, has made final
proof in the land office, paid
for the land and final receipt
has been%isued to him, the
land becomes his for all pur
poses, including the minerals
it may contain, provided, as
we have heretofore seen, that j
at the time he made final
proof the existence of minerals
in sufficient quantities to se
cure profitable mining thereof
was not known to him, other
wise his patent will be sub
ject to cancellation by the
government.
Who May Locate Mining
Claims.
The mining laws of the Unit- j
ed States provide that all per-'
sons who are citizens of the j
United States or who have de-j
dared their intention to be-;
come citizens (have taken out \
their first papers) may enter i
updn the unappropriated pub- j
lie lands of the United States I
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and may explore, •ccupy and
purchase them. By purchase is
meant the acquisition of titlo
through patent from the gov
ernment.
It follows, therefore, that all
male and female persons, of
whatever age, who are citizens
>r have taken out their fh\.t
papers, are entitled to enjoy
the benefits of the mining
laws. Likewise a partnership,
composed of persons who as *
individuals are qualified to
ake up mining claims, may
make locations in the name
and for the benefit of such
partnership; and the same
provisions apply to associat
ions of persona, each of whom
is qualified, and to corporat
ions organized under the laws
of the United States or of
come state or Territory.
It is clear then that a person,
not a citizen or who has not
declared his intention to be
come a citizen, cannot acquire
mining claims by location.
It has been decided by the
Supreme Court of the United
States that, while it is true
that only citizens and those
who have declared their in
rntion to become citizens are
entitled to the benefits of the
mining laws, nevertheless, if
an alien who ha3 not secured
his first papers, as a matter
of fact does go upon the un
appropriated public domain
of the United States and there
pretends to make a location
by complying with all the re
quirements of the mining law
(except that he is not a quali
fied locator) such a location
is good against all the world
except the United States, a. d
he cannot be ejected therefrom
except upon a proceeding in
instituted for that purpose by
the government, and such
proceeding, so far as we are
informed, has never been com
menced by the government
against any person disquali
fied to locate mining claims.
But such locator can, under n.o
circumstances acquire * patent
to his land, for in all patent
applications the mining claim
ant must prove that he is a
citizen or has declared his in
tention to become one. It is
highly advisable, howev r,
that an alien who has made
a mining location should .em
brace the first opportunity to
take out his first papers.
If one disqualified has in
fact made a location and
thereafter takes out his first
papers the location thereby
becomes validated and no re
location or any other act i3
necessary and he may proceed
to patent for the ground lo
cated by him while he was
thus disqualified at the time
he made his location.
Certain persons are disquali
fied from acquiring mining lo
cations by special enactment.
Such are all officers, clerks
and employees of the general
land office. They are forbid
den to become directly or in
directly interested in the en
try or purchase of public
lands and the Land Depart
ment has ruled that all em
ployees of the local land of
fices are prohibitied from lo
cating mining claims, and the
surveyor general, deputy min
ora! surveyors and receivers
and registers of the Land Of
fice are included within this
ruling.
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