The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday July i9t
No. XXXIV
MOUNT LOGAN EXPEDITION
The English Alpine club and the
Royal Geographic Society having
in 1921 inaugurated the very dit
ficult and hazardous task, that of
attempting to climb Mt. Everest,
the highest known peak in the
world, whose latest determined
altitude is 29,241 feet above sea
level, i terest of other Alpine
Clubs was thus greatly stimula
ted in high climbing, and the A1
pine Club of Canada at its An
nual encampment in 1923, appoin
ted an executive committee to
investigate the possiblity of an
attempt to ascend Mt. Logan, tne
second highest peak on the North
American Continent and the
highest in Canada.
Located in the southern cor
ner of Yukon territory at 60° 35’
North Latitude, it is 2G miles
north end of Mt. Su. Elias, 20
miles over the Alakan border
and about 70 miles from the
shore of Yak utat Bay on the Pa
cific Coast. Its altitude, deter
mined by photographic survey
is 19,850 feet, and its summit
stands almost 14,000 feet above
the level of its surrounding gla
ciers, although not at such high
altitude, making the climd from
this level to the summit about
3,000 feet greater than, that from
the North Col to the summit of
Mt. Everest.
The mountain bulks very large
indeed for at its 10,000 foot level
its mossive measures 19 miles
from east to west and 8 miles
from north to south, from the 17,
000 foot plateau at the west end
two snow domes rise to 18,000
feet and from the 18,000 foot pla
teau at the eastern end, three
peaks rise to 19,100, 19,700 and
19,850 feet. At the eastern end
of the massive, and joined to it
by a high ridge is McArthur
Peak of 14.H00 feet and at, the
western em. K..i.g Peak oi r/,13u
feet while througnout its entire
circumference of almost lOOmiles
are vast and badly broken snow
and ice fields that seem to slant
as a shield to protect this mighty
giant of nature.
It is therefore evident, that
while the trip into the mountain
will be an interesting problem,
to solve correctly, the work on
ibe mountain, and the ascent, of
its bightst p* ak is bound to
prove a very severe test of the
strength and endurance of an
attaching party.
At a meeting of the executive
committee: in November, 1923, it
was decided that that the expe
uitiotj should ae under the direc
tiou of the Alpine Club of Cana
I da, with the couj»eiation of the
American ana English Alpine
Clubs, each of these are invited
to have a member on the climb
mg party. Albert H. McCarthy
of Summit, New Jersey, a mem
oer of the American, Canadian,
English, Fn nch and Swiss Ai
[.me Clubs was chosen as leader
of the expedition and H.E.Lam
oai t of the Geodetic survey of
Canada was selected as the as
sistant leader; so little was!
known about routes into the
mountain and one various difii
cultiesthat might be met with
en route ana on the mountain
the committee uecided to post
pone ine real expedition until
the season of 192j, inorder that
the loutes and requiremets
might be thoroughly investiga
ted beforhand.
There apparently are three avail
able routes into Mt. Logan; one
from the landig beach of Yuaa
tit Bay, over the Malashina and
Seward Glaciers, an all snow ice
route of seventy miles, to the
south »ide of the Mossive; se
condly, from the White Horse
over the wagon raod 145 miles
to Kluatie Lake, thence accross
toe lake and Kuskawnlsh Glacier
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BEFORE THE
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
ANCHORAGE seri *l NUMHER
06231
Hamlin F. Andrus, etaiapplicants
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
That in accordance with the laws
of the United States, and especial
ly in pursuance of the Acts of
Congress approved July 9 th, 1870
and May 10 th, 1872, and amend,
ments thereof, the undersigned
applicants, who are citizens of the
united States, and whose post office
address is Care of Maurice D. Leehey,
*>20 Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash*
ington, who have acquird and improved
the placer mining claim and premises
hereinafter described in accordance
with said laws and all local laws, rules
j and customs of miners, and who with
their predecessors in interest have per
formed labor and made improvements
of a value greater than Five Hundred
Dollars upon and for the benefit of
such placer claim, and who at this time
are in the sole, actual and peaceful
possession thereof, will apply for a
patent to the JOLLY ASSOCIA
TION PLACER, officially surveyed as
a part of Mineral Survey 1473, con
taining an area of 139,668 acres
(excluding conflict with prior locations)
ot a valuable placer deposit of gold
and other minerals situated on the
bench lands along the right limit of
White Gulch, a tributary of Chittitu
Creek, in the Nizina (unorganized)
Mining District within the McCarthy
Recording Precinct, in the Third
Judicial Division of the Territory of
Alaska, more particularly and accurate
ly described upon tho official plat of
said mineral survey No. 1473 now
posted on the ground, and in the Field
Notes thereof on file in the U.S. Land
Office at Anchorage, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at the initial point taken
for this description which is col ner
No. 1, of the Jolly Association placer,
identical with Corner No. 1. of the
lolly Gulch Bench No. 1 and with
comer No. 3 of Wh::e Gu’ch Ben h
No. 2, both of this survev, and with
Corner No. 4, of No.2, White Gulch
Placer, Mineral Surv«y No. 1092, and
Corner No. 1, of No. 3, White Gulch
Placer, Mineral Survey 1404, from
which point U. S. L. M.No. 27 bears
N 35 ° 19 ’ 23” W 3593.17 feet dis
tant; thence from such initial
point along the southeast line
I of the Jolly Association Placer S 54
32 E, 330 feet to Corner No. 2, of
the said Jolly Gulch Bench No. 1,
whitch is the southeast corner thereof,
a point on the north line of No. 3.
White Gulch Placer, and on the same
course a total distance of 1171 . 33
feet from said initial point to Corner
No. 2, of the Jolly Association Placer,
identical with Corner No. 2, of No. 3,
White Gulch Placer and with Corner
and with Corner No. 1, of No. 4, White
Gulch Placer; thence along thi South
erly line of the Jolly Association Placer,
identical with the northerly line of No.4
White Gulch Placer, S 49 ° 13’ E 1377.
72 feet to Corner No. 3, of the Jolly
Association Placer identical with Corner
No.2 of No. 4 White Gulch Placer and
with Comer No. 2, of No. 5, White
Gulch Placer; thence S 14°50’E 1323.
50, feet to Corner No. 4. of the Jolly
Association Placer, identical with
Corney No. 3, of No. 5, White Gulch
Placer and with Corner No. 2, of No. 6
White Gulch Placer; thence S 34 ° 42’
E 1308. 82 feet to Corner No. 5 of the
Jolly Aasociation Placer, which is the
Southeast corner thereof, and identical
with Corner No. 3 of No.6 White
Gulch Placer and with Corner No. 2
of No. 7 White Gulch Placer, both
M. S. 1404; thence along the soui
easterly endline of the Jolly Asse^
tion Placer N 54° 03’ E 13
feet to the Northeast Corner
of the Jolly Association placer; th’
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