NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. W. Rabel and J. B.
Shorctt, Jr.:
You are hereby notified that
T have expended money and
labor to the amount of $500.00
on the Engineer Group of min
ing claims, consisting of Lucky
Boy No. 1, Lucky Boy No. 2,
Mother Lode, Hobo and Sur
veyor, on Texas Creek in Hy
der Recording Precinct, Alas
ka, as will appear by the Froof
of Labor filed for record bn
December 5th, 1925, in the of
fice of the Recorder at Ilyder,
Alaska, in order to hold said
premises under the provisions
of Section 2324, U. S. Revised
Statutes, and other laws of the
United States, being the
amount required to hold the
same for the year ending
June 30th, 192G. And if with
in ninety days after publicat
ion of this notice for the re
quired 14 weeks, you fail or
refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as
co-owners, your interest in
said lode mining claims will
become the property of the
subscriber under said Section
2324.
Dominick Bevacqua
Date of first publication Dec.
9, 1925.
Date of last publication Mch.
10, 192G.
BIG PAPER PULP
PLANT PROPOSED
——
A report from San Francisco
says that it is reported there,
upon good authority, that Un
der a recent reorganization,
! ample funds have been secur
ed for the prosecution of the
proposed pulp and paper pro
ject at the head of Thomas
i bay, near Petersburg. The j
company secured the water se-)
cured the water rights and
presented their bid to the gov
ernment on a large timbei
tract in 1922; the timber bid
for being the largest contract
ever entered into by the For
. est Service in Alaska. The
power site is one of the largest
in the Territory, it having been
estimated that it will deliver
a constant flow sufficient to
develop not less than 50,000
horsepower.
The proposed pulp and
paper mill is to be larger
than the one now operated at
Ocean Falls, British Columbia,
and will turn out all grades of
paper, using both the “short
fibre” and the cyanide process.
The San Francisco report says
that active operations are to
be begun on the Cascade
Falls project early next spring.
! Cascade Falls is at the head
of Thomas Bay, which opens
j off Frederick Sound, about 12
miles north of Petersburg.— 1
Valdez Miner.
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UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE. ANCHORAGE, ALAS
KA, November 18, 1925.
: Serial No. 06563.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to the Act of Con
gress approved May 10, 1872
and the amendatory acts there
of, Charles Fehring of Hyder,
Alaska, in behalf of himself,
has made application for a
patent for 1498.5 linear feet
on the Last Shot No. 1 Lode
and 1500 linear feet on the
La?t Shot No. 2 Lode, together
with surface ground, in width
approximately 300 feet on
each side of the Lode lines
thereof; said Lode claims be
ing embraced in U. S. Mineral
Survey No. 1509, and fully
and accurately described up
on the official plat of said
survey posted on the claim
and by the field notes of said
official survey on file in the
United States Land Office at
Anchorage, Alaska, and more
particularly described as fol
lows :—
LAST SHOT NO. 1. LODE.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, from
which U. S. L. M. No. 1509, at
Latitude 55° 59' 19" N. and
Longitude 130° 04' W., bears
N. 57° 41' 43" W. 1856.86
feet dist., thence S. 47° 24' E.
1498.5 feet to Cor. No. 2
thence S. 40° 59' W. 584.6
feet to Cor. No. 3, thence N.
47* 69' W. 1497.0 feet to Cor.
No. 4, thence N. 40° 69' E.
600.0 feet to Cor. No. 1, the
place of beginning; containing
an area of 20.362 acres.
LAST SHOT NO. 2, LODE
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, iden
tical with Cor. No. 2 Last Shot
No. 1 Lode of this survey, from
which U. S. L. M. No. 1509,
bears N. 53° 05' 56" W. 3341.
98 feet, thence S. 51° 03' E.
1500 feet to Cor. No. 2, thence
S. 40° 59' W. 600 feet to Cor.
No. 3, thence N. 50° 28' W.
1499.44 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
thence N. 40° 59' E. 584.6
feet to Cor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing an area
of 20.382 acres.
The said Last Shot No. 1 and
Last Shot No. 2 contiguous
Lode Mining Claims are situ
ated in the Hyder Mining Dis
trict, about one-half mile east
of Salmon River and about
seven miles north of the Town
of Hyder, Alaska. On the
northwest End they join the
Caribou Mining Claim, unsur
veyed, and on the other sides
and end line by the unsurvey
ed and unoccupied Public Do
main of the United States, and
are of record in the office of
the Recorder for Hyder Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska.
Any and all persona claiming
adversely the mining ground,
veins, lodes, premises or any
portion thereof so described,
surveyed, platted and applied
for, as the Last Shot No. i and
Last Shot No. 2, Lode Claims,
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1509,
are hereby, notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly
filed within the period of pub
lication or within eight months
thereafter with the Register of
the United States Land Office
at Anchorage, Alaska, they
will be barred by virtue of the
provisions of said statutes.
J. Lindley Green
Register
First Publication December 9,
1925.
Last publication February 3,
1926%
BRIEF HEMS FROM , ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Reports from Kanatak say
the Standard Oil Company
drilling on the Lee claim, in
the Cold Bay oil field, struck
salt water at a depth of 5200
feet, and abandoned the well.
Another well, some eight miles
further into the interior, will
be drilled, according to the
report... The reports have not
been confirmed.
The Sitka Progress is the
name of a new weekly news
paper now appearing in Sitka.
Clarenc LeMaster is publisher.
The Progress is a journal of
six pages, four columns wide.
LeMaster is a young newspap
er man who has been connect
el with the Petersburg Herald.
The case of John Katzeek, a
native, against the Alaska
Steamship Company for $30,
000 damages for injuries re
ceived when a sling broke
while one of the company
steamers was unloading a boil
er near Haines, which was re
cently tried at Juneau, result
ed in a verdict for the plaint
iff in the sum of $5,000.
j James R. Hayden and Ed
ward Brower, well known
former Alaskans, have secur
ed an option on the famous
i Apollo mine at Unga. This
j mine has produced several
million dollars and is still far
from being worked out.
Hunters who have returned
from the hills beyond West
Dawson state that the herds
of caribou which are now
i roaming the hills in that di
rection are not as plentiful as
as in former years says the
Dawson News. The caribou are
traveling in smaller herds, and
these herds are fewer in num
ber than in previous years, says
one hunter who has just re
i turned.
1 Mrs. C. J. Alexander, of Ket
! chikan, wife of a well known
cannery man, died in Seattle
December 24, from injiries re
ceived when she was struck
' by a mail truck as she stepped
| out to catch a street car.
James J. Godfrey, organizer
1 of the Mother Lode Copper
Company, and former Valdez
resident, is now head of the
Kay Copper Company and is
developing another great mine
about fifty miles from Pheonix
Arizona. Ralph L. Healy gen
eral manager of the same com
pany, was formerly with the
Kennecott Corporation and
connected with the Bonanza
mine.
Charles Brefalt and Dan Tol
mie are said to have opened
up a wonderful lead on Galena
Hill, in the Mayo district, be
low the Thompson group.
They have a 9-foot lead with
only one wall reached yet. The
average across the 9-foot face
is over 250 ounces of silver
per ton. Six men are employed.
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Two cases involving violat
ions of the Alaska game law
have been reported to the
Alaska Game Commission, one
in Fairbanks, the other at
Anchorage. George Mellich,
an alien, was apprehended en
gaged in trapping without an
alien license. After being
found with a fox in one of his
traps and two rifles in his
possession a charge was filed
against him in Nenana for il
legal trapping. He was sent
enced to 60 days in jail and
fined $160. The second case
reported said that S. F.
Rhodes, a fur dealer of Anch
orage, was found to have pur
chased 47 muskrat and 16
mink skins, recently taken, all
of them unprime and taken be
fore the season opened. A com.
plaint containing three counts
against him, two charging
possession of unprime skins,
and a third of failure to keep
records of purchases. Rhodes
pleaded not guilty. The out
come of the trial has not yet
been reported to the Commis
sion.
The Dawson News of Decem
ber 17 reports that at that time
there was much anxiety at
Whiitehoi-se over the disap
pearance of a resident of that
section named Fred Eliason
Eliason, who had been married
less than 24 hours before, left
his home saying he would re
turn in a short time, but fail
ed to appear. Footprints eorre-~
sponding to his were later
traced to open water in the I
river but without sign that th<
maker returned to shore. 11
was apprehended that Eliason
in some manner slipped ant
fell into the river which at that
point is deep and swift. Elia
son had been employed in tht
roundhouse of the White Past ;
& Yukon railroad.
It was stated in the Seward
Gateway last spring that tht .
“Three Horsemen,” Smith ;
Alec and Papetos, Nuka Baj
quartz mine operators, hac
trained two mink, a male and
a female, the animals becom i
ing so domesticated that tliej
conducted themselves more
like house cats than creatures i
of the wild. Now, it is report
ed that the mink family has in
creased from two to six and
they make themselves perfect
ly at home. The antics of the
mink are the cause of much
amusement to the miners who
say that watching the mink u
as good as going to a circus.
Smith and Alec are training
the younger animals, and ir.
this connection it might be ol
scientific worth to know that
one of the mink will lay down
at command: roll over like a
dog; sit up on his haunchqs,
jump through a hoop and bark
like a fox. In time the partners
hope to make hardrock miners
out of the mink tribe.—Valdez
Miner.
Announcement was recent!}
made of a change in the own
ership of the Blum-O’NcilJ
Company of Cordova. The con
cern is now known as the
O’Neill Company, and is capi
talized at $100,000, with $50,
000 of this amount in preferr
ed stock, the majority ol
which has been disposed of to
! friends of the firm in the Cop
per River Valley. H. I. O’Neill,
the head of the new concern
recently bought out the ma
: jority stockholders of the
! Blum-O’Neill Co.
INTERESTING GLIMPSE
BEHIND SCENES
The following special dis
patch from Washington D. C.
to the San Francisco. Chronicle,
dited. December 1€, gives an
interesting insight into the
political machinations ; attend
ing the recent effort of certain
political elements to , oust
Judges Reed and Ritchie and
other officials in the First and
Third Divisions. The “inside”
story of how this particular
lttle stunt was financed, as re
vealed in the latter end of the
Chronicle dispatch, is not the
least interesting feature of the
tale: The Chronicle story fol
lows :
The entire Alaskan slate of
federal officials—four judges,
four attorneys and four mar
shals—is about to be reap
pointed, with one or two ex
ceptions, it is believed, de
spite serious charges of mal
administration on file after
one of the most thorough-going
secret investigations of federal
officials on record.
The Alaskan scramble for
office has amounted almost to
a brawl. Twenty politicians
from that faraway Territory
are in Washington now pulling
strings for one faction or the
other. Their charges led to
three independent investigat
ions by fifteen federal under
cover agents and about the
only authenticated fact devel
oped is that the “outs” have a
subsidized lobby in Washing
ton to oust the “ins.”
The “outs campaign is led by
John Frame of Ketchikan, who
>tyles himself Republican Nat
ional Committeeman from
Alaska, but who is not recog
nized as such by the commit
tee. He is directing his fire
particularly against District
Judge T. M. Reed, brother of
Mark Reed, Republican leader
in Washington State, and Dis
trict Attorney Arthur Shoup
orother of Paul Shoup, presi
dent of the Southern Pacific
Company. Both officials are at
Juneau. Judge Elmer E. Rit
chie of Valdez is also under
their fire and is being opposed
by his former district attorney,
Sherman Duggan, who resign
ed to become a candidate for
judge. Harry McCain, friend
of Duggan, is a candidate for
district attorney at Valdez,
against Frank Foster, appoint
ed acting district attorney by
the judge.
WheiT Duggan resigned he
carelessly left behind copies of
coded telegrams exchanged
with McCain. These were in
regular Department of Just
ice code and the government
paid the toll. Copies are in the
hands of the attorney general.
Some of these messages read:
(Duggan to McCain)—“How
much you contributed to
fiYnmp hn.w much vou and 1
contribute, wire.”
(McCain to Duggan) —
“Frame asked $100 from each
major candidate in the Terri
tory. This seems reasonable as
must go to Washington at once
and stay possibly several
months. Think better comply.
Have done nothing yet and
desire your opinion.”
The Brown & Hawkins Cor
poration retired from the An
ihorage field, on December 31,
after having been engaged in
business there ever since the
town started. For the present,
at least, the concern will main
tain but one store, at Seward