NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR U.S. PATENT.
The United States of Amer
ica, Department of the Inter
ior, General Land Office.
In the United States Land
Office at Anchorage, Alaska.
Serial No. 06477
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT FOR VIR
GINIA LODE CLAIM, VIR
GINIA NO. 1 LODE CLAIM.
VIRGINIA NO. 2 LODE
CLAIM AND VIRGINIA NO'.
3 LODE CLAIM.
NOTICE is hereby given that
the undersigned owners of the
Virginia Lode Claim, the Vir
ginia No. 1 Lode Claim, the
Virginia No. 2 Lode Claim
and the Virginia No. 3 Lode
Claim have made appMcat
ion to the United States
Land Office for the Anchor
age Land District of Alaska
at Anchorage for a.patent on
the above and herein named
and designated mineral claims.
The date of posting this
notice is June 20th, 1925.
The names of the owners
and claimants are:
Margaret Duff Bunting, Ry
der, Alaska. J. A. Hall, Hyder,
Alaska. Char E. Finzel, Ket
chikan, Alaska.
The names and descriptions
of the claims are:
The VIRGINIA LODE
CLAIM, located on the Sal-^
mon River near the conflu
ence of Boundary Creek and
on the Hyder-Premier wagon
road about eleven and one
half miles northerly from Hy
der, Alaska, in Hyder mining
district and recorded at Hy
der, Alaska. The discovery
post bears North 20 degrees
East about 400 feet from the
Boundary Creek bridge on the
Hyder-Premier road.
The VIRGINIA NO. 1 LODE
CLAIM, located on the Sal
mon River near the conflu
ence of Boundary Creek and
on the Hyder-Premier wagon
road about eleven and one
half miles northerly from Hy
der, Alaska, in Hyder mining
district, and recorded at Hy
der, Alaska. The discovery
post bears South 70 degrees
West 450 feet from the Bound
ary Creek bridge on the Hy
der-Premier road.
The VIRGINIA NO. 2 LODE
CLAIM, located on the east
erly side of the Salmon River
on the northerly side oi
Boundary Creek and on the
easterly side of the Hyder
Premier wagon road about
eleven and one-half miles
northerly from Hyder, Alaska,
in Hyder mining district and
recorded at Hyder, Alaska
The discovery post bears,
north-easterly about 600 feet
from the Boundary Creek
bridge on the Hyder-Premier
road.
The VIRGINIA NO. 3 LODE
CLAIM, located on the east
erly side of the Salmon River,
on the southerly side of
Boundary Creek and on the
easterly’ side of the Hy
der-Premier wagon i-oad about
eleven and one-half miles
northerly from Hyder, Alaska,
in Hyder mining district and
recorded at Hyder, Alaska.
The discovery post bears
South-easterly about 850 feet
from the Boundary Creek
bridge on the Hyder-Premier
road.
The Virginia, Virginia No. 1,
Virginia No. 2 and Virginia
No. 3 lode claims are contigu
ous claims and are bounded
by the following claims,
to-wit:
On the North by Noble No. 2,
Cascade No. 2 and the Duff
claims; on the East by Dan,
Tamarack and Taurus claims;
on the South by Taurus, Daly
Alaska No. 5 and No. 6 and
the Iron Ridge claims; and on
the West by unlocated ground.
The Virginia, Virginia No. 1,
Virginia No. 2 and Virginia
No. 3 lode claims are included
in U. S. Survey No. 1478, a
plat of which said survey and
field notes are posted here
with.
Survey No. 1478 upon which
application for patent for the
Virginia, Virginia No. 1, Vir
ginia No. 2 and Virginia No. 3
lode claims is based is not tied
to a corner of the public survey
but is tied to U. S. Mineral
Monument No. 1418, the geo
graphical location of which
is Longitude '130 degrees, 3
| minutes West, and Latitude
156 degrees 2 minutes North,
and lying about 100 feet
South-easterly from where the
Premier tram crosses the Sal
mon River near Eleven Mile
on the Hyder-Premier road,
Hyder Mining District, Alas
ka. Said monument is a granite
rock 30 inches by 24 inches
by 10 inches set 24 inches in
the ground oh a point 20 feet
above the Salmon River and
J narked U. S. M. M. No. 1418.
From Corner No. 1 of the
I Virginia claim, the same bej
ng the south-easterly corner
j thereof, U. S. M. Monument
; tears South 46 degrees, 17
| minutes, 38 seconds West,
j L782.7 feet, and from Corner
^o. 1 of the Virginia No. 1
:laim, being the south-easterly
corner thereof, the said monu
ment bears South 68 degrees,
| ?1 minutes, 49 seconds West,
1385.48 feet.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska,
; ;his 19th day of June, 1925.
Margaret Duff Bunting
J. A. Hall
Chas. E. Finzel, by
Margaret Duff Bunting, at
torney in fact.
Any and all persons claim
ng adversely the mining
rround, vein, lode, premises,
jr any portion thereof, de
! icribed, surveyed, platted and
ipplied for, are hereby noti
fied that unless their adverse
;laims are duly filed accord
| ing to law, and the regulat
or thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law, with
the Register of the U. S. Land
Office, at Anchorage, Terri
tory of Alaska, they will be
barred by virtue of the pro
visions of said statutes.
And. it is ordered that the
above and foregoing notice be
mblished for a period of 60
Jays, or once a week for ten
(10) successive weeks, in the
Hyder Weekly Herald, a news
paper of general circulation
published at Hyder, Alaska,
within the Anchorage Land
District, Territory of Alaska,
which said newspaper is a
newspaper published nearesi
the location of the mineral
land described in said Notice,
and which said newspaper is
officially designate*’ for the
purpose of publishing said
Notice.
Dated at Anchorage, Alaska,
this 4th day of September,
1925.
J. Lindley Green
Register
Ernest Blue,. Esq.,
Hyder, Alaska.
Attorney for claimants.
Date of first publication Sep
tember 30, 1925.
Date of last publication
December 2, 1925.
BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Seven head of Roosevelt elk
have been secured by the
Alaska Game Commission
from the State of Washington
for planting on Kruzoff Island.
Funds for the purchase of the
animals were provided in an
appropriation by the Alaska
Legislature last spring in a
general game and fur-bearing
animal stocking program. Sev
en muskrats and two beavers,
bought at Cordova, have been
successfully placed on Kodiak
Island, and seem to take kind
i ly to their new homes. A sec
I ond shipment of beaver, con
' sisting of eight animals will al
I so be placed on Kodiak Island.
U. S .Marshal H. P. Sullivan
| has announced that the mar
i shal’s office at Talke'etna has
been abolished.
W. H. Caswell, game warden
of the Cordova district, while
enroute to Kodiak recently
with a number of beavers and
muskrats for stocking that
island, seizeda rifle at Sel
dovia from G. Colombo, an
alien. The gun was seized un
der the law which prohibits
the possession of firearms by
aliens within the Territory.
Tindall & Henderson, work
ing on Ester Dome, are mak
ing a wonderful showing in
their hard rock mine. At pres
ent they are reported to have
10,000 tons of ore blocked out,
valued at a quarter of a mill
ion dollars. Their Lane mill is
crushing about $1,000 worth
of the ore daily and the fut
ure of the property is very
bright.
Mayor J. O. Kirkham , of
Douglas, recently received a
cablegram from Rochester,
Minn., with the news that Tom
Tracy, an old time resident of
Douglas, was in the Colonial
hospital of Mayo Brothers, and
in need of financial as well as
medical aid. Hugh Tracy had
accompanied his brother there
and was likewise without
funds, the message stated.
Both of the Traceys, who are
now well advanced in years,
are among the oldest pioneers
in Alaska, and an effort is be
ing made to secure assistance
1 for them.
J. II. Taylor, who has been
: spending the last two seasons
1 in the Lake Tustumena country
| on Kenai Peninsula, returned
to Seward recently. In 1923
Mr. Taylor discovered a de
i posit of chai'codite, a sample
1 of which was sent to a friend
in the States, who had an as
| say made. The assay revealed
that the ore carried 10 ounces
of gold, 14.30 ounces of silver
and 70.890 per cent of copper.
! It was evident from the assay
that the ore was of high grade.
>vh enough tc pav from thj
grass roots down.
The first crop of apples in
Southwestern Alaska, was re
cently harvested by Elmer E.
Carson, a well known old
time resident of Hope. This
makes the third crop he has
taken off his tre^s, which are
of the transparent and crab
varieties, and in comparison
with crop harvested last fall,
are much larger, have a won
derful fragrance and are firm.
Experiments, conducted by Mr.
Carson for some seasons, have
resulted in the knowledge
that with proper cultivation j
and a little care, a good eating!
apple can be successfully
produced. Mr. Carson plans on
planting an orchard of consid
erable size. It is estimated that
the production this year was
about two boxes to the tree.
Wearing vestments brought
from Russia in .the early nine
teenth century when Baranoff
ruled Alaska for the czars.
Father Tikhon Lavrischeff re
; cently -presided at the laying
of the conierstone of the new
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temple of St. Michael, near
the Eyak Lake road, Cordova,
according to the Valdez Min
er.
The ceremony, which has not
been held more than five
times in Alaska, was rare and
unusual. In the last quarter
century no similar event has
taken place in the Territory.
A procession carrying ikons
and images approached the
| foundation of the new build
ing. A large part of the ser
vice was chanted while the
cross was blessed with holy
water and other ceremonies
; performed. The priest read a
| special prayer at each side of
the foundation and struck the
foundation three times with an
I axe as each prayer was-said,
i The use of incense, candles
and ikons lent a- decidedly
Russian atmosphere to the
I scene. Father Lavrischeff ap
peared in historic vestments of
! white, embroidered with sil
ver, and showing signs of
wear, for they were preserved
from the l^Puchek church,
erected on Hinchinbrook Is
land at one of the earliest
Russian settlements in Alaska.
The ceremony carried out by
Father Lavrischeff is reserved
only for the dedication of
large Russian churches. There
; are at present only six of
these in Alaska, including
Kodiak, Sitka, Unalaska, St.
j Michael, Juneau" and the ruin
ed edifice at the abandoned
town of Nuchek.
The spawning of approxi
mately 7,500,000 humpback
and chinook salmon eggs is un
der way at the Territorial fish
I hatchery on Ketchikan Creek,
j near Ketchikan. The fish are
; impounded as they reach the
I head of the creek, segregated,
I and placed in separate pools
to ripen, and eventually are
put through the spawning
process. The run of hump
backs this season was the larg
est in years, and elsewhere in
the vicinity of Ketchikan a
similar run has been reported.
To the spawning of 9,000,090
eggs at the hatchery two years
ago is attributed largely the
big run experienced this
season.
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1 TERRITORY MAINTAINS
HIGH AVERAGE
EXPORT BUSINESS
Shipments of Alaskan com
modities to the States during,
the month of September, ac
; cording to the report of J. C.
McBride, collector of customs,
aggregated $ 15,523,470.
While the month’s export bus
iness was $1,862,437 less than
in September, 1924, the vol
ume exceeded materially , the
average for the month, and
again approached war time
figures. Outgoing shipments of
Alaskan products in Septefn
her of last year, totaled $17.
385,957, and were the third
( largest in volume for that
| month in the history of the
j Territory. In those shipments
j was included considerable red
j salmon packed in western
j Alaska. Most of this pack foi
| the current season went south
in August this year. This u
suited in the August shipment*
being well above the average.
The combined export values
for August and Septembei,
this year, $26,034,852, are
more than $1,750,,000 in ex
cess of those for the same two
months last year, when they
reached $24,384,064.
Colonel William Mitchell
storm center of the army air
craft controversy, was former
ly an Alaskan; that is, he at
one time, when Lieutenant
Mitchell, served with the Sig
nal Corps in the Territory, in
charge of telegraph construct
ion work. The record of the
Valdez office of the Signal
Corps contain no record of his
service in the North, but Mrs.
Campbell, wife of Sergeant J.
M. Campbell, now in Valdez,
remembers Lieutenant Mitch
ell being in Skagway in 1901,
and that he had been at Nome,
St. Michael and other points
in Interior Alaska. It is pre
rumed that Lieutenant Mitch
ell had charge of the tele
graph line /from Eagle down
the Yukon river. —Valdez
Miner
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