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The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL; VIII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, April 4, 1^5.
No. 14
I SEE BY THE
PAPER THAT:
C. H. Kraem^r was a Sunday
arrival, having come to take cha
rge of the Chititu camp this
season. He left Tuesday to look
over the ground there.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H Wood
man are home again. “Dick” rep
orts a wonderful trip but, like
all the rest, is glad to be back
in little old McCarthy.
.Tas. Hussey has decided
that he has missed too many
boats so has disposed of his bus
iness interests and will take an
extended fcrfp to his old home
in Pennsylvania. Jimmie undouli
redly has earned the trip but
he will be missed bv bis many
friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Antone NeNon
said ’‘Adieu" to McCarthy Frid
ay when they started for their
new home near SeJdovia. where
they intend making: a venture
into the fox—farming- business.
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Success iw wished them br
McCarthy.
The Green Butte tram to
the uimer eamn was forced to
snsoend o’>«M*'»tin^s fo)* a time
this wonk owing- to the Tinker
being off. The cause could not
be ascertained until it was Jear
ned that “Fat” Ulrich had gone
up in it, that day.
Mrs. E. Underwood who
has been residing for some
months in Seattle dropped into
town to renew acquaintances
this week.
J. K. Barrett set out to!
mush down from the Green
Butte Thursday evening. His
dogs beat, him in by seven miles.
TWAS EVER THUS
The country “Blatter’ always
has been and always will be ?he
object of many irreverent and
facetious remarks by an irresp
onsible and critical public. Our
own “Little Rug" is no except
ion for it has*come toourattent
ion that some of our readeis in
Cordova are in the habit each
week of picking our literary ell
orts to pieces bit bv bit We <10
I
not in»nd this favorite indoor j
s|)nrt a little bit as it shows
that they read the paper al least
and we are hopeful that it will
instil a little crumb of knowled
ge in aoine of them sooner or
later.
Let ue see now; who is this
principal offender — Miss Suun
tiers or Mrs. McDonald or some
such name?
Walter Quon Eng, late of
the Golden Lunch Counter, has
joined .Jack Costello in the Owl
Cafe The quality of Walter’s
cooking is well known and he
solicits the patronage of his old
patrons at the Golden.
The sad death occured at
Kennecott Hospital last weiu of
Mr. Harry Carne of pneumonia.
He was a man of 41 years of
age and a general favorite amon
gst his fellow workmen who in
a, body mourned hit untimely
death.
NOTICE
1 wish to announce that 1
have transferred my interest
and good-will in the Golden Hotel
to William Lubbe and that I
will not be responsible for any1
debts contracted by the new
management on and after the
first day of April 192.r>.
James Hussey
APPOINTMENT OF
PARKS PRAISED
IN RESOLUTION
The thanks of the people of
Alaska are extended to Presid
ent Coolidge and the U. S. Sen
ate for the appointment and eon
lirmation of George? A. Parks as
Governor of Alaska, in House
Joint Resolution introduced to
day by Sheldon, Fairbanks. Mr.
Parks, it declared, “Is specially
fitted ably to fulfill the trust re
posed in him.”
FERGUSON TAKES
GOLD OUT KUBUK
NOME: Fred Johnson, who arr
ived last week from the vicinity
of Shaugnak on the Kobuk riv
er, Jiad some interesting repor
ts on the operations in the vie
isity of California creek and Dahl
creek, both tributaries to the
Kobuk, which flows into Kotze
bue Sound.
The two creeks according to
Mr. Johnson, are very rich and
he says that on California creek,
Frank Ferguson and his partn
ers took out $40,000 in one month
and behind them one man rocked
out $200 in four days from their
tailings. This cleanup was made
on one piece of ground 100 feet
long alter the men had worked
all summer making ready for
the operations.
Since the freezeup the prop
rietors of the California Creek
layout have been freighting in
lumber for construction and will
continue operation* the whole
eight miles, the length of the
creek which they eontrol.
Mr. Johnson has a lay on
Dahl Creek and has spent the
past season putting in ditches,
etc. Mr. Johnson took out pieces
of gold from his property weigh
ing up to 18 eunces and worth
$300, as have also the California
creek men taken out some nugg
ets worth $250 each.
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MINING LAW AMENDED
An act to modify and amend
the mining lavs in their applic
ation to the Territory of Alaska^
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That sect
ion 4 of the Act of Congress of
August 1,1912. section 129d Com
piled Laws of Alaska, entitled
“An Act to modify and amend
the mining laws in their applicat
ion to the Territory of Alaska,
and for other purposes,” be am
ended to read as follows:
Sec. 4. That no placer min
ing claim hereafter located in
Alaska shall be patented which
| shall contain a greater area than
is fixed by law, nor which is
longer than three times its great
est width as determined by a
transverse line drawn within the
lines of the claim and at right
angles to its longest side: Prov
ided, Thai where any isolated
parcel of placer ground lies bet
ween and adjoins patented or
validly located claims on all of
its sides and is not over thirt
een hundred and twenty feet in
length this dimensional rest,
riction shall not apply.”
Approved, March 3, 1925.
BIG QUARTZ FIND
MADE IN CASSIAR
Wrangell,— Telegraphic advices
received today announce the dis
covery of a free milling quartz
strike on a tributary of Eagle
river in the Cassier district,
within a short distance of the
placer discovery of last Septem
ber. W. G. Galvin, one of the
stampeders to Gold Pan Creek
last Fall, is leaving today with
dogteam for the scene of the
strike.