The McCARTH Y
Weekly News
VOL.o.
McCarthy, alaska. Saturday March mth 1922
NO. 19
TELEGRAPHIC
FORTLISCUM to be Abandoned
Washington. March 17. Tie
General staff of the Army will
recommend the abandonment of
Fort Liscum and Fort Gibbon.
The Fort at Nenana. is to be
maintained, it is slated to be mov
to Anchorage and made much
larger.
EX P RES S to FA IR BA N K S
Seattle, March 17, The Express
Companies and the Alaska Gov
ernment Railroad have agreed
upon rates of $11.66 per hundred
fm express matter from Seattle
to Fairbanks.
Commercial Fishing in Yukon
Prohibited
Washington. March lb. Hoov t i
today issued orders prohibiting
commercial fishing in the inter
est of the Indians.
Seattle. March 18. Frank B. Coop
er. for twenty one years super,
intendent of Seattle schools has
resigned tonight, effective on
August 1st.
MINING DEALS
Chitina, Special to News.
Pete Monahan lias refused fif
teen theusand dollars for a halt
interest in the Monahan and Xel
son property on Valdez creek.
Later reports state that he ha*
sold yut to New York capita
If this is true there will be
immense workings.
PIONEER DANCE
The days of ‘98 dance which
wag given by the McCarthy
Pioneers last Wednesday even
ing, proved an immense success
About 60 people were presen 1
and all attractions were well pat
ronized. The bar did a rushing
business.
Jack Schultz and his committee
are to be complimented on the
achievement which nets a gooc
profit for the McCaithy Igloe
treasury
LEGAL ADVERTISING
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
OFFICE
Juneau Serial 05177
JOHN E. ANDRUS, Applicant
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
Thai" in accordance with tlie laws
of the United States, and especially in
| pursuance of the Acts of Congress a p
| proved July 9th, 1870. and May 10th,
1812. and amendments thereof, JOHN j
E. ANDRUS, a citizen of the United j
Stall's, whose post office address is care i
of Maurice !). Leehey, 020, Alaska Build
ing. Seattle. Washington, who has ac
quiredand improved the placet mining
claim and premises hereinafter describ I
ed in accordance with said laws and
all local laws, rules and customs of
miners, and has performed labor and j
made improvements on ^said mining
claim of the value greater than Five j
Hundred Dollars upon or for the benefit
of each location included therein, and
who at this time is in the soie. actual]
and peaceful possession of said placer
mining claim, will apply for a patent
to the same with the following named
placer locations therein contained, each
included in the designated mineral
survey and containing the number of
acres set opposite to its name, viz:
Mineral Survey No. 1102:
No. 10 Rex Dutch IS.405 acres,
No. 11 ” 19.888
j Mineral Survey No. 1091:
No. 12 Rex Ciujch, 18.909 ”
Total area included in this
applicat ion, 50.050 Acres
Each of said locations contains a val
uable placer deposit of gold and other
valuable minerals, and the same are con
tiguous and constitute a single tract of
. ground situated upon unsurveyed lands
along Rex Clulch, a tributary ofChittitu
' Creek, in the Nizina (unorganized)
| Mining District within the McCarthy
»| Recording Precinct in the Third Judic
• ial Division of the Territory of Alaska,
and the same are more particularly and
. accurately described upon the off
icial plats of the mineral surveys above
stated, which are posted on the claim,
t and are also described in the field notes
. of such official surveys on file in the
United States Land Office at Juneau,
Alaska, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Corner No. 1 of the
placer mining location designated as
No. 10 Hex Gulch, from which United
States Mineral Monument No. 27 bears
South 25" 47’ 32” West, 7713.15 feet
distant; thence North 57" 57’ East935,31
feet to Corner No, 4. of Placer No, 10
Hex Gulch, which is identical with
corner No. 1 of Placer no. 11 Hex Gulch
from which U. S. M, M. No. 27 bears
South 29" 08’ 3!” West 8519.55feet
distant; t hence North 57" 08' East 1000.5
feet to corner no, 4 of Placer no. 11 Hex
Gulch, which is identical with corner
no. 1 of Placer no, 12 Hex Gulch, from
which U, S, M.M. No. 27 bears South
32" 04' 23" West 9420.82 feet distant;
thence North 72" 40’ East 1034.60 feet
to corner No. 2 of Placer No, 12 Hex
Gulch:
thence across the bed of Hex Gulch
North 20" 4(j West 792.00 feet to corner
no. 3 of Placer no. 12 Hex Gulch: thence
South 73" 50' West 981.20 feet to corner
no. ! of Placer no. 12 Hex Gulch: thence
South 22" 52' East 50,0 feet along the
southerly end line of Placer no. 12 Hex
Gulch to corner no. 3 of Placerno. 11
Hex Gulch; thence South 02" 37'West
1157.04 feet to corner no. 2 of Placerno.
11 Hex Gulch, which is identical with
corner no. 3 of Placer no. 10 Rex Gulch;
t hence South 50“' 59* West 1091.84 feet
to corner no. 2 of Placer no. 10 Rex
Gulch, which is identical with corner
no. 3 of Placer no. 9 Rex Gulch; thence
South 15“ 51' East 744,23 feet to corner
no. 1 of Placer no, 10 Rex Gulch, the
place of beginning first herein described.
United States Mineral Monument No.
27 to which surveys herein are tied by
the official survey, is in Latitude 01'"'
18’North and approximate Longitude
142H39’ West, and thence the confluence
of Rex Gulch and White Gulch, which
forms Chittitu Creek, bears South 21u
5O’ West 800 feet, while Andrus Peak
bears South O'-1 59* East, and Sheepherd
er's Mountain bears North 10“,40' East.
There are no adjoining mineral claims
officially surveyed except Placer No.9
Rex Gulch, Mineral Survey, 1090 the
north end line of which is identical
with the southend lineof Placer No.10
Rex Gulch, included in this notice and
application for patent.
THIS NOTICE Dated and Issued
at the United States Land Office
at Juneau, Alaska, on this 20th
day of December A. D. 1921, for i
i
posting iri said Land Office, and
for publication for a period of
not less than sixty days in ten
consecutive and regular issues
of the McCarthy Weekly News,
a newspaper of general circulat
ion, printed and published week
ly at McCarthy, Alaska, within
the Juneau Land District, and
nearest the land herein describ
ed and hereby designated for
that purpose.
Frank A. Boyle.
Register.
Maurice D. Leehey,
Attorney for Claimant,
Office & Post Office Address,
G20 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
Date of first publication Jany 7th. 1922.
Date of last publication March 18th, 1922,
COURT NEWS
In the U. S. Commissioner’s
Court on the loth. inst. before
Judge Coppernoll Gust Johnson
miner from the Mother Lode,
was charged with assault and
battery, (on the complaint of
Steve Plem) The accused plead
not guilty and was tried before
a jury consisting of: O. T. Thore
son, Louis Wick, Pete Eriekson
Harold Cabot, Fred Parnthek,
Joseph Sommers, F. A Douglas,
Tom Lillehang, M. S. Wilson,
Fred Erickson, W. Sommers and
L. Winert, who returned a ver
dict of not guilty.
Today in the same Court
C. Pederson was charged with
assault and battery on the com
plaint of Miss Beth Stuart and
was fined ten dollars and costs.
NOTICE
Tnru my Banking Connections
in Cordova, the Bank of Alaska,.
I am prepared to handle Tele
graphic Transfers, and make re
mittances by Bank draft to any
point in the United States or
Foreign Countries.
R. L. H. Marshall