THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter, beptem
ber 17th, 1918. at the tost Office, at
McCarthy. 'Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
L. M. Lander
R. E. Lander
Manager
Editor
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Saturday April 7, 1923,
With the coming of spring the pros
pector once more assembles his season’s
supplies and starts for the hills; in
quest of the elusive fortune. He may
hunt for the copper or gold lode, but
he is more likely to be looking for a
pecie of placer ground.
If he finds a prospsct he sets his
stakes and then com£s back to civiliza
tion to obtain funds for the installation
of hydraulic or dredging machinery.
To obtain enough ground to warrant
working with expensive machinery the
prospector is compelled to stake at
least more than five or six claims and
if he can get them frequently does
keep adding to his group until he has
twenty-five or thirty.
If he cannot sell out or raise funds
to begin operations with, he is com*
pelled to pay a small fortune annually
for assessment work or let the claims
lapse.
At one time the placer claim was
not as small as it is today, but the law
was amended, on the theory that the
theory that the more open ground there
was the more prospecting there would
be. This theory has amply been justi
fied, the prospector jiow passes big low
grade deposits by, and sets as his goal,
£ldorado ground, beacause coupled
with the cost of supplies, assessment
work on vast low grade placers is im.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
Department of the Interior
U.S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska
March 13, 1923
NOTICE is hereby given that Sam
Seltenreich, of McCarthy, Alaska, who,
on Dec. 6, 1922, made homestead entry,
No. 04172, for North one-half Northwest
one-quarter, Section 12; and Southwest
one-quarter, South one-half Northwest
one-quarter, Section 1, Township 6 S,
Range 14 E, Copper River Meridian, has
Hied notice of intention to make ffnal
three-year Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described,before William
D. Coppernoll, at McCarthy, Alaska, on
the 28th day of April, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
G.C. Gwin, of McCarthy, Alaska.
A1 Jackson, of McCarthy, Alaska.
William Lubbe, of McCarthy, Alaska.
.T.B. O’Neill, of McCarthy, Alaska.
Date of first publication March 31,1923.
Date of last publication April 28, 1923.
Trespass Notice
All persons found Trespass
ing upon the following named
placer claims, the property of
the undersigned, will be prose
cuted to the full extent of the
law. The Comstock, situated in
Copper Creek Canyon, No. 5 Cop
per Creek ( known as the Poxie)
and No. 9 Copper Creek (known
as the Esmeralda ), all situated
in the McCarthy Recording Pre
cinct.
Warren Nelson
Done at Chisane this 30th day of
March, 1928.
practibale. „
Without doubt the day of rich pla*
cers that can be mined with no initial
outly, save for food and a pick and
shovel, is nearly past. No one realizes
this fact any better than the prcspectors
who are seen in the hills each year.
The present known deposits of placer
gold are being worked out and very
little new ground is being discovered.
Various plans are being introduced
to give more pospectors incentive to get
into the hills. Most of these are absurb
or impractibale. If wise legislation was
put into effect the matter could be rem
edied very easily.
Several methods are feasable but
probaly the simplest means to stimu
late interest is to double or triple the
size of placer claims. If (eglislature is
•ver to help the prospector they can
do so, and at the same time not cut in
o the revenue of the Territory.
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Legal Advertising
In The Probate Court For McCarthy
Precinct, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska.
Before Hon, Win. 1). Coppernoll,
United States Commissioner and ex
officio Probate Judge
No. 54
In the Matter of the Estate]
of] NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Arthur C. Dunseth, Deceased.]
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed was duly and regularly appointed
Administrator of the estate of Arthur C
Dunseth, deceased, by the above-entitled
court on the 30th day of March, 1923,
and has qualified as such Administrator
That the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said dece
dent are required to present the same
with the necessary vouchers, within six
months after the first publication of
this notice, to the undersigned at his
office in the General Storeof the Kenm
cott Corporation, at Kennecott, Alaska,
which office the undersigned selecis
as his place of business in all matters
connected with the said estate of Arthur
C. Dunseth, deceased; or the claims
may be filed with the United States
Commissioner for McCarthy Precinct
aforesaid, at his office in McCarthy, Alas
ka.
Dated this 80th day of March, 1923.
R. Mooney
Administrator of the estate of Ar
thur C. Dunseth, deceased.
Publish- March 31 April 7-14-21-28,192^
A, U.S. recently boarded a Cana
dian telegraph boat near Hyder
under the impression the latter
was rum runner.