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 lihvc made 'applicat
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, Hy
der, Alaska. J. A. Hall, Hyder,
Alaska. Chas. 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
om 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 of
Boundary Creek and on the
easterly side of the Hyder
Premier wagon road about
eleven and one-half mile:
northerly from Hyder, Alaska
in Hyder mining district and
recorded at Hyder, Alaska
The discovery post heart
north-easterly about 600 feet
from the Boundary Creek
bridge on the Hyder-Premier
road.
The VIRGINIA NO. 8 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 road about
eleven and one-half mile?
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:
the NbT$ by NjpfW* $•,
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 \yest 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
56 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 on a point 20 feet
above the Salmon River and
marked U. S. M. M. No. 1418.
From Corner 'No. 1 of the
Virginia claim, the same be
ing the south-easterly corner
thereof, U. S. M. Monument
bears South 46 degrees, 17
minutes, 38 seconds West,
1782.7 feet, and from Comer
No. 1 of the Virginia No. 1
claim, being the south-easterly
corner thereof, the said monu
ment bears South 68 degrees,
31 minutes, 49 seconds West,
1385.48 feet.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska,
this 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
ing adversely the mining
ground, vein, lode, premises,
or any portion thereof, de
| scribed, surveyed, platted and
applied for, are hereby noti
fied that unless their adverse
claims are duly filed accord
ing to law, and the regulat
ions 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
published for a period of 60
days, or once a> week for ten
(10) successive weeks, in the i
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 nearest
the location of the mineral
land described in said Notice,
and which said newspaper is
officially designated 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.
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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Miss Emma Shoup, sister of
U. S. Attorney Arthur G.1
Shoup of Juneau, died recently
in Ketchikan, following a long
illness.
Peter Allard, chief of police
at Sitka, was arrested recently
at Sitka, by Game Warden E.
M. Goddard, for killing deer
before the season opened.
Commissioner DeArmond fined
Allard $50 and confiscated
his gun.
Captain Louis Lane, who
came north this summer with
a small gas boat equipped for
whaling and a crew of four
men, and who has been whal
ing in the vicinity of Kodiak
Island, is now operating in
Prince William Sound. During
the season they have captured
and sold to fox ranchers for
feeding purposes nine whales.
The whales are sold from $300
up, according to size.
George John an Indian seine
boat fisherman, recently plead
ed guilty to the charge of il
legal fishing before Commis
sioner V. A. Paine, at Juneau.
He was fined $100 and costs.
The Indian was accused of
fishing in a small salmon
stream on the mainland near
Dundas Bay, last August, and
it is reported that he had tak
en over 10,000 when discov
ered.
Dr. J. H. Romig, for many
years a resident of Alaska,
who has for some time past
been attached to the medical
staff of the Alaska railroad,
with headquarters at Fair
banks, has been appointed
railroad physician at the base
hospital at Anchorage.
The Hudson Bay steamer
Baychimo, which was report
ed fast in th£ ice in the Arctic,
is free from the ice and is beat
ing southwest.
Under a warrant issued at
Portland, Oregon, R. J. Davis,
owner of the airplane which
has been recently operating
out of Seward, and which was
wrecked a few "days ago at
Chugach Island, was arrested
recently at Seldovia and taken
to Seward, where he was held
under bonds of $2,500. The
charge against Davis is a vio
lation of Sec. 32 of the Federal
Code, which pertains to im
personating an officer with in
tent to defraud. Davis was lat
er taken to the outside.
A feature of the present
whaling season at^Akutan stat
ion, the greatest in the history
of the company, was the con
dition of the finback whales
taken. It is stated by members
of the crew of one whaler that
out of every ten finbacks
caught, nine of them were
with young. The little whales
were found in sizes ranging
one and one-half inches to 21
feet in length, and all perfect
ly formed and fully developed.
It is said that this is something
that has never been known be
fore, finback whales giving
birth in Alaskan waters.
N. E. Broomhaur of New York
who has been hunting big
game in the Donnelly region,
on the Richardson Highway,
arrived in Seward recently
from the interior. He secured
a splendid selection of Alaska
game trophies, among which
were two sheep heads, one of
which had a spread of 29 Vt
inches. Other specimens he is
taking back include 'a 9-foot
grizzly skin, an 8-foot black
bear skin and fine caribou
heads, one having 69 points.
Mr. Broomhaur went to Kodi
ak after one of the famous
“Brownies.”
Two moose, four sheep and
live black bears were the bag
of speci mens of Alasken w'ld
game animals made by two
KETCHIKAN, WRANGEL
AND WEST COAST
MOTOR BOATS "PRINCE of WALES” & ’’CARMEN”
Leave Hyder Every Thursday
. PASSENGER AND FREI 1HT ACCOMODATIONS;
CONNECTING WITH ALL NORTH AND SOUTH BOATS
AT KETCHIKAN
Agents SALMON RIVER DOCK COMPANY Hyder
LETS GO. WHERE? TO THE
- Silver Grill -
Steaks, Chops, Poultry
EVERYTHING THE MARKET AFFORDS
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FINE PASTRIES—ITS THE COFFEE!!!
Charlie J. Odermat, Manager.
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SUBSCRIPTION
TO THE WEEKLY HERALD
O o O « 0 o 0 o o t * o • « « • • o o o »
young men from the east, Wm.
Osgood Field of Lenox, Mass.,
and Harold Coolidge Jr., of
Boston, during recent weeks
I in the Skilak country. Two
! sheep e%ch were shot by Field
and Coolidge in the Nejamin
| Lake district, and each of them
; got a moose in the Keeley Riv
j er country. That of Field had
a spread of 62 inches, and
the one shot by Coolidge meas
ured 55 inches. Mr. Coolidge
got three black bears and Mr.
Field two. Two of the bears
were of extra large size.
The Petersburg Blue Fox
Company, at Fanshaw, recent
ly shipped 109 blue foxes, 50
pair to the Dominion and Fur
Farm, 100 miles northwest of
Vancouver, and the remain
! der to the States. Nine hundred
j foxes have been shipped from
the Petersburg section so far.
A report from Nome states
that it has been raining there
steadily for three months, and
that the miners are rejoicing
because there is plenty of wat
er to aid hydraulic operations.
The ditch of the Hammon
Company broke near Bannei
Creek, cutting down the vol
ume of water delivered for
thawing ground on Little
Creek. A. mountain slide caus
ed the break.
The Alaska Railroad’s first
special automobile car is near
ing completion in the Anchor
age l’ailroad shops, and as soon
as completed a second car will
be commenced. The car corre
sponds closely to a box car in
appearance, and boasts three
doors—two on the sides and
one on an end, and is capable
of holding three automobiles.
The new car is 42 feet in
length, and has a capacity of
80,000 pounds .
A greater number of tourists
are said to have* visited Mt.
McKinley National Park in the
past season than during all the
other years of the park’s hist
ory combined. A total of 204
tourists entered the park m
1925 an increase of more than
200 per cent over the number
of 1924, which recorded 62. In
1923, 34 visitors were register
arid in 1922 eight.
| According to Captain L. C.
Coveil, commanding officer of
the coast guard, cutter Bear,
i which arrived ijv Seward re
J cently cnroute to the States,
; during the past season’s pu
: trol the vessel has burned
about 1,800 tons of coal, the
greater portion of which wa-,
Ladysmith and Utah coal. Al
.hough Captain Covell did nor
! commit himself, he said that
i from what he had heard rela
tive to Alaska coal, it waa just
as good as any of the various
oals in the States, and he be
lieved it would be a fine th'n *
for the Alaska coal indu try if
the government vessels operat
ing in Alaskan waters consum
ed Alaskaf coal.
Aliens are not permitted to
hunt in Alaska without first
securing a license. In fact an
i alien may not possess firearms
and if any are found in his
possession they may be conf«>
, rated. The law provides for the
issuance of a license to an alien
who has declared his intention
I to become a citizen of the
United States, within seven
years, upon the payment of a
license fee of $10, but such
alien must have resided in the
; territory for a period of one
year after having declared
his intention to become a citi
zen. Those who have not e-o re
sided in the Territory for a
year must obtain an alien spec
ial license which requires a fee
of $100.
Found guilty oh two counts
charging possession and manu
facture of intoxicating l'quo
John Knudson was recently
sentenced to -six months in ja'l
and fined $500. by Commi>
sioner W.-H. Rager, of Anehoi
age. The defendant served
notice of an appeal. Knudson
is alleged to have been impli
cated with Ed. Olson in the
operation of a distillery on the
upper Susitna, which'was raid
ed September 22. Olson was
found guilty on similar charges
and given the same penalty.
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