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The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL. 5.
McCarthy, alaska. Saturday May lm 1922
NO. 27
TELEGRAPHIC
ALASKA CABLE APPROVED
Washington. May 12tn The
Senate committee Inis reported
favorably on an appropriation
tof a million and a half dollars
for a new Alaska cable, this is
the first unit in the Seattle Or
iental cable.
HARDING IN NEW JERSEY j
Washington, May 12th. Pres
ident Harding left this morning
for a week-end visit to the New!
Jersey coast the guest of Sen.]
at or Edge.
DIRECTOR BUREAU MINES
Kn Route to Alaska
Seattle May 12th. Bain the
director of the bureau of mines
arrived last Monday en route
to Matanuska.
American Soldiers to Help.
Pekin. May 12. A Hundred Am_
erican soldiers were dispatched j
to Tongshan near Tientsin to
day to protect foreigners.
Seattle. May 12th. Dr. Frank
Boyle, former mayor of Valdez,
and a recent arrival from Alaska
was found in a dazed and penni
less condition on the waterfront
At first he was unidentified and*
was held in the county jail for a
day and a night for observation
as to his sanity. He stated he
arrived with plenty of money &
thinks he was drugged and rob.
bed. Later Dr. Boyle was ad
judged insane and ordered to
be confined in the Meadows
sanitarium. Maurice D. Leehey
prominent Seattle attorney, has
petitioned to be appointed guard
ian.
DEMPSEY and CARPENT1ER
TO FIGHT IN 1923 ■
London, May 12th. Dempsey
and Carpentier have signed
contract this afternoon for a
l’ight in Europe for June 1923.
Savannah, Georgia- May 12th.
John Vardeman and wife Bertha
have been arrested and confess
ed to having robbed the Chase
National Bank, New York of Lib
erty bonds worth half a million.
Washington May 13th. The
amendment of the Harrison act!
putting more teeth in the law j
prohibiting the importation of j
narcotic drugs passed the Senate |
tonight.
ABOUT THE GREEN BUTTE
Construction work lias beenj
progressing rapidly at the Green j
Butte Copper Co. property this
week. Tents have been erect
ed for cook and bunk houses at!
the mine and also at the lower
camp. Several teams are haul
ing lumber, supplies etc. from
Mi Carthy to the camp by wagon.
Gus Carlson until recently
foreman at the Jumbo mine, is
foreman at the Green Butte.
Harold Cabot, whotias been in
the employ of the Kennecott
Copper Corporation for several j
years as shift boss on the tram j
has gone to the Green Butte.
Tom Kay leaves for the mine!
today, Oscar Bachman, Joe Hut
chens, Ed Hammer & Pete Craig
went up to report for duty
last Saturday. Walter Quon
Eng is again in charge of the
cookhouse.
NOTICE *
Thru my Banking Connections
in Cordova, the Bank of Alaska,
I
I am prepared to handle Tele-|
graphic Transfers, and make re- j
mittances by Bank draft to any ;
point in the United States or!
Foreign Countries.
R. L. H. Marshall
NIZINA BRIDGE
CONSTRUCTION TO START
NEXT PALL
STEEL WIRE CABLE SUSPEN
SION BRIDGE
Major Gofcwals, assistant sup
erintendent of the Alaska Road
Commission paid a visit to Me
Carthy and the Nizina River this
Week,leaving again for the coast
yesterday by speeder.
To an interested audience last
Thursday evening MajorGotwals
outlined the A. R. C. program
for this section. Work will be
resumed on Sourdough Road
ne.\t August, at the completion
of which to the river, the crew
will remain all winter putting in
the piers for the Nizina bridge
which will be a steel cable sus
pension bridge. At each end of
the suspension span, steel cyl
inders tilled with concrete will
be sunk to bedrock.
The Commission considers this
bridge its most important pro
ject.
The Major will return next Aug.
ust to make a reconnaissance of
the Russell and Nizina glaciers.
x\o provision has ever been made
tor funds for building' a road
round the Pothole, though many
petitions have been sent in.
Yesterday morning Major Got
wals was taken over the route
^ frank Iverson, who besides
being one of the ranchers most
interested, is an old land office
surveyor himself, and was quick
ly able to show that a road could
be built without much expense
and that the need was impera
tive. Major Gotwals stated
before he left here that the
road would be provided for.
Tomorrow, May Hth, will be
observed by people everywhere
as Mothers’ Day. You may
not be able to procure a white
carnation to wear in her honor,
but you can take half an hour
and write her a letter
LEGAL ADVERTISING
DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
BEFORE THE GENERAL
LAND OFFFICE
JUNEAU SERIAL 05372
ALASKA NABESNA CORPOR
ATION, Applicant
Notice of Application for Patent
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and more especial
ly the Act of Congress approved May
10th, 1872, and amendments thereof,
the ALASKA NABESNA CORP
ORATION, duly incorporated under
the laws of Delaware and licensed to.
do business in the Territory of Alaska
after a full compliance with its laws,
whose post office address is care of
Maurice D. Leehey, G20 Alaska Build
ing, Seattle, Washington, which cor
poration has acquired and now holds
the lode mining claim and millsite
hereinafter described in accordance
with said laws, and all local laws,rules,
regulations and customs of miners,
and has made improvements on said
mining claim of the value greater
than Five Hundred Dollars upon or
for the benefit of each location in
eluded therein, and who at this time
is in the sole, actual and peaceful
possession of said mining claim and
each location therein contained, will
apply for a patent to the same, includ
ing the following named lode locations,
all of which are so contiguous as to
constitute a single tract of ground,
and each location extends along the
vein the length herein stated with
surface ground 300 feet wide on each
side of the center of the vein of
quartz or other rock in place, bearing
gold, copper and other valuable min
erals, and each contains the number
of acres here set opposite its name, all
as fully and accurately described upon
the official plat of Mineral Survey
No. 1414A herewith posted on the
claim, and by the Field Notes of
such official survey on file with the
Register of the United States Land
Office at Juneau, Alaska, viz: