BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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A quick reference list ef pro
gressive business firms which
advertise in the Herald and
what they handle.
Assaying—
John Hovland
Automobiles—
Hyder Machine Shop
Automobile Supplies—
Hyder Machine Shop
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Banks—
Bank of Hyder
Barber Shop—
Malamute Barber Shop
Bakery Goods—
Quick Lunch.
Ideal Cafe.
Hyder Grocery.
BlacksmithSng—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Clothing—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Chinaware Crockery—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Curios—
Hyder Drug Co.
Card Rooms—
Malamute Cigar Store.
Northern Pool Hall.
Drugs—
Hyder Drug Co.
Dairies—
Hyder Dairy
Electrical Supplies—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Explosives—
Salmon River Dock. Co.
Fuel—
Hyder Fuel Company
Salmon River Deck Co.
General Supplies—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Groceries—
Hyder Grocery.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Green Goods—
Hyder Grocery.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Gas Engines— t
Hyder Machine Shop.
Hotels—
Golden Gate Hotel.
Alaska Hotel
Hardware—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Jewelry
Nugget Shop.
Hyder Drug Co.
Laundry—
Portland Canal Electric
Machine Shop—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Meat Markets—
P. Burns & Co.
Notary Public—
Ernest Blue.
Plumbing, Steamfitting—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Printing—
Hyder Herald.
Pool Rooms—
Northern Pool Hall
Professional—
Ernest Blue, Attorney.
Photo Supplies—
Hyder Drug Co.
Restaurants—r
Ideal Cafe
Quick Lunch
Silver Grill
Smokers Supplies—
Malamute Cigar Store.
Northern Pool Hall
Hyder Drug Co.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Golden Gate Hotel
Stationery—
Hyder Drug Co.
Steamship Agencies—
Salmon River Dock Co.
Steamship Lines—
Northland Transptn. Co.
Toilet Preparations—
Hyder Drug Co.
Tranfer Companies—
Sam Potts
Crawford Transfer Co.
Hyder Fuel Co.
Typewriters—
Hyder Drug Co.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
To Jerome J. Day:
You are hereby notified that
the undersigned have expend*
ed the sum of Six Hundred
Dollars in labor and improve
ments on the Ibex Group of
lode-mining claims, as will ap
pear from Affidavit of Annual
Labor filed for record on the
2nd ddy of July, 1926, in the
office of the Recorder for
Hyder Mining District, Terri
tory of Alaska; said group
consisting of claims known as
Ibex No. 1, Ibex No. 2, Ibex
No. 3, Ibex No. 4, Ibex No. 5
and Ibex No. 6, and situate
on Texas Creek in said Hyder
Mining District, Territory oif
Alaska, the location certifi
cates of which are found on
record in Book 1 of mining
locations in said District, at
! pages 267, 275, 276, and 277 in
the office of said Recorder at
Hyder, Alaska; said expendi
tures having been made in or
der to hold said mining claims
under the provisions of Section
2324, U. S. Revised Statutes
and other laws of the Unite 1
States and Territory of Alas
ka concerning annual labor
"upon mining claims and being
the amount required to hold
3aid mining claims for the year
ending June 30, 1926.
And you are hereby notified
that if within ninety days
from the completion of the
publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of such ex
penditure as a co-owner, your
interest in' said claims will be
come the property of the sub
scribers hereto, your co-own
ers, under the provisions of
said Section 2324.
Dated this 18th day of Sep
tember, 1926.
Jessie K. Jamieson
Frank Reichenback
Patrick Daly
Joe. Grashio.
Publish Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4,
11, 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22,
29, Dec. 6, 13, 20, 1926.
Let us figure on your job
printing.—Hyder Job Shop.
For Sale and For Rent Signs
at the Herald Office.
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An Indian, not a citizen and
who has not declared his in
tention to become a citizen,
has no right to locate a min
ing claim. But the rule herein
mentioned .(that the lack of
citizenship cannot be quest
ioned by any one except the
government) is as applicable
to him as to any other alien.
An Indian, however, born with
in the territorial limits of the
United States, who has volun
tarily taken up, with said lim
its, his residence separate and
apart from any tribe of Indi
ans therein, and has adopted
the habits of civilized life, is a
citizen of the United States,
and entitled to all the rights
and privileges and immunities
of such citizens. An act (Chap
ter 24, Session Laws of Alas
ka, 1915) provides a method j
whereby a native Alaskan In- j
dian may secure a judicial ac-!
knowledgement and certificatei
of his citizenship.
In concluding this chapter it
may perhaps be said that while
a person who is not qualified
to make a mining location
may nevertheless do so and
feel reasonably secure in his;
possession from attacks by i
others, he should not thus
take advantage of the generos
ity and consideration of a gov
ernment without on his part
being willing to assume the
burdens and obligations of j
citizenship; and one who j
makes a mining location at a!
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rives, leaves Sunday morning, j
Motorship Norco from Se-1
attle, twice monthly.
Motorship Border Queen,
every twenty days from Se
attle.
Ketchikan Mail boat Taku II
arrives Wednesday morning;
leaves Wednesday evening.
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a Little Black Ad.
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DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS STATIONERY
CARDS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS,
STATEMENTS, ENVELOPES, INVOICES,
SHIPPING TAGS, SPFCIAL BLANKS,
TICKETS, ETC
SOCIAL, STATIONERY
INVITATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, PRO
GRAMS, CARDS, MENUS, ETC
FOSTERS, HAND BILES
CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS, FOLDERS,
PLACARDS, ETC.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED
THE ALASKA MG LAW
Being extracts from “Alaska Mining Law.” by Hon. Henry
Roden, of Juneau. Reprinted by courtesy of the Author.
Sixth Installment.
time when he has no right to
do so, should at his first op
portunity apply for his first
citizenship papers and there
by validate his defective lo
cation and at the same time
express his appreciation of the
opportunities presented him"
by a benevolent government.
Section 13 of an act of Con
gress approved May 14, 1898,
provides that native born citi
zens of Canada shall be ac
corded in Alaska the same
rights and privileges accorded
to citizens of the United
States in British Columbia
and the Northwest Territory.
The United States Land De
partment, explaining this pro
vision, .says that the only
rights any person may enjoy
in British Columbia or the
Northwest Territory under the
mining laws of the respective
provinces are those of leasing
from the government, paying
a fixed royalty and the min
ing laws of the United States
do not provide for lease from
the government to anyone. A
native born citizen of Canada,
it would appear, stands in the
same position as a citizen of
any other foreign nation and
enjoys no greater privileges.
Location and Possession of
Lcae Mining Claims
At the outset let it be under
stood that lode, vein and ledge
are terms used interchange
ably in the law and in actual
practice there is little if any
difference in the meaning of
these terms and the term “lode
location'’ includes all mining
locations except placers.
The law provides that all val
uable mineral deposits "found
in rock in place may be tak
en up as lode claims. To con
stitute a lode, two things must
concur; first the rock, wheth
er it be quartz or something
else which makes up the lode
material, must be rock IN
PLACE, as distinguished from
float rock, which means that
it must be held in its practic
ally original position by the
surrounding country rock, and
secondly this rock in place
forming the lode must con
tain some valuable mineral
depos t. The rock forming the
lode may be hard or soft, rich
or poor, solid or broken up.
It is now well settled that a
vein or lode must have walls.
It is not sufficient that a mass
of mineral bearing rock lies
on top of some rock formation.
Most often the lode i6 made up
of quartz in which the min
eral is found and this mass of
quartz is held in place by the
surrounding country rock. But
it will happen that there runs
through the country a mass of
solid rock of practically one
kind, a portion of which is im
pregnated with valuable min
eral, and 'this impregnated
portion is held in place on
both sides by portions of the
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same kind of rock not impcesfr
nated, and it is then that the
country rock becomes the lode,
impregnated portion of the
ledge or vein, as it is called.
It may be impossible for the
naked eye to distinguish the
impregnated mass from that
not impregnated but analysis
and assays will show where the
one commences and the other
leaves off. From these obser
vations it may be said that a
vein or lode is a mass of rock
containing valuable mineral ly*
ing between boundaries which
clearly separate it from the
country rock.
Section 2320 of the United
States Mining Laws reads as
follows: “A lode mining claim
located after the 10th day of
May, 1872, whether located
by one or more persons, may
equal but shall not exceed
One Thousand Five Hundred
Feet In Length Along The
Vein or Lode but no location
of a mining claim shall be
made until the discovery of
the vein or lode within the lim
its of the claim located. No
claim shall extend more than
three hundred'feet on each
side of the middle of the vein
on the surface.”
Section 13 of the Territorial
Mining Act reads as follows:
“The locator must so define
the boundaries of his claim
upon the ground so that tHey
may be readily traced, and in
no case shall the claim
extend more than Fifteen Hun
dred (1500) Feet Along the!
The Center Line Of The Claim,
Nor More Than Three Hun
dred Feet On Either Side Of
The Center Line Of The Claim,
at the surface thereof, as near
as can be determined.”
It is difficult to determine
that was the intention of the
Legislature when it enacted
the provision and it is a pity
that the language of the Fed- j
eral Statute was not adopted.
The provision is clear enough
when the statement “the cent
er line of the claim” is constru-1
ed to mean “the center of the
vein” along which fifteen hun
dred feet may be taken up. It |
seems to us that such was the ,
intention of the law-making j
body. The locator should al-;
ways try and make the ideal
location—that is, have the
center of the apex of his vein
coincide with the center line
of his claim, so that he may
derive the greatest benefit i
from his location. ■. c j
A literal interpretation of
the statement that ‘‘no cjpi&s |
shall extend more than three
hundred feet on either side of i
the center line of the claim at j
the surface thereof” would I
lead to endless trouble. If tak
en strictly' and literally the
location is defined without
reference to the sole object to
be accomplished by the locat
ion—the acquisition of the
lode. The vein is what the lo
cator desires. It is the valu
able thing—the surface ground
exclusive of the vein, is of j
comparatively little value.
These considerations and the
words “as near as can be de
termined,” which are found
in Section 13 of the Territori
al Act, lead us to the conclus
ion that the statement that
“no claim shall extend more
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than three hundred feet on
either side of the center line
of the claim at the surface
thereof, as nea r as can be de
termined,” refers to the vein
as discovered and marked by
i the locator at the time as the
' center of the' claim of whit
lie hen takes possession. Prac
tical reasons also compel such
a construction. Veins fre
quently do. not appear on the
slfrface except' at intervals.
Sometimes they do not appeal
at all. The true apex or mid
dle of the vein frequently can
not be determined without con
siderable development work
and large expense. Veins do
not ordinarily run in straight
lins through their course, bat
they may have many turns
and angles. All these exegen
cis require and point to a lib
ral construction of the provis
ion under consideration.
From what we have said it
follows, and the Courts have
so held , that where a locat
ion is made in good faith in
an honest effort to comply
with the proyisions of the law
the locator is entitled to the
possession of the |sturface
marked out by him even
though the development ot
the vein discloses the fact
that he missed the true course
of the apex and that his lo
cation, as marked upon the
ground, is not three hun
dred feet on each side of the
center of it; it may be more
than that amount on either
side and yet the dourts have
held the location good as
against others. When such
facts are ascertained, howev
er, the locator should amend
his location so that the bound
aries conform to the true
state of facts, but others have
no right to enter within his
lines and take up any portion
of his location. When appli
cation for patent is made the
government will require an
adjustment of the lines.
A lode location cannot be
more than fifteen hundred
feet along the vein nor more
than three hundred feet in
width on each side of the cen
ter of the vein. Of course, a
locator may take less than
three hundred feet on eithei
side of the center of the vein
but not more. Thus he may
have three hundred feet on one
side and fifty feet on the oth
er.
The end lines, as provided by
the Federal law, must be par
allel with each other and this
is an important matter a3 val
uable extralateral rights (the
right to follow the vein on its
dip outside of the side bound
aries as defined on the sur
face) may be lost. The side
lines need not be parallel and
consequently the end lines
need not be of equal length
nor is it necessary that the
end and side lines be at right
angles to each other.;
Neither the Federal nor the
Territorial law limits the num
ber of lode claims that may
be located by one person at
any time. Consequently one
may locate as many lode
claims as he desires, eithei
upon the same lode and con
tiguous to each other, or up
on other lodes of veins but
each location requires a sep
arate and distinct discovery
and no location may embrace
more than fifteen hundred
feet along the vein.
Association lode locations are
unknown to the law.
Continued next week.