BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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A quick reference list of 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. .
Blacksmithing—
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 Dock Co.
General Supplies—
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Groceries—
Hyder Grocery.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Green Goods—
Hyder Grocery.
Hyder Mercantile Co.
Gas Engines—
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—
Eniest Blue.
Plumbing, Steamfitting—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Printing—
Hyder Herald.
Pool Rooms—
Northern Pool Hall
Professional—
Ernest Blue, Attorney.
Photo Supplies—
Hyder Drug Co.
Restaurants—
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.
T ypewriters—
Hyder Drug Cc.
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I notice of forfeiture.
To Jerome J. Day:
You are hereby mtifio J that i
the undersigned have expend- j
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 day of July, 1926, in the
office of the Recorder for
Ilyder Mining District, Terri
tory of Alaska; said group '
consisting of claims known as'
; Ibex No. 1, Ibex No. 2, Ibex i
j No. 3, Ibex No. 4, Ibex No. 5
and Ibex No. 6, and situate
on Texas Creek in said Hyder
Mining District, Territory of
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 I
States and Territory of Alas
; ka concerning annual labor
upon mining claims and being
the amount required to hold
said mining claims for the year
ending June 30, 1926.
| And you are hereby notified
j 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
j 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.
THE ALASKA MINING LAW
Being extracts from “Alaska Mining Law." by Hon. Henry
Roden, of Juneau. Reprinted by courtesy of the Author.
Sixteenth Installment.
Patent to Mining Claims.
We have seen in preceding
chapters how a prospector may
go out upon the public domain
of the United States and there
prospect for, stake and locate
; valuable mineral lands and
hold and enjoy the same as
i long as he pleases, provided
: he complies with all the re
j quirements of the mining laws.
After a location has once been
perfected, it is and remains
the sole and exclusive proper- J
ty of the locator and he may
sell, mortgage or in any other
| way dispose of it, and as far
| as the United States, as the
I paramount owner of the land
i is concerned, he may remain
I in the peacfeable and undis
turbed possession and enjoy
ment thereof as long as he
performs the annual assess
ment work required to be
done under existing or future
mining laws.
While all this is true, the fact
nevertheless remains, that the
locator and owner of a mining
claim only enjoys what is or
dinarily called a “possessory
right’ to the plot of land in
question—he is only entitled
to enjoy the possession there
of and has the sole and ex
clusive right to extract the
minerals therein contained,
but the actual, absolute fee
simple title in and to the land
itself remains in the original
and exclusive owner of tht
‘land—the United States.
| It has been questioned by
the courts as to whether or
not the United States, as the
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paramount owner of the land,
has the power to cancel or
abrogate these rights which
the owner of a mining claim
has and it would seem that
such is the fact. The miner
may fail to do his work, or
he may, at any t.Vne he choos
es, abandon his claim. If he, on
the one hand, i3 not bound or
rquired to do any work or
pay anything for the privilege
of enjoying the liberality of
the government, why then on
the other hand, may not the
government have the right
since it receives nothing in re
turn for its liberality, termi
nate this privilege and, so to
speak, cancel any mining lo
cation? This ha3 never been
done and there is no reason to
fear that it ever will be done.
But when it is remembered
that many valuable mining
properties have been worked
for years and years and mil
lions of dollars worth of preci
ous minerals have been ex
tracted, and the owners of
such properties have never i
seen fit to pay the small
amount required for the grant
ing of a patent, one may well
wonder why the Federal gov
ernment has not made the se
curing of patent an absolute
requisite to the enjoyment of j
valuable mining ground.
The provisions of the mining
laws especially provide for
granting of patents for both
quartz or lode and placer min
ing claims. In order that a
patent may issue it is necessary j
that five hundred dollars
worth of improvement have
been made upon or for the
benefit of each claim for which
patent is applied for. Any
number of claims, so long as
they adjoin and are owrned
by the same people, may be
embraced in one patent appli
In the Commissioner's Court;
Territory of Alaska. Division
Number One; Hyder Precinct.
In Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
John Ferguson, Deceased.
Number 26 Probate
Notice of hearing on Petition
for Appointment of Adminis
trator.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that T. H. Evans, of Hyder,
Alaska, has filed in the above
entitled court, a petition pray
ing for his appointment as ad
ministrator of the aforesaid
estate, and that at the hour of
2 o’clock in the afternoon of
Wednesday, December 29th,
1926, at the United States
Commissioner’s office, at Ily
der, Alaska, will be held the t
hearing on said petition, when
and where all persons may;
have the opportunity to be
heard in connection therewith.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska, this
26th day of November, 1926.
Cha3. F. Sandford
United States Commissioner
and ex-officio Judge of Pro
bate.
Pubish Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13. 20,
1926.
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cation. Claims which touch at
one point only are not consid
ered contiguous. Various steps
j have to betaken by the appli
cant for patent. It ic not our
intention here to go into de
tais or to enumerate the vari
ous proceedings required to
secure patent to a mining
claim. In such matters the ad
vice and assistance of an at
torney is almost indispensable
to the average miner or pros
pector.
After five hundred dollars
worth of improvements have
been made upon or for iho
benefit of a mining claim and
: the owner has in fact reason
! able grounds for believing
| that his property has within
i it valuable deposits of nrn
| oral, he should proceed, to get
| patent for it.
The benefits flowing from
! the granting of a patent are
many and valuable. In the
first place it absolutely vests
the title o the property in the
true owner and the chances
for a contest in the future
are eliminated for all practical
purposes. The owner is no
longer required to protect his
patented claim against the in
trusions of others. His bound
aries are unalterably fixed and
he need no longer worry about
; performing the annual labor
! upon his claim. His title, by
' the issuance of patent puts at
rest forever the question as to
the sufficiency of the discov
! ery made: the completeness of
| the location notice; that the
1 required amount of assessment
'work has been done, and that
the patentee is the owner ol'
| all vein3 enclosed by his sur
I vey. It is conclusive evidence
; that the location which it cov
' ers is prior and superior to all
i others with which it may be
in conflict, and, when cover
ing a lode claim, that the apex
j of the lode is within its con
I fines. Surely all these benefits
to be derived by the patentee
are worth the expenses neces
i safrily incurred in the procur
ing of patent. The applicant
for patent must pay for the
official survey, for the prop
j or advertising and other min
• or expenses and finally pays
! to the government for the land
at the rate of $5.44 per acre
j for lode and $2.50 per acre
for placer ground.
; It may be advisable hove to
state that when application fcr
patent is made by the owner
i of a mining claim, it becomes
i necessary that public notice
l
j thereof be given in some news
paper published nearest the
property for which patent in
applied and such notice, to
gether with the official plat, is
also required to be posted up
on the claim itself for a peri
od not less than sixty days. The
period of publication is sixty
! days. When the notice is pub
lished in a weekly paper, nine
consecutive insertions are nec
essary and when in a daily
paper, the notice must appear
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SION I > IN’ YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION
TO THE WEEKLY HERALD
for eixty-one consecutive is
sues. The purpose of the pub
lication is to give notice to all
persons whose mining or other
I’and cla'ms may be in conflict
I with he ocation to be natem
{ ed so that they may have an
• opportunity to come into the
| Land Office and there file
heir adverse claim.
Alaska such adver e claim
| may be filed at any time dur
' 'T the sixty day period o!
1'cation or with:n ei'hr
i o'h1. after the lrst day of
' ’i ation and unless such Is
e, r.o contestant hi3 al
ight to offer any objections to
'ho issuance of the patent ap
1 d for. The law expressly
ays that if no a dverse shall
nr vo been filed within that
time it shall be assumed that
ho applicant is entitled to a
r> en ur>on payment of the
'Tii'-ed foes and that no ad
verse claim exists.
Whe-c two claims overlap or
• r the same ground, and
of thorn applies for patent,
ho other must adver e and
’ t make ru^h adverse good,
'herwre it will lose all pre
n e to priority. Of course,
‘ V i'ronos,'tion refers only to
• '^ 'o conflicts, for if there
hr no surface confli 1 the e
on he no adverse.
hw prescribes the form
" the r 'verse claim n-i l this
t be sworn to by the ad
"ersc claimant or some duly
I authorized ai-mt or attorney
ii'- r,.i e who knows the facts
rworn to. Within sixty days
after the filing- of the adverse
; claimant must bring a suit in
i -rhe District Court and this
cuit will determine as to who
hoc the right of possession to
■he premises in controversy.
Until the determination of this
">!!" all proceedings in the
Lend Office arc suspen'ed.
A pplicants for patent to a
placer claim who are also in
|p • session of a known vein or
! lode included therein, must
. tatc in their application that
I the placer includes such vein
| or lod1. The published and
j posted notice must also Include
: r.uch statement. If the veins or
i ’ -rl- lying within a placer lo
•'', 'on are owned by other par
- ion the fact must be distinctly
I 'tided in the application for
patent and in all the notices.
An application for patent
which emits to claim such
| known vein or lode will be "on
; strue ads conclusive declarat
1 ion that the applicant for the
placer patent has no right of
possession to the vein or lode.
! Patent may also be scared to
I rrPll sites. A3 Iready seen,
lands entered as mi l sites
must b shown to be non-min
eral They are simply auxiliary
•o the working of mineral
•’aim?. Whore the applicant
for patent to a mill site is also
ha ownar of a lode or vein,
on application for patent may
Include both the vein or l:>de
and the non-mineral mi 1 site,
provided the mill site is not
contiguous to the lode claim.
End.
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