SAFETY OF PRINCIPAL
Should be Your First Consideration
YOUR PRINCIPAL IS SAFE v v
'* If Deposited With
THE BANK OF ALASKA
“ The Bank Or Personal Service ”
E. A. Rasmussen. President. * Thos. S. Scott, Viob-Prbsidbnt.
H. W. Aohisok. Ass’t. Cabhibr
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
C. M. BOROUGHS . Agent
CALEB CORSER Supt.
Mr. Paul Latham manager of
the lower camp of the Nizina
Mining Company spent a couple
of days in town this week, re
turning to Nizina Thursday.
Mr, George Nickles manager
of the upper camp also made
the trip in.
Mr. Latham reports that prep
arations for consolidating the
upper and lower camp at the
site of the present upper work
ings.
The timber to be used for the
coming season is cut and hauled
and some of the lower camp
equipment is on the move.
There are some tweny seven
tints, stoves and other camp e
quipment atill to be haul* d beside
; lout three-thousand feet of
fight weight rail, five-thousand
Jcetof hydraulic pipe, giants
nd nozzles,
a
A great deal of good pay gro
und is on the benches, but at pre
ent there is no attempt being
made to recover this class of pla
er gold. The system being: to
work out the entire creek bed
and then to come back and get
what pay that remains in the
higher gronud.
During the year of 1921 there
was $229,000 in gold taken out
of the Copper River basin, accor
ding to the latest government i*©.
port on thio ©object. There were
about 100 men employed: the
production averaged around twen
ty two hundred dollars per shov
el.
Sam Means left town for a
trip to Chittu vide he will
speend the winte
OUR SYSTEM OF BANKING BY MAIL
BRINGS THIS BANK TO YOUR /ERY DOOR.
To open an account, place the amount of your deposit
in an envelope and mail to us. By return post you
will receive a bank book showing amount of your deposit.
THE FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
THE CONCRETE BANK
ESTABUSHED 1909.
DRAFTS OB ALL FABTS OF TAX WORLD, MOOTS? REMITTED BT WIRE
TO ALL PARTE OF THE URITBD STATES & CANADA.
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GOOD NEWS FOR
SETTLERS
The following Notice has been
issued by the U. S. Land Office
at Juneau. We publish it for
ihe benefit of settlers in this sec
tion.
Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
Juneau, Alaska.
Sept. 16, 1922
NOTICE is hereby given that
on Got. fio. 1922 me approved
plats of the following Township
Surveys will be filed In this
office:
Fractional Townships,
4 S. , R. 7 E., C. R. M.
5 S., R. 12 Eq ..
5 S., R. 11 E., ,.
5 S., R. 13 E.,
5 S„ R. 14 E., ..
6 S„ R. 11 E.,
6 S., R. 12 E*
6 S., R. 13 E.
6 S., R. 14 E.
6 S.; R. 15 E.,
and the lands there will be sub
ject to entry under the follow
ing conditions:
A—Soldiers Preference.
Under the provisions of the
Act of Feb. ■ 14, 1920* as amend
ed by the Act of Jan. 21, 1922,
a Preference Right to enter any
of the above lands, will be allow
ed to soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, who served in the War
with Germany, who have been
honorably discharged or separ
rated therefrom, or who have
been placed in the Array or
Navy Reserve, until Jan. 20,1923,
under the provision of the Home
stead Law. This Preference
Right is subject to the right of
actual bona fide settlers, claim
ing a preference by virtue of
posession and occupancy under
some provision of law.
Applications bo enter will be
received from any of the above
classes having Preference
Rights, from Oct. 1. 1922
to Oct. 20, 1922 and all persons
claiming a Preference Right by
virtue of settlement and occu
pancy, are advised to file their
applications within this period.
All applications filed between
Oct 1 and Oct. 20, 1922 and all
those filed at 9:0 0 A. M. on Oct
20, 1922, will be oonsidered as
filed simultaneously and will be
disposed of by lot.
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B—GENERAL. On and after
9:0 0 A. M. on January 20: 1923
the lands above described will
be subject to entry under the
general land laws of the United
States and any special act appli
cable to the District of Alaska.
Applications to enter such
land may be filed at any time
between January 1 1923 and
January 20, 1923. These applica
tions; with all applications filed
at 9: 0 0 A. M. on Jan. 20, 1923;'
will be treated as filed simul
taneously and will be disposed
of by lot.
Frank Boyle,
Register