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 have made apphcat
ion to the United States
Land Office for the Anchor
t age Land District of Alaska j
at Anchorage for a patent on i
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. Ry
der, Alaska. J. A. Hall, Ryder,
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
on the Hyder-Premier wagon !
road about eleven and one
half miles northerly from Hy
der, Alaska, in Hyder mining
district and recorded at Ry
der, Alaska. The discover}
post bears North 20 degrees
East about 400 feet from the j
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 j
on the Hyder-Premier wagor
road about eleven and one
half miles northerly from Ry
der, Alaska, in Hyder mining '
district, and recorded at Hy
der, Alaska. The discovery
post bears South 70 degrees j
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 i-oad about
eleven and one-half miles'
northerly' from Hyder, Alaska,
in Hyder mining district and
recorded at Hyder, Alaska. !
The discovery post bear: I
north-easterly' about 600 feet
from the Boundary Creek
bridge on the Hyder-Premier
road.
The VIRGINIA NO. 3 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 Ily
der-Premier wagon road about
eleven and one-half miles
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:
On the North by Noble No. 2,
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 West 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
:hereof, U. S. M. Monument
bears South 46 degrees, 17
minutes, 38 seconds West,
1782.7 feet, and from Corner
No. 1 of the Virginia No. 1
Naim, 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
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.
BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Tom Johnson, recently ar
rested at Rapids, on the Rich
ardson Highway, charged with
stealing a rifle, was taken to
Seward for trial and released
on $500 bonds. A few days
later he was again in the toils
of the law, having been arrest
ed on the charge of having
stolen some jewelry from a
Seward home.
Frank Manley, once the larg
est placer mining operator in
Alaska, who returned to the
Iditarod district last spring
and engaged in prospecting
and development work states
that he will install a large hy
draulic outfit in the Iditarod
country next year. He used a
drag-line outfit this year and
employed 28 men.
Mrs. Frank Towle, of Moose
Pass, recently shot a bull
I moose from the front porch
i of her home, the animal being
directly across the river. Four
shots were fired before the
animal di’opped.
What is said to have been one
of the largest consignments of
live foxes ever shipped out of
Alaska at one time, arrived in
Seattle, recently. The ship
ment consisted of 250 fine blue
i foxes from the Conclusion Is
i land fox farm of the Cleary
| Brothers.
Albert Peterson, of Nome,
employee on an Anvil Creek
dredge, was instantly killed a
few days ago as the result of
; being crushed by the big re
I volving screen.
; The Pacific Steamship Com
| pany, which has maintained
an office in Anchorage ever
| since the founding of tWe town,
has closed up its office, and
Agent Brice Howard has gone
to the States. Robert H. Romig,
however, will represent the
company in Anchorage.
U. S. Commissioner C. H.
Sundmacher, of McCarthy, has
resigned and E. P. Harwood,
formerly commissioner at Cor
dova, has been appointed to
the position. E. H. Boyer,
formerly Deputy U. S. Mar
shal at Chitina, has been ap
pointed Commissioner at Cor
dova.
Fall travelers on the Richard
son road report that thousands
of caribou recently passed
across the road near McCal
lum on their annual migration,
headed for the south. It is said
1 the herd was all day in passing
1 the McCallum Signal Corps
station.
Grouse and ptarmigan are
becoming so plentiful in Fair
banks that early risers find
| them perched on the garden
fences.
While about 200 miles off
Cape Omaney the Pacific
American Fisheries steamer
Catherine D. lost her port pro
peller recently, and was con
voyed into Ketchikan by the
U. S. Cutter Unalga. The
Catherine D. was cai'rying a
cargo of 50,000 cases of can
ned salmon and the cannery
crews from Squaw Harbor and
King Cove, numbering 156
persons.
Owing to extremely heavy
, rainfall in the Yakataga Beach
j district, where the General Pe
troleum Company recently be
i gan drilling for oil, operations
have been suspended until
next spring. Roads were made
almost impassable by the tor
rential rains, and several small
bridges were washed away.
j J. G. Shepard, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. H. Shepard, of
i Juneau, who, as assistant in
; the office of the Federal Bur
| eau of Mines, visited Hyder
! during the spring, was married
in Butte, Mont., on October 4,
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
§ QUALITY and QUANTITY §
FINE PASTRIES— ITS THE COFFEE!!!
Charlie J. Odermat, Manager.
SEND IN YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION
!
TO THE WEEKLY HERALD
j to Miss Janet Bowby of that
I city. They will make their
home in Juneau.
G. L. Thompson, manager of
the Fern Mine in the Willow
Creek district, arrived in Anch
orage recently with a good
sized cleanup, the result of
several weeks’ work. Mr.
Thompson stated that prepar
ations are being made to get
the camp in condition to en
I able the company to operate
! all winter.
W. C. Blanchard, of Skagway
recently' received a silver cup,
which was awarded to him at
San Francisco’s Diamond Jubi
lee dahlia show, held at the
Palace Hotel Sept. 10, 11 and
i 12. The awarding of this cup
| was the outcome of a visit to
the Blanchard garden by Curt
is Redfern, of San Francisco,
last summer. In a recent art
; icle entitled “The Other Fel
low’s Garden,” Mr. Redfern
tells of his trip and of visiting
gardens in New Jersey', Vir
ginia, Ohio, Colorado, Seattle
and lastly Alaska. The closing
paragraph of the article reads:
“Yet here in the far Northland
we find the perfect garden;
dahlia blooms nine inches in
diameter, sweet peas and del
phiniums growing ten feel
high, rhubarb in the vegetable
patch with a leaf spread oi
probably three feet, and two
full fledged members of the
garden clan, for both Mr. and
Mrs. Blanchard said to me,
‘you should see the garden a
month from now.’
Twenty-six lode claims and
eight mill sites comprising the
well known Kensington group
at Berners Bay, were sold re
cently by the U. S. marshal at
Juneau to satify a judgment
against the company. The
property was ti'ansferred by
deed to Hayden& Stone, east
ern investment and bonding
house. Considei-able develop
ment woi’k was done on the
pi'operty some years ago by
the Kensington Mining Com
pany, which was organized
just pi’ior to the war, and
whose pi'ogram for develop
ment was upset by’ wartime
costs of labor and material. It
is said that the clearing up of
; the Kensington property is the
first step in a proposal to con
, solidate it with the Jualin
i ground and other interests in
! the same regions. Jean Van
1 ophem, who, headed the Bel
gian and French interests in
j the more recent Jualin devel
opment, is actively interested
| in a proposal to effect such a
consolidation of interests.
Frank Dufresne, agent for
the U. S. Biological Survey on
| Seward Peninsula, reports that
the Eskimos are taking a full
part in developing the farming
of foxes and the marketing of
their pelts. The south side of
the peninsula is on the Bering
Sea and the north on the
Arctic Ocean. On the north
| coast line white men destroyed
the Eskimo livlihood by anni
hilating the whales and burn
ing the driftwood. The Eski
mos have taken to white foxes,
and some families are making
incomes of $2,500 annually.
From catching wild foxes and
selling the furs the natives
are now developing simple
ranches.
Fishermen of Cordova are
pi-eparing to prospect in the
I Prince William Sound waters
for shrimp. Interest in these
has been aroused by the find
ing in the stomachs of several
whales caught in the Sound
for fox feed, of large quanti
ties of shrimp. As high as a
ton have been found in a single
! whale, indicating that it had
been feeding on them some
where in the immediate vicin
ity. Shrimp live at a depth of
about ninety fathoms, staying
in the long eel grass. A draw,
arranged like a comb, is used
i in fishing them. It is also stat
ed that fishermen at Unakwik
this season found several oy
sters in their nets. These are
said to have been large ones,
i about equal in size to the Toke
Point oysters.
mmatu
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