NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. W. Rabel and J. B.
Shorett, Jr.:
You are hereby notified that
I have expended money and
labor to the amount of $500.00
on the Engineer Group of min
ing claims, consisting of Lucky
Boy No. 1, Lucky Boy No. 2,
Mother Lode, Hobo and Sur
veyor, on Texas Creek in Hy
der Recording Precinct, Alas
ka, as will appear by the Proof
of Labor filed for record on
December 5th, 1925, in the of
fice of the Recorder at llyder,
Alaska, in order to hold said
premises under the provI.>ions
of Section 2324, U. S. Revised
Statutes, and other laws of the
United States, being the
amount required to hold the
same for the year ending
June 30th, 1926. And if with
in ninety days after publicat
ion of this notice for th-i re
quired 14 weeks, you fail or
refuse to- contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as
co-owners, your interest in
said lode mining claims will
become the property of the
subscriber under said Section
2824.
Dominick Bevacqua
Date of first publication Dec.
9, 1925.
Date of last publication Mch.
10, 1926.
FAMOUS ALASKA
WINDJAMMER SALMON
FLEET PASSING
The historic windjammer sal
mon flotilla, which yearly in
i vades the icy waters of Alaska,
is being steered into the Sai>
gossa Sea of oblivion by the
giant Steam, says the Valdez
Miner.
Displacement of the sailing
fleet was begun by the use of
two small steamers by one
company in 1924. This spring
there will bemore of them, and
it is doubtful if there will be a
sail left on the Alaska run
within two or three years. De
parture and return of the
packing fleet have been pictu
resque incidents on San Fran
cisco’s waterfront for many
years. Most of the vessels go
to the far north Bristol Bay,
and they begin to leave San
Francisco, the middle of
March, sailing every day
or two until they are all on
their way. The northward sail
usually takes 30 days and oft
en longer. The return from
Bristol Bay, made in Septem
ber, as a rule, often'requires no
more than fifteen days. Favor
able winds prevail and there
are currents that speed the
vessels southward. The crews
and canners form a motely
and colorful crowd. Nearly
every nationality is represent
ed, and many a swashbuck
ling tale could be written
around the voyage.
LETS GO. WHERE? TO THE
- Silver Grill -
Steaks, Chops, Poultry
EVERYTHING THE MARKET AFFORDS
§ QUALITY and QUANTITY §
FINE PASTRIES—ITS THE COFFEE!!!
Charlie J. Oder mat, Manager.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE. ANCHORAGE, ALAS
KA, November 18, 1925.
Serial No. 06553.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to the Act of Con
gress approved May 10, 1872
and the amendatory acts there
of, Charles Feliring of Hyder,
Alaska, in behalf of himself,
has made application for a
patent for 1498.5 linear feet
on the Last Shot No. 1 Lode
and 1500 linear feet on the
Last Shot No. 2 Lode, together
with surface ground, in width
approximately 300 feet on
each side of the Lode lines
thereof; said Lode claims be
ing embraced in U. S. Mineral
Survey No. 1509, and fully
and accurately described up
on the official plat of said
survey posted on the claim
and by the field notes of said i
official survey on file in the j
United States Land Office at
Anchorage, Alaska, and more
particularly described as fol
lows:—
LAST SHOT NO. 1. LODE.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, from
which U. S. L. M. No. 1509, at
Latitude 55° 59' 19" N. and
Longitude 130° 04' W., bears
N. 57° 41' 43" W. 1856.86
feet dist., thence S. 47° 24' E. !
1498.5 feet to Cor. No. 2
thence S. 40° 59' W. 584.6
feet to Cor. No. 3, thence N. j
47° 59' W. 1497.0 feet to Cor.
No. 4, thence N. 40° 59' E.
600.0 feet to Cor. No. 1, the
place of beginning; containing
an area of 20.362 acres.
LAST SHOT NO. 2, LODE
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, iden
tical with Cor. No. 2 Last Shot
No. 1 Lode of this survey, from
which U. S. L. M. No. 1509,1
bears N. 53° 05' 56" W. 3341.
98 feet, thence S. 51° 03' E.
1500 feet to Cor. No. 2, thence
S. 40° 59' W. 600 feet to Cor. j
No. 3, thence N. 50° 28' W. i
1499.44 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
thence N. 40° 59' E. 584.6
feet to Cor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing an area
of 20.382 acres.
The said Last Shot No. 1 and
Last Shot No. 2 contiguous'
Lode Mining Claims are situ
ated in the Hyder Mining Dis-1
trict, about one-half mile east
of Salmon River and about
seven miles north of the Town
of Hyder, Alaska. On the
northwest End they join the
Caribotf Mining Claim, unsur
veyed, and on the other sides
and end line by the unsurvey-!
ed and unoccupied Public Do
main of the United States, and
are of record in the office of
the Recorder for Hyder Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska.
Any and all persons claiming
adversely the mining ground,
veins, lodes, premises or any
portion thereof so described,
surveyed, platted and applied
for, as the Last Shot No. 1 and
Last Shot No. 2, Lode Claims,
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1509,
are hereby notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly
filed within the period of pub
lication or within eight months
thereafter with the Register of 1
the United States Land Office
at Anchorage, Alaska, they ‘
will be barred by virtue of the
provisions of said statutes.
J. Lindley Green
Register
First Publication December 9, j
1925. ,
Last publication February 3, ]
1926.
BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
The season of heavy snows
approaching was the signal
for the big quartz mill of the
Alaska Hills Mining company
at Nuka Bay to cease operat
ions for the winter, and the
mine crews have returned to
Seward. The mill will start
grinding again May 1 next, it
is announced.
If the plans at present being
formulated by Howard and
Jesson, prominent coal mine
operators of the Matanuska
section, do hot miscarry, citi
zens of the coast towns of
Alaska may soon be able to |
purchase real Alaskan coal of
superior quality at a price con-1
siderably below that now be
ing paid for the British Col
umbia product. These men I
propose to construct a 900-ton
vessel which they will operate j
in the coastwise trade of Alas
ka and which will enable
them to lay down their pro
duct in the various Alaska
towns at a rate which will al-'
low the dealer to handle it
profitably in competition with
the foreign mined coal.
“Our Alaska development ‘
piogram calls for the expendi
ture of more than nine million
dollars within the the next five
years,” declared Norman C.
Stinnes, manager of the Fair-!
banks Exploration Company,
on his arrival in Seattle recent-.
ly. “The oldtimers merely
scratched the surface, and
modern methods and machin
ery will make our fortunes out i
of what they left behind.” Mr. ,
Stinnes said he had already
spent a million and a half dol-,
lars, but did not expect any
return on the investment un
til 1930. An 80-mile ditch from
Fairbanks to Chatanika will
furnish water for the develop
ment and will be developed
next summer.
Four elk are now in Wood
land Park. Seattle, and three
others will be placed there in
the near future, which will;
form the major portion of the
first herd to be placed in Alas
ka for propogation . experi
ments. The animals will be
held in Seattle during the win
ter and will be shipped north
early in the spring. In the heru
at Woodland Park are two
bulls, a cow and a calf. Three j
animals are on the outer coast
>f the peninsula and . a state
truck will take them to Seattle
in the near future. They will!
be placed on Kruzof Island in
the spring.
Some day, and not far off,
Alaska will be a great dairy
ing country, in the opinion 01 '
Dr. Rober Jay, federal live
stock inspector, who recently
:ompleted a trip through the
rerritory as far west as Koai- '
ik. “Nowhere in the world can
some of the areas I have seen 1
)e surpassed for dairy farm-!
ng,” declared the doctor.
‘Some day there will be devel-1
sped in the Territory a really i
)ig dairying industry.” Dr. Jay ]
said he found the dairy herds i
ilready inspected equal to any’ 1
n the States. He also found <
hat from the standpoint of i
lealth they compare favorably i
vith dairy stock anywhere. • .<
-The gas plant at Katalla has
shut down for the season, but
the well and refinery will con
tinue to run trough the winter,
according to George C. Haze
let, manager of the Chilkat Oil
Copmany, who recently re
turned to Cordova from Ka
talla.
At a recent meeting of the
Juneau Chamber of Commerce
recenty, Charles Goldstein
called attention to the fact
that the postal regulations ap
plying to the United States are
non-effective in Alaska and
that mail sent even to Doug
las—a distance of three miles
by parcel post, requires as
much postage as mail sent to
New York. Mr. Goldstein stat
ed that he had called attention
of Governor Parks to existing !
parcel post conditions and that |
the latter had signified his in
tention of taking the matter up
on his visit in the near future
to Washington. The committee
on boats and mail was instruct
ed to prepare a letter dealing
with the subject to present to !
the Governor before his de- i
parture for Washington.
For eight years Barlow Lake
has been fishless, says the
Dawson News. In former years,
before 1917, the* lake used to
teem with whitefish and gray
ling, but suddenly they dissap- j
peared. Some say that a sud-j
den explosion caused the death
of all the tinny inhabitants of
the lake, while others contend
that the lake froze so tightly
one winter that the fish were
suffocated. At any rate the!
fish have returned to Barlow
Lake. Whitefish and grayling
are now swimming in this body
of water which was without a
single trace of any of the fish 1
species for so many year’s. Un
doubtedly the high water this .
spring was the cause of the
fish returning to the lake j
where they once flourished in
great numbers.
The discovery of a huge vol
canic crater, believed to be
nearly as large as the famou:>
Crater Lake, Oregon, is report
ed by the U. S. Geological Sur
vey. The crater is approximate-,
ly five miles wide at the top
of a mountain 8,000 feet high,
on the southwestern part of
the Alaska peninsula. It is,
thought to be the highest crat
er of like size in the world.
W. R. Lindsay, of the Engle
Mine, California, has been ap
pointed general superintended
>f the Granby Consolidated
Mining, Smelting & Power Co.,
succeeding J. B. Haffner, who !
•esigned to become general
nanager of a copper company
n Mexico. Lindsay is a'gradu
ate of the University of Wash
ngton and has had charge of
ixtensive mining operations m
\laska.
Roland M. Miller, Radio Op-!
■rator at the Cape Spencer
ight station was taken to Jun
;au recently suffering from
>roken bones and dislocation
>f his right leg, caused by 1
'lipping and falling on an ice , i
md snow covered walk at the i1
itation. ! ]
big gold Nugget
FOUND IN KANTISHNA
C. B. Nelson recently deliv
ered to the First National
Bank of Anchorage a gold
nugget weighing 43 ounces?
and valued at $731. The nug
get was discovered on the Kan
"ishna River among several
others weighing $20 to $30.
The Kantishna was the scene
of a stampede some years ago
and has produced much placer
gold, and is also known for the
richness of its copper and sil
ver lodes. Nelson declined to
discuss his find and left im
mediately for the Kantishna
country with an outfit. Nelson
found the large nugget on a
tiibutary of the Kantishna be
low a large glacier. More than
$1,000 was picked up against
a ledge, mostly in large nug
gets. Nelson obtained a loan
on the big nugget and bought
an outfit which he is taking in
via Kobe and the Alaska Rail
road, 60 miles to the fork of
the Kantishna and Tolkat,
where he will winter. Nebon
said the region had been little
prospected and included many
unexplored creeks.
W. E. Lee, one of the largest
individual holders of oil claim*
in the Col dBay field, recently
informed friends that the
Standard Oil Company has
drilled to the depth of about
5,000 feet, and the drillers
state that it will be necessary
to go down at least 2,000 feet
more to strike oil if it is there.
The office of the Alaska
Game Commission and Bureau
of Biological Survey at Jun
eau, announces that in the
future permits for the capture
of land fur-bearing animals in
Alaska for propogation pur
poses will be issued from the
Juneau office, and that appli
cations need no longer suffer
delay by being sent to the
Washington office, as has been
the custom in the past. This
arrangement is made in ac
cordance with regulation 22 of
the Alaska game law.
Major L. E. Oliver, engineer
officer of the Alaska Road
Commision, is reported arrang
ing for a dredging machine
for the dredging of Wrangell
Narrows. Work on the project
is scheduled to commence in
the spring. The improvement
of Wrangell Narrows by
dredging out certain parts of it
will enable navigation by larg:
steamers without regard to
tides or high or low water. At
present a , large boat must
reach the entrance to the nar
rows at a given time or wait
several hours until tide condit
ions permit navigation.
Mrs. L. Van Winkle, well
known old timer of the north
and also a former resident of
Hiyder, was badly burned re
cently while traveling on the
Alaska railroad between Ne
riana and Healy. Mrs. Van
Winkle had spent, the summer
in Fairbanks and the Chata
nika and was on her way to
:he coast when the accident
iccurred. While she was
landing in the rear door of a
ailroad coach looking out, the
tove situated a few feet from
he car entrance, blew up, set
;ing her clothing on fire. She
,vas badly burned, almost from
lead to foot. After reaching
he coast she took passage on
he Victoria but had to receive
nedical attention at every
>ort during the trip south.