ADMINISTRATION
' I 'HE great influence a clean and in
* corrupt administration has on
the development of a new country like
Alaska, is often overlooked by people ip
* general. There is not probably a more
secretive and conservative citizen than
the average miner and prospector, and
under present conditions it requires a
- stronger fight for him to retain posses
sion of his property, than it does to And
it. The curse of the country is litiga
tion; engineered by legal tricksters,
protected by the courts in their nefar
ious occupations. To discover a rich
piece of ground, is to immediately in
vite the attention of the buzzards of
the judicial arm, and if the locator man
ages to save a portion of his ground in
the scramble, it is only after years of
litigation, during which time lawyers,
crooks, and receivers, wax fat and sleek
at his expense.
DEVELOPMENT
This state of affairs must change.
The miners of Alaska are getting im
patient. Those df our own district are
submitting to grafts from all directions
and the feeling of insecurity resulting
from this condition, does not conduce
to a rapid development of the district.
. : There is not a richer mining section
in the whole of Alaska than the Ram
part mining district, of which the town
of Rampart is the supply point. Yet
Judge Wickersham has said that Ram
part is a shoe-string town, and the
henchmen of the judge quote him a*
saying that he would never hold anoth
er term of court at Rampart because
the miners refused to incorporate the
vtown. In other words Judge Wicker
sham’s political future must be advan
ced, or the miners of the Rampart dis
trict; when pulled into litigation, will be
compelled to undergo heavy expense
by a forced attendance at court sessions
held hundreds of miles away.
Such methods paralyse development
and drive the miner to more favored
fields* Similar methods pursued in the
Yukon Territory have killed Dawson—
a forced admixture of crooked politics,
graft, and coercion.
The following is the dates of the clo
sing of the Yukon at Rampart since
1899: Oct. 27, 1898; Nov. 6, 1899; Nov.
* 8, 1900; Nov. 8, 1901; Nov. 9, 1902; Oct.
24, 1908.
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ASSAYING OF ORES AND BULUON
Concentration, Amalgamation, and Cyanide
TESTS made;
C. H. GIBBONS. M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
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Office Hours: l to 3 p. m. and when not otherwise engaged
Office and Residence. Second Avenue
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James B. Wingate
NOTARY PUBLIC
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Forum Office Rampart
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, GEORGE A. SALISBURY
Attorney at Law
Rampart Alaska
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
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To M. Nixon Kimball: You are hereby notified
that 1 have expended $400 in labor and improve
ments on placer mining claim No. 28 above discov
ery claim on Little Minook Jr. creek. Rampart re
cording district, District of Alaska, in order tp
hold said premises under Section 2824 revised stat
utes ox the United States, being the amount requir
ed to hold said claim ior the years 15^1, 11/02, 1003,
and TJOi, and if you fidi or refuse to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure as a co-owner
within ninety days after the first publication of
this notice, your interest in said premises will be
come the property of the subscriber under said
section 2324.
First publication Oct. 29, 1904. Donald McLean
NOTICE
To whom it mat concern: All person are
hereby notified that I. the undersigned, will not be
responsible for any indebtedness of any nature in
curred on No. 3 below discovery on Thanksgiving
sre«*k, for any purpose whatsoever,-without ray
written consent.
Rampart. Sept. 19. 1904. C. H. Olson.
NOTICE
The annual meeting of the Rampart Chamber of
Commerce Inc. will be held at the office of the Al
aska Forum, on Saturday evening Nov. 5. 1905, at
8 p. m. All members not, able tp be present will
please forward their proxies.
1 Donald McLean, Secretary.
Claims Grub-stake Contract
C. J. Sullivan, of Seattle, has filed a
claim to a one-half interest in all the
property the late Herbert Haven died
possessed of. James Kiefer^ a promin
ent Seattle attorney, is counsel for Sul
livan. Sullivan alleges that he furnish
ed Haven with funds to come to Alaska
in 1898, and that a grub-stake contract
was entered Into between them at that
time. It is on this contract that - Sulli
van makes his claim. The hearing is
set for Nov. 18.
United states land office
Juneau, Alaska, May 26,1904.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of and
under the provisions of the general homestead laws
and the special Act of Congress approved May 14,
1898, extending the same to the District of Alaska,
authorizing the acquisition of title through the ex
ercise of Soldier’s Additional Homestead rights.
James £. Snevely, whose address is 130 Valentia
street, San Francisco, Cal., as assignee of Anna
Snevely, widow of John Snevely, has made appli
cation for patent to the following described tract
of land, to wit;
Beginning at a point identical with Corner No. 6
of the original Eagle City Town Site Survey where
is set a large Mica Schist Stone scribed Sur. No.
351, Cor. No. 1, whence U. S. I. M. Eagle No. 2
bears N. 23 deg. 10 min. W. 13.44 chs. the N. A. T.
& T. Co’s. Store bears N. 39 deg. 00 min. E. 2o.5o
chs. thence $. 23 deg. 10 min. E. along a line iden
tical with the east line of the Pomeroy Homestead
81.04 chs. to Cor. No. 2. where is set a large Btone
scribed Sur. No. 851, Cor. No. 2, thence N. 66 deg.
47 min. E. 36. 33 chs. to Cor. No. 3 about 4 chs
nearly due south from the left bank of the Yukon
river, where is set a large stone scribed Sur. No.
351. Cor. No. 3, thence. N. 60 deg 04 min. W. 44.66
chs. to the intersection of the south line of Adams
St where is set a large stone scribed Spr. No. 851
Cor. No. 4. whence Cor. No. 7 of the original Eag
le City Town Site (situated on the brink of the
left bank of the Yukon river) beais N. 40 deg. 4l
min. E. 10 chs. thence S. 40 deg. 41 min. W. along
and identical with the line of the south side of Ad
ams St 10.60 chs. to Cor. N^. 1 the point of bt gin
ning. containing 79.65 acres situateu near the tow n
of Eagle, Alaska, and known as U. S. Smvey No.
351 of the Soldier’s Additional Homestead ol James
E. Snevely.
Any and all persons claiming: adversely to tne
above described tract of land, as surveyed, platted
and applied for, are hereby notified that unleha
their adverse claims are duly fiiedaccordiug to law
and the regulations thereunder, within the time
prescribed by law, with the Register of the U.
Land Oflice at Juneau in the Disiiict oi Alaska,
they will be barred by virtue of the previsions of
said laws. John W. Dudley
Register.
It is hereby ordered that the forgoing notice be
published for the statutory period in the Alaska
Forum, a weekly newspaper published at Ram
part. Alaska. John W. Dudley
Register.
Date of first publication Oct. 15 1.3di.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Mark C. Burns: You are hereby notified that
I have expended $800 in labor and improvements
upon placer mining: claims No. 4 and 5 below dis
covery claim on Ruby creek, Rampart recording:
district, District of Alaska; as wili appear by cer
tificate filed Aug. 16,19U4 in the ofnce of the Re
corder of the Rampart precinct, in order to hold
said premises under the provisions of section 2824
Revised Statutes of the United Suites, being the
amount required to hold same for the years 1900,
1901, 1902,1903, and if within ninety days from the
first publication of this notice you tail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of said expenditure as
a co-owner, your interest in said claims becomes
the property of the subscriber under section 232*.
First publication Oct, 15. 1904 John C.Fluga
NOTICE
To whom it may concern: All persons are
hereby notified that I. the undersigned, claim an
undivided one-half interest in discovery claim on
Thanksgiving creek, having located said claim for
M. S. Gill under* an agreement for said interest
for said'location.
R«mpart, Sept. 15, 1904. A. O. Anderson.