The linik News
Published Every Saturday by The
Seward .Gateway .Publishing Co. at
Knik, Alaska.
BERNARD M. STONE, President.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Per year $3.00
Ten cents the copy.
One enterprising local firm, in
printed matter gotten out by the
News office, calls it, “Sunny Knik
—the California of Alaska!’’ Very
euplioneous and very truthful.
The Alaska Road Commission’s
work in this locality has proved so
beneficial in opening this section,
that we are prone to ask for more.
In maKiug your estimates for the
si. gentlemen of the commis
sio ., please remember that Knik
is respectfully awaiting its share.
' he circular letter issued this
week by the Knik Commercial
Club, hits the nail squarely on the
head. If you are coming to Alas
ka ousi ler the possibilities of the
I • ik country. There are good
opportunities for the legitim te iu
vestmen of capital hereabouts.
One of the urgent needs of this
loo ility, in view of the large num
ber of homesteads recently taken
up, is a government agricultural
e peri.’sent station. No other part
of Alaska can show such a formida
ble array of bona fide home-seekers,
an 1 on the theory on which our
government is founded—the greatest
good to the greatest number—we
are well within our rights in re
questing that an experiment station
be established here. In the forma
tive period of a country’s develop
ment, these experiment stations
have proved a vast aid.
A prominent mining man, a recent
arrival here, expressed the idea
when he said to the News editor,
"I like the mining ‘atmosphere’ of
this country. I read with much
interest your articles with reference
to the Willow creeK camp’s gold
production and the general resume
of prospective development, and I
am free to say they impressed me.
Mining news of this character,
hopeful yet conservative and bear
ing the stamp of veracity, appeals
to the legitimate mining man, and
I am glad to see you eater to this
class, rather than to the ‘wild cat’
promoter, who thrives on lurid and
exaggerated reports. While I am
not given to relying wholly on
newspaper reports, I have sent j
copies of your paper containing the
Willow creek production to my
people,believing that it is accurate. ”
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C. B. Walker, register of the U.
S. land office, writes the editor of
the News, in part as follows:
“I have to acknowledge receipt
of your letter of the 17th ult. with
the list of homesteaders, for which
I wish to thank you. This list is
eloquent in its expression of the
coming development of the Susitna
and Matanuska valleys.
“I am sending you a copy of the
two township plats of survey to be
filed in this office on March 31st I
wish you would see that the plat is
posted prominently in some place
where it may be used by the pub
lic. It will be impossible for many
of the homesteaders to make appli
cations for the lands they settled
upon without the assist nee of the
plat with its lot numbers, acreages
and meandered streams.
“Homesteaders should under
stand, if they wish to secure filings
without delay, that where the ap
plications are made by naturali'ed
citizens, or those who have de
clared their intentions to become
citizens, a certified copy of the de
claration to become a citizen, or of
the record of citizenship.
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statement of the filing- expenses,
computed as follows: For So a res
or less, there is an origina fee of
$5; for more than So acres, the fee
is $10. With the fee, there is also
a charge known as commissions.
The commissions due are 3 percent
of the cash value of the land, esti
mated at 41.25 per acre. For 160
acres, the cash value is $200 and
the commissions $6.
“Regarding the appropriation of
ands along the shore of navigable
wat- rs, I have to state that the1
law presents some difficulties that
at the present time are not deter
mined. It is not certain whether
the distance of 40 chains along the
shore shall be measured on a mean
der line or in a straight line perpen-j
dicular to the two sides of the sub
division approaching the shore.
This office, however, v. ill take the
position that the distance along the
shoi*e line should be measured in}
the manner last stated, and also!
that the distance between the claims)
along navigable waters of 20 chains
shall be measured in like maimer.”
The plat above referred to is that
pertaining to township No. 16 north,
range 2 and 3 west, Seward merid-i
ian. It has been posted in the
lobby of the Pioneer hotel. There
is also at the hotel, available to the
public, a detailed statement of the
requirements in filing on home
steads.
A list of homesteaders was also
sent to Governor Strong, and in
mthusiostic terms he speaks of the
ine showing presented.
Suits, “Alfred Benjamin,” and
‘Hart, Shafner & Marks.” Qual
ty first. Brown & Hawkins.
Fresh vegetables at Brown &
Iawkius. “Quality first.”
Ship CreeK, March 23—Trouble
over the possession of a town lot
arose one day last weeK, and for a
time it looked serious, but the dis
putants got together and adjusted
their differences. This dispute is
the incentive for a movement to
have, if possible, a deputy U. S.
marshal stationed here. A petition
is being generally signed urging
the appointment of L. N. Mancie,
a sourdough AlasKan, well qualified
I for the position.
Nearing completion is the pool
room building, 26x50 feet, being
erected by Prairie & O’Connell.
W7 Ss Ppruittc’ -twirl
iug, 25x50 feet, two stories, is
about completed.
The Pioneer restaurant, Crause &
Senate proprietors, is open for
business.
Bob Matheson and Louis Jensen
-are erecting a building, 24x40 feet,
to be used as a lodging house.
SxooKum Johnson and associates
are erecting a hotel building,
40x60 feet.
A. G. Dicicinson expects to open
a restaurant and baicery this weeic.
His building is nearing completion.
Charlie Jones and Bert Mahoney
are the ice men. They have put
up for the marKet over 60 tons.
Geo. Wagoner is the local dray
man.
N. Mancie has opened a real
estate office.
At this writing, there are about
80 people here, with more arriving
almost daily.
For Sale—Two business locations
on main street, 60 and 40 ft front.
Building on lots suitable for small
business. Inquire this office.
Preferred stock fruits and vege
tables. “Quality first.’’ Brown
& Hawkins.
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