STEAMERS READY
FOR YUKON RUN
► Steamers to ply on the Yukon and
Tanana rivers on the opening of navi
gation this spring have been scheduled
> by the Northern Commercial company.
There are eleven vessels in the fleet,
says the Seattle Times. The San Fran
cisco office of the company has notified
... the Northern Steamship Company of
this city of the preliminary schedule to
go into effect with the opening of navi
gation on the Yukon between Dawson
and the mouth of the Tanana. From
St. Michaels to the Tanana and to Daw
son the Northern Commercial company
will also operate steamers, connecting
at the mouth of the Yukon with the
ocean-going steamships of the North
ern Steamship Company.
From official advices received from
| the Northern Commercial company’s
office at San Francisco, it is learned that
on the opening of navigation at Daw
son, and prior to the arrival of the first
boat from Whitehorse, the company
will have the following sailings:
Steamers Tanana, Rock Island and
Lavelle Young to Fairbanks direct. „
Steamers Sarah and Louise to mouth
of the Tanana river, there to connect
with steamer Tanana and Tanana fleet
to Fairbanks.
ACROSS THE DIVIDE
. What Cheer bar company is getting
in shape for summer work.
Much prospecting is being done on
1 the bars and creeks. Good new dig
gings will undoubtedly be shown up by
fall.
Mrs. R. H. Wright, Mrs. W. A. Mc
Kenney and Miss Alaska Wright visit
ed Mrs. Spicer Tuesday. The visiting
ladies walked 12 miles.
Washing up the dumps in earnest be
gan this week. A big cleanup is con
fidently expected. Thumm's first clean
. up on Doric ran $1600; six men shovel
ing for two days.
R. H. Wright will wash his mammoth
dump on Thanksgiving into the boxes.
' He will use water furnished for this
purpose by a centrifugal pump. This
dump is the largest ever hoisted in the
Rampart district. Wright quit hoist
ing two weeks ago.
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The Forum is The Miners' Paper
United states land office
Juneau, Alaska, May 26,1904.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of and
underthe 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 E. 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 Townsite Survey where
is set a large Mica Schist Stone scribed Sur. No.
351, Cor. No. 1, whence U. S. I. M. Eagle No. 2 bear
N. 23 deg. 10 min. W. 13.44 chs. the N. A. T. & T. i
Co’s. Store bears N. 39 deg. 00 min. E. 20.50 chains t
thence S. 23 deg. 10 min. E. along a line identical \
with the east line of the Pomeroy Homestead 31.04 j
chs to Cor. No. 2. where is set a large stone scribed j
Sur. 351, Cor. No. 2, thence N. 66 deg. 47 min. E. i
36.33 chs. to Cor. No. 3 about 4 chs. nearly due j
south from the left bank of the Yukon river where ;
is set a large stone scribed Sur. 351, Cor. No. 3» j
thence N. 60 deg. 04 min. W, 44.66 chs. to intersec- j
tion of the south line of Adams St. where is set a j
large stone scribed Sur. No. 351, Cor. No. 4, whence ;
Cor. No. 7 of the original Eagle City Townsite!
[situated on the brink of the left bank of the Yu
kon river] bears north N. 40 deg. 41 min. E. 10 chs
thence S. 40 deg. 41 min. W. along and identical
with the south side of Adams St. 10.60 chs. to Cor.
No. 1, the point of beginning, containing 79.65
acres situated near the town of Eagle, Alaska and
known as U. S. Survey No. 351 of the Soldier’s Ad
ditional homestead of James E. Snevely.
Any and all persons claiming adversely to 7he
above described tract of land, as surveyed, platted
and applied for, are hereby notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly filed, according to
law and the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law, with the Register of the
U. S. Land Office at Juneau in the District of Al
aska, they will be barred by virtue of the provis
ions of said laws. John W. Dudley,
Register.
It is hereby ordered that the foregoing 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, April 22,1905.
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Monday morning. These freighters
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