AMONG THE MiNERS
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A. H. Woods and his son Al have a
lay on 19a Hoosier.
Dick Von Neill an will take out a pay
r dump on 6b Ruby.
Kolning & Krastning will be located
on 3b Thanksgiving for the winter.
Lindeboom & Brow;n will work a lay
on 5a Little Minook this winter.
John Jack will work with Wright on
Thanksgiving this winter.
* Cap Coilinette made a trip to Quail
the past week.
August Peters will work on 6a Ruby.
Mr. Peters owns a group on the creek;
6, 8, and 9a.
Jack Welsh has taken a prospecting
trip to Fish creek, and may go on to
Fairbanks.
Billy Graham and Joe Bush have join
ed forces for the winter and will work
with' a thawer on 15a Eureka.,
Pearson & Williams have taken a lay
on 5a Little Minook. Henry Papin has
also taken a lay on the claim.
R. H. Wright will' hoist a dump on
his Thanksgiving creek property. He
has two shafts down on pay.
C. I. Jordan will represent his Dead
wood property and prospect some ben
ches this winter. '
Wm. Pike will work this winter on 11
Hunter. He has an easy proposition,
working by tunneling and wheeling out
his pay in a barrow.
The Ruby Hydraulic Co. will build a
dc?m and get out sluice-boxes during the
winter. The company expects to use
the giant with the first appearance of
water in the spring.
*
Geo. Ledger has planned extensive
prospecting this winter. He already
a man working on his Spicer properly.
Spicer was re-christened Fortune creek
last season; but the old name holds.
Joe Nellany will be located on Skoo
kum. He has nearly completed his ca
bin and will be joined shortly by Mrs.
Nellany, who has been spending a few
weeks in camp.
Geo. Krastning, Louie Iverson, Bob
Roberts and Harry Callham have just
returned from a two weeks trip to the
Squaw creek country. They built the
pioneer cabins on Sourdough, a tributary !
of Squaw. One cabin was built on dis
covery claim, owned by Iverson, and an
other oh io, owned by Roberts.
S. A. Cuttin:
ASSAYER
ASSAYING OF ORES AND BULLION
Milling, Concentration, Amalgamation, and Cyanide
TESTS MADE
1
NOTICE
To whom it may 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
sreek, for any purpose whatsoever, without my
written consent.
Rampart, Sept. 19, 1904. C. H. Olson.
A New District Opened
A great amount of prospecting will
be done this season in the Quail and
Troublesome sections. Many, good siz
ed outfits have already gone in, and as
soon as sledding is good a number of
others will follow. The following mi
ners are among those who will put in
the winter there: •
Cap Williams and Dave Fancher will
take over a small boiler and prospect
on the Troublesome.
J. Buckley is located on the south
fork of Quail, and Max Neville will sink
on Troublesome below discovery.
Olson & Chapman will prospect 1, 3,
and 4b on Bonanza. They will also take
out a dump on their deep ground on 12b
Quail.
Geo. Shirley and Morris Farrell will
work on Cap Mayo’s Quail creek claim;
Kinney McLeod will operate on 10b and
Jim Langford and Jack Ostrom on 7b.
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Mike Donworth and Ed Larson will
put in the winter prospecting on Quail,
Gunnison, and Troublesome. They have
built cabins on their various creek hold
ings the past smmer, and mean to do
some good work this season.
Jerry Ford and Tom Antonsom will
undertake to bedrock some shafts on
Cariboo. Good prospects have been pan
ned on the creek, but bedrock has not
been uncovered. Cariboo is a wet creek
and Ford will use a steam pump if nec
essary.
John Stanley will be assisted by Hor
ace Boucher in riveting the hydraulic
piping for the Big Miijook company. It
will consume the greater portion of the
whiter to complete the task.
I
United states land office
Juneau, Alaska, May 26,1904.
Notice is hereby driven, that in pursuance of and
under the provisions of the general homestead laws
and the special Act of Congress approved May 14,
18^8, 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
slreet, 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 Comer 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 S. 23 deg. 10 min. E. along a line iden
tical with the east line of the Pomeroy Homestead
31.04 chs. to Cor. No. 2. where is set a large stone
scribed Sur. No. 351, 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 Sur. No. 351
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) bears N. 40 deg. 41
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 begin
ning, containing 79.65 acres situated near the town
of Eagle, Alaska, and known as U. S. Survey No.
351 of the Soldier’s Additional Homestead of James
E. Snevely. ^
Any and all persons claiming adversely to the
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 Alaska,
they will be barred by virtue of the provisions 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 1904.
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 will appear by cer
tificate filed Aug. 16,1904 in the office of the Re
corder of the Rampart precinct, in order to hold
said premises under the provisions of section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United States, 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 fail 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 232K
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 agreenlent for said interest
for said location.
R*mpart, Sept. 15, 1904. A. O. Anderson.