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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1919
THE FORGOTTEN NORTH
The Arctic dropped from the popu
lar consciousness with the discovery
of the North pole. It was taken for
granted that nothing existed north of
a certain latitude save wide drifted
stretches of snow, now glittering un
der an unenthusiastic sun, now driven
irresistibly before bitter and wither
ing winds. The region stretched
away in the imagination, an un
broken, silent plain, colder than in
terstellar space, deadly to every form
of life, uninhabited, uninhabitable.
No such vision rises in the mind of
Vilhjalmur Stefansson or Storker
Storkerson, his lieutenant, when they
think of the area centering about the
pole and extending south to the out
posts of civilization. It would be little
pleasure to walk into a landscape as
unchanging as a linen-covered table
top, traverse it, and come out on the
other side. They know their Arctic
is a variable, cunning, tempestuous,
wily place, teeming with life, tingling
with adventure. Its spirit is untrust
worthy and alien; its weapon are keen
as dirks and swift as light. It is
filled with a great and terrible beauty,
a beauty that warps the mind and
lures and destroys. It is free past the
dreams of men who live in streets
and ride on trains, wild past the imag
ining of those who have known only
the gentler climates south of the cir
cle.
No doubt voyagers would seek the
North for loveliness alone, and would
sometimes give themselves up to the
mercies of an ice floe to worship
beauty in the wilderness, even were
there no more material reason for the
expedition. But science kindly sup
plies them with another. Every large
berg and floe adrift beyond the haunts
of men is a little continent in itself,
inhabited by communities of animals
or birds; every shard from a glacier
end marks by its course some deter
minable current of the sea. There
are strange and marvelous things to
learn and set down in reports for some
unemotional foundation. But in the
main the human race will probably
always think of those places as life
less in which it can not live, and will
cling, properly enough, to the culture
in which it thrives, with no more than
an occasional envious glance at Venus
or Mars.—Ex.
ALASKA NEEDS FAMILIES
Commenting on an interview from
Dr. C. C. Georgeson, head of agricul
tural work in Alaska, concerning his
recent trip to the Interior and devel
opment there and in his work, the
Skagway Alaskan says:
“What is needed for the Interior is
more families, men with their wives
and children. The average poor man
in the States who would like to come
to Alaska can not do so on account of
the heavy expense attached to it. Men
driven with prospects of a ftiillion in
a year or two, but when it comes to
the farming game, he knows what
clearing land, building a home and
starting in to till the soil means. It’s
a long, slow process, and when you
have to freight all your machinery,
tools, cattle, etc., over two thousand
miles of expensive transportation sys
tem, a man must have some financial
backing to do it. It is not the same
proposition as when the men came
West. Then they could pack their
all on a prairie schooner and start
West assured that if the Indians did
not get them and they wanted to re
turn it could be done in the same way.
“Alaska is not that kind of a propo
sition. It’s no harder from the stand
point of the man who is on the field,
and the prospects are as good or bet
ter than they were in the pioneer days
in the West, but when it comes to
getting there you must have more than
those who came West had.
“That is one reason for the faith
of Alaskans that when a man does
come he is out of the ordinary. He is
ready to take a chance and it's a good
gamble that he will make good in the
country. But we need men with fami
lies, men who will make Alaska their
home, who will demand schools, and
trading centers, and start small towns
for the sale of some of the surplus
stock. And we need a cheaper freight
and passenger rate. These will make
Alaska the great land she is certain
to become.”
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To C. M. Gage, Peter Conaton, Will
iam Farrell, Jack Ryan, Morriss
O’Donnell, Eli McQuade and George
Dempsey:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have performed the an
nual assessment labor required
by law for the years 1912, 1913, 1914,
1915 and 1916, upon the following
described placer claims on Young
creek, a tributary to Nizina river, sit
uated in the Chitina mining and re
cording district, Territory of Alaska,
United States of America, to-wit:
(1) Boston Association Placer
Claim, recorded in 1911, and
(2) The New York Association
Placer Claim, recorded in 1911,
and that unless within the time
prescribed by law you pay your pro
portionate amount of said expendi
ture, your interest in said claims and
each of them will be forfeited to me
under the provisions of the statutes
of the United States relating to in
terest in mining claims for failure
to contribute their proportionate
share of the expenditures required
by law for such annual work.
DEXTER CAYOUETTE.
City of Seattle, State of Washington,
United States of America—ss.
Personally appeared before me, a
Notary Public in and for the State
of Washington, Dexter Cayouette, of
Dan creek, Alaska, who deposes and
Bays that the statements in the above
notice are true, and that the said par
ties have not contributed any money
as labor towards the assessment work
on the mentioned claims for the
period stated.
DEXTER CAYOUETTE. .
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this twenty-fifth day of September,
1919.
(Seal) FORD O. ELVEDGE,
Notary Public for the State of Wash
ington.
My commission expires July 29, 1923.
Date of first publication Oct. 1, 1919.
Date of last publication Dec. 31, 1919.
SUMMONS
No. C—180
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third division. Carl N.
Anderson, Victor Swanson and Jus
tus Johnson, plaintiffs, vs. North
Midas Copper Company, a corpora
tion, and Frank A. Ball, trustee,
defendants.
The President of the United States of
America, greeting to the above
named defendant, Frank A. Ball,
trustee:
You are hereby required to appear in
the district court for the territory of
Alaska, Third division, within thirty
days after the completion of the pe
riod of publication of this summons,
to-wit: within thirty days after the
13th day of November,' 1919, and
answer the complaint of the above-*
named plaintiffs in the above-entitled
action in which said plaintiffs demand
the following relief, to-wit: A per
sonal judgment against defendant,
North Midas Copper Company for the
sum of twenty-five hundred fifty-two
and .82-100 dollars ($2,552.82), the
further sum of seventy-five dollars
($75) for preparing and recording
plaintiffs’ claims of liens, the further
sum of four hundred fifty dollars
($450) as plaintiffs’ attorney’s fees
in this action, and for such other
costs and disbursements as plaintiffs
may incur in this action, and that
such sums and all of them be ad
judged first, prior and superior liens
upon and against that certain mine
and mining property, situated on the
east side of Kuskalina river, in the
Chitina recording precinct, territory
of Alaska, and consisting of the lode
claims called Morning. Hercules, Cen
tury, Evening Sunrise No. 1, Sunrise
No. 2, Sunrise No. 3, Sunrise No. 4,
Golconda, Minnehaha, DuPont, Camp
Bird, Boston, New York, May Day,
Black Jack, North Midas No. 1, North
Midas No. 2, North Midas Millsite,
and the placer claims called North
Midas No. 1, North Midas No. 2, North
Midas No. 3, North Midas No. 4, to
gether with all buildings, tools, ma
chinery, equipment, trams, cyanide
plant, mill, and all other tools, ma
chinery, buildings and equipment sit
uated upon or in any manner connect
ed with said mining claims; and that
plaintiffs’ said liens onsaid property,
mine and premises be foreclosed in
this action, and that any interest,
lien or claim that you, the said de
fendant, Frank A. Ball, trustee, have
or claim in or to any of said mine,
premises or property, be adjudged to
be inferior and subordinate to plain
tiffs’ said liens, and that as against
plaintiffs you be adjudged to have no
valid right, claim or lien to, upon or
against any of said premises, mine or
property.
The date of the order for the publi
cation of this summons and the serv
ice thereof by such publication is
September 30, 1919.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 2d day of October,
1919, and the date of its last publica
tion is the 13th day of November,
1919.
Witness, the Honorable Charles E.
Bunnell, Judge of said court, and the
peal thereof, on this 30th day of Sep
tember, 1919.
(Court Seal) ARTHUR LANG.
Clerk of the district court for the
territory of Alaska, Third division.
By JOHN B. MILLER,
Deputy Clerk.
Donohoe & Dimond, attorneys for
plaintiffs.
First publication, Oct. 2, 1919.
Last publication, Nov. 13, 1919.
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