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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned has been duly ap
pointed School Tax Collector for Se
ward, Alaska, in conformity with
Chapter 29, Alaska Session Laws,
1919.
All male persons between the ages
of twenty-one and fifty years, ex
cept soldiers, sailors in the U. S.
Navy or Revenue Cutter Service,
volunteer firemen, paupers and in
sane persons, are subject to tax in
the sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars.
Tax shall be due and payable be
tween April 1 and first Monday in
August, 1925. Should you arrive in
Alaska later than first date above
mentioned, tax will be delinquent
thirty (30) days after your arrival,
or within ten (10) days after notice
is given you.
All persons, firms and corporations
employing labor shall furnish list of
employees to collectors and are au
thorized by law to deduct amount of
tax from wages of employees.
Fines and imprisonment are pro
vided by the Act above quoted for
those who fail or neglect to pay tax
or furnish list of employees.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, April 1,
1925.
J. P. HANNON,
School Tax Collector, for Seward,
NOT ICE TO " CR E D1TO R S
In the Probate Court for the Seldo
via Precinct, Third Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, at Seldovia.
In the matter of the estate of M. C.
Knutsen, deceased, No. 23.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by
the undersigned, administrator of the
estate of M. C. Knutsen, deceased,
to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against the said de
ceased to exhibit them, with the ne
cessary vouchers, within six months
from the date of this notice, to the
said administrator at his place of
business, at Seldovia, Alaska.
Dated at Seldovia, Alaska, this
14th day of July, 1925.
J. J. JENSEN,
Adm. of M. C. Knutsen estate.
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TERRITORIAL LAND
SYSTEM EXPLAINED
BY NEW GOVERNOR
SURVEYING METHODS PLAYED
LARGE PART IN DEVELOPMENT
OF NATION—PRESENT PLANT
BEST IN THE WORLD.
Governor George A. Parks is
believed to be one of the best
informed men in Alaska on the
land question, due to his long
period of connection with the
Land Office.
Believing that authentic infor
mation on this subject would be
of general interest to the public,
Gov. Parks consented to prepare
the following report for publica
tion.
By GOV. GEO. A. PARKS
A majority of the residents of our
Territory sooner or later come in
contact, directly or indirectly, with
one or more phases of the public
land surveys. The rectangular system
of land surveying is the basis of the
descriptions given in nearly all pat
ents in our public land states and
Alaska, and it is so closely associat
ed with the public land laws that
many of them would be inoperative
without it. We may say that a large
part of the development of our pub
lic domain is due to the simplicity
and efficiency of the rectangular
system, yet there are comparatively
few of those who have profited by
it who have taken the time to in
quire into its origin and develop
ment and a brief outline may be of
passing interest.
The inception of the rectangular
system dates back to the year 17S5,
when a committee of the Continental
Congress drafted an ordinance which
provided for the survey of the pub
lic domain into townships of six
miles square, by lines running due
north and south and others crossing
these at right angles, and the sub
division of the township into 36 lots
■ of 640 acres each. The system as
thus outlined w*as first extended over
a part of the territory now embrac
ed in the state of Ohio. Since that
time it has been improved by the in
creased efifciency in the manufac
ture of surveying instruments and
by refinement in methods or survey
ing until today we have the most
thorough and effective system of
land identifications in the world. The
adaptability of the system is appar
ent when we realize how it has been
applied in Alaska. Here the survey
or finds a variety of unusual obsta
cles in a comparatively small area.
The transportation facilities are
crude or entirely lacking and many
time our surveying crews must work
under almost unsurmountable diffi
culties. The hundreds of miles of
surveyed lines that traverse the wide
valleys through mosquito-infested
swamps, across almost impassble
streams and thru dense forests reach
ing to the perpetual snow line on the
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I bordering mountain ranges, are mon
I uments to the engineers who have
made the surveys. A glance at a
relief map of Alaska will show how
impracticable and unnecessary it is
at the present time to extend the
surveys over the mountain ranges
and barren coastal plains. This was
realized by those in charge of the
work and instructions were issued
whidh permitted the engineer to sur
vey fractional townships whenever
necessary. This is advantageous in
a region of decided relief because it
enables the surveyor to survey all
of the suitable land and eliminiate
the useless areas, thus saving time
and expense. In some regions, such
the Chignik-Cold Bay area, it is de
sirable to make a skeleton survey
that can be used as a control for
subsequent topographic mapping, and
also serve to fix the position of all
coal and oil claims which may be
located in the district traversed by
the survey. The rectangular system
is particularly weil adapted to this
because new surveys can be initiated
at any time from the known points
| along the established lines and the
exact description of any tract of land
may be easily and quickly deter
mined. Under the coal and oil leas
ing law, it freuently becomes neces
sary to survey tracts smaller than
the usual quarter section. This is
very simple if the rectangular sys
tem has been extended over the dis
trict, because the surveyor merely
retraces the boundary' lines and de
termines the intersection of lines
which will define theareas required.
This is being done in the Matanuska
valley this summer, where the coal
leasing units are being subdivided
into 40 acre ^tracts.
Public Land Surveys In Alaska,
j The primary object of the public
land survey is to provide a basis for
| the disposal of the public domain
and for this reason the work in
Alaska so far has been confined
largely to the regions which seem
most adaptable to agricultural or
valuable for coal or oil. With this
objective in mind, the first surveys
were made in the Copper River val
ley about 1905, when more than 200
miles of the principal meridians and
standard parallels were surveyed. At
that time all surveying was done un
der the old concrete system. About
1910 the general land office, under
authority of congress, began to make
all public land surveys thru its own
organization, and since then nearly
all of these surveys in lAaska, with
the exception of certain classes of
private claims and mining claims,
have been executed under the direc
tion of Mr. Frank M. Josnson, super
visor of surveys of the general land
office. Subsequent to the year 1910,
the demands tor surveys of the pub
lic lands in Alaska increased each
year and it became necessary to
establish a headquarters in Alaska.
Mr. John P. Walker was appointed
assistant supervisor of surveys and
continued in charge of this work un
til 1924, except for a short period
during the war. In 1924, he was as
signed to more important work in
another field.
All of the existing rectangular sur
veys in Alaska are controlled by
three principal meridians which are
designated by significant names:
Fairbanks meridian, with its initial
point near Fairbanks; the Seward
meridian north of Seward; and the
Copper River meridian extending
north from Copper Center in the
Copper River valley.
The agricultural lands in the vicin
ity of Fairbanks offer an attractive
field for the homesteader and in
1910 plans were made to extend the
rectangular net over that area. The
Fairbanks Base and Meridian were
established and several townships
subdivided. These surveys were made
under instructions from the general
land office by the engineers of the
geological survey. Since that time
the work has been carried on from
year to year until they include 627,
744.69 acres, and extend from Rich
ardson on the upper Tanana river to
Nenana and south along the rail
road to Broad Pass.
The Seward Base and Meridian
were established in 1911 and con
trol the surveys along the railroad
through the Matanuska and Susitna
valleys; the Kenai peninsula from
Kacnemak Bay to Point Possession;
the oil fields from Chignik to Cold
Bay, and the Chitina Bay district. In
the agricultural sections the town
ships and sections have been subdi
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