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CHITINA, AIjASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1915.
MINING IN ALASKA IN 1914 *
Alfred PI. Brooks of the United States Geological
Survey is preparing his annual report on the mining resources
of Alaska and the production in 1914. Dr. Brooks declares
that mining began in Alaska in 1880—thirty-four years ago—
and since that date the Territory has produced a mineral
wealth of the value of $208,000,000.
Of this mighty sum $244,300,000 has been in gold, $19,
800,000 in copper, $2,251,000 in silver and $373,000 in coal.
The balance of the mineral product was in tin, lead, quick
silver, marble, gypsum and petroleum, and it is interesting to
observe that 133,000,000 pounds of copper were produced.
Dr. Brooks says the total mineral output in Alaska for
1914 will he $19,248,000 as compared wit h$19,416,000 for the
year 1913. The slight falling off as between the two years is
easily explained when one remembers that the depression of
business beginning about October, 1913, reduced the market
value of copper very seriously. Otherwise the total output of
minerals would have been greater tbis year than last.
"When one remembers that in 1867 Uncle Ram at the solici
tation of the Russian government paid $7,200,000 for what now
consittutes Alaska—it will readily he seen how wise and far
reaching was the wisdom of William II. Reward who conducted
successfully the negotiations.
Uncle Ram has not only received back the $7,200,000 that
lie paid for this country overflowing with mineral wealth
lint he has put into his coffers $237,100,000 more—which shows
a net profit of 3600 per cent.
Verily, Secretary Seward’s purchase of Alaska will in
the same period vastly exceed the purchase of Louisiana by
Jefferson in 1803—at the price of $14,500.000.—Seattle Times.
CHARTING ALASKA’S COAST
Conditions in the House of Representatives are said to
point to a speedy charting of the Alaska coastal waters.
A tentative poll ?>f the members, taken by an agent of
Secretary Redfield showed that the Congressmen approved the
plan of the commerce department for carrying forward this
work in North Pacific and territorial waters.
Redfield’s strong presentation of the need for action
hacked by the emphatic statements of President Wilson in his
annual message, apparently has convinced Congress.
Once its attention has been forcibly called the import
ance of action, it is difficult to believe that either House or
Senate will neglect to take the proper steps.
That any portion of the Cost of the United States or its
territories should he in such a condition as to warrant the
strong statements made by the chief executive and his com
merce department chief verges on the absurd, says the Seattle
Times.
When it be remembered that these same waters must be
used by the government in transporting all the materials for
its Alaska road and all the labor that is to he used on that
road, the proposition ceases to be absurd and comes to take
on the aspects of a gross error of omission.
While the need for adequate surveys in the North Pacific
and particularly in Alaska is not to he classed with the major
measures before the national legislature, because its appeal is
restricted instead of being nationwide in its scope, no proposi
tion submitted during the present session will be backed by
more logic.
It takes drestic action to arouse Congress to the needs of
a section as far away as Alaska but from all appearance now
that its eyes have been focused on the Northern necessity, it
will not hesitate in granting the needed amount, even thongh it;
renc ha sum which, for such purposes, is to be accounted
material, i , , ... * •• <;
GOOD NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
The good news comes from Washington today that Chair
man Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee, a typical
Tammany “statesman,” will not oppose the appropriation for
the government railroad in Alaska. Apparently he has had a
change of heart since the charge was made at the time he
“deleted” the estimate for our coast surveys and new vessels
to replace the three ancient floating coffins now in use in these
waters. Fitzgerald is a typical product of “the bunch”—
if we may be permitted to use a local expression—which for
years has corrupted the politics of New York and which
recently has extended its operations to national affairs.
Since Henry Ford, iconoclast and wrecker of moss
covered industrial idols, inaugurated the profit-sharing plan
at his Detroit factory ten months ago, his employes have
purchased on contract homes valued at $5,000,000, for which
they have made payments aggregating $1,500,000, have taken
life insurance to the amount of about $5,000,00 and have saved
on an average of $58.65 per month each. This record discounts
the pessimistic theory that when mechanics have decent
working hours and wages they will spend their time and
money in the saloon, but the cave-dwellers will continue to
preach it just the same. And many fool workingmen will
continue to believe it.
J| Brief News of the Northland |
Antone Ide, road commissioner at|
Seward, started out today with the
Idltarod mail carrier to clear the
trail of brush and windfalls.
The schooner Harold Blekum,
from Seattle to Uyak and Shumagir*
Islands with cannery supplies, was
not wrecked near the entrance of
Uyak Bay, as was reported. She
had her sails carried away, bumped
the rocks twice, had a narrow escape1
and the crew “resigned.” The ves-j
sel is now laid up at Uyak awaiting!
instructions from owners and!
charterers.
George Butzer, a well known
broker of Juneau, died at Seattle,
from injuries received last August
in an automobile accident. He will
be buried in Portland.
E. B. Collins of Fairbanks says he
is going to introduce in the next
Alaska legislature a bill to enable
women to sit on juries in Alaska.
The historic Baldwin building*
erected at Nome by "Lucky” Bald-i
win in 1899, was blown down during
a severe wind storm December 1.
The storm rendered shore trails im
passable for several days by* flood
ing them with water. All that
saved the town from a disaster simi
lar to that of a year ago was the ice
barrier off shore, which presented a
solid front to the heavy surf. Stores
and dwellings were flooded along
the entire coast from Port Clarence
to Norton Sound.
Col. B. F. Millar, a holdover sen
J
ator in the territorial legislature '
with the aid of a lawyer and sten
ographer, is preparing a bill which ■
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If passed, will give Congress the
option of enacting a new territorial
government law for Alaska or of
rescinding the one now in vogue—
Seattle Times.
It may not be generally known
that the "willow wand’’ cult Is
spreading fast in the Nome mining
district, and even this winter a
number of prospectors are sinking
and hoping to locate the paystreaks
that the crooked willow has re
vealed. The cult is awakening,
nevertheless, quite a number of
scoffers and skeptics who regard it
as a form of dementia and without
any sort of reliability whatever. The
story is told that an old time miner
was engaged in running a drift to
reach a pay streak located by a wil
low wander and was taking it along
nicely at a drainage incline. \ The
man had no idea that the “pay
streak'' had been located by any
such thing as a forked willow, and
when the prospector who had
“located” it, shouted to him that he
was four feet too high, he asked him
he knewr. The willow man replied
that the “instrument” said so, and
wheji the miner saw' the “instru
ment” he jumped his job. This
story is told for what it is worth.—
Industrial Worker.
Homestead matters it is an
nounced will probably suffer some
further delay as the land office nt
Juneau has as yet failed to receive
definite instructions as to whether
the general homestead laws shall be
followed with reference to surveyed
lands, or whether the special
Alaska act shall be followed. Much
confusion has arisen.
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SERIAL 01697
Notice of Application for Patent fet
iche eelnnaapolia Lode alining claim
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA* July 20, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that ihe
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose Post Office address is
valdez, Alaska, has hied an application
lor patent for the "Minneapolis" lode !
mining claim, situated in the Chitina, j
formerly Valdez, mining and recording 1
district. District of Alaska, being mfh
eral survey No. 900, said lode mining
claim being described as lollows, to
wit: Magnetic variation JO deg., Jo
min. E.
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U. S.
Min. Mon. No. 19, Valdez series, bears
S. 65 deg., 14 min, 20 sec. E. 5,251.60
feet dist. Corners Nos. 2 and 3, Blue
Bell and Pennsylvania lode claims,
respectively, sur. No. 892, bear N. 49
deg., 21 min. E. 918.33 feet dist. Thence
N. 61 deg., 46 min. W. 600 feet to cor.
No. 2; thence S. 28 deg., 14 min., \V.
1.492 feet, to cor No. 3; thence S. 61
deg., 46 min., E. 594 feet where witness
cor. to cor. No. 4 is set, thence to cor.
No. 4 at 600 feet from cor. No. 3;
thence from cor. No. 4, X. 28 deg., 14
min., E. 1,492 feet to eor. No. 1, the
place of beginning, containing 20.551
acres. Lat. 61 deg., 40 min. W.. Long.
141 deg., 46 min. \V. on the rugged Ir
regular slope of a mountain facing
east toward Nugget Creek a tributary
Of the Kuskillana River, about •% mile
W. of said Nugget Creek and about 3
miles from its mouth.
The general course of the lode is
northeasterly and southwesterly. The
number of feet claimed on the lode is
1.492 feet. The surface ground is 300
feet on each side of the lode line.
The notice of location of said claim
ta of record in the office of the recorder
for the Valdez recording precinct, :n
book — of locations, at page — and
the notice of amended location is of
record In the office of the recorder for
Chitina recording precinct in Book 4
of Locations at Page 226.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the mining ground, veins, lode,
premises or any portion thereof, here
inabove named and described, so sur
veyed, platted and applied for, are here
by notified that, unless their adverse
alalm* are filed according to law and
the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law and regulations,
With the Register -of the United States
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, they will
Oe barred by virtue of the provisions
of raid statutes, and of the law in sucli
case made and provided.
C. B. WALKER, Register.
UNITED STATES LaND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1914.
It is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice be published in the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper of general circu
lation published at Cnitina, Alaska, for
tha period of sixty days
C. P.. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1916.
:=== IIKIAL 01691
No 'ea of Application for Patent for
Tha Prank in, Pranklln No. 2 and
Pranklln No. 3 Lode Claims
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU. ALASKA, July 20, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postoffice address Is
Valdefc, Alaska, has filed an application
for patent for the Franklin, Franklin
No. 2, and Franklin No. 3 lode mining
claims, situated in the Chitina, for
merly Valdez mining and recording dis
trict, Alaska, being mineral survey No.
908, said lode mining claims being
described as follows, towit: Magnetic
variations of survey, being as noted in
description below;
Franklin
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
S. Alin. Aion. No. 31, Valdez series,
bears N. 29 deg. 38 min., 50 sec., VV.
327.15 feet dist.; thence N. 27 deg., 12
min, E. 600 leet to cor. No. 2, variation
34 deg. E. witness cor. to cor. No.
2 is set at 311 ftet. because impractic
able to set true cor; thence from true
cor. No. 2, N. 62 deg.. 48 min. W. 1.180
feet to cor. No. 3: this cor. not set;
witness cor. bears N. 27 *leg., 12 min.,
E. 7.50 feet. dist. variation here 35 deg.,
30 min. E.; thence from true cor. No.
3, S. 27 deg-. 12 min., \V. 600 feet, to
cor. No. 4, identical witn cor. No. 1 ot
Franklin No. 2 lode claim; witness cor.
set at 468 feet, thence from true cor
No. 4, S. 62 deg., 48 min., E. 1,180 feet
to cor. No. 1, the place of beginning,
containing 16.254 acres.
Franklin No. 2
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
S. Alin. Aion. No. 31, bears S. 73 deg..
58 min., 10 sec., E. 923.59 feet dist.
thence N. 27 deg., 12 min., E. 600 feet
to cor. No. 2, Identical with cor. No.
3, Franklin lode; thence N. 62 deg., 48
min., \V. 1,382.40 feet to cor. No. 3,
variation here 34 deg., thence S. 27 deg.,
12 min., VV. GOO feet to cor. No. 4. Iden
tical with cor. No. 1 of Franklin No. 3
lode; thence S. 62 deg., 48 min., E.
1,382.40 feet to cor. No. 1, the place ot
beginning, containing 19.041 acres.
Franklin No. 3
■Beginning at cor. No. 1, identical
with cor. No. 4 Franklin No. 2 lode,
Wiience U. S. Min. Aion. No. 31, bears
B. 67 deg., 16 min., 10 sec., E. 2,295.8
feet. dist. thence N. 27 deg., 12 min.,
E. 600 feet to cor. No. 2, identical with
cor. No. 3 Franklin No. 2 lode; thonc*
N. 62 deg., 48 inin., \\. 1,106.6 feet u
cor. No. 3, variation 31 deg. x*. cor. not
set; witness cor. set at 814.60 feet.;
thence from true cor. No. 3, S. 57 deg
45 min. VV. 301.90 feet to cor. No. 4, at
edge of Kluvesna river; variation 31
deg. E. thence S. 27 deg. 12 min. VV
340 feet to cor. No. 5; thence S. 62 deg.,
48 min., E. 1,260.05 feet to cor. No. 1.
the place of beginning, containing
16.898 acres. The change of variation
along courses is probably due to un
equal distribution of iron in porphyry
dike paralleling survey.
Located about 30 miles northeast of
the town of Chitina and 4 miles north
of the Kotsina river and on the face
oi the mountain side facing west
toward the Kluvesna River and Guleier
a tributary of the Kluvesna RiVer
lying about opposite the point where
me Kluvesna River issues from under
the glacier.
The general course of the lode it
N. 62 deg., 48 mip. VV. v he number ei .
feet claimed on the lode arc; on the
Franklin, 1,180 feet, on the Franklin
No. 2, 1,382.40 feel and on the Frankl.n
No. 3. 1,260.05 feet. Surface ground
300 feet on each side lode line.
The notices of location of said claims
are of record in the office of the
recorder for the Valdez Recording Pre
cinct, and the notices of amended loca
tion of said claims are of record in the
office of the recorder for the Chitina
recording precinct. In book 4 of records
of locations, at pages 224, 226 and 227
respectively.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the mining ground, veins, lodes,
premises, or any portion thereof, here
inabove named and described, so sur
veyed, platted and applied for, are
hereby notified that, unless their ad
verse claims are filed according to law
and the regulations thereunder, within
the time prescribed by law and regula
tions, with tne Register of the United
States Land office at Juneau, Alaska,
they will be barred by virtue of the
provisions of said stututes and of the
law in such case made and provided.
GALENA BAY MINING COMPANY.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 7, 1914.
Why Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitima to Fairbanks, the fntnre of the Town of Chitinv.
is assured.
Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
A few months later lots in Chtiina will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest NOW 1
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
It is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice be published in the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper of general circula
tion, published at Chitina, Alaska, tor
toe period of sixty days.
C. B. WALKER. Register.
I First publication, December 22, 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1915.
LEBXAX. 01699
I Hetlce of Application for Patent for
The Mullen, Angie and Sport
Lode Mining Claims.
—
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay Alining Company, a cor
poration, whose postoffiee audress is
Valdez, Alaska, has filed an application
for patent tor the "Alullen,” "Angle"
and "Sport" lode mining claims, situ
ated in me Chitina, formerly Valdez,
mining and recording district, Alaska,
being mineral survey No. 904, said lode
mining claims being particularly de
serioed as follows, magnetic variation
in survey being noted as 31 deg. K, to
>vit:
"Mullen” Claim
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
S. Alin. Mon. No. 30, Valdez series,
hears S. 49 deg., 30 min. E. 96.59 feet,
dist. Thence S. 39 deg.. 17 min., K.
560.30 feet to cor. No. 2: thence N. 31
deg., 29 min., E. 1,470.20 feet to cor.
No. 3; thence X. 59 deg., 17 min., XX".
599.50 feet to cor. No. 4, identical with
cor. No. 2 of Angle lode claim; thence
S. 29 deg., 57 min., XV. 1,470.20 feet to
cor. No. 1, the place of beginning, con
taining 19.570 acres.
“Sport” Lode Claim.
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence 17.
S. Alin. Alon. No. 30, bears S. 49 deg.,
50 min., E. 96.59 feet dist., identical
with cor. No. 1 of Alullen lode; thence
S. 10 deg., 17 min., XV., 1,464.50 feet to
cor. No. 2; thence S. 79 deg., 43 min.,
E. 59S feet to cor. No. 3; thence N. 9
deg., 30 min., E., 1,465.40 feet to cor.
No. 4; thence N. 79 deg., 43 min., XV.
578.30 feet to cor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 19.779 acres, less
1.335 acres in conflict with Mullen
claim, net area Sport claim, 18.444
acres.
“Anglo” Lode Claim.
Beginning at cor. No. 1, on line 1-4 •
of Alullen claim, whence U. S. Aim.
Alon. No. 30 bears S. 23 deg., 10 min.,
VV. 804.96 feet dist. thence N. 29 deg>,
57 min., E. 688 feet to cor. No. 2,
identical with cor. No. 1 Alullen lode;
thence N. 9 deg., 17 min., W. 812 teet
to cor. No. 3; thence N. 59 deg., 17 min.,
\V. 600 feet to cor. No. 4; thence S. 9
deg., 17 min., E. 812 feet to cor. No, a;
thence S. 29 deg., 57 min., V>. 688 teet
to cor. No. 6; thence S. 59 deg., 17 min.,
R. 600 feet to cor. No. 1, the place or
oeginning, containing 18.043 acres.
Gocaled in latitude 61 deg., 43 min.,
N.; longitude 143 deg., 46 min., W..
about 19 miles NE. of Chitina in the'
region of the headwaters of Coppei
Creek, a tributary of the Kotsina River
.roiu the south.
As nearly as can be ascertained, the
.odes in said claim extend as follows;
from point of discovery: Mullen lode S.
30 deg., -.3 mim, XX'. 748.55 feet and N.
30 deg., 43 min.. E. 721.65 feet. Sport
lode, S. 9 deg., 30 min., XX’. 1,465 feet
and the Angle lode, N. 29 deg., 57 min.,
E. 688 feet to ungle and thence N. 9
deg., 17 min., XX". 812 ieet.
The notices of original location of
•aid claims are of record in the office
of the recorder for the Valdez record
ing district, and the notices of amended
location of said claims ure of record
in the Chitina recording district, in
book 4 of locations at pages 239, 238
and 240 respectively.
Any and ail persons claiming ad
versely the mining ground, veins, lodes
premises or any portion thereof, here
inabove named and described, so sur
veyed. platted and applied for, are
hereby notified that, unless, their ad
verse claims-are filed according to law,
and the regulations thereunder, within
the time prescribed by law and such
regulations, with the Register of the
United States Land office at Juneau,
Alaska, they will he barred by virtue
of the provisions of said statutes, and
of the law in such case made and
provided.
C. B. XVALKKR, Register.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1914.
It is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice he published In the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper of general circula
tion published at Chitina. Alaska, for
the period of sixty days.
C. R. WALKER, Register.
First publication. December 22. 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1915.
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