The Chitina leader
owti$a. Alaska. ; , tS ■
Entered as second-class matter, November 12, 1910. at the postoffice at
Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TTKSPAY, FKBRUARY 2, 1915,
~ TROLLEY AND MOTOR BUS
Efforts to introduce the motor bus as a factor in the solu
tion of transit problems in the large cities have been made here
and there in the east and middle west, but with indifferent
results. Detroit’s experience has been the subject of heated
controversy and conflicting statements. In New York the
experiment is going forward. Chicago has been discussing a
$3,000,000 municipally owned and operated bus system. But
on the Pacific Coast the success of the buses appear to have
been so marked that the street railways are seeking legislative
protection against their competition. Mayor Gill of Seattle
has vetoed an extension of the municipal street car system for
the same reason, fearing that “automobiles are going to super
sede car lines.” In Oregon the Portland City Commission has
decided to license or regidate the buses. The Motor Bus
Associations of San Francisco and Los Angeles told a legis
lative committee they were prepared to pay reasonable taxa
tion, while the traction companies protested that the buses
had eaten into their revenues disastrously.
The street car argument is that the buses devote them
selves to short hauls, leaving the cars to run the less profitable
long routes into the suburbs. If this is continued, street car
men say, they will be unable to continue the suburban services
and the community will suffer. Therefore they seek city
regulation of the buses, presumably as to routes and fares, as
well as in licenses.
ALASKA RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
The report that lias been received today trom Washington,
in connection with Alaska railroad construction, is not as
satisfactory as we had hoped for. If the administration,
through Secretary Lane, asks for an appropriation of but
$2,000,000, it cannot other than be self-evident that there will
not be much railroad construction during the year 1913. Of
course this fact will have no bearing on the taking over by
the government of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway.
But it indicates, as we had predicted, that there will be no
commencement of construction in the way of extensions of our
railroad this year. The only railroad building in 1913, will be
from Ship Creek to the Matanuska coal fields. But whatever
be the plans of the government it will be a relief to know them.
Then arrangements may be made accordingly as we will know i
what to count on. While the era of activity may not commence!
in Cordova so soon as we had hoped, yet the positive announce-1
ment that the government will take over our railroad will start;
people coming here, with plans for future investment ami
development.
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A COMPANY OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
During the past two weeks about 500 tons of high grade
copper ore lias been shipped from the Mother Lode mine to
the Tacoma smelter. This is particularly gratifying as it
brings into prominence another good shipper located in the
Copper River district. James J. Godfrey, president of the
[Mother Lode Copper Mines Company is at the property and
states that he hopes to ship out an additional L000 tons before
the winter is over. The difficulty is not in taking out the ore
from the mine but to transport it over a wagon road from tlm
end of the tram to the railroad at McCarthy. That is si iw and
tedious work, but President Godfrey and his efficient force
are working with their accustomed energy to secure the best
possible results while tbe ground is frozen. When a spur of
the railroad shall be built to the [Mother Lode property then
will that mine be rated as among the constant and regular
shippers of some of the highest grade copper ore produced in
the United States. Their ore is similar to that produced at
the celebrated Bonanza mine, which has made this section of
the country famous for the richness of its ore.
It is reported from Valdez that District Attorney Science
is to appoint Senator O. P. Hubbard as Assistant District
attorney, to succeed Guy C. Brubaker. This is a position which
Judge Hubbard formerly occupied at Valdez.
We had hoped to have the report today of the Alaska
Engineering Commission, but we are advised from Washington
to bide a wee.
And now it is reported that George C. Hazelet, one of
Cordova’s representative citizens, is lingering at Washington
in the hope of landing a job in connection with the government
building of railroads in Alaska.
It really looks as though a reign of prosperity was setting
in throughout the country. Seattle is beginning to feel a
change in the financial temperature and it is hoped that its
reflex will soon spread through Alaska.
There are a great many people in Alaska who are not
impressed with the necessity of an extra session of Congress.
And they are hoping that Congress will be so busy until March
4th that there will be no occasion to consider the idea of
passing a prohibition bill for Alaska. And many feel that it
would be an injustice to the territory to pass any legislation
along that line at any time that did not give the people an
opportunity to say whether or not they wanted prohibition,
same as in the states. __ i
BIG MINING OPERATION ON VALDEZ GREEK !
President George W. Sias of the
that they have this month purchased
and sent to Alaska a Keystone drill,
and a complete Ingersoll-Rand air
Valdez Creek Placer Mines reports
compressor and drilling outfit. The
air compressor will have a capacity
of 310 cubic feet per minute, and
will operate an Ingersoll-Rand jack
hammer and 3 other drills, and will
be driven by a 58-horsspower Pel-'
i
ton water wheel which goes with the
outfit. This rock drill outfit will oe
invaluable in disposing of the bould-j
ers, considerabley increasing therebyj
the efficiency of the hydraulic
equipment.
The Keystone drill will be used
for locating and testing the old chan
nel beyond the point where it has!
been prospected by tunnelling. It!
will be in charge of an expert oper-!
ator who has had many years ex
perience in Alaska in just this kind)
of work.
W. T. Soule, superintendent of
transportation of the Valdez Creek
Placer Mines, is now in Seattle, and
will sail for Alaska with all the
company’s freight on February 1.
The operating superintendent, A. H.
Bryant, who installed the big hy
draulic plant on Valdez Creek in
1914, left Boston recently and is also
now at Seattle to effect the purchase
of the company’s supplies for 1915.1
He will sail north on the Alameda. |
He expects to begin hydraulickingj
on Valdez Creek early in May, and |
will operate four full months, au'l
then make the season’s cleanup be
fore freezing weather will be. pos
sible. After the cleanup the hydrau
licking will start again, and con
tinue until freezing weather sets in.
Mr. Sias confidently believes that
the season’s production will be over
$200,000 in gold. He reports tiie|
following expenditures for 1914. and
1915 to date:
Purcnase ot Property—
Kain Property .$ 5,500.00
Smith-Monahan Property . 56,750.00
Sundry expenses, acct. property . 770.41
- $ 63,020.41
Capital Expenditures on Property—
Development .$56,6S5.33
Euqipment .47,353.93
- 104,039.26j
Administration and Supervision . 12,848.38 :
Interest, including interest on bonds issued . 48,136.01
Total . . .$228,044.06 j
Pncli in TTirct RonL* nf Pnrtlrvvo on fV»to 1 S mil mi
Mr. Sias deserves much credit for
the work he. has done since return
ing to Boston from Alaska last fall.
The outbreak of the European war
had checked all financing operations,
and prevented the sale of securities
already effected but not yet consum
mated when the war broke out. This
left the company short of funds at
the close of the season with a large
payroll unpaid. Mr. Sias arrived :n
Boston in the middle of October, and
since, that time, in spite of the de
pression prevailing in the financial
market in the east, has paid everv
account, purchased the desired out
fit and equipment for the ensuing
season, and has a large cash balance
in the bank at Cordova for next sea
son's labor.
SERIAL 01697
Notice of Application for Patent for
The Minneapolis Lode Alining Claim
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA, July 20, 1911.
Notice is hereby given Uiat the
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose Post Office address Is
V aldez, Alaska, lias tiled an application
for patent for the ‘Minneapolis'’ lode
mining claim, situated in the Chitin^
formerly Valdez, mining and recording
district, District of Alaska, being min
eral survey No. 906, said lp.ie mining
claim being described as follows, to
wit: Magnetic variation 30 deg., 30
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. 5,251.50
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 ni^n. 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, N. 28 deg., 14
min., E. 1,492 feet to cor. No. 1, the
place of beginning, containing 20.551
acres. Lat. 61 deg.. 40 min. \V„ Long.
14i deg., 46 ruin. \V. on the rugged ir
regular slope of a mountain lacing
east toward Nugget Creek a tributary
of the Kuskillana River, about % mile
VV. 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 s
1,492 feet. The surface ground is 300
feet on each side of the lode line.
The notice of-location of said claim
■s of record in the office of the recorder
for the Valdez recording precinct, :n
l»ook — 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 225.
Any and ail 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
claims 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
he barred by virtue of the provisions
of said statutes, and of the law in such
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
the period of sixty days
C. B. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1915.
" SERIAL 01698
Notice of Application for Patent for
The Prank in, Franklin No. 2 and
Franklin No. 3 Lode Claims
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA, July 20. 1014.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay -Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postolilce address is
Valdez, Alaska, lias tiled 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.
90S, said lode mining claims being
described as follows, towit: -Magnetic
variations of survey, being as noted in
description below:
Franklin
Beginning at cor. X’o. 1, whence U.
S. Min. Mon. X’o. 31, Valdez series,
bears X'. 29 deg. 3S min., 50 sec., \V.
327.15 feet dist.; tlience X. 27 deg., 12
j min, li 600 feet to cor. X'o. 2, variation
34 deg. E. witness cor. to cor. X’o.
2 is set at 311 feet, because impractic
able to set true cor; thence from true ■
cor. Xro. 2, X’. 62 deg., IS min. \V. 1,180
feet to cor. X'o. 3; this cor. not set; ,
witness cor. bears X'. 27 deg., 12 min., !
K. 7.50 feet. dist. vatiition here 35 deg.,!
30 min. K.; tlience from trip- cor. X'o.
3, S. 27 deg. 12 min., \V. 600 leet. to ,
cor. Xo. 4, identical witn cor. Xo. 1 of •
Franklin Xo. 2 lode claim: witness cor. !
set at 468 feet, thence from true cor. :
Xo. 4, S. 62 deg., 48 min., E. 1,180 feet
to cor. Xo. 1, the place of beginning, j
containing 16.254 acres.
Franklin ITo. 3
Beginning at cor. Xo. 1, whence U. ■
S. Min. Mon. Xo. 31, bears S. 73 deg., |
58 min., 10 sec., E. 923.59 feet dist.
I thence X. 27 deg., 12 min., E. 600 feet
to cor. No. 2, identical with cor. Xo.
[ 3. Franklin lode: thence X. 62 deg., 48
j min., W. 1,382.40 feet to cor. X’o. 3,
i variation here 34 deg., thence S. 27 deg.,
j 12 min., W. 600 feet to cor. No. 4, iden
tical with cor. X’o. 1 of Franklin Xo. 3
lode: thence S. 62 deg., 48 min., E.
1,382.40 feet to cor. Xo. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 19.041 acres.
Franklin Xo. 3
Beginning at cor. X'o. 1, identical
with cor. X'o. 4 Franklin X'o. 2 lode,
!\>,:ence U. S. Min. Mon. Xo. 31, heart,
S. 67 deg., 16 min., 10 sec., E. 2,295.5
feet. dist. thence X. 27 deg., 12 min,
K. 600 feet to cor. Xo. 2, identical with
cor. No. 3 Franklin Xo. 2 lode; llienci
X. 62 deg., 48 mill., \v. 1,106.6 feet to
cor. Xo. 3, variation 31 deg. r-. cor. not
-set; witness cor. set at 814.60 feet.;
thence from true cor. Xo. 3, S. 57 deg. i
:5 min. W. 301.90 feet to cor. Xo. 4, at
dge ol’ Kluvesna river; \ariation 31
deg. E. tlience S. 27 deg. 12 min. IV.
340 feet to cor. Xo. 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
j oi the mountain side facing west
toward the Kluvesna River and Galcier.
a tributary of the Kluiesna River
lying about opposite the point where
tne Kluvesna River issues from under
the glacier.
The general course of the lode is
N. 62 deg., 48 min. W. * he number of
feet claimed on the lode are: on the
Franklin, 1,180 feet, on Lie Franklin
Xo. 2, 1,382.40 feet and on the Franklin
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 tin
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 tiled according to law
and the regulations thereunder, within
the time prescribed by law and regula
tions, with tilt*-Register of the United
States Lund 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.
GALENA BAY MIXING COMPANY.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 7, 1914,
Why Not lnvest?
With the building of the govenunent railroad from
Chitiua to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitiua
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 I
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
It Is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice he published in the Chitina
Ltader, a newspaper of general circula
tion, published at Chitina, Alaska, for
tne period of sixty days.
C. B. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1915.
EEBIAL 01699
Notice of Application for Patent fcr
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 Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postotiiee aadress is
Valdez, Alaska, lias filed an application
for patent for the "Mullen,” "Angle
and "Sport" lode mining claims, situ
ated in the Chitina, formerly Valdez,
mining and recording district, Alaska,
being mineral survey No. 904, said lode
mining claims being particularly de
scribed ns follows, magnetic variation
in survey being noted as 31 deg. H., to
wit:
"Mullen” Claim
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
S. Min. Mon. No. 30, Valdez series,
bears S. 49 deg., 50 min. E. 96.59 feet,
dist. Thence S. 59 deg., 17 min., E
560.30 feet to cor. No. 2; thence N. 31
deg., 29 min., E. 1,470.20 feet to cor.
No. 3; thence N. 59 deg., 17 mill., W.
599.50 feet to cor. No. 4, identical with
cor. No. 2 of Angle lode claim; thence
S. 29 deg., 57 min., W. 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 11.
S. Min. Mon. No. 30, bears S. 49 deg.,
50 min., E. 96.59 feet dist., identical
with cor. No. 1 of Mullen lode; thence
S. 10 deg., 17 min., W„ 1,464.50 feet to
eor. No. 2: thence S. 79 deg., 43 min.,
E. 598 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., W.
578.30 feet to eor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 19.779 acres, less
1.335 acres in conflict with Mullen
claim, net area Sport claim, 18.414
acres.
“Anglo” Lode Claim.
Beginning at cor. No. 1, on line 1-4
of Mullen claim, whence U. S. Alin.
Mon. 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 Mullen lode;
thence N. 9 deg., 17 milt., W. 812 feet
to cor. No. 3; thence N. 59 deg., 17 min.,
\V. 600 feet to cor. No. 4; tnence S. 9
deg., 17 min., E. 812 feet to cor. No. 5;
thence S. 29 deg., 57 min., W. 688 feet
to cor. No. 6; thence S. 59 deg., 17 min.,
E. 600 feet to cor. No. 1, the place nl
beginning, containing 18.043 acres.
Located in latitude 61 deg., 43 min..
N.; longitude 143 deg., 46 mill., W.,
about 19 miles NE. of Chitina in the
region of the headwaters of Coppei
Creek, a tributary of the Kotsina River
from the south.
As nearly as can be ascertained, the
lodes in said claim extend as follows:
rrom point of discovery; Mullen lode S.
30 deg., -.3 min., W. 748.55 feet and N.
30 deg., 43 min., E. 721.65 feet. Sport
lode, S. 9 deg., 30 min., W. 1,465 feel
and the Angle lode, N. 29 deg., 57 min..
E. 688 feet to angle and thence N. !'
deg., 17 min., W. 812 leet.
The notices of original location of
said 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 are of record
in the Chitina recording district, in
book 4 of lobations at pages 239, 238
and 240 respectively.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the mining ground, veins, lodes
premises or any portion thereof, here
inanove 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 thr
United States Lnnd oniee at Juneau,
Alaska, they will be barred by virtue
of the provisions of said 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 Ohitlnn
Leader, a newspaper of general circula
tion published at Chitina, Alaska, for
the period of sixty days.
C. B. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1915.
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