The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12, 1910, at the postoffice at
Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN CHITINA
Published every Saturday by
WILL A. STEEL—Editor*, K*aag*r* and Proprietor*—HABBY O. STEEL
Office: Hotel Chitina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
Seattle Office: 661 Colman Building.
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given. Official publication for legal advertisements pertaining to mineral lands
of the Copper River Cistrlct-____
CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1914
delegate makes glaring error
The Congressional Record is interesting reading these
days. The Alaska railway bill is bringing forth much argument
in favor of or against the measure and, owing to the fact that
it is one of the most important matters at present before
Congress, the introduction of incorrect statements or errors in
the Record, is much to be deplored. On page four of the
Record, under date of Wednesday, December 17, 1913, being
the speech of Mr. Davenport of Oklahoma, on the question of
railroads in Alaska, appears the quotation by the represen
tative from page 624 of the Senate hearings between Senator
Nelson, chairman of the committee, and Mr. James Wicker
sham, delegate from Alaska. The question under discussion
at that time was the Copper River & Northwestern Railway
and Senator Nelson suggested that if the government took
over the railroad, the government would have to operate same
and take their chancs, to which Mr. Wickersham replied, “The
government would carry their copper for about 90c, probably,
while they charge, for the same grade, $33.70 freight per ton.”
This matter being officially reproduced as a part of the Con
gressional Record, the statement should not be allowed to pass
without setting forth the facts.
Mr. Davenport cannot be criticized tor reproducing the
statement as lie naturally would consider the delegate from
Alaska as an authority on Alaska affairs, but it is indeed
strange that Delegate Wickersham would allow such an error
to be published. We assume that it is an error on the dele
gate’s part and, for the sake of properly correcting this state
ment the following facts are given. Mr. Wickersham, by
inference, clearly indicates that a rate of $33.70 per ton is
charged on the copper ore for the 196 miles of the railroad.
This is the first error to be corrected. The $33.70 per ton rate,
as quoted, applies only on copper ore where the valuation
does not exceed $500 per ton figured on smelter returns and
certainly the delegate from Alaska should know that no such
ore is being transported at the present time. Also the rate of
$33.70 per ton on ore, the actual value of which does not
exceed $500 per toil, is from the mine in the interior of Alaska
to the smelter at Tacoma, in the state of Washington and,
instead of being a rate covering 196 miles of railroad and
steamship transportation of nearly 1,500 miles, including the
cost of handling same from the cars to the steamships at
Cordova and from the steamship to dock at Tacoma.
Mr. Wickersham does uot state that the rate on copper
ore from the interior of Alaska to Tacoma, on which the actual
value per ton does not exceed $25, is only $11 per ton, including
two handlings of the ore and the rate varies from $11 up to
*$33.70, the most important omission being that no ore is being
shipped at the higher rate. Mr. Wickersham certainly must
have been misquoted when he said the government would
carry copper for 90 cents a ton under the same conditions, for
this rate would hardly pay for the bare handling from the cars
to the ship and from the ship to the smelter dock, but that is
what he must have meant when he compares 90 cents to $33.70.
The individual in Alaska who has ore to ship by carload from
points on the Copper River, has a rate which is graduated
from $5.75 per ton, which is a tremendous difference from a
bold statement that the rate is $33.70 a ton. Instead of being
a railroad rate covering 196 miles it is a railroad and steam
ship rate of nearly 1,500 miles and, most startling of all the
figures, the rates are graded to give the producer of low grade
ore a chance to develop his property. Summed up therefore,
Mr. Wickersham’s statement is an error of anywhere from $3
to $27.50 per ton in the credited freight rate and an error of
nearly 1,300 miles in distance. It is an absolute physical
-impossibility of accomplishment, his suggestion that the
government could handle copper ore for 1,500 miles, including
two distinct handlings of the ore at the rate of 90 cents per ton
and it is only fair that this should also be inserted in the
Record.—Seattle Railway and Marine News.
-o—o—o
Sewardites find considerable consolation in the fact that
Capt. “Zim” Moore has annonced that Resurrection Bay
possesses advantages over Portage Pass and that one of the
government trunk lines will have its terminus at Seward. But
this is a matter that govemmnet engineers will undoubtedly
settle and in the meantime Cordova has every reason to believe
that the first road built by Uncle Sam will start from Chitina,
with Cordova as the sea port terminus.
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While the people back East are being frozen to death,
railroad traffic practically suspended and sea going, vessels
driven ashore, Cordova is enjoying a spell of mild, balmy
weather and its railroad to interior Alaska running regularly
and on schedule time.
-o—o—o- }
Ben Greet informed the Salmagundi Club in New York
that “Damaged Goods” is a ridiculous and badly written
play, Which indicates that Mr. Ben Greet is a striking
example of ignorance on the function of the great moral uplift.
—-o—o—o
Now it is heard that the Campania, only a few years ago
the crack trans-Atlantic flyer, is to go to the scrap heap.
These ocean palaces are short-lived, but not as much so as the
battleships. They have not the power of taxation behind1
them and must earn their cost and dividends.
SERIAL HO. 01640
IN' THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE AT JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of
Frank J. Nolan for a Patent to the
Gravity, Glacier Bear, Cooper King,
Copper Prince and Liberty Lodes,,
Mineral Survey No. 943, situated in
the Forty-Mile Mining District of
Alaska.
notice of Application for Patent
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and especially in
pursuance of the Act of Congress
approved May 10, 1872, Frank J. Nolan,
a citizen of the United States, whose
Post Office address is No. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 1500
lienal feet along the lodes or veins
within the Gravity Lode, the Glacier
Bear Lode, the Copper King Lode, the
Copper Prince Lode and the Liberty
Lode, with surface ground 300 feet or
less in width on each side of the cen
ter of said lodes or veins of quartz or
other rock in place, bearing gold, cop
per and other valuable mineral, all in
cluded In and accurately described upon
the Official Plat of Mineral Survey No.
943 now posted on the claim, and by
the Field Notes of such official survey
on file with the Register of the Land
Office at Juneau, Alaska.
United States Location Monument No.
7 to which this survey is tied is situ
ated in Latitude 61 deg. 40 min. N.,
Longitude 142 deg. 31 min. W. This
survey is located on the south side of
the Middle Fork of White River and
about 10 miles above its junction with
White River.
The lode locations are contiguous,
and constitute a single tract of ground
described as beginning at Corner No. 1
of the Gravity Lode, which is the most
Northerly point thereof, from which
point United States Location Monument
No. 7 bears North 10 deg. 03 min. East
746.3 feet distant, and running thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Gravity
Lode South 62 deg. 53 min. East 1500
feet to Corner No. 2 thereof; thence
South 25 deg. 55 min. West 147.9 feet
along the East line of the Gravity Lode
to the point of intersection with the
North line of the Copper King Lode,
which is Corner No. 1 thereof, and
from which point U. S. L. M. No. 7
bears North 36 deg. 18 min. West 1926
feet distant; thence from said Corner
No. 1 of the Copper King Lode South 65
deg. 56 min. East 1500 feet to Corner
No. 2 thereof, which is identical with
corner No. 1 of the Copper Prince Lode,
from which point U. S. L. M. No. 7
bears North 49 deg. 13 min. 58 sec.
West 3313.88 feet distant; thence from,
said Corner No. 1 of the Copper Prince
Lode South 73 deg. 03 min. East 1500
feet to Corner No. 2 thereof, which is
identical with Corner No. 1 of the
Liberty Lode, from which point U. S.
L. M. No. 7 bears North 56 deg. 35 min.
53 sec. West 4725.12 feet distant: thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Liberty
Lode South 73 deg. 03 min. East 1500
feet to Corner No. 2, which is the
Northeast corner thereof; thence South
25 deg. 55 min. West 600 feet to corner
No. 3, which is the Southeast corn-.r
thereof; thence North 73 deg. 03 min.
West 1500 feet to Corner No. 4 of the
Liberty Lode, which is identical witli
Corner No. 3 of the Copper Prince Lo le
and on the same course 1500 feet »o
Corner No. 4 of the Copper Prince
Lode which is identical with Cornr r
No. 3 of the Copper King Lode;
thence North 65 deg. 56 min. West 1500
feet to Corner No. 4 of the Copper King
Lode, which is a point on the Easterly
line of the Glacier Bear Lode; thence
from said Corner No. 4 of the Copper
King Lode South 25 deg. 55 min. West
along the Easterly line of the Glacier
Bear Lode 452.1 feet to Corner No. 3
thereof; thence from said Corner No. 3
of the Glacier Bear Lode North 62 deg.
53 min. West 1500 feet to Corner No.
4, which is the Southwest corner
thereof; thence North 25 deg. 55 min.
East 600 feet to Corner No. 1 of the
Glacier Bear Lode from which point
U. S. L. M. No. 7 bears North 17 deg.
06 min. 58 sec. East 1333.56 feet dis
tant, which Corner No. 1 of the Glacier
Bear Lode is identical witli Corner No.
4 of the Gravity Lode, and running
thence North 25 deg. 55 min. East 6)0
feet to Corner No. 1 of the Gravity
Lode, the place of beginning first herein
described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is North
31 deg. 3^0 min. East.
The area of each location is as fol
lows:
Gravity Lode .20.657 Acres
Glacier Bear Lode.20.657 Acres
Copper King Lode .20.650 Acres
Copper Prince Lode .20.409 Acres
Liberty Lode .20.409 Acres
Total Acreage Mineral
Survey No. 943.102.782 Acres
This notice is issued from the United
States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
this 27th day of January, A. D. 1914,
for posting in said Land Office and for
publication for not less than sixty days
in the Chitina Leader,, a newspaper of
general circulation, published nearest to
said claims, and hereby designated for
that purpose.
C. B. WALKER,
, Register.
MAURICE D. LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claimant,
817 Alaska Building, >
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17, 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
SERIAL RO. 01639.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of
Frank J. Nolan for a Patent to the
Washington, Red Fox, Black Dia
mond, .Celtic, Colley, Blue Eyed
Nellie, Bear’s Nest and Bed Rock
Lodes, Mineral Survey No. 942, situ
ated in the Forty Mile Mining Dis
trict'of Alaska.
Notice of Application for Patent.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and especially in
pursuance of the Act of Congress ap
proved May 10th, 1 872, Frank J. Nolan,
a citizen of the United States, whose
post office address is No. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 1500
feet along the Washington Lode, 942
feet along the Red.Fox Lode, 1500 feet
along the Black Diamond Lode, 1075
feet along the Celtic Lode, 1500 feet
along the Colley Lode, 942 feet .along
the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode, 1500 feet
along, the Bear's Nest Lode and 1500
feet along the Bed Bock Lode, with
surface ground 300 feet or less in
width on each side of the center of
such lodes or veins of quarts or other
rock in place, bearing gold, copper and
other valuable mineral, and included in
said mining claim, which is accurately
described upon the Official Flat of Min
eral Survey No. 942 posted on the
I claim, and by the Field Notes of such
official survey on file with the Register
of the Land (Jffice at Juneau, Alaska.
United States Location Monument No.
6 to which this survey is tied is situ
ated in Latitude 61 deg. 41 min. 45 sec.
North, Longitude 142 deg. 10 min. West
whence the summit of Castle Mountain
bears North 80 deg. West, approxi
mately 7.5 miles. The Survey is situ
ated along the west side of Moraine
Creek and about 1 % miles above the
junction of said creek with White
River, Alaska.
The lode locations are contiguous
and constitute a single tract of ground
described as beginning at Corner No.
1 of the Washington Lode, which is the
Northwest corner thereof, from which
point United States Location Monument
No. 6 bears North 63 deg. 38 min East
646 feet distant, and running thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Wash
ington Lode South 79 deg. 48 min. East
along the North line of the Washington
Lode 942 feet to its intersection with
the West line of the Bed Rock Lode at
Corner No. 5 thereof: thence from said
Corner No. 5 North 10 deg. 00 min. East
along the Westerly line of the Bed
Rock Lode 600 feet to Corner No. 1,
which is the Northwest corner thereof,
from which point U. S. L. M. No. 6
mears South 73 deg. 09 min. West 472. i
feet distant; thence from said Corner
No. 1 of the Bed Rock Lode South 79
deg. 33 min. East 1500 feet to Corner
No. 2 thereof: thence South 10 deg. 00
min. West 600 feet to Corner No. 3
thereof, which is identical with Cor
ner No. 2 of the Red Fox Lode, and
with Corner No. 1 of the Black Diamond
Lode, from which point U. S. L. M. No.
6 bears North 68 deg. 17 min. 30 sec.
West 1962.49 feet distant, and running
thence from said Corner No. 1 of the
Black Diamond Lode South 60 deg. 20
min. East 1500 feet to Corner No. 2
thereof, which is identical with Cor
ner No. 1 of the Celtic J^ode, from
which point U. S. L. M. No. 6 bears
North 64 deg. 50 min. 41 sec. West
3454.3 feet distant, and running thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the CeBic
Lode South 56 deg. 50 min. East 1075
feet to Corner No. 2, the Northeast cor
ner thereof: thence South 10 deg. *>0
min. West 560 feet to Corner No. 3, the
Southeast corner thereof; thence North
56 deg. 50 min. West 1075 feet to Cor
ner No. 4 of the Celtic Lode, which is
identical with Corner No. 3 of the
Black Diamond Lode and with Corner
No. 2 of the Bear's Nest Lode: thence
Soutli 10 deg. 00 min. West 600 feet ro
Corner No. 3 of the Bear’s Nest Lode,
which is the Southeast corner thereof:
thence North 60 deg. 20 min. West 1500
feet to Corner No. 4 of the Bear's Nest
Lode, which is identical with Corner
No. 3 of the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode, and
from which point Corner No. 1 of the
Bear's Nest Lode is identical with Cor
ner No. 2 of the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode,
bears South 10 deg. 00 min. 'Vest 600
feet distant, and from said Corner No.
1 of the Bear's Nest Lode and Corner
No. 2 of the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode U.
S. L. M. No. 6 bears North 53 deg. 29
min. West 2147.8 feet distant, and run
ning thence from said Corner No. 4 of
the Bear's Nest Lode which is identical
with Corner No. 3 of the Blue Eyed
Nellie Lode North 79 deg. 24 min. West
942 feet to Corner No. 4 of the Blue
Eyed Nellie Lode, which is identical
with Corner No. 3 of the Colley Lode:
thence North 79 deg. 48 min. west 1500
feet to Corner No. 4 of the Colley Lode,
which is the Southwest corner thereof:
thence North 10 deg. 00 min. East 600
feet to Corner No. 1 of the Colley Lode,
which is identical with Corner No. 4
of the Washington Lode, and from
which point U. S. L. M. No. 6 bears
North 38 deg. 53 min. East 1077.8 feet
distant, and running thence from said
Corner No. 4 of the Washington Lode
North 10 deg. 00 min. East 560 feet to
Cirner No. 1 thereof, the place of begin
ning first herein described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is North
31 deg. 30 min. Ea'st.
The area of each location is as fol
lows:
Washington Lode .lit.ls.t Acres
Red Fox Lode .12.109 Acres
Black Diamond Lode ....18.159 Acres
Celtic Lode .12.706 Acres
Colley Lode .20.661 Acres
Blue Eyed Nellie Lode- 12.974 Acres
Bear's Nest Lode.19.456 Acres
Bed Rock Lode .20.618 Acres
Total acreage Mineral
Survey No. 942.135.966 Acres
This notice is issued from the United
States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
this 27th day of January, A. D. 1914,
for posting in said Land Office and for
publication for not less thun sixty days
in the Chitina Leader, a newspaper of
general circulation, published nearest to
said claims, and hereby designated for |
that purpose.
C. B. WALKER,
Register,
MAURICE D. LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claimant,
817 Alaska .Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17, 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
SERIAL NO. 01638.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of
Frank J. Nolan for a Patent to the
Wolverine and Mamoth Lodes, Min
eral Survey No. 941, situated in the
Forty Mile Mining District of Alaska.
Notice of Application for Patent
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and especially in
pursuance of the Art of Congress ap
proved May 10, 1S72, Frank J. Nolan,
a citizen of the United States, whos"
Post Office address is No. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 588.5
feet along the Wolverine Lode, and
1,250 feet along the Mamoth Lode, with
surface ground 300 feet or less in width
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on each side of th f center of said lodes
or veins of <;uar r. or other rock in
place, bearing RJld, copper and other
valuable mineral, and included in said
mining claim, which is accurately de
scribed upon the Official Plan of Min
eral Survey No. 941 posted on the
claim, and by the Field Notes of such
official survey on file with the Register
of tile Land Office at .liineau, Alaska
United States Location Monument No.
6 to which this survey is tied is situ
ated in Latitude 61 deg. 41 min. 45 sec.
N„ Longitude 142 deg. 10 min. \\\,
whence the summit of Castle Mountain
bears N. 80 deg. W., approximately 7.5
miles. This survey is situated between
the forks of Moraine Creek and about
2V4 miles above the junction of said
creek with White River, Alaska.
The lode locations are contiguous and
constitute a single tract of ground de
scribed as beginning at Corner No. 1,
of the Wolverine Lode, which is the
Northwest corner thereof, and from
which point United States Locution
Monument No. 6 bears North 87 deg.
30 min. West 6822.4 feet distant, and
running thence from said Corner No.
1 South 46 deg. 24 min. Kast 588.5 feet
to Corner No. 2 of the Wolverine Lode,
which is identical with Corner No. 1
of the Mamoth Lode, from which point
U. S. L. M. No. 6 bears North 84 deg.
27 min. 08 sec. West 7276.17 feet dis
tant, and running thence from said
Corner No. 1 of the Mamoth Lode South
41 deg. 34 min. Kast 1250 feet to corner
No. 2 thereof, which is the Southwest
corner thereof; thence Nortli 79 deg. 29
min. Kast 560 feet to Corner No. 3 of the
Mamoth Lode, which is the Southeast
corner thereof; thence North 41 deg. 34
min. West 1250 feet to Cornor No. 4 of
the Mamoth Lode, which is identical
with Corner No. 3 of the Wolverine
Lode; thence North 46 deg. 24 min.
West 588.5 feet to Corner No. 4 of thd
Wolverine Lode, which is the North
east corner thereof; thence South 79
deg. 29 min. West 560 feet to Corner
No. 1 of the Wolverine Lode, the place
of beginning first herein described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is North
32 deg. 00 min. Kast.
The area oi each location is as fol
lows:
Wolverine Lode . 6.130 Acres
Mamoth Lode .13.767 Acres
Total acreage Mineral
Survey Xo. 941.19.897 Acres
This notice is issued from the
United States Land office at Juneau,
Alaska, this 27th day of January, A. iX
1914, for posting in said Land Office
and for publication for not less than
sixty days in the Chitina Leader, a
newspaper of general circulation, pub
lished nearest to said claims, and
hereby designated for that purpose.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
MAURICE D. LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claimant
817 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17, 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Serial 01610
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, July 12, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Ocha
Potter of Houghton, Michigan, as
signee of Barnard Needham, Calvin
Deputron and Elijah T. Fudge,
beneficiaries under Section 2306
Revised Statutes of the United
States, granting additional lands to
soldiers and sailors who served in
the War of the Rebellion, has made
application to make entry of the
lands in U. S. Survey No. 595, situ
ated about fifteen miles above the
mouth of McCartny creek, a tribu
tary of the Kennicott river, in the
Chitina recording precinct, Juneau
Land District, Territory of Alaska,
and more particularly described in
the fields notes and plat of said sur
vey as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a green
stone 16x8x6 ins. set 11 in. in
ground, marked S. 595 Cor. 1 on
side facing claim, from which Cor.
U. S. L. M. No. 535 bears S. 2 Ju
chs. dist., said U. S. L. M. is a stone
30x20x8 ins. 15 ins. in the ground
marked with a cross on top and U.
S. L. M. 595 on side. There are
no natural objects or permanent
monuments other than the one just
established available. Thence from
Cor. No. 1 S. 10 chs. to Cor. No. 2,
thence W. 5 chs. to Cor. No. 3
crossing McCarthy Creek at 0.50
chs., thence N. 10 chs. to Cor. No.
4, thence E. 5 chs to 'Cor. No. 1,
the place of beginning, crossing
McCarthy creek ,at 3.30 chs. con
taining five acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any portion of the above
described tracts are required to file
with the ivegister and Receiver of
the U. S. Land Office at Juneau,
Alaska, tneir adverse claim thereto
under oath during the period of
publication and posting of this
notice, or within thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statute in such
ease made and provided.
OCHA POTTER.
It is hereby ordered that the
foregoing notice be • published for
the statutory period in the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper printed and
published at Chitma, Alaska. 1
. C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First publication, Jan. 21, 1914.
Last publication, March 25. 1914.
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