TO PROSPECT GALENA LEDGE
V. O. Green -will do extensive prospect work on the galena
ledge known to exist on the north side of the Yukon below The
Rapids. This news was brought down by Mail Carrier Jordan
last Saturday.
Mr. Jordan saw Mr. Green at Pish creek. The latter was
ready to start at Hot Springs, from which place he expected to be
back in ten days, accompanied by a number of men and outfitted
for effective work.
Numerous specimens of ore fi’om the ledge have been exhib
ited in Tanana within the past two years. At one time last sum
mer Otto Anderson brought down about 100 pounds. It was solid
galena and as pretty ore of the kind as could be found anywhere.
It is said assays of the ore have been made, some of which showed
high values in gold. The Leader cannot speak with authority as
to the character given the ore by assay; but it is granular and a
bright steel gray in color, and in some regions would be expected
to carry values in silver.
We have heard it said that ledge matter of a similar character
has been seen outcropping at the head of Old Man river, in what
was considered a continuation of the ledge on which Mr. Green
will work.
Wiseman, Alaska, March 31.— '
Everything in this camp is looking
fairly good, Nolan creek is look- :
ing about the same, with the ex j
ception that Basley & Webster
have run into some money on 4 be-1
low discovery—a claim that here ;
tofore had been considered not very
favorably.
Gold creek is now looking up
considerably. They have located
good pay in the bench of this creek
in several places, and about 10 or
12 men are working on this creek.
Wheelbarrows are used to take the
gravel out.
A strike is said to have been
made on Sheep creek; nothing sen
sational, however.
The best strike in the camp this '
month is the small one made by j
John Holenburg on Hammond j
river. He has been working alone
for the past six or seven months
sinking a shaft to locate the deep
channel on this stream He reached
bedrock a few days ago and got $6
in the bottom of the hole; the next
day lie got $io, and the following!
day lie panned out S40. There Las
been no news from there since, but
the strike shows that there is a run
of gold in the deep channel of Ham
mond river. There has been money
come out of Hammond river before,
but it lias always come from the
rim or close to the surface. Holen
btug’s shaft is about 150 feet deep.
Tobin has reached bedrock on
Wiseman creek; got a slanting bed
rock, found a few colors, and is
drifting. William Glenn struck
rim on Wiseman and got mud to
bedrock; ditto Pevro and Wilson.
Martin Josephson is not yet down.
Burt Skinner, from Fairbanks, is
building a porcupine boiler; he is
going to try the deep ground at the
mouth of Mascot creek. Good
money has been taken trom the
shallow ground at the head of the
creek, but the deep ground has
never been tried 011 this creek be
fore.
There are a few newcomers com
ing in here now, but they have not
got located yet. This is not a catnp
where they hiie big crews of men
on the claims. Most of the gold
on bedrock and is more or Je£.V
‘'pockety,” and the best pay seems j
to be in the deep ground; so a |
small outfit is a very good thing to j
have if one comes in here. **
The “Taking” of Jack Welch
W. B. Ballou acted as census taker
in Rampart precinct and his duties
took him into the wilds of the Hosiara
liver country. Away up on the Pitka
Fork he ran onto Jack Welch, an os’,
acquaintance, busy at prospecting.
Jack had gone there early last sum-:
mer and had not heard about the cen
sus matter. He had known Bailou as
United States commissioner, and was
somewhat flurried at his sudden appear
ance. Ballou noted his nervousness,
and said, as he took out a book and
pencil:
‘■Let’s see, Jack, I wasn't connected
with the marshal's ofiice before you
left Rampart, was I?”
“No,” said Jack, “but I knowed
somethin’ was up as soon as I seen you
cornin’.”
“How old are you?”
“O, about 15.”
“Where were you born?”
“In Missouri.”
“Married or single?”
(After some hesitation) “O, single.”
"How many children, living and
dead?”
“To hell with you and your infernal
questions,” said Jack, getting warm
under the collar. “I'll not answer an
other d—d one of ’em till I get to Fair
banks and see a lawyer. Now that’s
straight, old cock.”
The census man couldn’t keep a
straight face any longer; so he made
the true nature of his mission known.
“Well, why in the dickens didn’t you
say so in the first place?” said Jack.
“Come on up to carat).”
U. S. Deputy Marshal Charles
Hanover, of Iditarod, reached town
last Friday with an insane man
named Benson, whom he was tak
ing to Fairbanks. They left on
Saturday’s stage. A1 Raap was
also a traveler from the Iditarod.
Try Williams’ new barber shop for
an easy shave or a stylish haircut.
ST. JAMES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month, Holy
Communion 11 a. m. Oilier Sundays,
Evening Prayer, 7:30 p. ra.
Winthrop Peabody,
Priest in Charge.
HOWARD LEASES
STANLEY HOUSE
Frank B. Stanley, proprietor of|
the Stanley hotel at Hot Springs, 1
last week leased his property to i
Fred J. Howard, of Kemperopolis
on-tlie-Slough, lately returned from
Iditarod, who will complete the im
provements that Mr Stanley had
under way, and will maintain its
reputation for excellence which it
has enjoyed since the opening day. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Howard on last j
Tuesday evening celebrated the re- j
opening of the Stanley house under ;
their management by a big banquet'
followed by a social dance that was j
enjoyed by nearly all the people in !
that vicinity.
Mr. Howard is one of the best
known hotel men in Alaska, and j
his guests always receive “the best
what is’’ wherever he holds forth. ;
Mr. Stanley reached Tanana last
Sunday afternoon with a five dog
team headed for the Iditarod, look
ing for a new location
Additional Entry
Under Section 2306 of the Revised
Statutes of the United Slates.
APPLICATION.
United States Land Oilice,
Fairbanks, Alaska. March 30, 1010.
Northern Commercial Company, a
corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of New Jersey, as
signee of John R. Allen, William R.
Hess, Zachariuli Johnston Jr., Joseph
B. Deaton and Morris P. Jolley, being
entitled to the benefits of Section 2306
of lire Revised Statutes of the United
Stales, granting additional lands to sol
diers and sailors who served in the Re
bellion, does hereby apply to enter U.
S. Survey No. 730, situate on the north
side of the Yukon river, near the town
of Tanana, about one-half mile east of
Weare (Tanana) postoffice, Alaska,
more particularly described as follows,
to-wit:
! Beginning at corner No. 1 on the
i north bank of the. Yukon river, whence
witness corner No. 1 a stone 20x12x7
| inches, set llush with the ground,
; marked "S--739," bears north 40 links,
from which witness coiner United
! States location monument No. 730,
] bears south 80 deg. 27 min. east 32.18
; chains distant: thence north 74 deg. 53
; min. west 10.69 chains to corner No. 2.
1 whence coiner No. 2 of survey No. 250
; bears north. 79 deg. 19 min. west 20
: chains distant, ar.d witness corner No.
: 2 bears north 40 links; thence north
j 3-92 chains to corner No. 3 whence wit
| ness corner No. 3 bears east 65 links:
I thence east 10.35 chains to corner No. 4:
| thence south 6.71 chains to corner No.
; 1, the place of beginning, containirg
5.49 acres. Magnetic variation 28 deg.
30 min. east.—
as additional to their original home
steads. respectively:
John R. Allen, as additional to orig
inal homestead entry No. (>903, at
Booneville, Mo., dated October 21,18G9,
containing 38.10 acres.
Wm. R. Hess, as additional to original
homestead entry on the west one-half
of the southwest quarter of section 1, in
township 20 north, range 5 west, en
tered April 3, 1872, per homestead No.
4028, and final proof No. 1157, at the
Ironton, Mo.. United States land office.
Zachariah Johnston. Jr., as additional
to original homestead entry No. 43 at
North Platte, Nebraska, dated July 7.
1873, containing 139.90 acres.
Joseph B. Deaton, as additional to
original homestead entry No. 308, at
Ironton. Mo., dated June 10, 1800, con
taining 135.38 acres.
Morris P. Jolley, as additional to
original homestead No. 5412. at Junc
tion Citv, Kansas, dated February 10,
1870.
Notice is hereby given that any and
till persons claiming any portion of the
above-described land tire required to
tile a protest during the period of pub
lication or thirty days thereafter, in ac
cordance with law, with the Register
and Receiver of the U. S. land office at
Juneau, Alaska.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL, COM
PANY, by Geo. J. Mili.eu,
Attorney-in-fact.
Notice of the above will be published
in the Tanana Reader, printed at Tan
ana, Alaska, which I hereby designate
as the newspaper published nearest the
land described in said application.
E. H. MACK,
Register U. S. Land Office, Fairbanks.
Date of first publication, April 7.1910.
Date of last publication, June 2,1910.
Notice of Forfeiture
To T. .T. Wilson, Roy R. Henderson.
Alfred Place, J. 0. Junkin, Chris S.
Hillstead, O. A. Lavinon and C. H.
Hull:
Vou and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended the sum of
one hundred (100) dollars in labor and
improvement, for each year, for the
year lf*08 and the year 1909, upon the
following placer mining claim, to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
| the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Said work and improvement was done
under the provisions of section 2321 of
tlie Revised Statutes of the United
; States, being the amount required by
j said section 2321 to hold said claim for
i the years 1998 and 1909: also that proof
; of the annual assessment work was
filed under chapter 2359, entitled “An
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska.” approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
; the last publication of this notice you
! fail or refuse to contribute your pro
j portion of such expenditure, for said
! years, as co-owner in said placer min
I ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed under said section 2321.
Dated at Tunana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, Match 10, 1910.
S. F. McDILL.
I Date of 1st publication, March 10. 1910.
; Date of last publication. June 16, 1910.
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From C’oldfoot, about the 12th of
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To Nome, St. Michael and lower
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