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CHITINA, ALASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1915.
WHY NOT A TERM OF COURT HERE
Although most of the matters brought before the court in
this division are of a small nature, yet much of it originates
at Cordova and the Copper River section of the district. But
it seems difficult to secure a term of court at Cordova even once
a year. Terms are frequently held at Valdez and as much liti
gation as possible is disposed of there. It means an added
expense to the government to take litigants and witnesses from
McCarthy, Chitina and Cordova, and an inconvenience and
expense to attorneys and litigants. This is a subject that the
Cordova Chamber of Commerce might with profit take up and
investigate. If the proper showing is able to be made and the
court’s attention is attracted to the real facts his honor might
be induced to give a little more consideration to Cordova. We
are not concerned about how many terms are held at Valdez
but the people of this section would like to get in touch once
in a while with the court officials. It may now be too late to
secure a term for this spring, but it is not too early to com
mence work for a term early next fall.
CHARGES AGAINST U. S. COMMISSIONER ADAMS
Rumors have been in circulation to the effect that charges
have been filed against the U. S. Commissioner of the Cordova
precinct. We can state with authority that verbal charges were
filed against this official, several weeks ago, followed by formal
charges, presented to Judge Fred M. Brown a week ago. These
charges were sworn to and set forth the reasons why TT. S.
Commissioner A. J. Adams is unworthy of public confidence
and unfitted to hold a judicial position. It the conduct of his
office and in other ways he is charged with many irregularities
and the violation of the IT. S. statutes.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
And now they are making the effort in Congress to cut out
the appropriation of even two millions for the start of Alaska
railroads. This action gives color to the report that was made
when the railroad bill originally passed, that many Represen
tatives and Senators would vote for the measure expecting that
its provisions would be killed when the effort was later made
to secure appropriations.
Tf the report be true that the new District Attorney for
the First division is “dry” there should be consolation in the
fact that there are enough drink emporiums in Juneau to
amply allow the distinguished southerner to “wet his whistle,”
at least once in a while.
There is a strong probability that the “floating court”
will not make its annual pilgramige to the far westward this
summer. At least not on a government revenue cutter.
Wonder whether that report of the Alaska Engineering
Commission will be given to the public before Secretary Lane
leaves next Monday for the San Francisco exposition.
The Seward Gateway says that “Cordova is paying for a
special representative at Washington to prove that railroads
in other parts of the world are failures and frosts.” We think
that our contemporary must be mistaken, as there is certainly
no occasion for Cordova to maintain a representative at the
national capital. Usually the lobbyists there are looking after
their own particular interests or aspirations, and to knock
other railroads would be the height of folly.
Negotiations now in progress between the federal authori
ties and railway representatives indicate that the government
i •• likely to acquire existing railroads, with termini at both
( ordova and Seward, in addition to constructing other short
lines that may tap the coast, including the Shi]) Creek road to
the Matanuska coal fields by the way of Cook Iniet.—Post
Intelligencer. The above sounds reasonable and we are willing
to let it go at that.
No reactionary is enthusiastic enough to bring Joe Cannon
out for President until these charges about buying votes in
Danville are fully investigated.
Mexico might relieve itself of the pressure on its lists of
possible ex-Presidents by establishing a literacy test for that
column.
Next week the members of the Territorial Legislature willl
begin to gather at Juneau and lay their wires for the transac
tion of business that will commence on Monday, March 1st.
The happiest victims of the war are those who exercised
judicious knowledge of the climates in which they are to be
interned. Almost any man could tell how much better it would
be to pass the winter in Puerto Rico or Hawaii than in St.
Michael or Iceland.
Fairbanks how has an active woman’s Civic Club and the
members are vieing with the men to do everything possible to
add to the general attractiveness of the metropolis of the
Tanana valley.
Falcon Joslin struck the nail on the head when he long ago
expressed the opinion that the fight for the Alaska railroads
was not over with the passing of the original bill.
The British statement that the thereat of destruction of
commerce by German submarines will be silenced by
destroying the submarines would have been a good way to
silence the threat before it started.
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A MERITORIOUS MEASURE
The Alaska Development Board that Secretary Lane is
anxious to have established for Alaska would undoubtedly
prove of great advantage to this territory. And there is a
general hope that before many years a competent board of
experienced men will be directing the multitudinous affairs of
the federal departments, as applied to Alaska, fropi a ceptral
headquarters in the territory. But the administration months,
ago decided not to push this project at this session of Congress.
It may be a couple of years before the sentiment can be worked
up so as to assure favorable action upon the subject bv
Congress. The tendency of the bill is not only to have officials
right on the ground to do those things that a half dozen
departments at Washington now perform in a dilatory and
complex sort of wav, but to also have some Alaskans on the
board. The fact that some incompetent men may apply for
place on the board should not discourage Alaskans from giving
a hearty support to the measure that is earnestly desired by
both President Wilson and Secretary Lane.
PRESIDENT EAGER TO SEE ALASKA
The Town Councils of Juneau, Skagway, Cordova and
other cities extended invitations to President Wilson to visit
this northland this summer. Governor Strong also urged the
President to extend his trip north. In answer to the latter the
governor received a letter from the President in which he says:
“Your telegram of January 28th, inviting me in the name
ot the people of Alaska to visit Alaska when I come to the
Pacific Coast, has given me a great deal of pleasure. You may
be sure that if it were possible for me to arrange such a trip 1
would do so, for I have an eager desire to see Alaska. I do not
know at this writng whether it will be possible o'r not, but I am
none the less deeply appreciative of your courtesy.”
As a result of work extending over three years, Captain
Lukens of the coast and geodetic survey recently reported the
mapping of a channel opening the way to the navigation of the
second greatest river in Alaska, the Kuskokwim, Submerged
flats in the delta of the river extend 100 miles out to sea, and
the lack of knowledge of these shoals prevented access to the
Kuskokwim valley from the coast. This river flows for 600
miles through a territory valuable for its mining, fishing and
agricultural resources.
SERIAL 01697
Notice of Application for Patent for
The Minneapolis Lode Mining- Claim
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA, July 20, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose Post Office address Is
Valdez, Alaska, has filed an application
for patent for the "Minneapolis" lodt
mining claim, situated in the Chitina,
formerly Valdez, mining and recording
district. District of Alaska, being min
eral survey No. 906, said lode 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. 5,251.60
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 COO 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. W., Long.
148 deg., 46 rain. vV. on the rugged ir
regular slope of a mountain facing
east toward Nugget Creek a tributary
of the Kuskillana River, about ;;i 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 is
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
ror the Valdez recording precinct, ;n
iook — of locations, at page — and
lire notice of amended location is of
record in the office of the recorder for
ilhitina recording precinct in Book 4
if Locations at Page 226.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the mining ground, veins, lode,
••remises or any portion thereof, here
inabove named and described, so sur
veyed, platted and applied for, are here
sy notified that, unless their adverse
rlaims are filed according to law and
!tie regulations thereunder, within the
lime prescribed by law unri regulations,
with the Register of the United States
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, they will
le barred by virtue of the provisions
if said statutes, and of the law in such
:ase 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 lie published in the Chitina
Leader, n newspaper of general circu
lation published at Cnittna, Alaska, for
the period of sixty days
C. R. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22. 1914.
Last publication, February 23, lit! 5.
SERIAL 01698
Notice of Application for Patent for
The Frank 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 Hay -Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postofllce address is
Valdez, Alaska, has filed an application
for patent for the Franklin, Franklin
No. 2, and Franklin No. 3 lode mining
claims, situated in the Chttina, 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 belojv:
Franklin
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
R. Min. Mon. No. 31, Valdez series,
bears N. 29 deg. 38 rain., 50 see., VV.
327.15 feet dist.; thence N. 27 deg., 12
rain, 13. 600 teet to cor. No. 2, variation
34 deg. E. witness cor. to cor. No.
2 is set at 311 feet, because impractic
able to set true cor; thence from true
cor. No. 2, N. 62 deg., 48 min. W. 1,180
teet to cor. No. 3; tins cor. not set;
witness cor. hears N 27 deg., 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 of
Franklin No. 2 lode claim; witness cor. I
set at 468 feet, thence from true cor. j
No. 4, R. 62 deg., 48 min., 13. 1,180 feet ,
to cor. No. 1, the place of beginning-, 1
containing 16.254 acres.
Franklin Wo. 2
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
■S. Min. Mon. No. 31, hears R. 7;i deg.,
j 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 R. 27 deg ,
12 min., W. 600 feet to cor. No. 4. iden
tical witli cor. No. 1 of Franklin No. 3
lode: thence R. 62 deg., 48 min., E.
1,382.40 feet to cor. No. 1, the place of
| beginning, containing 19.041 acres.
j-ranKiin wo. 3
Beginning at cor. Xo. 1, identical
with cor. Xo. 4 Franklin Xo. 2 lutlc,
wnence U. S. Min. Mon. Xo. 31, bears
S. 67 deg., 16 min., 10 sec., E. 2.-U5.fi
feet. diet, thence X. 27 deg., 12 min.,
E. 600 feet to cor. Xo. 2, identical with
cor. X’o. 3 Franklin Xo. 2 lode; thene.
X. 62 deg., 48 min., \\. 1,106.6 feet to
cor. Xo. 3, variation 31 deg. . cor. not
set;'witness cor. set at 814.60 feet.;
thence lt-om tiue cor. Xo. 3, S. 57 deg.
i5 min. W. 301.30 feet to cor. Xo. 4, ul
■dge of Kluvesna river; variation 3]
deg. E. thence S. 27 deg. 12 min. W.
340 feet to cor. No. 5; thence S. 62 deg..
48 min., E. 1,260.05 feet to cor. Xo. )
the place of beginning, containing
16.838 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 ICotsina river and on the face
oi the. mountain side facing west
toward the Kluvesna Ilivor and Galcier
a tributary of the Kluvesna River
lying about opposite the point where
lue Kluvesna River issues from urniei
the glacier.
The general course of the lode
X. 62 deg'., 48 min. \V. die number ol
feet claimed on the lode are: on the
Franklin, 1,180 feet, on the Franklin
No. 2, 1,382.40 feet and on the Franklin
Xo. 3, 1,260.05 feel. Surface ground
300 feet on eacli side lode line.
The notices of location of said claims
are of record in llie office of the
recorder for the Valdez Recording Pre
cinct, and tile 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 tile mining ground, veins, lodes,
premises, or any portion thereof, here
inabove named and described, so sur
veyed, platted and applied for, are
hereby uolified that, unless their ad
verse claims are filed according to law
and tlie regulations thereunder, within
the time prescribed by law and regula
tions, witli tlie Register of the United
States Land office ut Juneau, Alaska,
they will be barred, hy virtue of tlie
provisions of said statutes and of tlie
law in such case made and provided.
GALENA BAY MINING COMPANY.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 7, 1914.
Why Not Irtvest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
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?
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 cii'cula
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.
UEBIAE 01699
Notice of Application for Patent for
The Mullen, Angie and Sport
Eode Mining Claims.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay Mining Company, a coi
poration, whose postotfice address is
Valdez, Alaska, lias filed an application
for patent for the "Mu.’len," "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 as follows, magnetic variation
in survey being noted as 31 deg. M., to
>vit:
“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,
djst. 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 min., W.
1599.50 feet to cor. No. 4, identical with
| cor. No. 2 of Angle lode claim; thence
j S. 29 deg., 57 min., W. 1,470.20 feet to
! cor. No. 1, the place of beginning, con
| aining 19.570 acres.
“Sport” Eode Claim.
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence IT.
S. Min. Mon. No. 30, bears S. 49 deg.,.
50 min., E. 96.59 feet diet., identical
with cor. No. 1 of Mullen lode; thence
S. 10 deg., 17 min., W„ 1,464.50 feet to
cor. No. 2; thence S. 79 deg., 43 min.,
E. 598 feet to cor. No. 3; thence N. ')
<leg., 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
iieginning, containing 19.779 acres, less
1.335 acres in conflict with .Mullen
claim, net area Sport claim, 18.444
acres. ,
“Anglo” Eode Claim.
beginning at cor. No. 1, on line 1-4
of Mullen claim, whence U. S. Min. !
Mon. No. 30 bears S. 23 deg., 10 mill.,
VV. 804.00 feet dist. thence N. 23 dtg.,
57 min., 13. 088 feet to cor. No. 2,
identical with cor. No. 1 Mullen lode;
thence N. 3 deg., 17 min., VV. 812 feet
to cor. No. 3; thence N. 30 deg., 17 min.,
VV. 000 feet to eor. No. 4; tut nee S. 0
deg., 17 min., 13. 812 feet to cor. No. 5;
thence S. 20 deg., 57 tnin., VV. 088 feet
to cor. No. 0; thence S. 50 deg., 17 min.,
13. 600 feet to cor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 18.043 acres.
Located in latitude 61 deg., 43 min.,
N.: longitude 143 deg., 40 min., VV.,
about 10 miles NR. of Chitina in the
region of the headwaters of Coppei
Greek, a tributary of the Kotsina Klver
from the south.
As nearly as can be ascertained, the
lodes in said claim extend as follows;
trom point of discovery; Mullen lode S.
it) deg., -,3 min., VV. 748.55 feet and N.
30 deg., 43 min., R. 721.65 feet. Sport
lode. S. 0 deg., 30 mill., VV. 1,465 feet
ind the Angle lode, N. 20 deg., 57 min..
13. 688 feet to angle and thence N. !>
deg., 17 min., W. 812 xeet.
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 locations at pages 230, 238
and 240 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 such
regulations, with the Hegister of the
United States Land office at Juneau,
Alaska, they will be barred by virtue
of the provisions of said statutes, and
of the law In such case made and
provided.
C. II. WALK13R, Register.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1014.
Tt is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice be published in the Chltina
Deader, a newspaper of general circula
tion published at Cliitina, Alaska, for
the period of sixty days.
C. B. WADKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914.
Dast publication, February 23, 1915.
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