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CHITINA, ALASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23,1915.
GENEROUS RESPONSE FROM FAIRBANKS
The recent contributions in Fairbanks of European war
charities is something really remarkable and certainly to the
great credit of the metropolis of Interior Alaska. Over $4,000
in actual cash was raised and forwarded to the several Belgium
and Red Cross funds. They may talk all they please about the
bickering and disagreements and political fights in Fiarbanks,
but the raising of this money determines to a certainty that
the women and men of that community have red blood in their
corpuscles and have hearts that beat in harmony with love
and charity for the suffering and needy of foreign lands.
Fairbanks has done herself proud in her liberal contribution,
and at a time when the average person might well think that
conditions warrant the keeping of all money at home, where it
is also badly needed. The contributions in many instances
meant sacrifice and denial, and for that reason is the greater
the glory of it.
THE OLD BUGABOO BOBS UP
The news from Washington today is not of a particularly
gratifying nature to the people of the Copper River country.
The opinion seems to prevail at the national capital that the
old thread-worn imaginary Guggenheim bugaboo is still
infecting some of the polticians. And for that reason there is
a disposition upon the part of some of the legislators to influ
ence the President against the purchase by the government of
the Copper River ’& Northwestern railroad. Indications
strongly point to Secretary Lane’s favorable consideration of
the purchase, but during his absence efforts are being directed
toward creating a different impression on the President. But
in any event a definite announcement cannot be much longer
delayed and it is reported that the selection of route will be
made by the President about the time Congress is to adjourn.
It will be a relief to know the verdict, whether it be favorable
or otherwise. If it should be against taking over the Cordova
road it would not be surprising to learn that the Worgan
Guggenheim Syndicate intended themselves to build a branch
line to the Bering River coal fields. That would mean coal
bunkers, coke ovens and a smelter in the vicinity of Cordova.
And that’s all that would be necessary to make Cordova one
of the great towns of Alaska.
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WHERE ROAD APPROPRIATION IS NEEDED
An effort is being made by Senator Jones to have the |
appropriation for Alaska roads and trails increased from
$125,000 to $200,000. He has been successful in having several
Alaska items in the sundry civil bill increased over the
amounts passed by the House, and that should be encouraging
in his present efforts. The people in the Copper River country
have never received much benefit from the government road |
building but they do feel that there is something coming in the
way of a bridge over the Nizina river. True a couple of years
ago a bridge was constructed but it happened to have been
placed in the wrong location and before it became of any
practical benefit the high waters carried it away. And these
waters sure are treacherous as many a life has paid the penalty
for trying to ford the stream, while scores of horses have been
swept away. A substantial bridge conveniently placed would
give access from McCarthy to the great mining section of the
Cliisana, the White River, the headwaters of the Cliitina,
Chittitu. Dan and other creeks. The additional appropriation
now asked for by Senator Jones, if granted, should assure the
construction of a new bridge across the Nizina, although it
really is deserved out of the $000,000 fund that will in any
■event be available to the Alaska Road Commission. In addi
tion to the Congressional appropriation the people of the
territory, through the Alaska fund of revenues derived from
licenses outside of incorporated towns, contribute from
$170,000 to $200,000 annually.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The cable repair ship Burnside now spends its time sailing
between Southeastern Alaska and Seattle. So soon as an
“interruption” is repaired the ship will sail for Seattle. Then
after a few days in that port there will be another break in the
cable and away north again goes the Burnside. Maybe some
day there will be a government repair ship stationed in
Alaska. It certainly would save a lot of delay and expense.
The national debts of the warring nations have been
increased one-fourth in the first six months of the war. And
after the toll in blood lias been paid the bills for cold hard
coin will just be coming in.
George W. Perkins continues to exude information on how
to keep food. But what the unemployed reallv seeks to learn
is how to get it.
Judge Frazier says that it is the intention to build up a
strong Republican organization in Alaska, but that it will be
done by the rank and file of the party and not by the old-time
bosses who so recently succeeded in wrecking the party. This
idea of throwing political bosses who work only for their
personal interests and advancement, into the discard, is
No one will materially dissent from Mr. Bryan as to the
existence of “deserving Democrats.” Of what they deserve,
however, there may he the most radical differences of opinion.
At least there is in Alaska.
certainly becoming popular throughout Alaska. And Cordova
is in advance of the procession.
A FUND PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT
In discussing the question of idle men who are out ot
employment and without the means of sustenance, attention
might properly be called to a provison that the government has
made for unfortunate and suffering men in this territory. The
revenues which are derived from business and trade license
outside of incorporated towns are paid into what is known as
the Alaska fund. During the year the total sum was over
$285,706. The road fund received 65 per cent of this, the
schools 25 per cent and 10 per cent for the relief of indigents.
Nearly one-half of the total revenues were paid in from the
Third division, and the 10 per cent for the indigent fund for last
year would aggregate $13,000. We do not know what amount
is now available from this fund, but it would seem reasonable
to suppose that it might be drawn upon to provide for the
wants and suffering of Alaskans who are temporarily sojourn
ing in Cordova, Valdez, Seward or other communities of the
division. Most of the actual want is not experienced by th>
old residents of the towns but by men of short residence. The
money from the indigent funds in the respective divisions can
only be expended by the Judge of the federal court. Conse
quently in the Third division the duty devolves upon Judge
Brown to give relief where it can be shown it is urgently
needed. This is a matter that we suggest be taken up
immediately by the Town Council or the Cordova Chamber of
Commerce. Let it be ascertained who are the needy, their
actual condition, and have the facts presented to his Honor at
Valdez. Under existing conditions it is difficult for the town
of Cordova to care for the many men who temporarily come
here or are simply passing through, and are without money or
the means to earn a livelihood, or who are ill and unable to
work if it were furnished them.
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SEBIAL 01697
Notice of Application for Patent for
The Minneapolis Loue Mining Claim
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA, July 2U, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose Post Office address is
* aldez, Alaska, lias hied an application
for patent for the "Minneapolis'' lode
mining claim, situated in the Chitina,
formerly Valdez, mining anil recording
district. District of Alaska, being min
eral survey No. 906, said lo ie mining
claim being described as follows, lo
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. Tiience
N. 61 deg., 46 min. \V. 600 feet to cor.
No. 2; tiience S. 28 deg., 14 min., \V.
1,492 feet, to cor No. 3; tiience S. t'l
deg., 46 min., E. 594 feet Where witness
cor. to cor. No. 4 is set, tiience to cor.
No. 4 at 600 feet from cor. No. i.
tiience from cor. No. 4, N. 28 deg., i4
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 ruin. IV. on the rugged ir
regular slope of a mountain lacing
east toward Nugget Creek a tributary
of tlie Kuskillana River, about mile
\V. 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 ■:«
1,492 feet. The surface ground is 300
feet on eacli 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
liook — 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 all persons claiming ad
versely the milling 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
be 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 he published in the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper of general circu
lation published at Cnltina, Alaska, for
the period of sixty days
C. B. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914.
Last publication, February 23, 1913.
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, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postoffice 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 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. So. 1, whence U.
S. Min. Mon. Xo. 31, Valdez series,
I bears N. 29 deg. 38 min., 50 sec., \V.
j 327.15 feet dist.; thence X. 27 deg., 12
j min, E. 600 feet to cor. Xo. 2, variation
| 31 deg. E. witness cor. to cor. X’o.
2 is set at 311 feet, because impraetic
| able to set true cor; thence from true
cor. Xo. 2, X. 62 deg., IS min. \V. 1,180
i feet to cor. Xo. 3: this <->r. not set;
! witness cor. bears X. 27 dot.. 12 min.,
17. 7.50 feet. (list, vaii: 'ion I • re 35 deg.,
30 min. E.; thence from true cor. Xo.
3, S. 27 deg. 12 min., V.'. 6oO feet, to
cor. X’o. 1, identical witn cor. Xo. 1 of
Franklin Xo. 2 lode claim; witness cor.
set at 168 feet,, thence from true cor.
Xo. 1, S. 62 deg.. 48 min., E. 1,180 feet
to cor. NTo. 1, the place of beginning,
containing 16.251 acres.
Franklin No. 2
Beginning at cor. Xo. 1, whence 17.
3. Min. Mon. X'o. 31, bears S. 73 deg.,
58 min , 10 sec., E. 923.59 feet dist.
thence X. 27 deg., 12 min., E. 600 feet
to cor. X’o. 2, identical with cor. Xo.
3, Franklin lode: thence X. 62 deg., 18
min., W. 1,382.10 feet to cor. Xo. 3,
variation here 34 deg., thence S. 27 deg.,
12 min., W. 600 feet to cor. Xo. 1, iden
tical with cor. So. 1 of Franklin So. 3
lode: thence S. 62 deg., 48 min., E.
1,382.10 feet to cor. Xo. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 19.011 acres.
Franklin No. 3
Beginning at cor. X'o. 1, identical
with cor. Xo. 1 Franklin Xo. 2 lode,
wuence U. 3. Alin. Alon. Xo. 31, bears
3. 67 deg., 16 min., 10 sec., E. 2,295.5
feet. , dist. thence is. 27 deg., 12 min,
E. 600 feet to cor. Xo. 2, identical will!
cor. Xo. 3 Franklin Xo. 2 lode; thence
X. 62 deg., 13 min., U. 1,106.6 teet to
cor. Xo. 3, variation 31 deg. cor. not
set; witness cor. set at 811.60 feet.;
thence from true cor. Xo. 3, S. 57 deg.
.5 min. VV. 301.90 feet to cor. No. 1, at
< dge of Kluvesna river; -. variation 31
deg. E. thence S. 27 deg. 12 min. W.
310 feet to cor. X'o. 5; thence S. 62 deg.,
18 n:in., E. 1,260.05 feet to cor. Xo. 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 1 miles north
of the Kotsina river and on the face
oi the mountain side facing west
toward tiie Kluvesna River and Galcier.
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 loile Is
X. 62 deg., 48 min. W. ihe number of
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
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 tht
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 Chititia
recording precinct, in book 4 of records
of locations, at pages 221, 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 the Register 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 suoli 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
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 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.
SEBIAL 01699
notice 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 .Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postofiice aodress is
Valdez, Alaska, has tiled an application
for patent lor 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
milling claims being particularly de
scribed as follows, magnetic variation
in survey being noted as 31 deg. H., to
.vit:
“Mullen” Claim
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U. •
S. Min. .Moil No. 30, Valdez series,
bears S. 49 deg., 50 min. E. 96.59 feet,
dist. Thence S. 59 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 N. 59 deg., 17 min., 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
or. No. 1, the place of beginning, con
aining 19.570 acres.
“Sport” Lode Claim.
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence IT. I
>. Min. Mon. No. 30. bears S. 40 deg., I
50 min., E. 96,59 feet dist., identical
with cor. No. 1 of Mullen lode; thence
S. 10 deg., 17 min., \Y., 1.464.50 feet to
'■or. No. 2; thence S. 79 deg., 43 min,
E. 598 feet to cor. No. 3: thence N. 9
leg., 20 min., E., 1.465.40 feet to cog.
N'o. 4; thence N. 79 deg., 43 min., W.
578.30 feet to cor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 19.779 acres, less
1.335 acres in conflict witli Mullen
claim, net area Sport claim, 18.444.
acres.
“Angle” Lode Claim.
Beginning at cor. No. I, on line 1-4
of Mullen claim, whence U. S. Min.
-Mon. No. 30 bears S. 23 deg., 10 min.,
W. 804.96 feet dist. thence N. 29 deg.,
57 min., E. 688 feet to cor. No. 2,
identical with cor. No. 1 Mullen lod>;
thence N. tf deg., li min., \V. 812 feet
to cor. No. 3; thence N. 59 deg., 17 min.,
W. 600 feet to cor. No. ■»; 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 oi
beginning, containing 18.043 acres.
Located 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
'.'reek, a tributary of the Kotsina Kiver
from the soutli.
As nearly as can be ascertained, the
lodes in said claim extend as follows:
from point of discovery: Mullen lode S.
30 deg., ,3 min., W. 748.55 feet and N.
30 deg., 43 min., E. 721.65 feet. Spon
lode, S. 9 deg., 30 min., W. 1,465 feet
and the Angle lode, N. 29 deg., 57 min..
E. 688 feet to angle and thence N. 9
deg., 17 min., W. 812 ieet.
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 239, 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 *h eir ad- |
verse claims are died 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 be barred by virtue
of the provisions of said statutes, and
of the law in such case made and
provided.
C. R. WALKER, Register.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau. Alaska, July 20, 1914.
It is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice be published in the Chltina ,
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. 4
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