The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1915.
THIS YEAR’S RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
The dispatches received yesterday from Washington were
not of a nature to particularly please the people of Cordova.
We had hoped that a sufficiently large appropriation would
have been asked so as to permit the government to make better
ments on the Copper River & Northwestern railway this
summer while the physical valuation was being made. Assum
ing of course that the President would announce his intention
to take over the road, with the price to he agreed upon after
government appraisers had completed their work.
But tlje small amount of $2,000,000 will be scarcely more
than sufficient to build the road from Ship Creek, to the
Matanuska coal fields. And enough lias been given out at
Washington to indicate that this stretch of road will be com
menced so soon as navigation opens on Cook’s Inlet. Ship
Creek is a point that would be on the main line if the road had
its coast terminus at either Seward or Portage Bay, and was
run from there to Matanuska, Susitna \ alley, Kuskokwim or
Fairbanks.
Thus it may he seen that the $2,000,000 asked for by Secre
tary Lane for the ensuing year’s work would be scarcely more
than enough to pay for the construction of the coal line, so
that very little may be expected to be expended in any other
part of Alaska until more money is provided by Congressional
appropriation. It was hoped that at least $5,000,000 would he
asked for from the present Congress.
LETTING POLITICS IN
A New York financier appearing before the Federal
Industrial Commission in its investigation of the great benevo
lent foundations, opposed the suggestion of state or federal
control or participation in them, on the ground that it would
“let politics in.”
Now without discussing the advisability or inadvisability
of “letting politics*in,” there is a broader aspect that deserves
thought. Why should it be so readily taken for granted, everv
where and every time, that “politics” must be kept out? Why
must politics be an Islunael, a thing abhorred and contaminat
ing, from which decent people withdraw their skirts? Yet
we intrust to polities the management and control of all our
governmental affairs, national, state and local. Is there not
some sort of contradition in this popular attitude toward
politics, at one moment decrying it as unclean and vile and at
the next turning over to it our most vital affairs touching
every individual, every home and every business in the land ?
Why must politics be so abhorrent? Why should the mere
suggestion of “letting politics In” seem an all sufficient argu
ment for keeping it out? Granted that politics has earned its
bad name, why should it be allowed to continue to merit it?
Who is responsible for it—those who, through popular indif
ference or the gullibility of voters led by the nose by partisan
politicians for their own profit, have made politics what it is,
or the people whose indifference and gullibility has permitted
them to make it so? And if there are so many fields in which
the mere thought of “letting politics in” alarms the public, is
it not time for the people to begin a more energetic movement
to make politics worthy of managing the business of city,
state and nation?
THE RAILROAD FROM SHIP CREEK
A closer examination of the map shows Ship Creek to i>e
,iurt within Knik Arm, Cook’s Inlet. The distance from there
north to Matanuska Junction is about the same distance that
it is from the Junction to the coal fields. The Alaska Railroad
('ommission says this distance is 38 miles and that it would
cost about a million and a quarter dollars to build it. On that
basis the 74 miles from Ship Creek to the Matanuska coal fields
would cost about two and a half million to build. If the
appropriation of $2,000,000 asked for by Secretary Lane is
granted it will be ample to pay for all the construction on this
new line during the ensuing year. ,
It now looks as though the Alaska Copper Corporation
_ proposed to establish another big shipping mine of rich copper
within the next year or two. Before many years it will be
necessary to have a number of branch line railroads in the
Copper River country to transport ore from the numerous
shipping mines to the large smelter that will then likely be
located at Cordova.
Ship Creek is only navigable about seven months in the
year and for that reason it is not likely that the government
would contemplate making it a permanent coast terminus for
a railroad. During the winter months the ice in Cook’s Inlet
prevents steamers from getting very far up.
Jack Johnson is declared as an undesirable. And he soon
intends to return from Europe and fight a fight at Juarez,
Mexico. And Uncle Sam promises to be lurking about and if
Jack crosses the danger line into the United States there is
promise that a bunch of deputy marshals will be there to grab
him. If Cordova’s deputy were not too busy looking after the
undesirables in this section he might be spared to go south and
assist in the capture of Jack. , « ^
CHANGE IN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE
As yet Guy C. Brubaker, assistant district attorney for
the Third division, has not tendered his resignation. The
latest report from Valdez is that he will hold the office until
after the next term of court, which convenes on February 15.
If he resigns it is probable that it will not be before May or
June. It is further stated that it is the present plan of District
Attorney Spence to name Judge O. P. Hubbard as his
assistant. And if the change is not made for two or three
months it will permit the Judge to serve in the next legislature,
which convenes on March 1. He was elected a member of the
Senate at the last election.
With regard .to the proposition to give each of our ex
Presidents a separate battleship to the canal opening, it seems
all right if they do not go together. Fortunately, we have
battleships enough to carry them separately. It might speak
better for the charitable judgment of our polities if they were
friendly enough to like to travel together. ^But if not. we might
as well use our battleships. And if the Presidents don’t want
them, why not give Alaskans a chance?
Senator Lodge asserts that the Panama Canal is “miser
ably and most inadequately protected.” Colonel Goethals says
that it is fully protected. The public will pick its favorite
authority according to its political predilections. But, judging
from previous expenditures, it might be interesting to learn
what it will cost to protect the can&l according to the Senator’s
taste. And then that amount might be better appropriated for
the building of Alaskan railroads.
After all those promises from Washington about the
report of the Alaska Engineering Commission being about
ready to give to the public, we are reminded of the small boy
watching liis companion eating an apple and anxiously‘waiting
for the core, and then to be told, “there ain’t no core.”
A Fairbanks contemporary claims that practically both
houses of the coming legislature will be controlled by men
elected on Wickersham ticket'. Delegate Wickersham will be
there to confer with them, and if they can agree and so desire,
they will have an opportunity for making local and federal
legislation harmonize for the good of the territory.
And the fact remains that the winter is well nigh drawing
to an end and not yet has traffic on the Copper River & North
western Railway been interfered with.
SERIAL 01G97
Notice of Application for Patent fo:
The Minneapolis Lode Mining diaim
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 tiled an application
for patent for the “Minneapolis" lode
mining claim, situated in the Chltinr.
formerly Valdez, mining and recording
district, District of Alaska, being min
eral survey No. 906, said lede mining
claim being described as follows, tc
wit: Magnetic variation JO deg., 3(1
min. E.
Beginning at cor. No. l, whence U. S
Min. .slon. No. 19, Valdez series, bears
S. 65 deg., 14 min, 20 sec. E. 5,251.5(1
feet dist. Corners Nos. 2 and 3, Blue
Bell and Pennsylvania lode claims,
respectively, sur. No. 892, bear N. 4S
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., W,
1,492 feet, to cor No. 3; thence S. 61
deg., 46 min., E. 594 feet where witness
i 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., 13. 1,492 feet to cor. No. 1, thf
place of beginning, containing 20.551
acres. Lat. 61 deg., 40 min. W.. Long.
14« deg., 46 min. sV. on the rugged Ir
regular slope of a mountain facing
east toward Nugget Creek a tributary
of the Kuskillana River, about % mile
W. 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
book — of locations, at page — and
(he 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 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 tlieir adverse
claims are tiled according to law and
the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law and regulations,
witli 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 be published in the Chitlns
Leader, a newspaper of general circu
lation published at Cuitlnh, Alaska, foi
the period of sixty days
4 C. B. WALKER, Register.
First publication, December 22, 1914
Last publication, February 23, 1^15.
SERIAL 01698
Notice of Application for Patent foi
The Prank in, Franklin No. 3 and
Franklin No. 3 Lode Claiihe
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA, July 20, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that thi
Galena Bay Mining Company, a cor
poration, whose postofflee address is
Valdez, Alaska, has filed an applicatior
for patent for the Franklin, Franklir
No. 2. ami Franklin No. 3 lode minim
claims, situated in the Chitina, for
merly Valdez mining and recording dis
trict, Alaska, being mineral survey No
908, said lode mining claims beim
described as follows, towlt: Magnetic
variations of survey, being as noted 'r
description below:
Franklin
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
S. Min. Mon. No. 31, Valdez series,
bears N. 29 deg. 38 min., 50 sec., VV.
327.15 feet dist.: thence N. 27 deg., 12
min, E. 600 feet 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; tlunce from true
cor. No. 2, N. 62 deg., 48 min. VV. 1,180
feet to cor. No. 3; this cor. not set;
! witness cor. bears N. 27 deg., 12 min.,
1 E. 7.50 feet. dist. varir ion hero 35 deg.,
30 min. E.; thence fro to tri> cor. No.
3, S. 27 deg. 12 min, VV. 60) feet, to
cor. No. 4, identical witli cor. No. 1 of
Franklin No. 2 lode claim: witness cor.
set at 468 feet, thence from true cor
No. 4, S. 62 deg., 48 min., E. 1,180 feet
to cor. No. 1, the place of beginning,
containing 16.254 acres.
Franklin No. 2
Beginning at cor. No. 1, whence U.
S. Min. Mon. No. 31, bears S. 73 deg.,
| 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., VV. 1,382.40 feet to cor. No. 3,
variation here 34 deg., thence S. 27 deg.,
12 min., VV. 600 feet to cor. No. 4, iden
tical witli cor. No. 1 of Franklin No. 3
lode: thence S. 62 deg., 48 min., E.
1,382.40 feet to cor. No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing 19.041 acres.
Franklin No. 3
Beginning at cor. No. 1, identical
with cor. No. 4 Franklin No. 2 lode,
wuence U. S. Min. Mon. No. 31, hears
S. 67 deg., 16 min., 10 sec., E. 2,295.5
feet. dist. thence N. 27 deg., 12 min,
E. 600 feet to cor. No. 2, identical will
cor. No. 3 franklin No, 2 lode; them.
■V 62 deg., 48 min., VV. 1,106.6 feet to
cor. No. 3, variation 31 deg. g,. cor. not
set; witness cor. set at 814.60 feet.,
thence irom true cor. No. 3, S. 57 de^
16 min. VV. 301.90 feet to cor. No. 4, at
•dge of Kluvesna river;. variation 31
leg. E. thence S. 27 deg. 12 min. VV
340 feet to cor. No. 5; thence S. 62 deg.,
48 min., E. 1,260.05 feel to cor. No. 1
tlie 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 nortlipast of
the town of Chitina and 4 miles nortli
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
tne Kluvesna River issues from under
the glacier.
The general course of the lode It
N. 62 deg., 48 min. VV. the 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 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 Chitin;
recording precinct, in book 4 of record:
of locations, at pages 224, 226 and 227
respectively.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the milling 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, witli tne 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.
GALENA RAY MINING COMPANY.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 7, 1914,
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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.
SERIAL 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 tu re by given that the
Galena Lay Mining Company, a coi
poration, whose postoffice audress is
Valdez, Alaska, has filed an application
for patent lor the "M u.’Ien,'’ ‘•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. 14., 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., 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., XV. 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 lb
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
cor. No. 2; thence S. 79 deg.. 43 min.,
E. 598 feet to cor. No. 3; thence N. 9
deg., 30 min., E.t 1,465.40 feet to cor.
No. 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 with Mullen
claim, net area Sport claim, 18.444
acres.
“Anglo” Loda Claim.
beginning at cor. No. 1, on line 1-4
of Mullen claim, whence U. S. Min.
Moil. 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 min., VV. 812 feet
to cor. No. 3; thence N. 59 deg., 17 min..
W. 600 feet to cor. No. 4; tneiice S. 9
deg., 17 min., E. 812 feet to cor. No. 5;
thence S. 29 deg., 57 min., VV. 688 feet
to cor. No. 6; thence S. 59 deg., 17 min.,
E. 600 feet to cor. No. 1, the place ol
beginning, containing 18.043 acres.
Located in latitude 61 deg., 43 mill.,
N.; longitude 143 deg., 46 min., VV..
about 19 miles NE. of Chitina In the
region of the headwaters of Coppei
Creek, a tributary of the Kotsina biver
from the south.
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., VV. 748.55 feet and N.
30 deg., 43 min., E. 721.65 feet. Sport
lode. S. 9 deg., 30 min., W.-^l,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 feet.
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
inaDove named and described, so sur
veyed. platted and applied for. are
thereby 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 tiie Register of the
United States Land oince 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 be published in the Chitina
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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