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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1914. .
THE SHUSHANNA MINING DECISION
The opinion rendered by Judge Brown yesterday in the
Shushanna mining cases, upon the power of attorney require
ments of the Wickersham act is a splendidly written contri
bution to the law of mining. It reveals an extensive knowledge
and keen appreciation of the conditions in the Alaska interioi.
This opinion will find its place among the mining law classics
of Sawyer and Field and those early western judges whose
decisions developed what is now the “common law of mining.”
They had few precedents to guide them, for conditions
in California and the golden west were so entirely different.
They established as an underlying principle, however, that the
prospector must be treated liberally. The first discoverer must
be given his reward. Frequently he was in remote regions
without means of communication with the outside woild.
Consequently he was neither informed nor equipped to comply
strictly with the letter of the law. A strict construction of his
acts would probably deprive him of his discovery in favor of
a later arrival who*would come better informed as to the law
because he had spent his time in the towns instead of in
the wilds.
Here in Alaska these liberal provisions have sometimes
been abused. The power of attorney abuse became especially
objectionable. The Wickersham law was passed to correct
this abuse. Its requirements are strict and must be observed,
and Judge Brown holds, in his construction of this new law,
that the power of attorney must be recorded in order to make
such location valid. However, it makes no difference whether
it is recorded before or after the discovery and other acts of
location, if all the acts necessary to a valid location are fully
performed before the rights of others intervene.
It could make no difference to to the plaintiffs in those
cases whether Billy James had recorded his power of attorney
before he staked the ground or afterwards, for it was all done
anyway before plaintiffs arrived in the diggings. The question
was not decided as to whether James was excused from
recording his power of attorney because the new recorder had
not yet arrived and established the recording office. The
decision is that James recorded in time anyway because he had
completed all acts of location and recorded his notices and
power of attorney before any intervening rights.
EXTENSIVE MINING DEVELOPMENT
James J. Godfrey, president of the Mother Lode Copper
Mines Company, who has just returned to Cordova from New
York, gives news of a very gratifying nature concerning the
present and future activities of his company. Extensive work
is planned this year, which will involve the expenditure of a
couple of hundred thousand dollars, and which it is expected
will place the Mother Lode in the list of big shippers. Presi
dent Godfrey’s company will install machinery to quickly
drive many hundred of feet of tunnels. A wagon road will be
built from the end of the tram, a little over a mile from the
mine, to the railroad at Shushanna Junction. This will permit
of ore shipment on a regular scale after July next. And
President Godfrey gives the further gratifying information
that he has assurance from the head officials of the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway that a spur of 13 miles would
be built to the Mother Lode property during the summer of
1915. This is an indication that the railroad company proposes
to build to such mines as develop tonnage. And it is expected
that several of such copper properties will be developed within
the next two or three years. The Mother Lode Company made
a rcent shipment of over 200 tons of ore to the Tacoma smelter,
that netted about 60 per cent copper, and returned the company
$25,000. Another shipment will soon be made to the smelter.
This is an instance of what the company is doing and it is
expected that within the next two or three years several good
producing mines will be shipping from the interior. And by
that time it is likely that a smelter will have been established
at Cordova to take care of the copper ore produced in the
world’s greatest copper belt.
COAL PROSECUTION^ TO STOP
The gratifying information comes from Washington that
Attorney General McReynolds does not* intend to follow the
Hnchot methods of persecuting the men who located coal
claims in Alaska and then honestly tried to comply with the
complex rulings of the interior department. A number of coal
claimants have been indicted by reason of the sleuth methods
pursued by the two former national administrations. Cases
were worked up against honest men to implicate the claimants
and confuse the records. As a result, and through the Fisher
policy of not only desiring to cancel all coal locations, but
also to send the locators to the penitentiary, many suits were
tiled. But the trial of indicted men has not reflected credit
upon the government’s policy and the various jury acquitals
have undoubtedly x’esulted in the change of policy just
announced by the attorney general.
Katalla is still waiting patiently to learn whether the new
coal line to the Bering river fields will run direct from Mile 38
over a summit, or whether, it will take the more easy grade
via Katalla. Here’s hoping that it will be the latter route.
SEBXAX, 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 Lodeb,
Mineral Survey No. 943, situated in
the Forty-Mile Mining District of
Alaska.
Hotlca 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, 1*72, 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 tne 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, whicli 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 tiie 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,
frojn which point U. S. L. M. No. 7
bears North 49 deg. 13 min. 58 sec.
West 3313.83 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 corner
thereof; thence North 73 deg. 03 min.
West 1500 feet to Corner No. 4 of the
Liberty Lode, w-hich is identical with
Corner No. 3 of the Copper Prince Lode
and on the same course 1500 feet to
Corner No. 4 of the Copper Prince
Lode which is identical with Corn* 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. 5
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 front whicl. 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 with Corner No.
4 of the Gravity Lode, and running
thence North 25 deg. 55 min. East 610
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. 30 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.
BVUTAT. SO. 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.
Hotice 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, 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
feet along the Washington Lode, 942
tiet 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 Rock Lode, with
surface ground 300 feet or less in
width on each side of the center of
such lodes or veins of quartz 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
claim, and by the Field Notes of such
official survey on file with the Register
of the Lanu Office 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 saiil 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 Ttears 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 Iatde, 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 Celtic
Lode South 56 deg. 50 min. East 1075
feet to Corner No. 2, the Northeast cor
ner thereof: thence South 10 deg. 90
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
I No. 2 of the Bear’s Nest Lode: thence
South 10 deg. 00 min. West 600 feet to
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 me nears .xesi
Lode, which is identical with Corner
No. 3 of the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode, and
from which point Comer 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 West 600
j feet distant, and from said Corner No.
1 of the Bear’s Nest Lode and Corner
| No. 2 of the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode IT.
S. L. if. No. 6 bears North 53 deg. 20
min. West 2147.8 feet distant, and run
ning thence from said Corner No. 4 ot'
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
Corner 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. East.
The area of each location is as fol
lows:
Washington Lode .19.283 Acres
Red Fox Lode .12.109 Acres
Black Diamond Lode ....18.159 Acres
Celtic Lode .12.706 Acres
Colley Lode .28.661 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 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,
*17 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17. 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
SERIAL HO. 01638.
UNITED STATEa 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.
Hotlca 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 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 688.5
feet along the Wolverine Lode, and
1,250 feet along the Mamoth Lode, with |
surface ground S00 feet or *■* J width J
on each side of the center of said lodes
or veins of quartz or other rock in
place, bearing gold, 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 tne Register
of the Land Office 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.
N„ Longitude 142 deg. 10 min. W.,
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
2% 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 i» the
Northwest corner thereof, and from
which point United States Location
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. East 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. East 1250 feet to corner ;
No. 2 thereof, which is the Southwest
corner thereof: thence North 79 deg. 29
min. East 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 the
Wolverine LQde, which is the North
east corner thereof; thence South 79
deg. 29 min. West 560 feet to Corner
No. 1 of the WTolverine 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. East.
The area oi each location is as fol
lows:
W'olverine Lode . 6.130 Acres'
Mamoth Lode .13.767 Acres
Total acreage Mineral
Survey No. 941.19.897 Acres
This notice is issued from the
United States Land office at Juneau,
Alaska, this 27th day of January, A. iJ.
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. 595 bears S. 2 JO
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. 596 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 n egister 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
case 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 Chitina, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First publication, Jan. 21, T914.
Last publication, March 25, 1914.
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