MINERS AND OPERATORS
You can obtain at the Nugget
Office the following forms which
are carried in stock, thus avoid
ing long delays and incomplete
blanks obtained in the States.
Write or call at the Nugget Of
fice for:
Dredge Shift Reports—2 types.
Prospering Drill Field Logs.
Cold Water Thawing Logs.
Time Sheets for Employees
Proofs of Labor Banks.
Special Power of Attorney
Blanks.
Deed Forms.
Placer Location Notices.
Lode Location Notices.
Voucher Forms.
Non-Liability forms printed on
cardboard, for posting on claims
when owners lease property. 50o
each or three for $1.00
Staking of Claims
Under the law as changed a per
son may stake two claims for
himself and two under power of
attorney in any month. Under the
old law a person could stake two
for himself and 16 under power
of attorney in any month.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
i. O. O. F.
NOME LODGE NO. A-5
Meets second and fourth
Friday of each, month 8 p.m.
Odd Fellows Building
L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Meets third Monday
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
Dr. W. A. Rystrom
DENTIST
First Avenue West
Pbooe Main 22
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
Thus. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortor
CHAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Store
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
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Pioneer Water Co.
Arrange Now for Your Winter
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Spring Water.
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE.
NELSON and BULLOCK
Phone Black 44
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Wien Airlines
Activities
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June 8—In the morning PiUot
Sig Wien made an emergency
trip to Haycock to bring Fred
Chase to the Nome hospital. Dr.
Morcom was a round-trip passen
ger.
A trip was made to tihe Kou
garok in the afternoon. There1
were three passengers returning
to Nome: Fred Allyn, Sam God
frey and Barry Keowiu
A third trip was made to Bluff
and Golovin in the late after-!
noon. There was one passenger
to Golovin, name unkown.
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June 9—A trip was made to
northern points with freight.
Passengers to Nome were E. K.
Johansen from Coffee Creek, and
Lyman and Glenn Madden from
Fox Bar.
Mirow Air Service
Activities
June 7—(Pilot Jack Jefford flew
to Teller with Chief Deputy U.
S. Marshal Russell Maynard, re
turning with a native prisoner.
Lyman Culver was also a pas
senger to Nome from Teller.
June 8—Pilot Jefford flew Sam
Taggart and Heine Berger to Tel
ler and returned to Nome the
same day.
Are you taking advantagc
of six months paid in ad
vance subscription ?
Full Text of
Alaska’s New
Staking Law
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Numerous inquiries have been
made of late respecting the exact
provisions of the new law, en
acted by the recent sesson of the
Territorial Legislature, govern
ing the size of association claims
; and use of the power of attorney
! in locating placer claims. The
new act, known as chapter 77 in
the session laws, becomes effect
! ive June 9, or 90 days after it
; was approved by the governor,
i Any stakings before that date are
' governed by the old law.
The new law, to apply on and
| after June 9, is brief. The full
text of the act follows:
CHAPTER 77
AN ACT
[H. B. 621
To amend Sections 3 and 5 of
Chapter 76, Session Laws of Al
aska, 1935, relating to placer min
ing claims.
Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the Territory of Alaska.
Section 1. That Section 3 of
Chapter 76 of the Session Laws
of Alaska 1935 is hereby amend
ed to read as follows:
“Section 3. Association Claims.
No association placer mining
claim shall be located in excess
of forty acres, and have a great
er length than twenty-six hun
dred a/nd forty feet (2640 feet).”
Section 2. Section 5 of Chapter
76 of the Session Laws of Alaska
1935 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
“Section 5. Location by Agent
or Attorney. No person shall lo
cate any plaoer mining claim in
Alaska as agent or attorney for
another unless he is duil*y author
ized thereto by a power of attor
ney in writing, duly aeknowledg
ed and executed within four
years prior to the date of loca
tion, and recorded in the office of
the Recorded of the Recording
District in which the claim is lo
cated. No person shall act as at
torney in fact for more than two
principals in any one recording
district; if the attorney in fact
has two powers of attorney he
may locate one claim under each
and no more, and if he have one
power of attorney, he may locate
two claims thereunder and no
more during any one calendar
month in the same recording dis
trict.”
Approved March 9, 1939.
BUSY 2 YEARS FOR
PLANNING COUNCIL AHEAD
An ambitious program of woTk
for the Alaska Planning Council
in the next two years, approved
by the Council in its meeting
which was concluded recently
was announced by Executive Sec
retary John E. Pegues.
The complete program as as fol
lows:
Lands Use Projects
Inventories of all lands sur
veyed under rectangular system:
school lands, including deficiency
and classification; mining claims,
including acreage and patents;
all other non-mineral surveys,
including homesteads, homesites,
townsites, trade and manufactur
ing sites Federal reserves, etc.
Preparatory study on Keniai
Peninsula: This project is com
pleted.
Soil and economic field survey
of Matanusk.a Valley and Susitn.a
River flats: This survey was in
itiated by the Alaska Planning
Council, is being sponsored by
the National Resources Board
and will be executed by the Soil
Conservation Service, probably
headed by Mr. Rookie. The Al
aska Planning Council has prom
ised every possible cooperation.
Tax Study Continued
Possibility of a general pro
perty tax, relation of mining tax
e.s to net income; relation of fish
ery taxes to net income; taxes on
banks; taxes on business and pro
fesskms; profits tax on sale of
property.
Public Assistance
Adult Welfare: Relief of desti
tution (Territorial Department of
Public Welfare); Alaska Pio
neers’ Home (Board of Trustees,
Alaska Pioneers’ Home); old
age assistance (Territorial De
partment of Public Welfare).
Child Welfare; Allowances to
mothers (Office of the Gover
nor); aid to dependent children
(Child Welfare Division, Terri
torial Department of Public Wei
fare); crippled chi ldren (Crip
pled Children’s Division Terri
torial Departaruent of Health);
j probable number not provided
for in each of the three classi
fiiations; estimated cost to the
Territory <of unlimited coopera
tion with Federal Government;
legislation required.
Unemployment Compensation:
Benefits earned; benefit pay
ments; effect on relief of desti
tution.
Public Employment Service:
Number of unemployed register
ed, number of jobs furnished;
number hours of employment
furnished.
Education
Cost analysis; building needs.
Labor
Sources of employment by -in
dustries; labor conditions; legis
lation needed.
Recreation and Tourist Trade
Basic information for this pro
ject is now being assembled thru
questionna'res and other means.
Cooperation of the U. S. F. rest
Service, Alaska Game Commis
<--'on and the National Park Ser
vice will be necessary for a com
prehensive study.
Other projects deal with fish
ing study, mining study, and pop
ulation studies, including dis
tribution, occupational grouping,
cost of living and food supply of
Alaska's population.
Work has been started also on
a comprehensive inventory of
public works in Alaska.
Territorial Sanitarian Named
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The Territorial Department of
Health announces the appoint
ment of Lloyd A. Morley to the
position of Sanitarian to fill the
vacancy recently created by the
i resignation of Mr. E. F. Clements
| Mr. Clemen ts, who had held the
- position for the past two years; is
i entering into private business in
; Juneau.
The new appointee comes to the
I Territorial Department of Health
' well qualified, having been with
j the Washington Department of
! Health since 1936 as Sanitarian.
He is a graduate in Bacteriology
from the University of Washing
ton, and holds a Master of
Science degree in Bacteriology
and Public Health from Washing
tor. State College.
Mr. Morley will take over the
duties of his office on June 26.
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HER FIRST HIT on
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lulah Bankhead the role of
greedy, cruel Regina in “The
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OUT OF THE CLOUDS a warning voice will come to
(ell Britons of air raid dangers. That’s the theory which led to
above demonstration of England's much-discussed balloon bar
ton... rage near London. The speakers have a range of five miles. _
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A. Jerger, who wrote attacking medical specialization—helped bar
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York while on his way to Washington, D. C., to confer with Thur
man Arnold of the anti-trust division, department of justice.
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