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TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1013.
FAREWELL, HATCHET AND
PENCIL.
It is ton years this summer
that a committee of United
States senators—Senators Dil
lingham, Nelson, Burnham and
Patterson—made a journey
through interior Alaska, coming
in at Eagle and going out by the
lower river. They made a care
ful examination of conditions in
the mining camps through which
they traveled, and took a large
amount of testimony from prac
tical miners and residents of
the naming camps. When they
returned to Washington, they
recommended four improvements
to the mining laws that applied
to Alaska. The first recommen
dation was, "‘that a certain
amount of assessment work be
required upon each claim staked
out as a prerequisite to the
right to have the claim recorded,
and that proof of such work be
required before such record
-could be made.”
Congress adjourned, met
again and adjourned again. Con
gress was Alaska’s only legis
lature, but Alaska might as well
have had no legislature at all.
Then .Congress conferred upon
Alaska the privilege of sending
a delegate to Washington. But
the delegates showed little in
terest in improving the laws re
lating to mining, the one indus
try in which most Alaskans were
actively engaged.
New strikes were made. Im
mediately the region of the
strikes swarmed with halchet
and-pencil men. They came
from the towns, equipped with
hatchet and pencil and sandwich,
and when they had staked every*
thing within reach, they return
ed to the towns mid waited for
somebody else to demonstrate a
paysleak. When the real p 'os
pector, who intends to lind a
paystreak if there is one, and
who must necessarily equip for
a long stay in a new camp—when
the real prospector arrived, he
found nothing left. There was
no choice for him except to take
a lease from the pencil-miner
or go elsewhere. The bogus
prospector could hold his claims
without doing work upon them
during the rest of that year and
the entire y.ear following. It
has been for this reason that so
many of the recently struck
camps in Alaska have been so
slow in developing.
Under the new mining law, as
passed by the Alaska legislature
this blanketing of wide areas will
be impossible. When a man
stakes a piece of placer ground
he must proceed at once to do
work upon it. He must do $100
worth of work for every 20 ac
res within ninety days from the
date of discovery, and he (an
not record his claims until he
has done such work upon them.
Furthermore, he may not stake
more than two claims a month
for himself, or not more than
two apiece for >each of two
friends or grubstakers. Fancy
anybody staking an entire creek
and doing $100 worth of work
for every 20 acres within nine
ty days. The thing is impossi
ble. The dusk of the halchet
and-pencil man has arrived. It
is dawn for I lie honest prospec
tor.—Fairbanks Times.
Alaska gold is now flowing out
into the channels of trade by the
millions.
Notice to Stockholders.
Notice is hereby given to the
stockholders of the Midas Cop
per company, that the regular
annual meeting of the company
will be held on Wednesday, July
21, 1913, at the hour of 2 p. m.,
at the office of the company, for
the purpose of electing officers
for the ensuing year.
MIDAS COPPER CO.,
A. E. GRIGSBY, Sec’y
^Valdez, Alaska, July 2, 1913.
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BRINGS IN A SPLENDID
PAIR OF MOOSE MORNS
A. D. Williams, prosepector,
hunter and trapper, who has
been in the hills all winter, is
an arrival of a few days ago in
Ruby. Williams brought with
him a moose head of which he
is justly proud. The animal was
killed on September 20 last while
Williams was on a prospecting
trip across the Kuskokwiin di
vide. The spread of the horns
is 70 inches, lacking but few in
ches of being as large as any
pair of horns on record. The
horns and mask were preserved
by Mr. Williams because he
considered it one of the best
specimens he had ever seen. The
“dulap” measured twelve inches
in length and about ten inches in
width. The animal was estima
ted to weigh about 1,800 pounds
on foot and when dressed weigh
ed about 1,200 pounds. Wil
liams also brought with him a
number of furs—marten, mink,
beaver and weasel.—Ruby Citi
zen.
Captain Harrington, reports
the worst storm of the season
delayed his craft on the trip to
Montague Island and the boat
was forced to remain at Knight
Island ffor four /flays,, ^starting
out each morning but forced to
return and seek shelter behind
the island because of the moun
tain high billows sent in by the
southeast winds. The men on
Montague Island reported that
the beating of the surf on the
ocean side of the island could
be heard on this side a distance
of to miles. The storm is the
worst summer storm of many
.years.
NOTICE OF SEIZURE.
In the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
United States of America, Lib
elant, vs. one ship’s boat, her
tackle, apparel, furniture and
equipment.
Whereas a libel of information
bos been tiled in the above court
on the I ith day of July 1913 on
behalf of the United States again
st the above- mentioned ship's
boat, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture and equipment; and where
as the substance of said libel of
information, is that the said
ship’s boat, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and equipment were
seized oil the 25th day of July,
1910, and turned over to the Unit
ed States Marshal who now holds
the same at the Port of Unalas
ka, Alaska, as forfeited to the
United States for the reason that
(he same was then and there
found engaged in unlawfully kil
ling fur seals within the waters
of Alaska, and praying that the
said ship’s boat, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and equipment
be condemned and sold for use of
the United States.
Now therefore, in pursuance
of the monition under the seal
of said Court to mo. directed and
delivered, 1 do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or in any manner interested
therein, that they be and appear
before the United States District
Court for the Territory of Alas
ka, Third Division, to be held at
Unalaska, in and for the said
Territory and Division, on the
18th day August 1913, at 10
o’clcok in the forenoon of that
day, provided the same shall be a
day of jurisdiction, otherwise on
the' next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to inter
pose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf,
and that in event of their fail
ure so to do default and condem
nation will be ordered.
H. P. SULLIVAN.
United States Marshal for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Divi
sion .
GEORGE R. WALKER.
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LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAPT. STAMEY
Leave* once a week from
VALDEZ DOCK for
PORT WELLS and
Way Ports.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT.JSTAMEY
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
Schedule of Donaldson.
Office of the Quartermaster
Fort Liscum, Alaska, June 9th,
1913.
Daily, Saturdays and Sundays
excepted.
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
ni. and 5:00 p. m.
Leave Valdez 2:00 p. in. and
5:30 p. in.
Sundays
Leave Fort Liscum, 9:30 a. m.
Leave Valdez, 12:30 p. in.
Saturdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
in., and 7:00 p. in.
Leave Valdez 1:00 p. in. and
10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips on the
2nd and -itli Fridays of each
month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
Spevial trips or cancelling of
the above will be made without
notice only to meet the exigen
cies of the service,
fly order of Lietut. Col. O’Neil.
L. A. KUNZIG.
1st. Lieutenant, 30th Infantry.
Quartermaster.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that I, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the “Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you .fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had. or within ninety
davs after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913.
T. E. DOUGHERTY.
Date first pub. April 24, 1913.
Date last pub. July 20, 1913.
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