IDITAROD, ALASKA
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Capital, S50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Bust Bought and Assayed j
Drafts Issued on Any Fart cf tire World j
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TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, V.ce President j
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
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Old Toby in Tough Luck i
In I'i.irbanhs two years a£0 a native, old
T. by by name, was tried for first decree
murder, charged with having killed a white
man on the lower Yukon some ten >ears
ngv Although a strong case had been
made out against him, Cecil H. Clegg de
nuded him successfully. and secured a ver
nier I t le t guilty, says the News Miner. The
native, although in poor circumstances', as
sured the attorney that he would send him
-ome valuable furs from the lower river to
repay (mu f a his trouble. Hut in the ln.-t
mail from d nvn-river the attorney received
message from the old native telling of the
hard luck that had overtaken him in the
o ss of his wife and son, both of whom died,
and the further trouble occasioned by the
.•eaivity of fur-bearing animal-. Although
OS years of age, the native is determined to
repay the attorney for ''saving his life, as
1 himself, and he writes Mr. Clegg
:i":ula’ly. through anothi r more educated
Indian, to teil him that he will come through
v-uh the furs as soon as he lises the jiux
that has been following him ever since bis
arrest.
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An Assistant to Wick
M:.vor B. D Stewart will leave tomorrow
f,,r \V: yhingum. where he will e operut
with Delegate James Miekcrsham to secure
the passage i f the Juneau cupiiol appropri
ation. as-i-t (Aloud Y\. 1'. Rtohaei-on in
connection with the Ga.-liiieau bridge ir. it
ter. acid bom; for Juneau and Al -ki
wherever possible, says the Juneau Empire
tf January 4. Ill audition to assisting i:i
the capitol building am! bridge matters,
Mayor Stewart will endeavor to make ar
rangements with 11 ■ l niced i*tauo- oureau
of health to have i man sent to Juneau to
make a sanitary survey of the city and her
fiirrbundiiige. In addition to these specific
matters it will be Mayor Stewart's pur; o-e
to do anything that he finds to do that will
aid Juneau and this section.
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Prospectors Killed in Snowslide
James Barclay and Alex Herman, old
time prospectors well known in the coast
region of Alaska, and also in the Fairbanks
district, were killed in a snowslide on Me- j
Oarthy mountain, near McCarthy, according i
to word reaching Cordova on January 4 j
The two men were doing assessment work ;
for the Bonanza Gold Mining Company at |
the time. Searchers for the bodies have I
been sent out from McCarthy, but on ac
count of the wide extent of the snowslide
and the belief that the bodies ha\e been
carried some distance from where they wen
working, little hope tor the recovery of the
bodies L3 entertained.
Report of Clerk of Court, Fourth Division
In the quarterly report of the clerk of
court for the three months ending Decem
ber 31. 1916, it s shown that the receipts
of Fund "C” for that period amounted to
C3.C64.52 and the total disbursements
.amounted to S3.2SS.22. All fines and prac
tically ail fees go into this fund, and it is
from this fund also that seme of the salaries
in the clerk’s office are paid, and some mis- I
cellaneous expense, says the Fairbanks
New- .Miner of January 12. The docket i
earnings for the quarter are larger by sev- j
eral hundred dollars than in any quarter ;
for the past five years. The license money
received from unincorporated towns and
turned over to the United States treasury
amount to $4,970.43, which will ultimately
find its way back into the Alaska fund.
The money collected in incorporated towns
during the quarter and turned over to the
treasurers of the respective muncipalities
amounted to: Fairbanks, $1,759.13; 1
t'hena, $798.30; Iditarod, $473.53; Tanana,
83,305,70
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"Wise Mike" Has Tungsten
"Wise Mike” they call him in Interior
Alaska, although his real name is Steipo
vich. says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
His home is in Fairbanks, and his vocation
is mining. For ten years “Wise Mike” has
been in the mining game. His ventures in
gold mining did not produce the wealth
sought for. Last year, when the steel mak
ers of the East were clamoring for tungsten
nil miners in the North began to forsake ;
■. M for the lure of rarer minerals, “Wise |
; airbanks, and then transshipped to Seattle. J
is at the Seattle Athletic Club now, while ,
arranging to market the ore.
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Enormous Alaska Mining Deal
A San Francisco dispatch of January 9
quote. Colonel .Tackling to the effeet that a
..lining consolidation involving $4j0,000,
000 is conti mplatcd through I'amel Gug-j
, nheini and the Morgan company, to
include the Utah Copper Company, Nevada ]
Mims, the Cupper River railroad and the j
Alaska Steamship Company.
Hatchet and Pencil Mining
,\Y! in many New Years mornings was
there such an epidemic of staking as very
juicily seemed to take full hold of a limn
er of miners and prospectors iu Nome this
rear of 1917. says the Industrial Worker.
Yet there was not a section of the district
where they did not show up anil where new
iv ners did not locate ground, some of which
been held by others for quite a imiu
,.cr of yea.rs. Out on Dexter, although the
nil-lit was clear, lanterns were seen guiding
the hatchet and pencil men over the ground
while some of the stukers studied blue
orbits or tried to study them by the light ^
i the lantern that they '-..cried. Away j
down on the mil braeh there were stak j
a:-- iti.tng bey i: ! Cuuninchant and ol ler j
creeks where old claims were swapped fori
c i t;-a by the restb'ss prospector. And
.s far on the west as .less erck tlie mi !
,.Ylit locator wag very much in evident"-. |
t'lo.-e at hand on Center creek, where all j
Pro- around has been, held for year-, some ^
;o -v miner -1 divisions of property wore mu .e
by the stakers. while along the third beach
tine some who had been quietly waiting for
p. ■ Now Year to materialize sallied forth to |
do their location work. Not all of these may j
v ; be recorded, and seme of these new j
locations may not stand the test should |
something be found upon them, but it shows i
that there are several who yet believe that j
on ground which has been trampled over !
and w< rked for years there is still a home- j
stake concealed which may yet be gotten by j
unking and drifting.
Rate War Scented
What is believed to be the first move in ;
a gigantic financial and trade war between j
■the Alaska Steamship Company and the Pa
cific Steamship Company, with ramifica
tions extending beyond the shipping through
the copner interests of D. C. .tackling of
San Francisco and the Guggenheims was
was made recently by the Alaska Steamship
Company announcing the invasion of Cali
fornia. John H. Bunch, general freight and
lassenger agent of the company, announced
that regular southern service between Si at
tic and Sen Francisco probably would be
installed. Open warfare between the Alaska
Steamship Company and the Pacific Steam*
;p Company has been expected since the
merser, it being generally believed that
tackling financed the deal to a great extent
is the first step in a joust with the Gug
s' tiheims. The Pacific Steamship Company,
tv adding more vessels, has increased its'
Maskan service, cutting into the revenues
d *he older concern, and the counter m >ve
nf sending vessels south is expected to bring
the situation t > the battle stage.
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UNCLE OF LORD NORTHCLIFFE
DSHD IN HOME FOR THE AGED
Samuel S. Phillips, uncle of Lord North
cliffe, owner of the London Times and other
newspapers, and nephew of the late Sir
Bordwell Phillips, former lord mayor of
London, died at the Hebrew Home for the j
Aged and Disabled at San Francisco, accord
ing to a dispatch of January 1 from that
e’ty.
Phillips came to California sixty-six years
ago. lor years he worked at odd jobs,
mostly of a clerical nature, but at no time
did fortune smile upon him. Four years ago
he was admitted to the charitable institu
tion where he died. He was 94 years old.
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F'resh Olympia and Eastern Oysters. $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
Fresh Meats
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DESCRIBES ALASKA SCENES
AND COMMENTS ON PEOPLE
The many tourists who are visiting Alaska
each summer carry away from "the land of
gold” some queer impressions, as evidenced
by newspaper articles appearing in various
sections of the United States. Their visits
are necessarily hurried and their means of
personal observation consequently limited,
nut it is interesting to note how the country,
its scenery, its industries and its people pre
sent themselves to those who have put their
impressions on paper.
'The Pioneer has been favored with a copy
if an article printed in the Springthld
(Mass.) Republican, from the pen of Roger j
Foster, in eminent lawyer of New York,
who has gained distinction at the bar and j
before “the court of public opinion,” a
phrase whose authoriship he is credited
with. He will also he remembered as coun
sel for W. A. Clark in the Montana election
case before the United Slates senate in 1900.
Mr. Foster’s contribution to the literature
dealing with Alaska is perhaps more inter
esting than any yet scene from the pen of j
a ca.su: 1 visitor. While some of his asser- |
lions are of a rather startling nature, it can
readily lie believed that ho is hut repeating
;he stories told him on his trip down the
Yukon. But inacuracies and all, his article
is far more readable than the dry and statis
tics-tilled columns by Frank Carpenter
which are now being produced by a syndi
cate of newspapers. The article, shorn of I
some of its lets striking paragraphs, is as
follows:
Incomparable Grandeur
The finest scenery in the world is within
ihe United Si; tc~. The Swiss and Tyrolese
Alps would be lost if placed among the snow
cuvered mountains that can be seen along
the Alaskan coa-t. Neither the Caucasus
uer tile Pyrenees nor the Carpathians coni
■ ie with these in grandeur. The glaciers of
Alaska not only are the largest in the world
tut they are so countless that most of them
ave not yet a name. Icebergs can he seen
n their formation, a process which is ac
•..mpanied by roars from their mother “la
bors. Anyone who cares to approach it in
a launch can mount one, as I did myself, j
i ke the polar bear in ihe. advertisements.
Ail of this can be s en from the deck of i
a comfortable and well-appointed steamer, j
There are at 1 a-.: three lines through Puget
Hind and along the coast ot Alaska vvnicn j
I'foiii' re favorably with the boats that cross j
the Aita’ioc. I heartily recommend a jour
ney upon any one of them to all who can j
endure a lor.se amount of fog and ram. .
Boris can he .-hot a few mil°s from one of I
e island ports. Alpine climbers can find j
there now fields for adventure and explore- j
ion. and ran immortalize themselves by j
linoing and naming peaks which have
never been touched by the foot of man.
Costly Transportat.ion
.-V journey to the Interior is a far dif
ferent matter. The only mesns of travel,
or those who cannot walk or take an auto
mobile or horse several days over a rough j
mountain trail is over the line of a rad ,
way and steamship company which, by vio- j
lotions of the anti-trust laws, has sup
pressed all rivals upon the River \ ukon.
and, by exorbitant charges for freight, has
drangled commerce; so that although there
is enough gold there to pay, within a few
rears, the war debts of Europe, the cost
,.f transporting machinery and supplies is
-o enormous that many of the mining towns
lock like the LAverted Village described by
'. Mdsmith; and the cities in the Interior
-re, year after year, deteriorating, although :
they still refuse to give change for a quar- I
ter. Meanwhile the coast, which is sup- j
plied by rival steamship companies, is gain- j
tng m weal'll and pipulaiaoi. The mine.-,
even with a low grade of ore, flourish on |
the ocean front, and new canneries of -buns 1
and salmon are being built there. Nothing \
can «ave the Interior except the complc- j
lion of the government railroad, now being
built. (.And the refusal of Judge Hughes
to say whether he is in favor of the neces
sary appropriations has caused great dread
throughout the territory lest he should be
elected.
It is my belief that the. need of increas
ing the supply of geid. so that the national
Itbt can be more easily paid, will make
Great Britain, after the war, offer subsi
dies for river and railroad transportation in
the Yukon.
Anent Yukon River Steamers
I cannot now recommend traveling in the
Interior to anyone who has a delicate st-om
: r I). ir a sensitive nose, or is particular
about the company he keeps or the Ian- j
guage that he hears, or has limited time at
is disposal which requires the making of
close connections, or is obliged to be econom
eal of money, as weii as time. The steam
boats on the Yukon are filled to the gunnel
with cargo, and each boat also pushes one
or more scows similarly loaded. The one
hat 1 was on nau another Doai iahieneu
o its side. They carry, on their own decks
>r on the scows, cattle, swine, sheep and
ooultry, the decks containing which I have
never seen washed. Passengers who come
>o the river by the company’s railroad, and
'hose who are near the border, change from
a boat with the British flag to one con
trolled by the same people bearing an Amer
ican flag, and are almost always obliged
between voyages to remain a few days at a
hotel with metropolitan prices and village
accommodations. It is generally believed
that this is intentional, for the sake of
benefiting the keepers of hotels, restaurants
and shops, and thus tempering their griev
ances at- the extortionate freight they are
obliged to pay. It is a common occurrence
for a bout to be stranded upon a bar and
to remain there surrounded by the wilder
ness any length of time between several
hours and several days; such events and
the amount of cargo on the barges afford
other explanations of these delays. I heard
a sad tale of two Fchool teachers who had
saved for two years or more in order to
see Alaska, but when buying their steam
ship tickets in advance had taken no money
to provide food and lodging during such
intermissions, and suffered privation and
anxiety in consequence.
Spell of the Yukon
For those, however, who are strong and
io not mind coarse food, roughnecks and
rough treatment, when counterbalanced by
beautiful scenery and interesting men, a
voyage upon the River Yukon is an experi
ence not to be regretted. He who has not
seen the Yukon, the Klondike, which emp
ties into it, and those who live near ther
banks, has not seen Alaska. The Yukon
flows 2,000 miles or more, outmeandering
the Meander river in its coils and twists,
near one point passing the same hill five
times through a wilderness almost path
less, which the greater part of the way
has remained unchanged since the discovery
of America. The primeval forest on its
banks has in most places no inhabitants ex
cept moose, caribou, bear, lynx and other
wild animals. Some of these can be seen
from the boat, upon the shores or swim
ming in the waters. Hero and there are
a few Indian cabins, or the lodge of a
wood-chopper who supplies the steamers
with fuel, and a few mining camps now
almost empty, and owing their present lim
ited existence principally to the fur trade.
)no of these, the town of Circle, was so
named because it was crroneous'y thought
> be upon the Arctic circle; which parallel,
ns has been since discovered, cuts the river
at a pr int near the mission and trading |
•os.-; of Fort Yukon, many miles fur! her )
north, and is indicated by a white globe I
nainted upon a signboard on the shore. I
Circle was once the largest tent city in the j
world, but its white inhabitants are now j
irdly >i score. It is said that in its well j
'updated cemetery are the graves of only j
two persons who have died natural deaths; j
'he others buried there have been shot or j
..ommuied suicide. Another town, Eagle. |
.he nearest to the border of Canada, has ;
now less than ten white families. It con- i
tains a wireless station which is one of the |
wimdc's of the world. It is said to inter- |
cept, at times, messages from the Eiffel |
over in 1'aris.
The donate in summer is ideal -warm by |
day and coo! at night, with little ruin. The
mosquitoes, which are the pie,me of the
country, rarely molest the boats. The
beauty of file Arctic sunsets and sunrises,
h an interval of scarce an hour between
he afterglow and the dawn, the clearness
of the twilights, tiie northern lights, amply
make up for all the discomforts of the
iourney. The men and women who are met
upon the river are of a sort which can
nowhere vise be found.
The Ascetic Gold Diggers
The old Ala.-.kans are a sturdy race. None
of the weaklings have survived. Intemper
ance among them is rare. In this they
how a striking contrast to the canners of
i .ms and salmon, on the coast, especially
ch of those as have left Washington and
Oregon since those stales became dry.
Most of them are celibates who in the long
winters spent in the log cabins in the woods
; ractice a monastic chsstity. ( The lust tor
a 1! has quenched every other passion. \\ in
rr after winter, for more than tifteen years,
many of them have gone alone or with a
ingle partner into the wilderness to search
or mines, end returned every spring with
old insufficient to equal what they had
aid out for tools, dynamite end provisions. 1
But they still continue, in the hope that
some day they may strike a fortune; un- |
deterred by the fact that comrades who j
have died were buried in paupers’ graves.
After careful inquiry 1 could not lind a ;
-ingle case where a prospector had retired ,
vith a fortune, cr even a competency, c.s j
the result of his discovery.
All the gold was carried away by shop- I
keepers, gamblers and middlemen. At one
rime miners had no currency, but paid lor !
•ill purchases in geld dust. As an agent of j
mie of the (reding companies naively told |
me, he always tried to be honest in the
handling of the scales, but it was impossi
ble that they should be even, and his duty
to himself required that any doubts be re- i
solved in favor of his employers. Such
profits as he made in that way were en- j
ered in his general accounts, but the agent j
if another company in Nome kept a sep- j
rate account of such profits, and it
amounted to more than $85,000 in a single
year.
Our Cultured Miners
The need of occupation during the long
.'■inter evenings has made them great read
rs uf books, usually of a serious character.
Ihey are good geologists and well versed 1
n other branches of natural science. Their
favorite periodical is the Literary Digest.
[ saw in the Interior of the territory no
•cry of a story paper or of a Police Ga
t.te. Upon the bar of a saloon at the:
• notion of the Bonanza and Eldorado
creeks, a few miles above where the Klon
dike receives their waters. I found a copyl
of Chambers’ Encyclopedia, used by the J
miners to settle disputes that arose under I
.heir potations. Their English, too, is un
usually pure. Slang is almost unknown,
out the necessities of a novel situation have
f course led them to adopt new words.
nktlOwn in the East, although some are
u.-ed elsewhere on the Pacific coast. A
-nurdough” is an old Alaskan; a poke, an
Id English word; a “cheechako” is a new- |
comer; a “cywasb” is an Indian. This
word is a corruption of the French j
“sauvage.” To “mush” is to travel on
foot. This is derived from the French verb i
“marcher.” An obedient dog, when told |
o “mush,” will leave the premises. (The'
iogs are magnificent. Their stock is con- ;
inually strengthened by tying the sluts in j
he woods where they cen be reached by j
he wolves, although precautions have to
be taken to avoid the jealousy of the she
■volves, who will kill them if they have
ni opportunity. The litter is watched when
ild enough to drink water. Those who lap
with their tongues are preserved; but the
oups who drink like a horse or wolf are
destroyed as too wild for use on the sleds.)
A Vicious Statement
ihe white women are less numerous man
the men. They are smaller and more wiry.
Since most of them live a distance of sev
eral days from a physician and physically
hey are inferior to the squaws, they usu
ally practice race suicide. But they make
uevoted wives. Many who at their fathers’
homes were accustomed to be waited upon,
n steam-heated apartments, live here cheer
fu.ly in log cabins, cooking, washing and
making fires, without servants. They are
rewarded by devotion and admiration. Old
maids are unknown in Alaska. Most women
have two or even three husbands, and a
line waiting for any vacancy that may oc
cur. In one respect they have reached an
advanced stage of civilization. A woman
who has sinned in the past, if her life is
now respectable, is respected by the others.
There is a fascination about the Alaskan
life which, despite its privations, makes men
loath to leave and eager to return. There
is no fear of starvation nor even of destitu
tion. The rivers and woods supply salmon
and venison of moose and caribou sufficient
to meet the wants of all. A hole in the
ground makes a refrigerator which will
keep meat fresh throughout the hottest
summers, without recourse to pemmican.
And if a white man is too lazy to hunt or
fish for himself, he can always obtain a
living from a squaw and a fish-wheel.
Canned Food Epicures
But the experience of the old camp life
l as given them an abnormal taste for
canned food. They prefer smoked fish to
what is fresh. They insist that fresh milk
is inferior to condensed. When by chance
they are served with a fresh egg they criti
cize it for the lack of the flavor to which
those former days have accustomed them.
The feeling of comradeship is strong among
the pioneers. Those who die without a cent
are buried by the survivors. Any one of
[hem who is hard up can always obtain
credit at the shops and restaurants, and
public opinion is so strong and severe that
there is no doubt of his paying his debts
vhen he is able. Hospitality, as I myself
experienced it, at Rampart, is extended to
strangers as freely as in Asia. The spirit
f democracy is stronger than I have seen
it elsewhere. No man has a "master” or I
‘bos?.” The man who pays his wages he j
ills his “partner.” When employed he '■
Joes what be considers to be a lair day’s
'c, regardless of the opinion upon that
-ubiect of the man who pays him, end no
.rders, threats or cajolements can induce
him to do more.
A waiter at the leading restaurant in the
ity said, in the middle of my supper, "An
her gentleman will give you the rest. I'm
ling to the concert.” A man who had had
>e,;h experiences told me that he would
-other be broke in Alaska than have $30,
0 in the United State?. The l.fe is free,
the people interesting, and the country
eauiiful. As soon as suitable means of
ransportation exist, the country should he
are crowded with visitors than was Switz
erland before the war, and must sl-.o enjoy
business prosperity.
FAIRBANKS MAN RETURNS
AFTER PERIOD OF ISOLATION
Not many ex-convicts returning to their
own home town ere treated with U.o dis
• net ion accorded to Al Sutton, who on
January 8 arrB'pd ?>t F;*|rhanks after serv
; a term at McNeil’s bland penitentiary,
t Sutton brought word of many well
known Fairbanks characters wh) ar« “-o
:nurning” it that institution, ami the ( t•:i
o'n gives him a full column tirst r>P<re story
i tell about them. Says the Citizen -
‘Sutton brings word of all of the Fair
nksRP.s now incarcerated at McNe il >.
!’:llv Clark i- in the barber shop. Bil y
-an is still in the tailor shops, after
having made two ineffectual efforts to secure
: par lc. Dan Callahan is doing water front
oading work on the i.-land, and Goof re
*>mith and Dave Carmack are w rkiug ’n
• he quarries. A -trie* wet^h i- nprretor'll''
ppt on the two last named men, according
‘o Sutton. Sutton himself was working m
he hospital. * * The work <-f the
arger pert of the prisoners coni-t? of
tarrying. There i5 a big mount. :n on
Sp inland, and this is being removed every
. ear, li tip by litrK and carried down t ,
p water front on cars. If i-- in ihese
quarres that Smith and Carmack are en
aged in working, while Dan Callahan is
n charge of the unloading of the cars or;
the beach.
Sutton ays t; ■ t the 1 i-g<r part of the
••r-oncr^ at McNeil’s are vnu.-.c men. ‘And
talking about society.’ he continued, ‘there’s
' here you find more bankers and postoffice
clerks than you ever thor.gbt existed.’
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Job Printin.: at The Pioneer office._
SERIOUS FIRE AT DAWSON
On December 27 last, while the mercury
registered 35 degrees below zero, the fire
department at Dawson was called upon to
fight a blaze that destroyed a portion of
the boiler house and seventy tons of hay
belonging to the Northern Commercial t'om
any. The loss was estimated at about
820,000._
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Arthur A Everett, and to Ills heirs and
8S:d;rn8:
V n are hereby notified that the under
-of/: d, having expended In each or the
y> arc 1909, 1910, 1911, 1919, 1913, 191*:,
1915 and lfllG the sum of one hundred dol
lars in labor aud Iriiprovei o-n'.s up n fla'. h
of ihe quartz mining claims known and de
mol as r. ’lows, to wit: The Parks No.
1 led** mining claim, tin* Parks A ». 9 1 ale
mining "'aim, the Parks Mo. 3 Pule mining
claim, the Parks No. -1 lode mining claim,
the Banner lode mining claim, situated ou
rtn'ahnr lode, on the right limit of the
T.it-sk'jkwin: river, ah- ih lift's u ml'1 s below
the rnourh of the Oiling river. m the Kus
li .kwim mining district, territory .-T A'a-ka,
in oi Per to hold -aid 'dank-, under the pro
visions of ?«•>• Vii-'-i of Me- ftet i.-cd Suit til'*
of the l.ruled State*, and the amendment
thereto approved .lanuary 93, isso, con
i-orii'ng annual labor up -n mining elai'u.'.
being the amount required to hold said
mining ruiiu.s to: tile p.cribd herein iner
'"'Nub *r xvi'hln ninety days from the per
(So; .,| uervp-e or 1.1.s nolle.-, or wUhni
e.i .-. iy (lavs after the, Idihlleallon thereof
.-..-,1 rail or "efusc to eentribule your pro
pi .1 in in or such I xpendd ire as co-owne:.
y. i,i lnte". st in said five lode m u.og
Plapos will become rile property of the
subs nber, your ro-mvn- r, who has made
me [-, d expemiiPlies by lie b-ruis of
w,.,r| si-rtlon. F W. PAHK-j.
First publication, Per. 3. 19 in.
last publication, March 3, 1917.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To I . Vent. F. C.rM-TiT ;"l> and '' "nilth. their
hv-irs. ailiimr.slrators and a-.-.en-:
You aiid each of you are hereby :i 'titled
that the undersigned has expended in
nri.-nev lah'T and Improvements during e-atn
o' tile years 1909, 19 Mu 1011. 19 12, I 'M -:.
19 11, 19 15 and 191A the sum of one hun
dred ’ dodurs .$100. upon placer mining
j ini kn< wn r.a ihe Lan Chan* e Assorla
it< n. at meutli <T and on Gun-* creek, a
tributary >d Innoko river, in the Innoko
n.itilng rnd record!*:? district, territory > r
* |p-t.m, in oilier to Imld said claim under
i’m. p"!)vipions of the law respecting annual
Ichor on mining claims.
am/-' |f wl'Jtin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you. or either of
rcruse to pay yuur proportion
•ti h oYrcnditure, yt.ur Interest in sa ri
' ' n*e the property of the un
co-owner, according T'1 the pr ~
vision? of Section 2394, Revised fctalub**
of the United States.
ARTHUR V\U F.NTLNF.
FlcPt ^nhMcr,‘>on. Pe°. 9. 101m
publication, March 10. 19 17.
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