Valdez Daily Prospector
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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1913.
INDIVIDUALS OR BIG COMPAN
IES?
Down at Nome, they say, the
dredging companies are raising
an outcry against the new Alas
kan mining law. USider the new
law you must perform $100
worth of labor within 00 days
from discovery for every 20 acres
of mineral land you stake, and
after next, year you will have to
perform $100 worth of labor ev
ery year for every 20 acres of
mineral land you desire to hold.
This will make it costly to hold
large areas of land.
A dredging company, ol'course,
must have a large area of min
eral land to work with, or the
enterprise cannot hope to he suc
cessful. The new law, say the
dredging companies, will not on
ly put them out of business, hut
by forcing them from the held
through excessive annual labor
requirements, the money they
have'paid for the claims and the
improvements they have put in
to the claims during the past few
years will he confiscated. And
the idea of confiscation by the
government is abhorrent to all
American standards of justice.
Nobody can deny I bat the
dredging companies will suffer
because of |he change in the law.
So will the large mining com
panies closer to home, in the
Birch creek camp and in the Bon
nilield, for inslsince. They have
all spent large sums of money
annually in relaining atud devel
oping large areas of association
claims, and now they are placed
jh the position of spending eight
times as mnrli money annually or
abandoning the ground and los
ing all they pul into it.
Bui there is hardly a change of
law I lull dues 'not benelil some
body and injure somebody else.
The new law was wrilten for the
bemjiit of the individual pros
pector who is willing to work and
whose work is of the kind that
opens up a country quickly. It
was aimed against I lie specula
tor-prospector. These specula
tors have gobbled lip hundreds of
square miles of land in the ter
ritory, in the form of association
claims, without so much as mak
ing certain lhal Ibe land is min
eral land.
Some of Ibe land that is ac
quired from lhe.se speculators by
large mining companies is so
l«»w grade I hat it could not be
worked by individuals. But il is
also true I hat the system reduces
the field for the individual mine'r.
Most good Alaskans would pre
fer Alaska to be a country of
many individual miners, rather
than of a comparatively few
large mining companies. The in
tent of the law is to give the
Individual a chance again, in the
hope that there may return more
prosperous times such as exist
ed before the gross abuse of the
association claim law began.
FaFirbanks Times.
ABOUT THE BAND.
It is with considerable regret
that Haines a few days ago re
ceived the announcement of the
removal of the Thirtieth Infan
try Regimental Band from the
post. The concerts given there
have been highly appreciated,
and the presence of this fine
body of musicians at various
public functions held in the
towns of the district have con
tributed much to the enjoyment
of such occasions. We no^^jy
regret the departure of the band
as an institution, but the individ
ual membership represents much
in the soefhl life of the eommiin
— ity and the-loss will be distinct
ly felt. Then again, their going
will remove from thirty to forty
members of th% regiment, many
of them with families, which rep
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) 7am to 9am
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WORK GUARANTEED
resents a loss in a business way.
The army “moves in a myster
ious way its wonders to per
form” and if may be that the
transfer of the Ft. Seward or
ganization to Ft. Liscuin is on
ly a part of the military tactics
designed as expedient for their
betterment, and they will be
brought back again after Ibis
purpose has been accomplished.
Our hopes, at least, father that
belief.—Haines Pioneer Press.
alaskaWthe
ALASKAN ONLY
The Grand Camp Elect Their
Officers—B. F. Millard a
Trust®e.
Tile grand oll'ieers ol' the Arc
tic Brotherhood not residents of
Alaska or Yukon Territory, were
today formally divested of their
office's and the affairs of the
grand camp went into the hands
of Alaskans with the ratification
of the election of the following
list, of grand olfictrs:
jP. ft. A. (1., J. M. Tanner, of
Skagway.
(t. A. (toy. J. F. A. Strong,
of Juneau.
ft. V. A. C. A. Ilopp, of
Douglas.
(!. A. If., ft. A. Baldwin, of
Haines.
ft. A. K. of Y., 11. B. I.eFevre,
of Skagway.
ft. A. C. W. Bailey, of Daw
son.
(t. A. T. ft., R. M. Morrison, of
Council.
(i. A. T. B„ Milo Kelly, of Sew
fi. A. K. of (). T. (i.. S. C.
ard.
(t. A. K. of I. T. ft., Y. DeBraie,
>f Petersburg.
Shuriek, of Wrangell.
Trustees—.!. C. Mullalley,
Cleary; F.lwood Bruner, Nome;
A. G Shoup, Sitka, and B. F. Mil
lard, Valdez.
A resolution unanimously
passed allows subordinate camps
to establish a woman’s auxilliary
on a referendum, vote of the
lodge, and the first organization
will he perfected at. Treadwell at
once.
i A demand will be made on
former Grand Secretary Jack
Keller, of Skagway, for the books
and records of the grand camp
and the former grand treasurer
has signified his willingness to
turn over to the new grand treas
urer the finances.
A motion that, the next grand
camp he held at Fairbanks in
July, 19! 4, was unanimously
passed today—Juneau Dispatch.
Schedule of Donaldson.
Ollice of the Quartermaster
Fort Liscum, Alaska, June 9th,
1913.
Daily, Saturdays and Sundays
excepted.
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
in. and 5:00 p. in.
Leave Valdez 2:00 p. in. and
5:30 p. m.
Sundays .
Leave Fori, Liscum, 9;30 a. m.
Leave Valdez, 12:30 p. m.
Saturdays?
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
m., and 7:00 pj m.
Leave Valdez 4:00 p. m. and
10:30 p. m.
There will bj& no trips on the
2nd and 4th roidays 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.
By ordej of Lietut. Col. O’Neil.
: L. A. KUNZIG.
1st. Lieutenant, 30th Infantry.
Quartermaster.
Bring your Job work to the
Prospector office.
Go to the
ARCADE
for quick, clean service.
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BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a bargain.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAPT. STAMEY
Leaves once a week from
VALDEZ DOCK for
PORT WELLS and
Way Porte.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE 6EXT0N, Prop.
SiRICTLy first class
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
Notice of Meeting.
Local Valdez, Socialist Party
of America, to be held at cabin
of Chas. McCallum, of Valdez,
Friday, August 1, 1913. All mem
bers requested to be present at
7 :30 o’clock sharp.
01J AS. <1. OANTY,
Recording Secretary.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. in.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
,. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-eight foot Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashman
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 ol liitorinauoii
lies been Hied in the above court
on the litb day of July 1911. 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 on 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
the 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 me. directed and
delivered, I do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or in an,v 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
dai-, provided the same shall be a
day of jijrisdiction, otherwise on
the next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to inter
pose (heir 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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