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FRIDAY. JANUARY 31, 1913.
THE TROUBLE WITH ALASKA.
Commenting on I he showing' in
Coy. Clark's report, that Alaska
has suffered an actual loss of
population during the past two
years, the Washington Herald re
marks :
“Considering the success ot
the American administration in
the Philippines. Porto Rico, the
Hawaiian islands and other insu
lar possessions, the failure in
Alaska is all the more inexplic
able, unless the long and to some
considered dreadful Alaska win
ter and its attendant discom
forts are taken to be the main
cause of the aversion to settle
ment there.”
There is nothing inexplicable
about the failure of Alaska to
develop. If Alaska were given
treatment identical with that ac
corded the Philippine islands, for
example, it would speedily have
a population greater than sever
al of the states in the Union. It
is precisely because it has not
been given the treatment accorded
every other possession of the
United Slates that it has not de
veloped. It is lied up and its
-development deliberately arrested
by the action of I lie federal gov
ernment.
In the Philippines there is lo
cal self-government. The pulbic
lands are administered as the
property of the people of the is
lands and to encourage their de
velopment. The government has
lent its credit to the construc
tion of railroads and has built
other highways. Every dollar of
the revenues collected in the Phil
ippines is devoted to tin* islands.
In Alaska the develop!.it of
every resource, save the mines ol
the precious metals and I hi* fish
eries, is deliberately prevented.
"With the greatest coal fields in
the world, Alaska has to import
its fuel, because the laws of con
gress for the disposition of coal
lands have been annulled by ex
ecutive action and all of the coal
land placed in reservations, not
to be touched until congress re
peals its present laws and pass
es others more in accord with the
views of professional conserva
tionists. Every open harbor on
the coast of Alaska and practi- j
cally the entire coast line has
been made into fake forest re
serves, ostensibly for the protec
tion of non-existenl timber. The
door of opportunity is closed and
locked in the face of every man
who goes to Alaska for any pur
pose other than mining.
Alaska’s “dreadful winters’’ are
a myth. Nowhere along the sea
coast of Alaska, outside of Ber
ing sea, has there been as cold
weather this winter as has been
seen along the Atlantic easbnard
from Maine to the Carolinas. As
cold weather has been seen in
Los Angeles as in Southeastern
Alaska. Alaska has not devel
oped, merely because its devel
opment has been deliberately
strangled. There is nothing in
explicable about it. Had the same
conditions existed ,0®^-years ago
in this slate of Washington
meaning the artificial conditions
created by direct government ac
tion—it would have remained to
this day a wilderness.— Post-In
telligencer.
EDITORIAL ROTES.
Francis Emory Warren has
purchased his fifth ticket to the
Senate of the United Slates.
Sure enough, Adriajiople will be
a Holy City if the Bulgarian can
on play on its walls for a time.
If the Circassians get to rebel
ling against the Turkish govern
ment it is bound to create hob
in the harems.
It is to be hoped the self-ig
niting packages being mailed by
London women can be employed
as cigar lighters.
The Sick Man of Europe de
clines to take that Asiatic trip
prescribed by Dr. Europe for the
benefit of the old gentleman's
health.
I -
The Democrats now have a ma
jority of two iii the Senate and
will have control of that body
when contested seats are to be
decided.
Nothing short of an apparition
f; 0,0 heaven would regenerate
the hoboes congregated in New
Orleans, unless perhaps it might
be work.
| Albanians arc indeed unfortun
ate in being between Christian
and Moslem nations, as far as
I he condition of fhoir lieallli is
concerned.
The suggestion Ihal Woodrow
Wilson and other presidents-elecl
'hereafter should have Hie frank
ing privilege is excellent. Tile
mail of Gov. Wilson is enormous,
and most of il is public busi
ness.
The seal appears In be a source
of continual (rouble. What be
tween (lie mercenary sealer of
San Francisco and the hungry of
ficeholder in Washington, it is a
Wonder there is a seal left in Her
ig sea.
We presume we are supposed to
.jubilate over the fact that a near
Alaskan presides over the desti
nies of the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. ;
Bui, as a matter of fact, we do
not give a linker’s whoop.
A manufacturer has told the
ways and means committee that
perfumes are not a luxury. Per
haps not to the few rich, but
neither are they a necessity to
the man who earns what he gets
or the rich either, for that mat
ter.
That little ducking promised
the, London suffragettes would not.
have been so had after all, con
sidering I he heated condition in
to which the women have work
ed themselves, but probably a
padtiling would have been more
dignified,
SERIAL NO. 01552.
MINERAL APPLICATION
MINERAL SURVEY NO 7*6.—U. S. l.anfl
Office, Juneau, Alaska, November 2f,
1C 12.
Nonce is hereby given tnat tne knights
island Copper Mining Company, a cor
poration organized and existing under
and by virtue or the laws of the Ter
ritory or Alaska, by S. A. Hemple, its at
torney In ract, whose postoffice address
is Valdez, Alaska, has made application
Tor a patent Tor twelve hundred rorty-one
linear feet of the Appolla Lode, lode,
mine or vein; nrteen Hundred linear feet
of the Hercules Lode, lode, mine or
vein; fifteen hundred linear feet or tne
Bald Knob Lode, lode, mine or vein;
thirteen hundred rorty-three and clgnt
tenths linear rcet of the Mogul Lode,
lode, mine or vein; thirteen hundred nine
ty linear feet or the One Dime No. 2
Lode, lode, mine or vein: lirteen hundred
linear feet or the One Dime Lode, lode,
mine or vein, all bearing copper, wiin
surface ground six hundred feet in widtn
on each or said lodes, situated In tne
Valdez Mining District, Territory or
Alaska, and described in tbe oincisi plat
and by tbe Held notes on tile in tne
office or tbe Register or the U. 8. Land
Office at Juneau, Territory or Alaska, as
follows, to-wtt:
APPOLLA LOOK.
Beginning at Corner No 1, a green
stone 84” x 10” x 10" set 12” In the
ground, with mound or stone cniseied
with a cross ( ) and 736-a1, rrom
which U. S. Location Monument No. 17
bears N. 12 deg. 53 min. E. 355.44 reet
distant; thence N. 24 deg. 04 min E.
583.80 reet to Corner No. 2; thence s.
68 deg. 24 min. E. 1241.00 reet to
Corner No. 3; thence S. 24 deg. 04 min.
VV. 600.54 reet to Corner No. 4; thence
N. 67 deg. 38 min. VV. 1240.14 reet 10
Corner No. 1, the place or beginning.
HERCULES 1 ODE.
Beginning at Corner No. 1, which is
Identical with Corner No. 4 or the Ap
polio Lode, rrom which U. S. L. M. No.
17 bears N. 52 deg. 55 min. W. 1340.93
reet distant; thence N. 24 deg. 04 min.
E 600.54 reet to Corner No. 2; thence s.
72 deg. 54 min. E. 1500.00 reet to cor
ner No. 3; thence S. 24 deg. 04 min. W.
604.48 reet to Corner No. 4; thence N.
72 deg. 45 min. W. 1499.49 tect to cor
ner No. 1, the place or beginning.
BALD KNOB LODE.
Beginning at Corner No. 1, rrom
which U. S. L. M. No. 17 bears N. 65
deg. 29 min. W. 2779.32 reet distant;
thence S. 88 deg. 32 min. r. 1500.00 reet
to Corner No. 2; thence S. 27 deg. 32
min. VV. 598.20 reet to Corner No 3;
thence N. 89 deg. 13 min. W. 1508.03
reet to Corner No 4; thence N. 27 deg.
32 min. E. 618.20 reet to Corner No. l,
the place or beginning.
MOGUL LODE.
Beginning at Corner No. 1, rrom which
U. S. L. M. No. 17 bears N. 65 deg. 49
min. VV. 3058.50 reet distant; thence N.
24 deg. 27 min. E. 673.09 reet to 'cor
ner No 2; thence N. 87 deg. 30 min.
E. 1343.80 reet to Corner No. 3; thence
S. 24 deg. 27 min. W. 673.09 reet to
Corner No 4; thence S. 87 deg. 30 mm.
\V. 1343.80 reet to Corner No. l, the
place or beginning.
ONE DIME NO. 2 LODE.
Beginning at Corner No. 1 rrom whlcn
U. S. L. M. No. 17 bears N. 37 deg. 38
min. E. 353.19 reet distant; thence 8.
67 deg. 38 min. E. 1390.00 reet to Cor
ner No. 2; thence S. 27 deg. 32 min. VV.
600.00 reet to Corner No. 3; thence N.
67 deg. 38 min. VV. 1390.00 reet to
Corner No. 4; thence N. 27 deg. 32 mm.
E. 600.00 reet to Corner No. 1, the
place or beginning.
ONE DIME LODE.
Reglnnlng at Corner No. 1, identical
with Corner No. 4 Appolla Lode, Corner
No. 1 Hercules Lode and corner No. 2
one Dime No. 2 Lode, all or this survey,
rrom which U. S. L. M. iso. l - hears N.
52 deg, 55 min. W. 1340.93 tint distant;
thence S. 76 deg. 43 min. E. 1500.00
foet to Corner No. 2; thence 8. 27 drg.
32 min. VV. 618.20 reet to Comer No. 3;
thence N. 76 deg. 02 min. VV. 1495.66
foet to Corner No. 4; thence n. 27 CP'S.
32 min E. 600.00 foet to corn.'." No. i,
the place or beginning.
Variations at all corners or this survey
26 deg. 4 7 min. E.
AREA8
mica ntira
Area or Appolla Lode.10.853
Area of Hercules Lode . . . . 20.595
Area or Bald Knob Lode . 1.3 800
Less area In conflict with
Hercules Lode .... onto
Net area Bald Knob Lode . . is ?oi
Area Mogul Lode .... 18.50V
Less area in conflict with
Bald Knob Lode .... 1.379
Net area Mogul Lode.17.130
Area One Dime No. 2 Lode . . . 19.068
Area One Dime Lode . . . 20.329
Less area In conll.ct with
Hercules Lode.1.759
Net area One Dime Lode . . . . 18.570
Net area Ini Survey No. 736 . . it0.977
The presumed course or the lode line
on the Appolla Lode is S. 68 deg. 24
min. E., on the Hercules Lode S. 72
deg. 54 min. E., on the Mogul Lode N
87 deg. 30 min. E. on the Bald Knob
Lode 88 t.eg. 32 min. W., on tne one
Dime No. 2 Lode N. 67 deg. 38 mm. W„
on the One Dime N. 76 deg. 43 mm. YV.
through the center lengthwise or eacn
or said claims.
The location notices or said lode mm
ing claims are recorded in the U s.
Commissioner's and ex-otllcio’s oillce at
Yraldez, Alaska In Book C. or Aiming Lo
cations on Page 92, in Book E. on Page
279,, In Book C on Page 91, In Book E.
on Page 426 and In Book H. on Page
69 respectively.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly any portion or said Appolla Lode,
Hercules Lode, Mogul Lode, Bald Kpoh
Lode one Dime Lode No. 2, or One
Dime' Lode are required to tile their
adverse claims with the Register or tne
United States Land oillce at Juneau,
Alaska, during the sixty day period or
publication hereof or within eight months
thereafter, or they will be barred by
provisions of the statute.
Knights island Copper Mlnllng Company
By S. A HEMPLE,
Attorney in Fact
UNITED STATEo LAND OFFICE
Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 27, 1912
It Is hereby ordered that the rorego
lng notice be published In the Valdez
Prospector, the newspaper published
nearest the said mining claims Tor a
period or sixty days.
C. B. YYLALKEll, Register
Date or First Publication Dec. 6 1912
Date of Last Publication Feb. 15, 1913.
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(<Facts Are Facts.”
„ It i - a fact that Valdez beer is a food and not a tonic.
Ask any doctor you know. Valdez beer aids digestion. Use
it a few times with your meals and you’ll And we’re right.
If you drink beer you should use Valdez beer in preference to
others. First, because of ite unquestionable high quality.
Second, because it is a home product; brewed in your home
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ity of Valdez should patroniz home products.
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