ALASKA’S NEW
MINING LAW
EFFECTIVE JULY 20, 1915
An Act to supplement the mining laws of the United States in the Territory of Alaska,
and to repeal an act entitled “An Act to supplement the mining laws of the United
States in their application to the Territory of Alaska; providing for the location and
possession of mining claims in Alaska, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in con
flict herewith to the extent of such conflicts,” approved April 30, 1913.”
Placer Claims—How Located
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:
Section 1. Any person qualified under the laws of the United States, wrho discovers ,
upon the public domain within the Territory of Alaska a placer deposit of gold or other ;
mineral which is subject to entry and patent under the mining laws of the United States, ;
may locate a mining claim thereon in the following manner, to wit:
First—He shall post, or write upon the initial post, stake or monument on the claim,
a notice of location containing: (a) The name or number of the claim; (b) the name of
the locator or locators; (c) the date of discovery and of posting notice on the claim;
(d1 the number of feet in length and width of the claim.
This notice shall be known as the location notice. . .
Second lie shall distinctly mark the location on the ground so that its boundaries j
can be readily traced, by placing at each corner or angle thereof substantial stakes, or j
posts, not less than three feet high above the ground and three inches in diameter, hewed
on four sides; or by placing at each corner or angle thereof mounds of earth or rock not
less than three feet high and three feet in diameter, and the stakes, posts or monuments
so used must be marked with the name or number of the claim and the designation, by
number, of the corner or angle. The initial stake or monument shall be one of the corner
stakes, posts or monuments of the claim located.
If the claim is located on ground that is covered wholly or in part with brush or trees,
such brush or trees shall be cut or blaxed along the lines of such claim, so as to be readily
traced.
If located in an open country, the boundary lines shall be located by placing line
stakes or line monuments so as to be readily traced from corner to corner of said claim.
Recording of Certificate of Location
Sec. 2. Within ninety days after the discovery and posting of the notice aforesaid, the
locator shall record with the recorder of the district wherein such claim is situated a cer
tificate of location. Such certificate shall contain: (a) The name or number of the claim;
(b' the name of the locator or locators; (c) the date of discovery and of posting of the lo
cation notice; (d) the number of feet in length and width of claim; (e) it shall set forth
ihe description with reference to some natural object, permanent monument, or well
known mining claim, together with a description of the boundaries thereof so far as ap
plied to the numbering of stakes or monuments. A failure to record a certificate of loca
tion of claim as herein provided shall operate as and be deemed abandonment thereof, and
the ground so located shall be open to relocation; provided, that if a full compliance with
the preceding provisions of this act shall have been made before any location by another,
such compliance shall operate to prevent the abandonment or forfeiture of such claim and
save the rights of the original locator.
Annual Assessment Work
Sec. 3. No association placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska in
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excess of forty acres, and on every individual or association placer mining claim located
in Alaska after August 1, 1912, and until patent has been issued therefor, not less than
one hundred (1100) dollars’ worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made dur
ing each calendar year, including the year of location, for each and every twenty acres or
fraction thereof, and where the title of two or more contiguous placer claims has become
vested in the same person or persons, or corporation, the said annual assessment work or
improvements may be done or made at any place or places on said contiguous placer
claims; provided, that such work or improvements inures to and is for the benefit of the
entire area of such placer claims. In computing the value of assesment work or im
provements, the rate of wages paid in the vicinity for similar work shall be allowed.
Cost of Survey May Be Credited
Sec. 4. And it is further provided that a survey of the claim or claims by a United
States mineral surveyor may be credited to annual assessment work, but in no case shall
the credit for such survey and its attendant expense exceed the required assessment for
one year on the claim or claims surveyed. When credit is sought for such work or im
provment, the claimant must file in the recorder’s office in the district in which the
claim is situated the field notes of the survey, together with a voucher showing the cost of
such survey, properly attested by the surveyor, incorporated into the proof of annual
labor, as in case of other class of labor or improvements, as provided for in Section seven
(7) of this act.
Size of Claim* and Disposal of Excess
Sec. 5. That no individual placer mining location hereafter made shall be more than
thirteen hundred twenty (1320) feet in its greatest length ; and no association placer mining
claim hereafter located shall be more than two thousand six hundred forty (2640) feet
in its greatest length. Any location made containing an excess of ground beyond the lim
its prescribed in this act, either in area or length, may be relocated as to such excess, but
such relocation shall be upon that end of the claim farthest from the initial stake, post or
monument.
Powers of Attorney
Sec. 6. That no power of attorney for the location of placer mining claims in Alaska
shall be valid or have any force or effect whatsoever, nor shall any locations made there
under be valid or have any force or effect unless such power of attorney be duly executed
and acknowledged before an officer authorized to administer oaths and recorded in the
office of the recorder for the district in which such claim is located prior to the date of
the filing for record of any location thereunder. And no person shall be authorized to
act as agent or attorney for the location of placer mining claims except under written
power of attorney duly executed and acknowledged, and no person shall be competent to
act as agent or attorney in fact for the location of placer mining claims for more than
one individual in any one recording district during the same calendar month. That no
person shall hereafter locate, or cause to be located for himself, more than two placer
mining claims in any one calendar month in any one recording district, one or both of
which locations may be included in association claims.
Kecoraing oi Annual Asieiimenx worx
Sec. 7. In order to hold a claim or claims after the annual assessment work has been
done thereon, the owner of such claim or claims, or some other person having knowledge
of the facts, shall make and file an affidavit of the performance of such assessment work
with the recorder of the district in which such claim or claims is or are located, not later
than ninety (90) days after the close of the calendar year in which such work was done,
or the improvements made, which affidavit shall 6et forth the following: (a) The name
and number of the claim and where situated; (b) the number of the days’ work and the
character and vslue of the improvements made thereon; (c) the date of the performance
of such labor and the making of such improvements; (d) the place where such w'ork was
done and improvements made with reference to the boundaries of such claim; (e) at
whose instance the work was done and improvements made; (f) the actual amount paid
for such work and improvements and by whom paid, when such work was not done or
improvements made by the owner. The failure to file for record the proof of assessment
work as herein provided shall be deemed an abandonment of the location, and the claim
shall be subject to relocation by any other person; provided, however, that a compliance
with the provisions of this section before any relocation shall operate to save the rights
of the original locator; and further provided, that if said placer claim or claims have not
been relocated by any other person or persons within one year after such forfeiture, the
last locator, claimant'or owner of such forfeited claim may return to said forfeited claim
or claims and relocate the same as though the same had never been located.
Penalty for False Affidavits
Sec. S. Any person who shall make or subscribe any affidavit required to be made
under the provisions of this act, knowing the statements therein contained, or any of
them, to be false, in whole or in part, or without knowing the statements therein con
tained to be true, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five
years. Any person who shall induce or procure, or shall aid in inducing or procuring an
other to commit perjury as herein defined shall be guilty of subornation of perjury, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished as herein provided for perjury.
Wrongful Locations Void
Sec. 9. That any placer mining claim located or attempted to be located in violation
of any of the provisions of this act shall be null and void and revert to the public domain,
and may be located by any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made.
Lode Claimi—How Located
Sec. 10. Any person who discovers upon the public domain of the United States,
within the Territory of Alaska, a vein, lode or ledge of rock in place, bearing gold, silver,
cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other valuable mineral deposit, which is subject to entry
and patent under the mining laws of the United States, may, if qualified by the laws of
the United States, locate a lode mining claim upon such vein, lode or ledge by defining
and marking the 'discovery point and the boundaries of the claim, in the manner herein
after described, and by posting a notice of such location at the point of discovery.
Notice of Location—Contents Of
Sec. 11. The notice of location posted upon the claim must contain the following:
First—The name of the lode or claim. Second—The name of the locator or locators.
Third—The number of linear feet claimed in length along the center line of the claim,
each way from the point of discovery, with the width on each side of center line of the
claim at the surface, and the general course of the vein or lode, as near as can be deter
mined.
Diicovery—How Defined
Sec. 12. The discovery upon which the location is based must, at the time of loca
tion, be defined upon the ground by the removal of so much of the surface material as
may be necessary clearly to expose to view the discovery claimed, and in such manner as
to perpetuate its identity, and preserve it, so far as practicable, from obliteration; also
its locus must be witnessed by erecting a substantial monument or post, bearing the notice
of location, as near the discovery as practicable.
Boundariet and Extent of Lode Claimt
Sec. 13. The locator must so define the boundaries of his claim upon the ground
that they may be readily traced, and in no case shall the claim extend more than fifteen
hundred (1500) feet along the center line of the claim, nor more than three hundred
(300) feet on either side of the center line of the claim, at the surface thereof, as near as
can be determined. In no case shall the markings of the boundaries of the claim upon
the ground consist of less than the following: The erection at each corner of the claim
and at each angle in the side lines, if such there be, of a substantial monument or stake,
or the blaring of a tree, at least three inches in diameter, each of which shall bear the
initial of the lode or claim and a designation as to the point upon the boundaries of the
claim which the said monument represents. The center line and both end lines shall be
marked by blazing trees or by cutting brush, or the erecting of line monuments, as the
nature of the country requires, so that the lines of the location may be readily traced
upon the ground. Where the true point for a corner or angle corner is for any reason in
accessible or the erection of a monument thereat is impracticable, a witness monument
may be erected as near to the true point as practicable, which witness monument must
be so marked as to indicate with reference thereto the position of the true point for the
corner or angle point. Such witness corner or monument shall not be of lesser size than
is prescribed for other corners. The completion of the marking of the boundaries of the
claim upon the ground shall follow the posting of the notice of location within a reason
able time, not to exceed thirty (30) days.
Record of Location
Sec. 14. Within ninety (90) days of the posting of the location notice upon the
claim a certificate of location shall be recorded with the recorder of the district within
which the claim is located. Such certificate must contain date of location, name or names
of locator or locators, and such a description of the claim, with reference to some natural
object or permanent monument, as will identify the claim located, and may also contain
such further matter as will serve to more completely describe the boundaries and locus
of the claim.
Amenaea Locations ana Lertmcates
Sec. 15. A locator or claimant may at any time, subject to intervening rights, amend
his location and make any desired change in his boundaries, by marking the location, as,
amended, upon the ground, and by filing an amended certificate of location, such marking,
and certificate to conform to the requirements of this act with reference to an original
location. A defect in a recorded certificate of location may be cured by fifing an amended
certificate.
Tunnel Right—Location Of
Sec. 16. Any person who possesses the qualifications necessary for the locator of a
lode may locate a tunnel right or location by posting a notice of location at the portal
of the tunnel, which notice mu6t contain: First—The name of the locator or locators.
Second—The date of location. Third—The proposed course or direction of tunnel.
Fourth—Such a description of the tunnel, with reference to some natural object or per
manent monument, as will serve to identify it.
Boundaries of the Tunnel Location
The boundaries of the tunnel location shall be marked upon the ground by means of
stakes or monuments placed along the proposed course or direction of the tunnel at inter
vals of not more than six hundred (600) feet from the portal of the tunnel to the ter
minus of three thousand (3000) feet therefrom, and the fine blazed as required under
lodes.
Record of Location
Shall be performed as required under lodes.
Assessment Work on Tunnel Sites
During each year, including the year of location, five hundred (1500) dollars’ worth
of labor shall be performed or improvements made on each tunnel site heretofore or here
after located; and proof of such annual labor shall be made and recorded in the manner
required under the provisions of this act relating to lode claims; provided, that the cost of
making survey of such tunnel site shall not be counted toward such annual expenditure.
Location of Millsite Claims
Sec. 17. The proprietor of a lode claim (or the owner of a quartz mill or a reduction
works situate upon the land proposed to be located) may locate not more than five acres
of non-mineral land as a millsite, by posting thereon a notice of location and by marking
the boundaries thereof as hereinafter provided. The notice of location must contain:
First—The name of the locator or locators. Second—The name of the lode claim or
claims to which the millsite is appurtenant, or of the quartz mill or reduction works, '
owned by the locator or locators. Third—The date of location. Fourth—The amount of
surface ground claimed. Fifth—Such a description of the millsite with reference to some
natural object or permanent monument as will identify it. The boundaries and corners of
the millsite must be marked upon the ground in the same manner as required by the act
for lode locations. Recording shall be performed as required under lodes.
Assessment Work on Millsites
During each calendar year after the year of location and until patent has been issued
therefor, at least twenty-five (S25) dollars’ worth of labor shall be performed or im
provements made upon each millsite claim heretofore or hereafter located in the Territory
of Alaska. And the locator or owner of such claim, or some person having knowledge of
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the facts, shall make and file with the recorder of the district in which the claim is situate
an affidavit showing the performance of labor or making of improvements to the amount
of twenty-five ($25) dollars as aforesaid, and specify the character and extent of such
work in the manner set forth in this act under the provisions relating to proof of labor on
lode claims. And the recorder shall collect a fee for filing, indexing and recording each
such proof of annual labor on millsites, of the same amount and in a similar manner as
hereinafter provided under the section of this act relating to proofs of labor on lode
claims: Provided, That the claimant or owner of any millsite claim in the Territory of
Alaska shall have the privilege of paying on or before the 31st day of December of the
current year to the territorii treasurer of Alaska the sum of twenty-five ($25) dollars,
lawful money of the United States, in lieu of expending the said amount on labor or im
provements on the said millsite claim in said current year. The territorial treasurer shall
issue a receipt therefor, which receipt shall bear upon its face the name of the said mill
site claim, the name of the claimant thereto, the name of the person making the payment,
and such description of or reference to the location notice of the said claim as will positively
identify it; and the recording of such receipt with the recorder of the district in which
such claim is situate, within ninety (90) days after the issue thereof, shall be deemed
the equivalent of the performance of twenty-five ($25) dollars’ worth of annual labor or
making of improvements on or for the benefit of said millsite claim: Provided also, That
the cost of making a survey of such millsite claim by a United States mineral surveyor
shall be deemed to fall within the meaning of the term “making of improvements,” as here
inbefore used; the procedure in such case to follow the requirments of this act relating to
the survey of lode claims in all respects.
Survey of Mining Claim*
Sec. 18. Where a locator or owner of a lode, tunnel site or millsite claim has all the
exterior lines, or the boundaries of his claim surveyed, and the corners established by a
United States mineral surveyor, corner No. I of the location should be connected by
course and distance with the nearest corner of the public survey or with a United States
monument, if the claim lies within two miles of such corner or monument. In case the
claim is situated in a district where there are no corners of the public survey and no
monuments within the prescribed limits, the United States mineral surveyor will pro
ceed to establish such mineral monument in accordance with the requirements of the
United States mining laws. The locator will incorporate into his amended location notice
the field notes of said survey, w-hich shall contain a certificate by said mineral surveyor
setting forth: First—That such survey was actually made by him in his own proper per
son, giving the date thereof, and the name of all assistants. Second—The name of the
claim and locator or locators thereof. Third—That the description incorporated into the
amended location notice is sufficient to identify the locus of the claim. An amended
location notice, including said field notes and accompanying certificate, is prima facie evi
dence of the facts therein contained, and shall be recorded with the recorder of the district
within which the claim is located.
Annul! A**es*ment Work
Sec. 19. On each location one hundred ($100) dollars’ worth of labor ahall be per
formed or improvements made during each calendar year until the register’s final certifi
cate therefor has been issued: Provided. That the period within which the work required
to be done annually on all unpatented lode claims shall commence on the first day of
January succeeding the date of location of such claim; and if the claim includes more
than one location, under one ownership, and the locations are contiguous, the annual as
sessment work, to an amount of one hundred ($100) dollars for each included location,
may be done in common, provided such work and improvement tends to the benefit of
the entire group, in accordance with a systematic plan therefor.
Sec. 20. And it is further provided that a survey of the claim or claims by a United
States mineral surveyor may be credited to annual assessment work, but in no case shall
the credit for such survey and its attendant expense exceed the required assessment for
one year on the claim or claims surveyed. When credit is sought for such work or im
provement, the claimant must file in the recorder’s office in the district in which the
claim lies the field notes of the survey, together with a voucher showing the cost of such
survey, properly attested by the surveyor, incorporated into the proof of annual labor, as
in case of other classes of labor or improvements, as provided for in Section 19 of this aet.
Recording of Affidavit of Annual Labor
Sec. 21. The owner of a lode claim or claims, %r some other person having a knowl
edge of the facts, shall record with the recorder of the district wherein such lode claim or
claims is or are situated, an affidavit showing the performance of annual labor or the
making of improvements to the value of one hundred ($100) dollars upon or for the
benefit of each claim: Provided, That the owner of a group of contiguous lode claims may
incorporate within a single affidavit his proof of labor performed or improvements made
upon or for the benefit of each, any or all of the locations embraced within such groups.
In all cases the affidavit shall set forth the following: First—The name of the claim or
claims, and where situated. Second—A detailed description of the work done or improve
ments made upon or for the benefit of each claim, together with the location of the same
with reference to the boundaries of the claim. Third—The date of performance of such
labor or of making of improvements. Fourth—The number of days’ work done on or for
the benefit of the claim, and the character and value of the improvements made. Fifth—
At whose instance the work was done and improvements made. Sixth—The actual amount
paid for such work and improvements, and by whom paid. Seventh—The wages charged,
which shall be at the customary daily rate prevailing in the district in which the work is
done. Eighth A declaration that the time or expense of traveling to and from the claims
has not been included in computing the cost of such assessment work. Ninth—That not
more than eight hours’ work per man in any one day has been charged to such assessment
work. Such affidavit shall be filed with the recorder of the district within which the claim
cr claims are located, not later than ninety (90) days from the close of the calendar year
during which the work was done or improvements made. For the filing, recording and
indexing of such affidavit the recorder shall receive the customary fee for the filing of
a notice of location of a mining claim in the district wherein he is recorder, and in addi
tion thereto, the sum of twenty-five (25) cents for each and every claim included in the
affidavit above a single claim, when such affidavit covers a group of contiguous locations.
Should the locator of a lode claim, tunnel site or millsite (or his heirs or assignsl fail to
comply with any of the provisions of Sections ten (10) to twenty-one (21), inclusive, of
this act, the burden of proof shall be upon the owner of such claim or claims as to the
compliance with the provisions hereof. In the event of any failure, a relocation of the
lands involved shall be void if made directly by or indirectly in the interest of such de
linquent locator or his successors in interest, until one calendar year shall have elapsed
since the failure obtained.
I ?ec- 22. That Chapter 74, Alaska Session Laws, 1913, and all other acts or parts of
* acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved April 20, 1915.
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I The Whitehorse Star of April 9 has the
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“Three White Pass sleighs laden with eggs
I and being hauled down the river en route
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; “While nearly three hundred cases of the
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ERRONEOUS REPORT DENIED
Some time ago the report was published
that Captain Sid Barrington of the Side
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Location Notices at Pioneer office.
ORDER
In the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Fourth Judicial Division.—In the
matter of a Special Term of Court at
Iditarod, Alaska.
It satisfactorily appearing that it is nec
essary for the public welfare, and for the
despatch of the business of this court, that
a special term of said court be held at Idit
arod, in Otter precinct, commencing at 11
a. m. June 28, 1915, and the judge of said
court now deeming it expedient to hold such
term.
It is ordered: That a special term of th'S
court be held at said town of Iditarod, com
mencing 11 a m. June 28, 1915, and that
the clerk of this court cause due notice to
be given thereof.
Witness the Hon. Charles E. Bunnell,
judge of the district court for the Fourth
judicial division, Territory of Alaska, this
28th day of May, 1915, and the seal thereof.
(Seal) J. E. CLARK, Clerk.
By G. G. GERAGHTY, Deputy.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court, Otter Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska.—In tbe matter of the
Estate of Joseph .Nolet, deceased. No. 2*.
Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed has been duly appointed adminis
trator of tbe estate of Joseph Nolet, de
ceased, and all persons having claims
against the estate of the said Joseph Nolet
are hereby notified to present tbe same,
verified in tbe manner required by law, to
tbe undersigned at his residence on Front
street, in the town of Discovery, Otter,
Otter Precinct, Alaska.
PETER THIBAULT.
Dated May 27, 1915.
Date or (lrst publication, May 29. 1915..
Date of last publication, June 19, 1915.
Nolle* of Forfaltura
To Robert Mathson:
You are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended In labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollar*
(81001 for the year of Hit upon the
Gold Run Group placer mining claim, situ
ated on Little creek, a tributary of Gane*
creek. In innoko mining and recording dis
trict, district of Alaska. Notice or location
recorded in Vol. 10, Page 96, Innoko Min
ing Records.
You are rurther notified that If at th«
expiration of ninety (90) days arter the
last publication of this notice you fall or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure, your Interest In said
rlaim will become the property of the un
dersigned, your co-owner, under Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes or the United
SUtes.
ROBERT EVANS. Co-owner.
Date of flrst publication, April 17 tail.
Date of last publication, July 17, 1918.