“NOT FOR ME; ILL STAY WITH THE WOOD
AND MOOSE AND SPDDS, YOU BET!"
Takotna, Alaska, Jan. 20, 1018.
Iditarod Pioneer: You had better
move over to the land of spuds, cab
bage, cauliflower, beets, carrots, cel
ery, cucumbers, tomatoes, home-grown
pork, chickens and eggs, with moose
and sheep on the side, for the Nixon
strike is bona fide.
Mespelt and llhude. on a pup, right
limit, near head of Hidden creek, are
27 feet to bedrock and have 12 feet of
gravel running from lc top to 3c at
bedrock, which is granite. This pup
stands on end. Then, above them, on
the next pup, Ansio can not get down,
as it is thawed, panned out a 20c nugget
and several pieces going 1 to 3 grains.
He will have to run up a drain. Then,
between these two, H. E. Carter has
pay on a one-claim pup. Then below
Mesfelt and Rhude is Ed Whelan,
Jones and Griffin with pay. 1 am of
fered $2,000 cash for a half-interest in
(i-b. on Hidden, at the mouth of this
pup.
Just over a low saddle from the head
of this pup on Ruby, Charley Pearson
has a large body of gravel carrying
values as high as 30c in shotty gold.
His last shaft runs from 2c top to 10c
on bedrock, which is hard granite
that is not broken up. Dan Aston has
taken a lay on No. 3-b. on Ruby, and
is now taking in his outfit. George
Walters aud Jake Estelman started for
there this morning, as they own 1. and
2-b. Vankirk and George — ac
companying them. There is still plenty
of ground to be staked, with nlenty of
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wood, water, meat and vegetables righ
in the country to live on—not like it
is at Good News Bay, where C. A.
Fowler writes his partner. Frank Joa
quin, that there are only 3J claims with
pay and no prospects on adjoining
creeks. There is no wood or game, and
it blows hurricanes with rain, fog or
snow all the time. Not for me! I’ll
(stay with the wood and moose and
j spuds, you bet.
| The Nixon will make a summer and
I winter camp, as it is frozen, and 3 or 4
i times deeper than any one thought.
| There is enough now in sight to make
'a small camp, but believe me it will
grow when they get some prospecting
boilers in there.
Tom A ilk on is busy getting his 470
tons of dredge materials out to Candle.
He has let the contract to haul 100 tons
to Dave Edwards, it is reported, as one
of his horses has been laid up with a
lame knee.
i The boys on Karl creek will have
their ground ready to hydraulic the
the coming season. The small cut
they run last fall averaged 54c to the
square foot, and because their drain
was not deep enough they had to leave
two feet of pay under them until they
deepen the drain next spring. Say,
Buck, come over and get a square meal
and then take a look around and see
for yourself, phone and wireless bul
letins. Yours truly, \V. F. Green.
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MASONIC ORDER GIVES BIG
SUM FOR WAR CAUSE
New York Dec. 6.—An emergency
war relief fund of $1,100,000 was unani
mously voted at the final session of the
Supreme Council of Scottish Rite
Masons for the Northern Masonic
jurisdiotion of the United States. The
fund will be distributed for the care
and comfort of United States soldiers
and their dependents.
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The bright lights that nightly give
the lower end of Willow street such a
cheerful appearance is caused by the
old Miners’ Home saloon premises
being oceupied by Captain Elmer .T.
Smith as bis general offices and works
during the construction period of his
big boat-building program. There’ll
be plenty of industrial activity in that
part of the city during the next few
months.
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January lib.
While declining to comment directly
upon the statement attributed to Pres
ident Wilson to the effect that there
will he twice as many American sol
diers abroad next June as had been
originally planned, Secretary of War
Baker said: “I cannot discuss the num
bers of men in France, or anticipated
to be in France at any particular time,
but we have made substantial pro
gress.
The food problem in the Allied conn- j
| tries is assuming so serious an aspect I
! that the President, feels it is necessary
! to request the American people to [
j practice food conservation on a more j
I extensive plan than formerly. This!
I request will be embodied in a White- i
i Bouse proclamation to be issued to- j
j nsght.
! The packing interests of the United
| States were charged today by Francis \
| J. Heney, who is the special counsel!
' for the Federal Trade Commission's in- j
' vestigation into the meat-packing in- ;
J dustry. with having attempted to bring
! influence to bear upon the President to j
' have him stop the present investiga-,
: tion.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Estate of E. L. Robinson, Deceased.
C. I. Surridge has been appointed
and qualilied as administrator of the
said estate of E. L. Robinson, late of
the Kuskokwim precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated this 10th day of December,
A. I)., 1917. D. E. Stubbs,
Probate Judge of Said Precinct.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Charles Courtright, and to his heirs
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned has expended in money. labor
and improvements during the year 1910
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100)
upon placer mining claim known as the
Ophir Fraction, on Willow creek, a
tributary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording district, territory
of Alaska, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law respect
ing annual labor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the
last publication of ihis notice you fail
or refuse to pay your proportion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of tiie under
signed co-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States
Dona LaChance, Co-owner.
First publication, January 5, 1918.
East publication, April G, 1918.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. F. Baird, Marie Baird and Char
les Hoxsie, and to their heirs and as
signs:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned have expended in each of t.he
years"l915 and 1910 the sum of one hun
dred dollars in labor and improvements
upon each of the-placer mining claims
known and described as follows, to wit:
The Rainbow association, situated at
the head of Flat creek, in Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division, territory of
Alaska, the location certificate of which
is found of record in book one of loca
tions, page 318, in the office of the re
corder* for said precinct: the Montana
association, adjoining the above-de
scribed Rainbow association, the Loca
iton certificate of which is found of rec
ord in volume one of Locations, page
318, in the office of the recorder of said
precinct; in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of Section 2.121 ol
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, 1880,concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claims for the periods ending on
the 31st, day of December, 1915, and 1910.
And if, within ninety days from the
personal serviceof this notice, or within
ninety days after the publication there
of, you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your interests in the said two
placer mining claims will become the
property of the subscribers, your co
owners, who have made the required
expenditures, by the terms of said sec
tion. Geo. VV. Albrecht.
uuas. E. Taylor.
First, publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2. 1918.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
! To Ous Johnson, his heirs and assigns:
: Yon are hereby notified that during
each of the years of 191:1, 1914, 1915 and
191G the undersigned has expended at
least one hundred dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the follow
ing named placer mining claims, to-wit:
Lower 3, 4 and 5 above upper discovery
on Ophir creek in the Innoko mining
and recording district, in the territory
of Alaska, in which mining locations
you claim an undivided one-half inter
est, as shown by the records of said re
cording district. The said labor was
performed as and for the annual repre
sentation of the said claims and each of
them for the said years of 1913, 1914,
! 1915 and 1916 as required bv the laws
of the United States concerning annual
■ labor upon mining claims, and the
| same was the amount required to hold
i said claims for said years. You are
further notified that unless within 9>)
days after the completed service of
this notice upon you and within 90 days
! after the publication thereof, you con
tribute your portion of said expendi
ture as a co-owner, to-wit: The sum of
| t.wo hundred dollars for each of said
claims and six hundred dollars in all,
your interest in said claims or in any
one of which >ou so fail to contribute
will be forfeited to the undersigned,
who has made such expenditure, and
will become his property in the manner
provided by lawn
Dated at Ophir September 4, 1917.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Co-owner.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2,1918,
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