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ALASKA WATER, LIGHT & TELE. CO.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William llogan.
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended during the year
1912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three
cents, lawful money of the Unit
ed States, in labor and improve
ments, upon your two-ninths in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrock”
claim; the "Tramp” claifci; the
, "Star No. 2” claim; the “Mother
Hill” claim; the "Beach” claim,
and the "Last. Chance” claim,’ the
loeatioh notices of said claims be
ing of] record in the office of the
Commissioner and Recorder, at
Valdez. Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lode claims
for the period ending on the 31st
day of December, 1912.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-wit: with
in ninety days after the 6th day of
July, 1913, you contribute your
proportion of such expenditure
incurred n performing said an
nual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents, your interest in
the claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber of this no
tice, your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure,
by the terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
5th day of April, 1913.
S. A. HEMPLE.
Dale of first pub. April 6, 1913
Date of last pub. July 6, 1913.
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The Prospector for job work.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
1'u H. Muir, your iieirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby uolilied and
will Lake notice that I, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars (§100;
in labor and improvements upon
the “Minnie” lod<e mining Claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
pago reference is hweby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
klred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
. If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents (§18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Duted Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913. 1
T. E. DOUGERTY.
Date first pdb. April 24. 1913.
Date last pub. July 26, 1913. |
NOTICE OF SPECIAL
Terms ol' the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Tliiro
Division, at Naknek, Dilling
ham, Unalaska, Unga, Kodiak,
and Seward, Alaska.
The President of the United
States of Ainericg:
To the residents of Ihe Third Di
vision of the Territory of Alas
j ka, and to all,whom if may con
cern :
Greeting:
You and each and all of you
will please lake notice that by an
order of Ihe Court, duly made and
enleifcd, a Special Term of the
District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, has
been called and will he held at
the town of Naknek beginning
on the 4th day of August, 1913.
at 10 o'clock a. in.; in the town
of Dillingham beginning on the
4th day of August, 1913, at 10
o’clock a. m.; in the town of Un
alaska beginning on the 18th day
of August, 1913, at 10'o’clock a. |
m.; in the town of Unalaska be
ginning on the 21st day of Aug
ust, 1913, at 10 o’clock a. m.; m
the town of Unga beginning on
the 25th day of August, 1913, at
10 o’clock a. m.; in the town ol
I nga beginning on the 29th day
of August, 1913, at 10 o’clock a.
m.; in the town of Kodiak begin
ning on the 1st day of Septem
ber, 1.913, at 10 o’clock a. m.; in
the town of Kodiak beginning on
the filh ray of September, 1913, at
10 o’clock a. in.; and in the town
of Seward beginning on the 22nd
day of September,. 1913, at 10
o’clock a. m.; and said Special
Terms of Court will continue as
long thereafter as the public wel
fare may require.
Dated ab Valdez this 7lh day of
April. A. D. 1913.
PETER D. OVERFIELD, •
District Judge.
JAS. O. McREYNOLDS,
Attorney General.
Attest: ANGUS McBRIDE,
0l6rk
Date first pub. April 12, 1913.
Date last pub. May 17. 1913.
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NEW MINING LAW
AS PASSED
General Provisions Concerning
'Lode and Placer Mining
Claims.
i Following is the new Koden
law recently passed at Juneau to
suplemcnt the mining laws of the
United States in their application
to the Territory of Alaska. Here
is the hilt:
Section t. That no person shall
hereafter locate any mining claim
in the Territory of Alaska as at
torney for another unless he is
<1 uly authorized thereto by a pow
er of attorney in writing, which
will be witnessed by two witness
es but need not be acknowledged,
and recorded in the office of the
recorder in whose precinct each
location is made, previous to the
date of the initiation of such lo
cation.
Section 2. That the value of
work or labor done under the pro
visions of this act shall be com
puted on the basis of the wage
for similar work current in the
precinct wherein the claim is sit
uate.
Section 3. That during each
year and until patent has been
issued therefor, not less.than one
hundred dollars worth of labor
shall be performed or improve
ments made on, or for the benefit
of each and every lode mining
claim, and one hundred dollars
worth of labor shall be perform
ed or improvements made on or
for the benefit of each and every
twenty acres or fractional part
thereof contained in any placer
claim hereafter located and after
the twenty-first day of December,
1911, one hundred dollars worth
of labor shall be performed or
improvdinents made on or for the
]benefit of each and every twenty
jacres, or fractional part thereof
;contained in any claim hereto
' fore located, and such work shall
j be known as “annual assessment
i work.” The owner of such claim
| or some other person having
'knowledge of the facts, shall make
and file, with the recorder of the
! precinct wherein such claim is
! situate, an affidavit showing the
! performance of labor or making
'of improvements to the amount
inf one hundred dollars for each
‘and every twenty acres or frac
tional part theroot contained in
such claim as aforesaid and spec
ifying the character of such la
bor or improvements.
Such affidavit shall set forth
[the following:
a The name or number of
the claim and where situated.
U ■' The number of days work
I done'and the character and val
{m* of the improvements thereon.
| ' (c Date of the performance of
Isuch labor and making of ini—
i provements.
i '(d) The place where such work
| was done and improvements made
|with reference to the boundaries
i of such claim.
(e) At whose instance the
work was done and improvements
! made.
! (f) The actual amount paid for
jsuch work and improvements and
i by whom paid when such work
]was not done or improvements
! made by the owner.
Such affidavit shall be filed with
the precinct recorder not later
than ninety days after the close
of the calendar year in which the
work was done or improvements
made. For the filing, recording
and indexing of such affidavit the
recorder shall collect the sum of
one dollar and fifty cents. Up
on failure to comply with all the
provisions of this section such
claim shall become forfeited and
open to location by others as if ho
location had been made.
Section 4. That any person who
shall make or subscribe any af
fidavit i euuired to be made under
the provisions of this act, know
ing the statements therein con
tained, or any of them, to be false
in whole or in part, or without
knowing the statements therein
contained to be true, shall be
deemed guilty of perjury, and up
on Conviction thereof shall be
punished by imprisonment .in the
penitentiary not less than one ndr
more than five years.
Any person who shall induce or
procure, or who shall aid in in
ducing or procuring another per
son to commit perjury, as the
same is herein defined, shall be
deemed guilty of subordination of
perjury, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished as here
in provided for perjury.
Location of Lode Claim.
Section 5. Any person who dis- i
covers upon the public domain of j
the United Stales, within the Ter- !
ritory of Alaska, a vein, lode or
ledge of rock in place, bearing
gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, 1
copper, or other valuable deposit,
which is subject to entry and pat
ent, under the mining laws of the
United States, may, if qualified by
the laws of the1 United Stales, lo
eate a mining lode upon such
vein, lode or ledge, in the follow
ing manner, viz:
Section 0. At. the Lime of dis
covery he must post conspicuous
ly, at the point of discovery, a no
tice of location 111 roof, contain
ing: (a; The name, or number of
the claim; (b) the name of the
locator or locators; (e) the dale
of discovery and posting of no
tice as in this section provided
for; (i|) number of feet claimed
along l he course of the vein each
way from the discovery post, with
lh' width claimed on each side of
the center of the vein; (e the
general course of the lode.
Section T. At the time of post
ing the notice of location, he
shall distinctly mark the location
on the ground so that its boun
daries can be readily traced. It
shall be prima facie evidence that
the location is properly marked
if the boundaries are defined by
a monument at each corner or
angle of the post not less than
three feet above the ground and
3 inches in diameter and hewed
oil the side or sides facing the
claim, set at least one foot in the
ground, unless solid rock should
occur at a less depth, in which
case the post shall be set upon
such rock, and surrounded by a
mound of earth or stone at least
'four feet in diameter by two felel
in heightb; or (2) a stone or rock
at least six inches square by
eighteen inches in length, set
two-thirds of its length in the
ground, with a mound ,of earth
or stone alongside at least four
feet in diameter by two feet in
heightli; or (3) a boulder at least
three feet above the natural sur
face of the ground on the upper
side. Where in marking the sur
face boundaries of a claim any
one or more of such posts or
jmonuments shall fall by right up
on preeipitious ground where the
I proper placing thereof is imprac
jticahle in- dangerous to life or
limb, il shall lie valid to place
any such post or monument at
the nearest practicable point,
i suitably marked to designate I In*
! proper place. Such post or mon
ument shall be known as and be
j marked "wiloess innnnnieol
Where any oilier mooumeol. or
monuments of b sser dimensions
Ilian those above described, are
used, il shall be a question for I lie
..jury or coorl. as to whether the
i i.ilioo nas been marked upon
; 11 • • gr< ;ool so l lull ils bomniaries
can be readily traced. Whatever
monument is used it must be
’marked with the name or number
j of the claim and the designat ion
of the corner or angle by num
iber, and the monument nearest
the discovery shall be the initial
! post, stake or monument, and
shall be stake, post or monument
number one; and further, the cor
ners or angles shall be number
ed iu regular rotation. If the
claim is located on ground cov
jered wholly or in part by brush,
lor trees, suefi brush shall be cut
land trees be marked fir blazed
along the lines of such claim to
I indicate the location of such
| linos; if located in an open coun
try the boundary lines shall be
marked by placing line stakes or
line monuments, so as to readily
dead from corner lo corner of such
! claim.,
Section 8. within one year
from the date of discovery not
less than one hundred dollars
worth of development work shall
be performed within the exterior
boundaries of the claim. Such
work shall include the sinking of
a shaft upon the vein or lode, or
j ledge, to be known as discovery
! shaft. Sirch shaft shall be sunk
to depth of at least ten feet, ver
tically, below the lowest part of
the rim of such shaft at the sur
face, and deeper if necessary to
j disclose the vein located. Any op
en cut, crosscut, adit or tunnel,
which shall cut the vein at a depth
of ten feet below the surface,
shall be deemed the equivalent of
such discovery shaft; and if such
| discovery shaft or the equivalent
I thereof shall require less than
'one hundred dollars worth of la
bor for its excavation, the bal
ance of such one hundred dollars
worth of labor shall be applied to
deepening the discovery shaft, op
making further horizontal exten
sions, or by any excavation made
elsewhere upon the claim. The
development work in this section
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Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
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Fresh Goods—Reasonable Prices
PROFESSIONAL
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Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office inTWhaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
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Phone l» THE DENTIST
Office rooms over owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
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SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
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VALDEZ. ALASKA ;
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