Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
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OFFICERS:
f’has- Ross, President
T. J. Nestor, Vice President
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
Ladies, Attention!
TO THE LADIES OF IOITAROD AND THE CREEKS:
[ am going out over the trail to buy
a New Stock of
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Will be in on First Boat with a complete
up-to-date stock.
-H. SCHLAPSK
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CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
HUNTERS ARE AT
LA PIERRE HOUSE
Upon his return to Fairbanks
from Fort Yukon, where he had
been to arrest a man charged with
selling liquor to Indians, David D.
Lowery brought news of the Hud
dlestons and Phil Ott, who left
Fairbanks last summer to search
for a “lost cabin mine" in the
Mackenzie district. From Billy
Annette, the mail carrier, Lowery
learned that the party was winter
ing at LaPierre House, on the Por
cupine, near the Rat-river portage.
I [t had been feared something had
| happened to them.
TOM AITKEN WAS ONE
OF THE UNFORTUNATES
A telegram to the Fairbanks
News-Miner dated December 26
stated that Tlios. P. Aitken was
one oi those stalled at Chitina on
account of the blockade on the rail
road. At the lime the message was
dispatched Mr. Aitken had been
there two days, with no immediate
prospect of relief.
Kd Anderson, the Yankee-creek mo
chant, returned to Takotna Thursday.
He expects to be back here in a couple
of weeks.
The New Placer Law
The following is a copy of the law recently enacted by Congress amend
ing the mining laws of Alaska:
A bill to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc., That no association placer mining claim shall here
after be locate! in Alaska in excess of 40 acres, and on every placer mining
claim hereafter located in Alaska, and until a patent has been issued therefor,
not less than $ioo worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made
during each year, including the year of location, for each and every 20 acres
or excess fraction thereof.
Sec. 2. That no person shall hereafter locate any placer mining claim in
Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by a
power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any record
er’s office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so
authorized may locate placer mining claims for not more than two individuals
or one association under such power of attorney, but no such agent or attor
ney shall be authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer mining
claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and
1:0 placer mining claim shall hereafter Ire located iu Alaska except under the
limitations of this act;
Sec. 3. That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be lo
cated, for himself more than two placer mining claims in any calendar month:
Provided, That one or both such locations may be included in an association
claim.
Sec. 4. That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be
patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed by law, nor wdlieh
is longer than three times its greates1- width.
Sec. 5. That any placer mining claim attempted to be located in viola
tion of this act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may be lo
cated by any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made.
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The Fairbanks News-Miner refers to Governor Clark’s annual re
port as the "most intelligent report our governor has ever made.”
Dealing with the Barnette trials at Valdez the same paper refers to
them as "the rottenest judicial farce the North has ever witnessed.’’
A report of the U. S. geological survey says that the Bonnifield
district contains no less than ten billion tons of ligtiilic coal, or three
billion tons more than they had estimated for the whole of .Alaska the
| previous year.
Robert W. Service, the poet of the Northland, has gone to the
i Balkan war, and will describe its thrilling scenes.
The whaling steamers Unimak and Kodiak, operating the past
summer in Southern Alaska, had a successful season, bagging 315
whales, the largest of which was 92 feet long.
Chas. Suchy, aged 67 years, a pioneer resident of Whitehorse, died
there on December 13, of heart failure.
It is learned from reliable sources that O. G. Laberee has disposed
of his entire interests in the Alaska Northern railway to the Canadian
bankers backing that company While the exact price received is not
known, it is said to be over a million—probably a million and a quarter
— as Mr. Laberee is reputed to own a one quarter interest, and the
i price quoted to the government for the road is said to be something
over five million dollars.
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Probably 30,000 pounds of whalebone found along the Alaskan
coast during the last couple of years or so is being held by' the owners,
because of a slump in the price. Science is inventing too many sub
stitutes for the market to ever reach the high money ot the past.
Private Green was arrested at Haines on the charge of selling
whiskey to Indians. Four native witnesses for the government swore
that he did, and 12 white men swore that he did not: The commis
sioner bound Green over to the mercies of the grand jury.
That the country around the head of Nome river, above tne U. a
; roadhouse, seems to lie one mass of thawed gold-bearing gravel is the
! statement of K. N. Winnie, who has just completed a lot of prospect
ing there. He is certain that a dredge will be installed there next sum
mer as a result of the discoveries made. He and his partners put down
! 39 holes altogether and found gold in the gravel in every one. Four
holes sunk to bedrock show the ground to be from 20 to 25 feet in
depth.—Nome Nugget.
Wonderful developments are being made in the tin industry in
Alaska, said O, II. McDonald, of Nome, upon his arrival in Seattle re
i gently, “Our greatest difficulty has been in getting the ore Outside
from the Buck creek district, where we started dredging last fall. Up
to the time that we closed down in October we took out 175 tons val
1 ued at §120,000. Only small boats were used in getting the ore Out
side, and bad weather made this veiy dangerous. One boat, the Silver
Wave, was wrecked on York beach, but her cargo of ore was saved.”
Miners and traders of the White river section are petitioning for a
I trail from the head of the Copper-river railroad into their distiict. They
j claim that §20,000 will do the necessary work. At present White
j river supplies are brought in via Dawson, which necessitates a 350
! mile journey each way by poling boat, or by way of Whitehorse, about
! the same distance by paekhorse. About y > tons annually are consumed
| in the district.
The Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden North, an organiza
tion founded last year at Fairbanks, now has a membership of 126. To
1 qualify for membership it is necessary to have been born 1101th of 54-40.
A storv comes out of the Koyukuk, says the Nome Industrial
Worker, to the effect that while drilling 011 Hammond river with a
steam drill, the drill cut clean through a big nugget, and the gold was
brought to the surface showing where it had been cut sharp across.
The Teelanaw not being able to land coal at Candle for the use of
: the operators in that district, local coal is filling the demand. The
' mines were ordered closed some time ago, but there is sufficient on
I
hand for present needs.
December 26 the Nome Nugget was congratulating the city upon
the fact that no arrests had been made Christmas day.
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Three dollars a day and board is the winter wage lor union miners
ion the Seward peninsula, according to the Nome Industrial Worker,
the miners’ organ.
Business at Nome during the Christmas season was better than it
has been for many years.
The Yukon Gold Company at Dawson experimented with crude oil
j for Kiel in place of wood last season. They shipped in 1,000 barrels of
oil for the test, but the result of the experiment has not yet been
learned.
The genera! land office have added another man in the person of
j H. J. Atwell, formerly of Seattle, to the force in Fairbanks. His duty
! is to prevent the cutting of government timber without permit and
I to check the stumpage.
The coast line of Alaska, measuring around all of the island*, is
approximately 26,000 miles—more than the distance around the world.
The Cook inlet people are trying to have the road commission blast
out the rocks on the Kenai river and hope to make that river navigable.
A communication has been received requesting information regard
ing William Freeman, who is believed to have come to this section in
the earlv days. He was a prospector, and believed to have been near
Lake Bennett at one time. He is of English descent, and had served
in the British army. Information should be sent to Mary FI O'Keefe,
2107 Clement street, San Francisco, Cal. Early-day residents of Atliu
will remember a man named William Freeman, who was killed by his
wife there, the woman being later tried and acquitted on the grounds of
self-defense. There is a possibility that the William Freeman now
sought may be the same man. The tragedy at Atliu occurred either in
1899 or 1900—Skagwav Alaskan
CHINESE RAISING HUGE WAR FOl
San Francisco, January 31.—That war between China and
Russia is imminent over the Mongolia controversy is declared in a
dispatch received here today by the Chinese consul and local
Chinese newspapers. The news is said to be official and Chinese
throughout the world are contributing to a gigantic war fund.
At the Chinese consulate it was admitted that contributions
ranging from $100 to $1,000 were pouring in, accompanied by com
munications saying that the money was to be used in case of war
between China and Russia
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PARCEL POST BOW 18 OPERATION
On the last mail Postmaster Thurston received an intimation
from headquarters that the parcel post law was operative in Alaska,
but as the special stamps required for the service had not arrived
he wired the department asking what should be done in the matter.
Tuesday afternoon last a telegram arrived from Washington as
follows:
Pending receipt of parcel post stamps use or
dinary stamps to Seattle only.
Britt, Third Assistant.
It will thus be seen that while the parcel post law is operative
here, it is limited to parcels destined for Seattle until the special
! stamps arrive, which tuny be at any time, and residents of Iditarod ;
Jure entitled to experiment in that direction. The limit set on
parcels is 11 pounds, and the goods sent must neither in form nor
in kind be such as might injure the carriers or destroy the mail.
sacks or matter therein.
The lowest rate is 5 cents for 1 pound up to 50 miles, and from
i that starting point rates are graduated until a charge of 12 cents a
; pound is reached for distances over 1,800 miles. A parcel weigh
: ing 11 pounds could thus be sent from here to New York for $1.32
i —unless the circular misinforms us.
Parcels will be delivered at all free-delivery offices and to pat
rons residing on all rural and star routes. They may be registered
; and insured up to $50, and special delivery can be arranged for.
MUSHER WADA LEAVES FOR OUTSIDE
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Jujuiro Wada left for the Outside over the Seward trail,
Wednesday. He is going direct to New Orleans, to consult with j
1 bis backer, E. A. Mellhenny, and expects to return on the opening;
| of navigation with a Keystone drill with which to prospect the
’ Bear-creek claims in which they are interested. The equipment,
will be brought in by way of the Kuskokwim, being transhipped j
; at Bethel for the Tuluksak.
Mr. Wada is traveling with a team of five dogs, and hopes to
j reach Seward by February 18, when there will be a boat leaving
| for Seattle. He expects a hard trip, as there is absolutely no
' travel at this time of the year on the Seward trail; but in the
• event of the mushing being particularly arduous he will leave the
( dogs and snowshoe the remaining distance alone. In any event he
i expects to break trail all the way.
The deal with Charley Schmidt for several claims ou Bear was
completed this week; the final payment being made at this time
instead of July 1, as called for by the option. The price paid is
said to exceed $7,500, of which $3,000 was paid December 1 last.
This ground is said to have proved pay.
Pete Jensen will have charge of the prospecting to be done
this spring on Bear creek. John F. Baird, who intended to visit
the lower Kuskokwim at this time, is prevented from doing so on
account of urgent business which demands his presence in Iditarod
the latter part of this month.
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FIGURES SHOW LENGTHENING BAYS
The lengthening days are becoming so noticeable at this time
that the following table of number of hours sunshine will be read
with interest. The table was prepared for Dawson; but as that is
less than two degrees north of Iditarod the figures will apply here
i with but trifling difference:
Length of Day
Date Hrs. Mins.
December 31 . 3 35
January 1. 3 52
January 15. 1 57
January 31 fi 45
February 15 . 8 18 |
March 1 .12
Of course Iditarod is too far south for the midnight sun to be
visible, as at June 21 it is more than five times its own diameter
below the horizon; but it is sufficiently light all the time to be ;
called continuous daylight, although there is only a little more j
than 20 hours of sunlight. __I
GOOD PROSPECTS AT MUD RIVER
Writing to Captain Albert Wile from Mud river, Sid Ensor,
one of the old-timers of that district, says he is getting good pros
pects in all his holes, but no pay as yet. He has a drill on the
ground—the same being the one that left here on the Florence S.
and got frozen in 50 miles below Diskaket. At time of writing
Ensor was leaving for Kaltag to purchase some supplies. He is
representing Riley & Altken.
Dan McDonell reports some very good prospects, but no pay
as yet. He also has a drill, and is doing much work.
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| Successor to Miss Kotsch FLAT CITY, Gold St. j
Notice of Forfeiture
TO CHARLKY MACK:
You and your heirs and assigns are hereby
notified mat the undersigned has exner.ded in
labor and improvements the sum ot one hun
dred dollars—<100—for the year 191:' upon placer
mining claim known as the Bailor association,
Willow creek, a tributary of the Iditarod river,
r ttcr Mining District. Territory of Alaska You
are further notified that if at the expiration or
ninety—90—'days from the last publicatn n 01
this notice you' fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure, your interest in
said y laim will become tk • property ot the tin
dersigned, your co-owners under Sec. 732a 01
the Revi'ed" Statutes cflhc Unit', d States
J. FOURNIHR.
j. shi:kdy,
By H. St I.awreii c.
H.sT I. A wri;nc h
First publication February 1, '913.
I.ast publication May 3. 19'3
Notice of Forfeiture
TO CHAS. BACKI.l'ND, or Heirs or Agents.
You, and each of you, are hereby notified that
the undersigned has expended in labor and im
provemeuts the sum of one hundred dollars
«ioo—for the years of 1910. 1911 and 1912 upon the
following named placer mining claim, to-wit
No. 1 Bench below Discovery on Yankee creek:
and the years 1011-1912 upon the following
named placer mining claim, to-wit: No. 1 Below
Discovery on Yankee creek, a tributary of I11
noko river. Innoko Mining and Recording Dis
trict. District of Alaska: location notice of No.
1 Bench being recorded in Yol. : at 1 • -’73- and
location notice of No. 1 being recorded in Vol to
at Page 274, all of the records of the Innoko
Mining and Recording District. District "f
Alaska. You are further notified that if at the
expiration of ninety -90—daysaitei the la.->t p ih
lication of this notice you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
your interest in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes ot the
L' 11 ited States.
OI.OF OLSON. Co-Owner
First publication February 1, 1913.
Last publication May 3, 1913.
Notice of Forfeiture
TO C. HARTYBACK:
You. your heirs and assigns are hereby not:
tied that the sum of one hundred dollars—?too
has been expended upon placer mining claim
known as the Lucky Dog association. Arab
creek, tributary of Willow creek, otter mining
and recording precinct, Territory ot Alaska,
being asses-meni work for the >ear IQI2. You
are further notified that if at the expiration ot
ninety—go—days after the last publication ot
this notic< you fail or refuse to contribute s mi
proportion of such expenditure, your interest
in said claim will become the property ot the un
dersigned and his co owners under Sectii t . :
of the Revised Statutes of the United State-.
DAN IIARTNFIT
First publication January lS, 1913
Last publication April «y, 1913.
Notice of Forfeiture
To F Morency, J. Pierson and Dave Cascaden.
their heirs, assigns, successors or personal
representatives:
You are berth - notified that I have expended
in labor and improvements for year 1912 the
stun cf one hundred dollars—$100—on the Moun
tain Home association placer mining claim, sit
uated in the Otter Mining and Recording Dis
trict. Territory of Alaska, which has been duly
recorded at the commissioner's office at Idit
arod. The above amount has ben expended in
order to hold the said el rm under the provi
sions of the la w concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount required to
hold such claim . Ami you are further notified
that if, within ninety—90—days alter the last
publication of this notice, you tail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure, your in
terest in said claim will become the property ol
the undersigned, your co-owner
C. L. JONES.
First publication January 18, 1913.
Last publication April 10, 1913.
NOTICE
All Persons Are hereby Notified A. m. Claiinc
Tre.>bassis Happy Creek I d i t a rod Alaska sa time
act in the year eighteen hundred and ninetj
five, vowel sounds Markincs. Filtered accord
ing Librarian of Congress, at Washington. D f
JOHN F S ITTULA.
daeded 28 day ofjanuary 1913-__
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