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SEWARD, ALASKA. OCT. Hi, 1908
MERRITT GIVES
VIEWS ON TRAIL
(Continued from page 1.)
to lessen the cost of mining one must]
observe common sense principles, tirst j
to cheapen the transportation of sup- i
plies, and in order to do this it would
seem that a shorter route should he j
selected than the one from Valdes j
Mr. Monehan came to the conclu
sion that there could he no worse j
route than the one from Valdez,
to Valdez creek. This conclusion
was not reached in haste, but was the
result of years of careful consideration
that has lias led Mr. Monehan to select
the Susitna route. Mr. Monehan
knew what he was doing when he,
started from Valdez creek to Susitna
station, a distance of 175 miles. He
was an old timer in the country. His
horses came through in good order,
and are all now at Susitna Station. |
Mr. Monehan has made the statement
that he expects to be on Valdez creek
before the people of Valdez can get to
Tonsina, at a cost of 20 cents per ponnd
as against at least 45 cents.
As regards further information, in
another winter sledding will begin
from Indian creek, and supplies will be
landed on Valdez creek before sledding
cun be undertaken from Valdez town.
The near future cost in landing sup
plies on Valdez creek will not exceed,
the present rate from Valdez to Cop
per Center, namely, 10 cents per
pound. Steamboat navigation to with
in eighty miles of Valdez creek means ,
more to the miner than all the paper !
talk in Alaska.
Mr. Monehan states that he and his
partners, Messrs. Johnson, Smith,
Carlson have considered the Susitna
route for the past two years, and when ,
it became possible to completely out tit
at Susitna Station, they knew the time
had come to choose that route in
preference to any and all others. In
coming out from Valdez creek to the
Station they consumed only twenty
days, and they brought six horses with
them and stopped to cut trail all along
the route. Mr. Monehan is fully
satisfied that the Susitna route offers
the only feasible and short way to the
new diggings It is an all river route
from the Station to Valdez creek.
Mr. Monehan is on his way out to
the states, but he expects to return in
February and take his horses in from
the Station. He will then haul the
timber necessary for mining purposes,
which he was not able to do last year.
He came out this year especially to
satisfy himself iu regard to the Susitna
rpute, and when he returns he expects
to stay for at least two years and work
right through the whole year.
(Signed) W. H. Merritt.
J. A. BAUGHMAN
PHYSICIAN
and|SURGEON
City’office: Owl’Drug Store.
Home office: Up stairs in Richard building
Legal Notices
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR U. S. PATENT
No. 010.
U. S. Land Office, Juneau, Alaska, July 8.1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that Louis Grecn
buum. whose postoffice address is San Francis
co, California. by C. A. Fletcher, his attorney in
fact, has made application for a United States
Patent for the Lode Mining Claim composed of
the Columbia Lode, Bertha Lode. Liberty Lode,
Kodiak Lode and Union Lode, the said lodes
being contiguous, and being respectively Min
eral Surveys Nos. 299. 300. HOI, 303 and 304, situa
ted in the Unga Mining District. Alaska, and
more particularly described as follows:
COLUMBIA LODE—SURVEY NO. 299.
Beginning at corner No. 1. identical with cor
ner No. 4 of survey No. 301. whence U. S. Min
eral Monument No. 3 bears south 42 deg. 11
min. west 7784.7 feet distant; thence North 18
deg. 00min. west 3(H) feet to corner No. 2. inden
tical with corner No. 3 of survey No. 301, a post
marked S. 299 No. 2; thence north 72 deg. 00 min.
east 342 feet across tramway 1440 feet to Wit
ness corner at high water mark of Squaw harbor.
15(H) feet to corner No 3; thence south 18 deg.
00 min. east 72 feet at high water mark Squaw
Harbor. 3(H) feet to corner No. 4 at intersection
of lode line 600 feet to corner No. 5; thence
south 72 deg. 00 min. west 1500 feet to corner No.
6. whence N. E. corner of quartz mill bears
south 6 deg. 30 min east 85 feet distant; thence
north 18 deg. 00 min. west 150 feet across tram
way 300 feet to corner No. 1. the place of begin
ning.
Area. 20.661 acres.
Variation 20 deg. 35 min. east.
Expressly excluding and excepting that por
tion of said Columbia claim lying on the tide
land at the N. E. corner No. 3. in area .0054
acres.
BERTHA LODE—SURVEY NO. 300.
Beginning at corner No. 1. at intersection of
lode line and S. W. end line of Bertha Lode
on east slope of mount n in, in alders,
whence IT. S. Mineral Monument No. 3 bears
south 2 deg. 28 min. west 2653 feet distant, a
post marked S. 300 No. I: thence north 18
deg. 00 min. west 300 feet to corner No. 2. a post
marked S 300 No. II; thence north 55 deg.
45 min. east710 feet to creek 1500 feet to corner
No. 3. identical with corner No. 2 of Kodiak
Lode, survey No. 303, a i>ost marked S. 300 No,
III: thence south 18 deg. 00 min. east 300 feet to
corner No. 4, identical with corner No. 1 of sur
vey No. 303. 600 feet to corner No. 5. identical
with corner No. 6 of survey No. 303. a post
marked S. 300 No. V; thence south 55 deg. 45
min. west 1090 feet to creek. 1500 feet to corner
No. 6. a iK)st marked S. 3(H) No. 6. whence Min
eral Monument No. 8 bears south 5 deg. 00 mm.
west 2874 feet distant: thence North 18 deg. 00
min. west 3(H) feet to corner No. 1, the place of
beginning.
Area. 19.835 acres.
Variation at all corners, 20 deg. 35 min. east.
LIBERTY LODE—SURVEY NO. 301
Beginning at corner no. 1. identical with corner
No. 4 of Union Lode, survey No. 304. whence U.
S. Mineral Monument No. 3 bears south 38 deg.
no min west 6382 feet distant; thence north 18
deg. (X)min. west 300 feet to corner No. 2. a post
marked S. 301 No. II; thence north. 60 deg. 30
min. east 1500 feet to corner No. 3. a post
marked S. 301 No. Ill: thence south 18 deg. 00
min. east 300 feet to corner No. 4, identical with
corner No. 1 of survey No. 299. Columbia Lode,
450 feet across tramway, 600 feet to corner
No. 5. identical with corner No, 6 of survey no.
299. a post marked S. 301 No. 5; whence N. E.
corner of quartz mill hears south 6 dog, 30 min,
east 85 feet distant; thence south 60 deg. 30 min.
west 85 feet across tramway 950 feet across
tramway 1500 feet to corner No. 6. identical with
corner No. 5 of survey No. 301 on south slope of
hill 15 feet below railrord track, a post marked
S. 301 No. VI; thence north 18 degrees 00 min.
west 300 feet to cornor No. 1. the place of be
ginning.
Area. 20.246 acres.
Variation, 20 deg. 35 min. east.
KODIAK LODE—SURVEY NO. 303.
Beginning at corner 1. identical with corner
No. 4 of survey No. 3oo, whence U. S, Mineral
Monument No. 3 hears south 21 deg. lo min.
west 3745.6 feet distant; thence north 18 deg. oo
min. west Boo feet to corner No. 2. identical with
corner No. 3 of survey No. Boo; thence north
55 deg. 45 min. east 15oo feet to corner No, 3,
inentical with corner No. 2 of Union Lode, sur
vey No. 3o4; thence south 18 deg. oo min. east
3oo feet to corner No. 4. 600 feet to corner No.
5. identical with corner No. <5 of survey No. 304;
thence south 55 deg. 45 min. west 15oo feet to
corner No. 6, identical with corner No. 5 of sur
vey No. Boo; thence north 18 deg, 00 min. west
Boo feet to corner No. 1, the place of beginning.
Area, 19.835 acres.
Variation 2o deg. 35 min. east.
UNION LODE—SURVEY NO. 304.
Beginning utcornerNo. 1, at intersection of
lode line and S. W. end line, identical with cor
ner No. 3 of survey No3o3, whence U. S Mineral
Monument No. 3 bears south Bo deg. 52 min.
west 5o54 feet distant; thence north 18 deg. oo
min. west Boo feet to corner No. 2, identical with
corner No. 3 of survey No. 3o3, a post marked S.
304 No. II; thence north 62 deg. 8o min. east 15oo
feet to corner No. 3. identical with corner No. 2
of Liberty Lode, survey No. Sol, a post marked
S. 3o4 No. 8; thence south 18 deg. oo min. east
Boo feet to corner No. 4, identical with corner
No. 1 of survey No. 8ol, at intersection of lode
line. Goo feet to corner No. 5, identical with cor
ner No. 6 of survey No Sal, whence shaft hears
west 455 feet and winze of tunnel No. 2 bears
south 8o deg. oo min, west 635 feet distant,
tunnel No. 1 hears south 67 deg. oo min. west
51 o feet distant, a post marked S. 3o4 No. 5;
thence south 62 deg, 30 min. west 62o feet to a
point 2o feet below the S. E. .corner of black
smith shop by mouth of tunnel. 15oo feet to
corner No. 6, identical with corner No. 5 of sur
vey No. 3o3, a post marked S, 3o4 No. VI; thence
north 18 deg. oo min. west 3oo feel to corner
No. 1, the place of beginning.
Area. 2o.377 acres.
Variation, 2o deg. 35 min. east.
The several notices of locations and re-loca
tions of the different claims are as follows;
Those of the Columbia Lode are of record on
theSUngajMining District Jrecords, designating
I
Company,
SUSITNA
For the information of the many prospectors
now planning to enter the Valdez Creek Min
ing District, and the creeks tributary to the
Yentna river during the coming winter, via the
SEWARD-SUSITNA ROUTE
[The only practical Winter Route
from the Outside to the Susitna
Valley and the Valdez Creek Mining
District]
the Alaska Commercial Company wishes to state
that they are now prepared to supply the rap
idly increasing trade of the District from the
large stock of Merchandise which they are car
rying at Susitna Station.
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JOHN H. BUNCH, F. & P. A., Pier One, Seattle
said claim under the following names, to-wit:
Name Date When and Where Recorded
Ounalaska. July 24, 1887. July 30, 1887. Book A.
I p. 57.
Ounalaska, Jan. 1, 1892, Jan. 1,1892, Book B, p. 55.
Ounalaska, Jan. 1, 1894, Jan. 1, 1894, B, p.89.
Columbia, Jan. 1, 1896, Jan. 1, 1896, B. p. 115,
Those of the Bertha Lode are as follows:
Name Date When and Where Recorded.
Trio, Aug, 4. 1887, Aug. 11, 1887, Book A, p, 83.
Trio, Jan. 1, 1892. Jan. '1, 1892, “ B, p. 60.
Bertha. Jan. 1. 1896, Jan. 1, 1896, “ B. p. 120.
Those of the Liberty Lode are as follows:
Name Date When and Where Recorded.
Gildea, July 24. 1887. July 30,1887, Bodk A, p. 58.
Gildea, Jan. 1,-1892, . Jan. 1, 1892, '* B, p. 56.
Gildea, Jan. 1. 1894, Jan. 1. 1891, “ B, p. 90.
Liberty, Jan. 1, 1896, Jan. 1, 1896, “ B, p. 117.
Those of the Kodiak Lode are as follows:
Name Date When and Where Recorded.
Mocking Bird. July 29, 1887, Aug. 10,1887. Book
[A. p. 63.
Mocking Bird, Jan. 1,1892, Jan. 1,1892, Book B,
[p. 58.
Mocking Bird, Jan. 1,1894, Jan. 1,1894, Book B,
[p, 92.
Kodiak, Jan, 1,1896, Jan. 1, 1896, Book B, p. 118.
Those of the Union Lode are as follows:
Name Date, When and where Recorded.
Beowa, July 24, 1887, July 30 1887, Book A, p, 59.
Beowa. Jan. 1, 1892, Jan. 1, 1892, “ B, p. 57.
Beowa, Jan. 1. 1894, Jan. 1, 1894. “ B. p. 91.
Union. Jan. 1, 1895, Jan. 1. 1895, " B, p. 117.
Said group of contiguous claims extend from
Squaw Harbor along the range of hills to with
in half a mile of the divide between Salmon
creek and Squaw Harbor, and are what is
known as the Bruce Lode or Vein. There are
no known adjoining claims.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
mining ground, vein, lode or premises, or any
portion thereof so described, surveyed, platted
and applied for, are hereby notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly tiled according to
law and the regulations thereunder within the
time prescribed by law, with the Register and
Receiver of the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, they will be barred by virtue of
the provisions of the statutes.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
It is hereby ordered that the forego
ing notice be published for i'ie statutory
period in the Seward Gateway a daily
newspaper printed at SewaTd, Alaska.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
First publication, July 27, 1908.