Alaska Placers and Lode Claims Act Summary Provisions
This text outlines Alaska mining law from 1912 detailing annual assessment work for placer claims, rules on survey credits, claim size limits, and penalties for false affidavits. It covers lode claims including location, boundaries, discovery, and record-keeping, plus tunnel rights and millsite rules with required annual expenditures and recording procedures.
Alaska millsite and lode claim labor and affidavit provisions
The act requires affidavits showing twenty five dollars of labor or improvements for millsites and sets filing, recording, and fee rules. It details survey requirements, amended location notices, annual work of one hundred dollars per claim or per group, and the need for detailed employee and cost descriptions. Failure triggers relocation voidability after one year. Approved April 20 1915.
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Alaska
United States
Recorder's Office
Territory
Territorial
Recorder’s Office
Eggs Lost on Iditarod River Route Cause of Shortage
White Pass sleighs carrying eggs broke through ice near Tahkini river thirteen miles below Whitehorse. Roughly three hundred cases entered water but only a few dozen broke. most were saved and repacked. Damaged eggs were discarded to prevent spoilage, leaving a disrupted Seattle to Fairbanks shipment. American fountain pens hold about half the British market for their kind.
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Whitehorse
Iditarod
White Pass
Lake Lebarge
Tahkini River
Cash
Fairbanks
Seattle
Rumor of Captain Barrington’s injury and court term ordered
The Dawson News reported Captain Sid Barrington of the Lidy Streams Navigation Company allegedly lost a leg in an earlier accident, with Captain Steve Martin noting Barrington’s condition as fine. The Alaska District Court in Iditarod orders a special term beginning June 28 1915 at 11 a.m. to handle public welfare and court business.
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Sid Barrington
Lidy Streams Navigation Company
Seattle
Dawson News
Steve Martin
Barrington
Whitehorse
Iditarod
District Court
Territory of Alaska
Fourth Judicial Division
Alaska
Otter Precinct
Charles E. Bunnell
E. Clark
G. G. Geraghty
Notice to Creditors in Otter Precinct Probate Court
The Probate Court Otter Precinct Alaska names Peter Thibault as administrator of the Joseph Nolet estate. Creditors holding claims against the decedent must present verified claims at his Front street residence in Discovery, Otter Precinct, Alaska, per law. First publication May 20 1918 and last publication June 9 1915.
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Otter Precinct
Josep Nolet
Joseph Nolet
Discovery
Otter
Alaska
Peter Thibault
Notice of Forfeiture To Robert Mathsen
Co owner Robert Evans warns that after ninety days from last publication failure to contribute to a $100 expenditure on the Little Creek mining claim on Creek in Smoky District Alaska will transfer the interest to Evans. Location recorded in Vol 10 Page 6 Innoke Nin ing Records. First publication April 17 1908 and second July 17 2006.
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United States
United States Mineral Surveyor
Robert Mathsen
Jold Run
Little Creek
Alaska
Robert Evans
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Scandinavian American Bank
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R. C. Button
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Fairbanks Beer Draft
Crosby
Garibou St
Bet
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Old Crow
Astalays Aes
Cyrus Noble
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Cedar Brook
Jesse Moore
Commons
Strathmill
Dewar
Scotland
Uther
N. C. Co
L. Leonard & CO
Great Britain
Geo. Adams
Adams House
Knute Roland
Flat City
Pioneer Office
Frank McGibney
Drs. Otter
Stanley House
John Bagoy
Fraser
Rooming House
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M. Earl
McLean’s Roadhouse
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