The Truth about Alaska, the Golden Land of the Midnight SunThe author, 1901 - 423 pages |
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Other editions - View all
The Truth about Alaska, the Golden Land of the Midnight Sun Eugene McElwaine No preview available - 2015 |
The Truth about Alaska, the Golden Land of the Midnight Sun Eugene McElwaine No preview available - 2018 |
The Truth about Alaska, the Golden Land of the Midnight Sun Eugene McElwaine No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
acres Alaska American Anvil Creek Arctic beach bed rock Bering Sea boundary Cape Nome cents claimant coast court discovery distance District of Alaska Dyea Eskimo feet filed gold gold-bearing Golovin Bay gravel ground harbor hundred Indian Inlet Island Judge Noyes Kadiak Kotzebue Sound Kowak River Kuskokwim River lode claim Lynn Canal ment miles mineral lands mining claims mining district mining laws mission missionary months mountains mouth natives Noatak Nome Mining Nome River ocean parties persons placer claims placer mining plat Point Barrow Port Clarence Port Safety prospectors quartz record region regulations reindeer reported rich rocker Russian sailed seals season Shelikhof ship Siberia Sitka Skagway Snake River staked steamer streams summer survey territory thereof tion town tribes tributaries tundra Unalaska United vein or lode vessel vicinity whale winter Yukon Yukon River
Popular passages
Page 383 - ... which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim ; but where the existence...
Page 380 - States surveyor-general that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty...
Page 377 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent...
Page 381 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 381 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 400 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, render such limitation necessary.
Page 300 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the...
Page 403 - Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing, or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or...
Page 401 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 383 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall conform as near as practicable with the United States system of public land surveys, and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant...