AlaskaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - 133 pages |
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... interior , hunting reindeer , moose , and other large animals . The interior Indians ( Athabascans ) live mostly by hunting and fishing in the rivers . A few mission stations along the coast and on the Yukon River have had a little ...
... interior , hunting reindeer , moose , and other large animals . The interior Indians ( Athabascans ) live mostly by hunting and fishing in the rivers . A few mission stations along the coast and on the Yukon River have had a little ...
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... interior of Alaska is less elevated , and contains extensive plains . The country is poor in natural products , although salmon abounds in the river . 5. The Yukon division contains 176,715 square miles , and comprises the valley of the ...
... interior of Alaska is less elevated , and contains extensive plains . The country is poor in natural products , although salmon abounds in the river . 5. The Yukon division contains 176,715 square miles , and comprises the valley of the ...
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... interior , consisting probably of frozen moors and low ranges of hills , intersected here and there by shallow streams , remains almost entirely unknown . The Meade , Ikpikpung , and Colville rivers empty into the Arctic Ocean , and the ...
... interior , consisting probably of frozen moors and low ranges of hills , intersected here and there by shallow streams , remains almost entirely unknown . The Meade , Ikpikpung , and Colville rivers empty into the Arctic Ocean , and the ...
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... interior , at which this river spans a breadth of 20 miles from shore to shore . As we advance toward its source we are not surprised , when we view the character of the country through which it rolls , at the vast quantity of water in ...
... interior , at which this river spans a breadth of 20 miles from shore to shore . As we advance toward its source we are not surprised , when we view the character of the country through which it rolls , at the vast quantity of water in ...
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... interior and the vast swampy plains covered with snow for seven or eight months . of the year are only visited by the trapper and hunter when the skins of the marten , mink , and muskrat are in their prime . Where the mountains are ...
... interior and the vast swampy plains covered with snow for seven or eight months . of the year are only visited by the trapper and hunter when the skins of the marten , mink , and muskrat are in their prime . Where the mountains are ...
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acres adverse claim affidavit aforesaid Alaska Aleutian Alexander Archipelago application for patent Approved arbitrators ARTICLE Bering Sea boundaries Britain Britannic Majesty certified claimant claims located coast Commissioner Cook Inlet copy court Creek distance district district of Alaska dollars eighteen hundred entry established extend filed fish fisheries Fort Yukon fur seals gold Government herd hundred and seventy-two Indians interior intersection islands Juneau jurisdiction Kadiak Kuskokwim Lake Land Office ledges legal subdivisions limits lode claim Lord Hannen meridian mill-site mineral lands mining claim mining-claims natives Norton Sound notice Nulato Pacific Ocean Peninsula person placer claims plat possessory right Pribilof Islands proceedings purposes register and receiver regulations Revised Statutes river Russia salmon Sitka square miles steamers stream surface survey surveyor-general sworn statement Tanana Territory thereof timber tion treaty tunnel United vein or lode vessels winter Yukon Yukon River
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Page 83 - And nothing in this section shall authorize the locator or possessor of a vein or lode which extends in its downward course beyond the vertical lines of his claim to enter upon the surface of a claim owned or possessed by another.
Page 82 - That in all cases public lands in the Philippine Islands valuable for minerals shall be reserved from sale, except as otherwise expressly directed by law.
Page 103 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 88 - ... an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim...
Page 99 - 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 105 - ... notice will give the date of posting, the name of the claimant, the name of the claim, mine, or lode; the mining district and county; whether the location is of record, and, if so, where the record may be found ; the number of feet claimed along the vein, and the presumed direction thereof; the number of feet claimed on the lode in each direction from the point of discovery, or other well-defined place on the claim ; the name or names of adjoining claimants on the same or other lodes ; or, if...
Page 83 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 121 - The testimony should also show the agricultural capacities of the land, what kind of crops are raised thereon, and the value thereof; the number of acres actually cultivated for crops of cereals or vegetables, and within which particular ten-acre...
Page 91 - Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before...
Page 88 - In cases of contest as to the mineral or agricultural character of land, the testimony and proofs may be taken as herein provided on personal notice of at least ten days...