The Kusko times. [volume], April 21, 1923, Image 2

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McGRATH, ALASKA. APR 21. 1923
Mrs. Boyd Writes of
Trail Trip to Kobi
Kobi, April 2.—We made Kobi in
eight and one-half days, and have had
a most pleasant trip, so far as weather
and trail had anything to do with it.
We made Big river in five and one
half hours, to find Dick Rboues his
usual genial self, and he certainly fur
nished the good eats in plenty.
Leaving Dick’s at 8 a. in., the 27th,
we reached Nicoli at 2:30 p. m., only to
find the native roadhouse absolutely
filled with returning old-timers. We
decided to push on to East Fork cabin,
a distance of eight miles, where we
camped with big Ed Jerne.
From East Fork cabin we easily made
Slow Fork, where a native keeps a
fairlv good roadhouse, though sleeping
room was at a premium even on the
Boor.
From East Fork to Slow Fork we had
■our worst trouble. The trail was soft. '
and one whole side would give way. ]
and our load would topple over into
three or four feet of snow. We had a j
perfectly good hand-ax aud a pair of'
skiis, so we had only to set to work,
•dig it out and build an incline to the
trail, stamp it down with our feet, tug
the sled around—did you ever try to
lift your share of 800 pounds’:'—then
start the dogs. Sometimes we didn’t
fall back more than three or four times
before we made it.
The Slow Fork stop proved an excit
ing one for us, and it was here that we
received a lesson in early rising. A
party of mushers came in, and one of
them wanted breakfast in time to start
at 4 a. m., but the proprietor opiued
that 6 o’clock was plenty early. How- j
■ever, others told him he must do as his
patrons wanted. He went to bed with
a prunt that convinced all yresent that
4> o’clock would be the breakfast hour.
So when an alarm awoke the echoes a
few of us crawled out. A few minutes
later the proprietor hammered the
floor with his heel and announced:
■“Evlybod op! One bleakfas’ this
house!”
Everybody “opped.” After break
fast someone looked out and announced,
'•Great Scott! it’s as dark as pitch!”
A general consultation of watches
followed. “Well, Fll be blowed.” said
Bill Goss, “it’s only half past three
o’clock!”
The early rising musbcr adjusted his
pack and with a grin of triumph de
parted, leaving a crowd of rather silly
looking mushers shivering around the
stove—all save Bill Goss, who calmly
returned to his bunk. When slightly
reprimanded the roadhouse keeper
said: “You speak early; me ketchum
early.”
From Slow Fork we made Telido for
lunch, where Sergie and old Wassalei’s
daughter keep a two-cabin roadhouse.
That night, the 28th. we stayed at Joe
Wills’ tent, where five of us camped in
»tent 10x8.
Feom Wills’ tent we made the Lake
roadhouse, kept by E. K. Kammisgard.
He keeps au excellent place, having a
three-room building already erected
and doghouses in orocess of erection.
As his place is right on Lake Minchu
mina, which is swarming with fish,
there will oe no question of fish short- j
age next winter.
From the Lake House we made
Roosevelt, lunching at another cabin
: of Joe Wills, whom we met on the way.
At Roosevelt, Bob Densmoce has two
cabins fitted up as cook and bunk
house, aod is serving tine m«als. He
also ioteods to build.
Dr Carmichael and wife, formerly of
Nenana, have a small trading post at i
Roosevelt, aDd a buildieg is in course '
of erection wb'ch will be occupied by
Mr. Rodn «n. an old-time trader from
Gibbon, as a trading post.
From Roosevelt we lioctaed at Dia
mond, where E. Hansen has a cabin >
titud up to accommodate travelers, and
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he intends to build as soon as he »s as
! surei of the trail'*!’ permanence.
From Roosevelt we made a 'Govern
ment cabin, where we camped with
1 four old-timers. They stated that i the
Kobi trail is, or always has beeo, per
1 fectly safe until May 1 or later. One
of them traveled it ta6t year between
May 5th and 10th. The earliest creek
to open last year was a small one which
broke up May lOtb, and which in no
way affected the trail. They said that,
of course, toward May 1 there were
apt to be overflows, but no worse tnan
any spring trail, and absolutely noth
ing dangerous.
Twenty seven miles from the Gov
ernment cabin is Knight's, which we
made by 2 o’clock that afternoon, but
decided to stay over night. At this
place Henry Kuigtat has a fairly .good
roadhause, good stables, dog barns,
etc., and serves good meals. rFrom
Knight’s to Kobi is 26 miles, where we
arrived shortly after noon today. There
is a government cabin hall way be
tween these last two places, fitted with
stove and bunks.
At the cabin 27 miles from Knight’s
a roadhouse is already under construc
tion. There are splendid locations for
loadhouses at Wilis cabin and at any
of the native-kept places.
The trail this way from Roosevelt is
somewhat cut up by the heavy hauling
with horses, and is over rolling ground,
but there is not a foot of tbe trail that
1 couldn’t have driven my own team
over in perfect safety. Tbe only open
water 1 saw were several small streams
which were babbling aioug as if it were
July, but they came from warm-springs
and are safely bridged.
The approaches and ends of the-port
ages are, some of them, >quite steep,
but doubtless before another year will
be graded down properly. V.lhen we
came to one I bore down on lue brake
and pulled up on the handlebars, ac
cording to the pilot’s instructions, until
1 felt my eDd of tbe sled leave the
ground, when I closed my eyes, com
mended my soul to its Maker, and
' hung on. If we hit the trail-my teeth
were only jarred half through my head,
and if we didn’t—well, I had a good
chance -to start an argument.
At Knights, Jim Burrows, the.game
warden for this district, -spent the
night. Be is continually traveling,
and insists that the trail will be goud
until May 5 or later. He-thinks that
the trail will result in some good
i strikes, as it goes throegh a highly
mineralized country.
My regards to every one.
Mrs. B. J. Boyd.
Receiving and sending hours at the
McGrath station are as follows:
Week Days—16 a. m. and 4 p. m.
Sundays and holidays—9:45 a. in. and
4:30 p. m.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
United States Land Office Nome,
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
....Mineral Application No. <0550
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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that William Schneirla, whose post
office address is Ophir, Alaska, has
made Application before the United
States Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
on behalf of himself, and his co
owners, Jacob. W. Schneirla Charles
Schneirla, and Edward Schneirla,
for a United States patent for the
I Consolidated placer mining claim
bearing placer gold, known and des
cribed as No. 13 Above Gold Run
and No. 14 Above Gold Run, sit
uated on Little Creek, n tributary
of the Innoko River, about twelve
miles southeast of the town of Ophir
in the Innoko .Mining & Recording
D;strict in t,h-’ Territory of Alaska,
said Consolidated Placer Mining
Claim being designated by the Unit
ed State' Surveyor General of said
District a- United States Mineral
Survey No. 1279, the exterior boun
daries of Which, according to the
plat and field notes now on file in
this off-ee with a magnetic varia
tion of 24 deg. 37 min EL are as
follows:
NUMBER THIRTEEN ABOVE
COLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. Ni. 1.
A hewn F.pruce post, 4 ft Ion.iT, 1
ins. sq., in earth mound scribe,’ 12
79-13Ab; whence: U. S. L. M. Wo.
1278 bears N. 56 deg. 22 mi.:. 50
sec. E., 1003.09 ft.; thence S. 47
deg. 47 min. W. 681.7 ft. to Cor. No
2; thence N. 45 deg. 29 min. W- 640
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 28 deg.
51 mir. E. 701.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4:
thence S. 45 deg. 49 : tin. E. 868.0
ft. to Cor. No. 1. and place cf be
ginning, containing 11.740 acres.
NUMBER FOURTEEN ABOVE
GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
Identical with Cor. No. 2. No.
13 Above, th:3 survey, previously
described; whence:- U. S. L M.
No. 1278 bears N. 52 deg. 54 min.
12 sec. E. 1C30.23 ft; thence S.
52 deg. 52 min. W 624.6 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 38 deg. 55 min.
W. 514.9 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
N. 40 deg. 39 min. E. 560.9 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; identical with Cor. No. i
3 No. 13 Above this survey, pre
viously described - thence S. 45 deg.
29 min. E. 640.0 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 7.800 acres.
Total acres contained in said Con
solidated Claim ’s 19.540 acres.
Said Consolidated Placer Claim
is situated on Little Creek, a tri
butary of the Innoko Riv-r, about
twelve miles southeast of the town
of Ophir in the Innoko Mining & \
Recording District in the ’’’erritory!
of Alaska.
The adjoining claims are on the
northeast No. 12 Above on Little
Creek, unsurveyed; on the couth
west No. 15 above on Little Creek,
unsnrveved; on the northwest and
southeast claims unknown and un
surveyed.
U. S. T/Ocation Monument No.
1278 is a hewn snruce post 8 ins.
sq. 5 ft. above ground, painted blue,
with stone mound around same and
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 1278;
whence:- W. Twin Peak hears N.
49 deg. 30 min. E. E. Twin Peak
hears N. 51 deg. 40 min. hh No. 1
Dome bears North 23 (leg. 43 min.
Lat 63 deg. 04 see. N.
Long. 156 de". 25 min. W.
JOHN SUNOBACK
Fteeister of United States Land OHiee.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
United States Land Office at Nome
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
Mineral Application No. 054fi.
NOTICE IS HEREBY CP/EN
that William Schneirla, whose post
office address Is Onhir, Alaska, has
made application before the U. S.
Land Office aft Nome. Alaska, on be
half of himself and his co-owners,
Jacob W. Schneirla, Charles Schneir
ia and Edward Schneirla, for
United States patent for the Asso
ciation Placer mining claim, bear
ing: placer gold, knowi : nd descri
bed as No. 1 Below Cold Run ot
the FathergHI Association Placer,
on Little Creek, a tributary of In
noko' River, and situated about ten
miles southeast of the town of Ophir
in the’Innoko Mining and Record
ing district in $ie Territory of Al
aska, said Association Placer cla':n
being designated by the U. S. Sur
veyor'Genera! of said Territory as
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1275; the
exterior boundries of which, accord
ing $e the plat and f field notes
thereof on file in said Land Office,
with a .nagnetic variation, of. 24 deg.
35 nun. E., is as follows:
“Beginning at Cor.. Not. 1,
A hewn spruce post 4 fu lpngi 4 in.
sq., in earth mound, 1-J275
B; whence U. S. L.. M. iiNo, 1274
bears S. 68 deg. 21- min,,. E.,.j267.85
ft.; Thence S: 44 deg 29p min E.
1231 ft. to Cor. No. 2; Thence !$•
37 deg. 01 min W. -5101.8 ft. to
Cor. No. 3; Tltnce N. 56 deg, 22
min. W. 739.3 ft. 1x3 Cor. No. 4;
T’-ence N. 31 deg. 17 min E. 5360
ft. to Cor. No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 120.205 acres.
The adjoining claims are, on the
southwe' Discovery’on Tittle Creek
on the northeast No. 2 Below Cold
_ *1 gp !** ^ f-'-T.rr mnsr-TT,»ti —
Run on Little Creek, both unsur
veyed and claimant?! unknown; pnd
on the northeast •'-■* *~”*heast
claims unsurveyed end claimants
unknown.
U. S- >1 No. 1275 is a Uewr.
spruce post 8 in. square, 8 ft Jong,
chiseled U. S. L. M. 1275, aitapted
on the left,, limit, of Little Creek,
about 60 feet above the bed thereof,
whence West Twin Peak hears N.
53 deg. 29 min. E.; East Tjvir.
Peak bears N., 57 deg. 56 min E.;
Roch on topf of high mountain at
the head of Little Creek bears
S. 34 deg. 0 mis, W.;- lat. 63 deg
6 min N.; long. H 56 22 min. W
JOHN SUNDBACK
Register U. fS. Land OHUje.
LOUIS GORMAN
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