The Alaska prospector., 1902-05-29
Alaskan Gulf X Yukon
Land Grant Bill Introduced by Mir Kitteridge, and Referred
 to Committee.

Congress assembled,
 That there he. and is hereby. granted to the Alaskan Gulf X Yu- kon Railway O., a corporation or ganized under the laws of the state of Washington, = every al- ternate section of land designated by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of said road, also right of way for said railroad one hundred feet in width on each side of the center line of said road between the points named; but in case it shall appear that the United States has, when the line of said road is definitely fixed, sold any section or any part thereof, or that the right of homestead or preemp- tion has attached to the same. then 1t shall be lawful for the said com pany to select, subject to the ap- proval of the Secretary of the In- terior, from the lands of the United States nearest to the tiers of sec tions above specified so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections of odd numbers as shall be  equal to such lands as the United States have sold or otherwise ap- prOpriated Provided that the lands SO to be located shall in no case be farther than ten miles from the line of said road.
 SEC. ,. That the lands hereby granted to said railway company. shall be transferred, ,reserving all mineral rights, in the manner fol- lowing, to-wit; When it shall have been made to appear to the satis- faction of the Secretary of the h. terior that the said road shall have been completed sufficiently to oper- ate trains over the same. then the Secretary of the Interior shall have conveyed by patent to said com pany all lands as hercinabove set forth.
 SEC. 3. That the line of said road shall follow as near as may be the route as herein immediately in- dicated: Commencing at point in the body of water known as Port Valdez, at or near the town of Valdez, district of Alaska; thence easterly along the valley of Lowe river through Lowe canyon and over the pass known as Thompson pass, following the survey filed with War Department at Washington, by George N. Holdredge; thence from Thompson pass through the valley of Ptarmigan creek to the South Fork of the Tiekel river; thence down the said South Fork of last named river, to the confluence with the North Fork of said Teikel river; thence up the North Fork of said river and over a low divide down to small stream and across the Tonsina river; thence over to or near the town of Copper Center, at the mouth of the Klutena river, following as near as may be the present line of the United States Telegraph or Abercrombie trail thence from at or near Copper Cen ter along the westerly side of Cop per river to the Slana river, or from Copper Center, across Copper river following as near as may be the course of the Willard trail, to the mouth of the Slana river; thence up the last named river to and through the Mentasta pass; thence down the Little TOkio river to its junction with the Big Tokio river; thence on the bench lands on the westerly side of the Big Tokio river near the, foothills of the mountains, and across the Panama river, at or near the present trail used by the United States mail carriers; thence to Lake Mansfield and the Indian village known as ketchumstuck, to the South Fork of the Fortvmile river to point near the boundary line between the district of Alaska and the Yukon Territory; thence to Eagle City or some point on the Yukon river, being dist.noa o,