The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-02-22
NO MORE DELAY
City Council Decides to Push Matter of TOWnsite
 Survey

that reason I think we should push the matter of the townsite survey' said Councilman Cornell at the meet ing of the city council last Monday night. The question arose on the dis posal of query from the surveyor general to Leroy D. Ryus as to whether the town council wished to have the survey of the townsite, as a preliminary to the application for a patent, delayed until the Mission controversy was settled or not. And motion instructing Mir. Ryus to notify the proper authorities to that effect was carried after general discussion. Five councilmen, Messrs Cornell, Fieckert, Guzman, Lathrop and Pittenger were present besides Mayor Hunt and when the motion was put all voted as favoring the movement except Councilman Pitten- ger who went on record as voting neither way on the matter.
 The letters are published herewith and are well worthy the persual of every citizen of Ketchikan dealing as they do with the much discussed question of the relation of the town site survey to the mining claims which will be included therein.
 Mir. Leroy D. Ryus
 Ketchikan, Alaska,
 Dear Sir:-
 In view of the fact that a number of protests have been received against having the survey made as now pro- vided for, in the particular of leaving out the area claimed by the Episcopal Church as a Mission Reserve, DOT tion of which is occupied by adverse claimants, it is suggested that if the Mayor and Town Council of Ketchi- kan would make formal request that the execution of the survey of the townsite boundaries be deferred until the differences at issue shall have adjudicated, the matter will be taken up with the Department at Washing ton with favorable recommendations if such action would meet with your consent.
 As the Mission Reserve tract, as claimed by the Church, has now been made and the returns thereof filed, it is hoped the matter may be in condit- ion for submitting it to the Depart ment for adjudication in the near future.
 In regard to the controversy be- tween the Town Council and the owners of the mining property adja- cent to the town, in regard to the boundary lines of the townsite, you
 are informed that a protest against the survey of said boundary lines as provided for in the Contract and Special Instructions, has been receiv- ed from the Ketchikan Mining Con- pany, through Mir. Charles E. Inger- soil and enclosed is copy of my reply thereto dated the Fist ultimo, which will indicate to you how that feature of the case now stands.
 An early reply concerning the sug gestion relative to postponement of the survey is requested.
 Yours truly, Wm. l.. Distin, Surveyor General 
 Mir. Charles E. Ingersoll,
 Ketchikan, Alaska. Dear Sir:-
 With your letter of the 12th ins tant was received protest of the Ketchi- kan Consolidated Mining Company, by John Shoenbar, Manager, against the survey of the boundary lines oi the townsite of Ketchikan as now pro- vided for in Contract with Leroy D. Ryus, for the reason that the survey will cover a number of its mining claims.
 In reply you are advised that as the survey is to be done under the terms of contract with Mir. Ryus, which has been signed and the bond there } under approved, no change therein is deemed practicable. The statement of the protestant that the survey of the townsite boundary } is to extend back one half mile from tide water is erroneous, as the follow ing extract from the instructions tC the Deputy will show:-
 "You will begin the survey at Cor ner No 1. of U. S. Mineral Survey No. > $50 made by Deputy N. B. Whitfield of the Black Swan Mining Claim, which is described as schistose stone } it. it. 6 feet above, and at the
 line of ordinary high tide and after properly marking it for corner No. and meander corner of this survey and connecting it by course and dis
 tance with U. s. L. M. No. 4, you will run thence N. B deg. 30 min. E.
 along the westerly boundary of the
 Black Swan Mining Claim 9.09 chains more or less to Corner No. of said
 Black Swan Mining Claim, which i' described as a schistose slate stone
 3OxlSx6 inches, 15 inches in the
 ground: thence continuing on same course 10. 90 chains and establish Cor
 ner No, ?: thence N. 58 deg. 30 min