The Chitina leader., 1913-06-03
HAPPENINGS IN
 NE|CHBORHO0O

l The work of clearing large tract of land near the old cemetery at Eyak is now in progress and within month Cordova will boast on an- other industry. The Fundy Fox Company, of St. John, N. B., has de- cided to establish chain of fox ranches in this northland, and with that end in view have about con- lpleted one 56 60 feet at White jhorse, Y. T., have let a contract for ranch here. and will establish one at Perry island and two other is- lands to the westward of Seward.
 c. D. Colwell is the superintendent in charge at Cordova and he has let contract to Chas. Goodall for the erection of ten-foot-high board fence around plot of ground 120 X 120 feet. In this enclosure will be built of wire sixty corrals, 10 Is feet each. These are to be stocked with foxes for breeding purposes. Contracts have already been made with parties to the westward to furnish the foxes, and about a hun dred will be shipped here to start with.
 Mir. Colwell says he also intends erecting house at the ranch for the keeper and that his total expendi- ture in starting this new industry will be about $2,500.
 In a long document submitted by the U. s. Land Office at Juneau the recommendation is made that Jack Dalton be given a patent to approx imately twenty acres of tideland and upland located at Cordova. The patent has been held up for several years.
 The governments inquiry into the claims of MT. Dalton has resulted in bearing out MT. Dalton's assertion that his land contained mineral, as set out in his original location. The lode locations cannot be further at- tackled in the face of the recommen- dations.
 The Dalton tideland case has been fought out in the government land office for the past three years.
 A prominent Juneau Democrat is slated to become territorial treas urer," a post created by the legis- lature.
 It is reported that all of Frank Manley's mining machinery, appa- tus and equipment that hereto fore has been used in the Hot Springs district on the Panama, is ready for shipment to the Iditarod on the first water this spring. Manley will confine his efforts to the last named district this year.
 An action which involves the ti- tie to eleven coal claims due north of the Cunningham group, in the Boring river coal fields, near Katalla, is now being threshed out before the Juneau land office.
 These claims were first located in 1903 by S. c. Chezum, Charles Dougherty and E. H. Hughes, as agents for the different claimants. Application for patent was made in 1908, the individual claimants hav- ing previously transferred their rights to the Northern Improvement Company, a Washington state corpo- ration. Early in 1912 the govern ment fled charges against the entry, alleging that the claims were not talk en up for the use of the locators 
 themselves, but for the use of S. c. Chezum, and Charles Dougherty; also that the locators had not op- ened a coal mine on each of the ] claims. Testimony in the case was taken in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
 An oral argument was presented on the case before Register Walker and Receiver Boyle of the local land office by Judge A. c. Shaw, a Port land attorney, representing the claimants. s. c. Chezum also ap- peared at the hearing. M. s. Hib- bard, a United States mineral in- spector of the general land office and Attorney Meade, of the Forest Ser vice, were also present.
 The editor of the Daily Alaskan is in receipt of a letter from our | former townshan, Wm. E. Woods, from Elizabeth City, North Caroli- ma, where he is disposing of the fam fly estate and settling the litigation, and as soon as this is concluded he intends to come back north. MT. Wools, who was candidate for U. s. Marshal of this division, had just returned from a trip to Washington, and he writes as follows:
 Alaskan affairs are much in ev- idence before the Senate Committee