The Alaska daily empire., 1914-04-23
DEGREE.

This matter having previously come on before this court on the 2lst day of March. 1914. and the aboye-entitled cause having been tried upon the com plaint of the plaintiff, Lewis Porter Hammond. as Trustee. and upon the answer and cross-complaint of the Wy oming Valley Trust Company, as Trus- tee. herein, and upon the answers of the remaining defendants in the above entitled action; the plaintiff. Lewis Porter Hammond. appearing by his at torney Z R. Cheney. Esq. and the de- fendant and ross-complainant, Wy oming Valley Trust Company, being represented by it's attorneys. Messrs. Shacklcford & BayleSs; and the de- fcndants, John Clark lille, alias J. Clark lille. The Jualpa Company, and The Last Chance Gold Mining Com. their attorneys. MeSSrs. Vim & Bur ton, and the testimony upon behalf of the Wyoming Valley Trust Company, defendant and cross-complainant, as trustee, and upon behalf of Lewis Por- ter Hammond. as trustee. having been heard. and the remaining defendants in said action having offered no testi- mony herein, and the court being full ly advised in the premises, having on the 23rd day of March, 1914, read and filed it's findings of fact and conclus- ions of law as herein.
 NOW. THEREFORE, It is by the court ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DE- CREED that all and singular the ale gations Of the bill of complaint of Lew is Porter Hammond. as trustee here in, and all and singular the allegations in the bill of crosS-complaint of the Wyoming Valley Trust Company. as Trustee. herein, are true.
 II.
 It Is further ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that the defendant and cross-complainant, Wyoming Valley Trust Company. have and recover of and from The Last Chance Gold Min ing Company of Alaska the sum of SS,9O0,0O. being the principal sum due upon the total S9 bonds issued under said mortgage deed of trust. dated July l, 1901. from the said The Last Chance Gold Mining Company of AL aska to the Wyoming Valley Trust Company. together with the sum of S6.497.OO interest now due thereon, together with the sum of Sl,000.0O at torney's fees. together with the sum of $500.O0 expenses and compensation of the Wyoming Valley Trust Com pany, the trustee under said mort gage deed of trust, making a total sum of Sl6,S97O0, together with all accruing costs thereof; and,
 It is further ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that the said mort gage deed of trust from The Last Chance Gold Mining Company of AL aska to the Wyoming Valley Trust Company. as trustee. is a first, prior and paramount lienfor the security of the total sum above mentioned, togeth- CT with accruing costs upon the follow ing described property, tO-wit:
 FIRST. All that certain placer min ing claim and premises designated by the ex-officio Surveyor General as lots Nos. 142. 143, IA, 145, 146, 147, 14S. 149. 15O. l51, 152, 153, 154. 1855, J56, 157. 15S, 159. 16O, 161, and 162, kDOwn as The Last Chance Placer Mining Claim and embracing portion of the public domain in the Harris mining district in Alaska in the District of Lands subject to sale at Sitka, in which said Placer Mining Claim and premises were duly patented by the United States of America, by letters patent bearing date the eighth day of June, A. D., 1892, unto William Nell son, Edward Brockhausen, Jacob Loertscher and John w. Allen, which letters patent are recorded at Juneau in book F. of Deeds on pages 423, 424, and 425 as by reference thereto will more fully and at large appear.
 SECOND: All that certain Placer Claim known as the Eureka Hill Claim situate on Gold Creek near Juneau, Alaska, and being recorded in book 2. page III. Juneau Recording Dis trict, also the water right on said claim in Taku Mill Site Gulch as re-