The Nome nugget., 1921-09-17


 identical with location cor. schtst stone 26x8x3 ins. 14 ins. in ground, marked 1 7B 1 sB 1esO with earth mound 24 ins. base. Is
 ins. high N. side of same; Thence
 N. 15 deg. 05 min. E. 901 % fl
 to Cor. l and place of beginning. containing an area of 15. BOP acres. No. 8 BELOW MERRlTTs
 DISCOVERY PLACER
 Beginning at cor. 1, identical
 with locaoion cor. dnd with Cor.
 NO. Below Merritts Discovery
 Placer. of this survey previously
 described, whence US.L.M. No.
 129o bears N. 4S deg. 14 min. w.
 2l6s.37 it: Thence $. 45 deg. IS
 min. F.. 56S. % It .o Cor. 2. iden-
 tical with location Cor. and with
 Cor. 3 No. 2 Below Merritts Dis
 covery and Cor. Bench Claim
 No. placers, both of this survey,
 and previously hascribed Thence
 S 51 deg. 19 min. w. 1909 70 it.
 to cor. 3, identical with location
 cor. q schist stone 27xsx7 ins. If
 ms. In ground. marked 3 SB 1290.
 with earth mound 24 ins. base 16
 ms. high $. side of same: Thence
 N B deg. 09 min. w. 520. 70 1t.
 to cor. 4, identical with location
 cor. schist stane 24xsxS ins. I2
 ins. in ground marked f SB l290,
 with earth mound 24 ins base 16
 ins. high s. side of same: Th7nce
 N. IS deg. 5 min. F. 1895 % feet
 to cor. and place of beginning,
 containing an area of II S29 acres
 Magnetic variation from 19 deg. 45 min. F 70 % deg. 30 min. E. at the different corners of this survey
 This claim is on unsurveyed ground on koussirok Rive. and ll9ft bank of same, distant about 27 miles northerIv from shelton the terminus of Seward Peninsula Railroad. and situate in Cape Nome formerly Kougarok) Re cording Precjnc., Territory of Alaska.
 The total area embraced in this Mineral Survey No. 1o9O is 291 573 acres and the total area embraced in this Application is 2O4. BPS acres and there is hereby excluded from this Application Bench Claim No. 7 placer an area of 17245 acres.
 The notices of location of said min ing claims are of record in the office Of the Recorder of Cape Nome (forn- erly Kougamok) Recording Precinct, Territory of Alaska, as follows:
 No. Below Merritts Discovery placer recorded in Volume B at page 5S;
 Bench Claim No. Below Merritts Discovery placer recorded in Volume B at page 12s;
 No. ? Below Merritts Discovery placer recorded in Volume 32 at page 1eO;
 N. Y. Association Bench placer re- corded in Volume s2 at pagA 2ss.
 Tulloch Fraction or No. 3A Below Memitts Discovery. recorded in Volume B at page 122:
 Cleanup Fraction Below Merritts Discovery placer. recarded in Volume s2 at page 2s7:
 No. Below Merritts Discovery placer, recorded in Volume 32 a. page 127:
 Bench Claim No. Below Merritts Discovery plader. or No. A. recorded in Volume s2 at page 226:
 No. Below Merritts Discovery placer. recorded in Volume s2 at page 124:
 No 6 Below Merritts Discovery placer, recorded in Volume g at page 195:
 Louise Bench Association Below Merritts Discovery. Placer. recorded in Volume s2 a: page 2sS;
 No. 2 Below MArritts Discovery placer. recorded in Volume g at page 126:
 No. Below Merritts Discovery placer, recorded in Volume 7S at page ,.
 There are no conflicting claims.
 The adjoining claims are: On the North. Merrdtts Discovery placer; On the West No. Below Merri.ts Dis- covery placer and on the South No. 9 Below Merritts Discovery placer. all with claimants unknown.
 The Mineral Monument to which this survey is tied is located and described as kollows:.
 U. s. l.. NJ. No. 12s0, a schist stone 3ox20x8 ins. IS ins. in ground marked USLM 129O with cross CD on top surface for true point. and earth mound with foot base feet high. west side of same, located on the top of schist bluff about 70 feet above Kougarok River north of the left bank in Latitude 65 deg. 37 min. 90 sec. N. Longitude 1884 deg. 47 min. W. Cor. No. Louise Bench, No. Below. No Below and Bench Claim