The Cordova daily times., 1922-09-12
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
 OFFICE

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
 That in accordance with the laws of the United States, and especially in pursuance of the Acts of Congress ap- proved July 9th, 1870, and May 10th, 1872, and amendments thereof, JOHN E. ANDRUS, a citizen of the United States, whose post office address is Care of Maurice D. Leehey, 620 Alas ka Building, Seattle, Washington, who has acquired and improved the placer mining claim and premises hereinafter described in accordance with said laws and all local laws, rules and customs of miners, and has per formed labor and made improvements on said mining claim of the value greater than Five Hundred Dollars, and who at this time is in the sole, actual and peaceful possession there of, will apply for a patent to the min ing claim known and designated as the REX GULCH BENCH B ASSOCI- ALTON PLACER, designated in the official survey thereof as Mineral Sur vey No. 1454, containing an area of 5597 acres of valuable placer deposit of gold and other valuable minerals situated on west bench of Rex Gulch, a tributary of Chittitu Creek, in the Nizina (unorganzed) Mining District, within the Mccarthy Recording Pre- cinct, in the Third Judicial Division of the Territory of Alaska, more particu- larly and accurately described upon the official plat of the said mineral survey, and in the field notes thereof, on file in the United States Land Of flee at Juneau, Alaska, as follows:
 Beginning at Corner No. 1 of said claim, which is identical with
 Corner No. 1 of Placer No 1 on
 Rex Gulch and Corner No. of Placer No. ? on Rex Gulch, both
 in Mineral Survey 1405, from
 which United States Mineral Mon ument No 27 bears North 27 deg.
 36 min. West 20460 feet dis
 tant; thence from said Corner No.
 North 24 deg 55 min.
 East 1852 feet to Corner No. 2,
 identical with Corner No 2 of
 identical with Corner No of Pla-
 cer No. on Rex Gulch and with
 Corner No. 1 of Placer No.
 3 on Rex Gulch both in
 M. s. 14O5; thence North 20 deg.
 A min. East 974.44 feet to Corner
 No. 3. identical with Corner No.
 of Placer No. 3 on Rex Gulch
 and Corner No. 1 of Placer No.
 on Rex Gulch Mineral Survey
 1889; thence South 72 deg. 35 min.
 West 143330 feet to Corner No.
 4, which is identical with Corner
 Mo- of the Elkins Bench Placer,
 M. s. 1405; thence South deg.
 45 min. East 125195 feet to Cor
 ner Mo- 5, which is identical with
 Corner No. of the Elkins Bench
 Placer and Corner No. 1 of the
 Rambler Bench Placer, both in M.
 s. 1405; thence South 12 deg. O2
 min. East 369OS feet to Corner
 No. 6, which is identical with Cor
 ner No. 2 of the Rambler Bench
 Placer and Corner No. of Placer
 No. on Rex Gulch; thence North
 68 deg. 24 min. East 476S7 feet to
 Corner No. 1, the place of begin
 ming first herein described.
 United States Mineral Monu-
 ment No. 27, to which surveys
 herein are tied by the official sur
 vey, is in Latitude 61 deg. IS min.
 North and approximate Longitude
 142 deg 39 min. West, and thence
 the confluence of Rex Gulch and
 White Gulch, which forms Chititu
 Creek, bears South 21 deg 50 min.
 West 800 feet, while Andrus Peak
 bears South deg. 59 mine. East
 and Sheepherder's Mountain bears
 North 16 deg. 40 min. East.
 This claim is entirely surround
 ed on the east, south and west by
 placer locations included in Min
 eral Survey 1405, and herein mentioned in the description, while there are no mining claims or To-
 cations bordering on the north, at
 least none officially surveyed.
 THIS NOTICE dated and issued at the United States Land Office at Ju- neau, Alaska, on this 9th day of Au- gust A. D. 1922, for posting in said Land Office, and for publication for period of not less than sixty days in ten consecutive and regular issues of the Cordova Daily Times, news paper of general circulation, printed and published weekly at Cordova, Alas ka, within the Juneau Land District. and nearest the land herein described and hereby designated for that pur- pose.
 FRANK A. BOYLE, Register. MAURICE D. LEEHEY,
 Attorney for Claimant.
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