The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-02
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
 OFFICE

oErAH mENT OF THE INTERIOR
 BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
 OFFICE
 JUNEAU SERIAL o5513 JOHN k. ANDRUS, Applicant NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT
 1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: | That in accordance with the laws or ! the United States, and especially in pursuance of the Acts of Congress an. 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 here1nafter 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 or, Will apply for a patent to the min ing claim known and designated as the REX GULCH BENCH B ASSOCI. ATlON PLACER, designated in the official survey thereof as Mineral Sur Vey No. 1454, containing an area ot S5597 acres of valuable placer deposf,S of gold and other valuable minerals situated on west bench of Rex Cullen tributary of Chittitu Creek. in the Nizina (unorganized) Mining District rtb cinct, in the Third Judicial Division of the Territory of Alaska, more particu- iarly and accurately described upop 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. of
 said claim, which Is identical with
 Corner No. 1 of Placer No. 1 on
 Rex Gulch and Corner No. 1 of
 Placer, No. 2 on Rex Gulch, both
 in Mineral Survey 1405. from
 which United States Mineral Mon.
 ument No. 27 bears North 27 deg. 36 min. West 2O4.60 feet dis tant; thence from said Corner No. l North 24 deg. 55 min
 East 1852 feet to Corner No. 2. identical with Corner No. of
 identical with Corner No. 3 of Pla-
 cer No. on Rex Gulch and with
 corner No. 1 of Placer No, |. 5 on Rex Gulch both in
 M s. 1405; 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. of Placer No. 4 V
 on Rex Gulch. Mineral Survey lOS9; thence South 72 deg. 35 min.
 West 1433.3o feet to Corner No.
 4, which is identical with Corner
 NO. Of the Elkins Bench Placer,
 M. s. 14o5; 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. of the
 Rambler Bench Placer, both In M.
 5. l405; thence South 12 deg. 02
 min. East 369.0S feet to Corner
 No. $. which is identical with Cor
 ner No. of the Rambler Bench
 Placer and Corner Mo- 5 of Placer No. on Rex Gulch; thence North
 6S deg. "A min. East 476.S7 feet to
 Corner No. l, 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 q deg. 50 min. West 800 feet, while Andrus Peak bears South 9 deg. 59 mine. East.
 and Sheepherder's Mountain bears North Is deg. 40 min. East This claim is entirely ssrround- ed on the east, south and west by p1ccer locations included in Min
 eral Survey 14O5, 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 a period of not less than sixty days in ten consecutive and regular issues Of the Cordova Daily Times, n1Is- paner of general circulation, prit and published weekly at Cordova, AIS. ka, within the Juneau Land District, and nearest the land herein described and hereby designated for that pur- pose.
 FRANK A. BOYLE, Register. l MAURICE D. LEEHEY. Attorney for Claimant. Office and Post Office Address: 62o Alaska Building,
 Seattle, Washington. .y. ...... First publication, Aug. 22, 1923. ] Las publication October 30, 1922.