The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-01

BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
 OFFICE
 JUNEAU SERIAL o5513
 JOHN E. ANDRUS, Applicant.
 NOTICE OF APPLlcATioN FOR
 PATENT ri NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: x That in accordance with the laws of 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 D. 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 herelnafter 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 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 Snr- vey No. 1454, containing an area of 5o'597 acres of valuable placer deposA Of gold and other valuable minerafss situated on west bench of Rex Gulch. a tributary of Chittitu Creek, in the Nizina (unorganized) Mining District within the Mccarthy Recording Pre- c1nct. in the Third Judicial Division of the Territory of Alaska, more particu. iarly and accurately described upon the official plat of the said mineral survey, and in the field notes there,,r on file in the United States Land Of. flce 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 2O4.6O 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. 2 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.
 2 of Placer No. 3 on Rex Gulch
 and Corner No. of Placer No. 4
 on Rex Gulch, Mineral Survey< 1OS9; thence South 72 deg. 35 min.
 West 1433.30 feet to Corner No.
 4, which is identical with Corner
 No. of the Elkins Bench Placer.
 M. s. 14O5; thence South 2 deg.
 45 min East 1251s5 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 NJ.
 s. 1405; thence South 12 deg. 02
 min. East 3690S feet to Corner
 No. 6, which is identical with Cor
 ner No. of the Rambler Bench Placer and Corner No. of Placer No. on Rex Gulch; thence North 6S deg. A min. East 476.87 feet to Corner No. 1, the place of begin
 
 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 J bears South g deg. 59 mine East, and Sheepherder's Mountain bears North 16 deg. 40 min. East. This claim is entirely s>rround- ed on the east, south and west by piccer 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 l the United States Land Office at Ju- 1 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, news paper of general circulation, printed and published weekly at Cordova, Al As- 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: 6Ho Alaska Building,
 Seattle, Washington. First publication. Aug. 22. 1922. Las publication October 30, 1922