The Cordova daily times., 1922-10-31

BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
 OFFICE JUNEAU SERIAL o5513
 JOHN E. ANDRUS, Applicant,
 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 an. proved July 9th, 1870, and May 10th. IoI2, and amendments thereof, JOHN E. ANDRUS, citizen of the United States, whose post office address ia Care of Maurice D. Leehey, 62O 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 ana customs of miners, and has ner lormeu lapor and made improvements oh sald 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 offlclal survey thereof as Mineral Sur vey No. 1454, containing an area of 5o'o9I acres of valuable placer deposit2 or gold and other valuable minerals situated on west bench Of Rex Gulch. tributary of Chittitu Creek. in the Nlzlna (unorganized) Mining District, within the Mccarthy Recording Pre- c1nct, in the Third Judicial Division of the Ierrltory of Alaska, more particu- larly and accurately described unon the official plat of the said mineral survey, and in the field notes there,r on file in the United States Land Of. ice 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. 2 on Rex Gulch. both
 in Mineral Survey 1405, from
 which United States Mineral Mon- ument Mo- 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. 2 of PIa. cer Mo- on Rex Gulch and with corner Mo- 1 of Placer No.
 5 on Rex Gulch both in
 M. s. 1405; thence North 20 deg
 A min. East 97444 feet to Corner
 No. 3, identical with Corner No.
 2 of Placer No. on Rex Gulch and Corner No. of Placer No. 4 eA on Rex Gulch, Mineral Survey 1889; thence South 72 deg. 35 min. West 1433.30 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 No. 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. 02 min. East 3690S feet to Corner Mo- 6, which is identical with Cor ner No. 2 of the Rambler Bench
 Placer and Corner No. of Placer No. l on Rex Gulch; thence North
 6S deg. "A min. East 476.S7 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 q deg. 50 min Z, 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 sSround-
 ed on the east south and west by
 pl"cer 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 Jul 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, printAd 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. Office and Post Office Address:
 s28 Alaska Building,
 Seattle. Washington.
 First publication, Aug. 22, 1922. Las publication October 30. 1922,