The Nome nugget., 1929-11-23
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
 FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1869
 M. A. NO. OS72
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
 Sent. 10. 1929.


 that KEEWALIK MINING COM PANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Washington, and a citi- zen of the United States, by Ira D. Orton, it's attorney in fact whose residence and post office address is Nome, Alaska, has made appli- cation before the United States Land Office at Nome, Alaska, for a United States Patent for a con solidated placer claim situate on Candle Creek and the benches thereof and extending from the mouth of Candle Creek about 2 miles upstream thereon, compris- ing IS contiguous locations. known as Discovery, Number one below Discovery, Kinney Fraction. No. 2 below Discovery, 21a below Dis covery, Number 8 below Discovery, Fraction between Nos. 4 and 5 Creek Claim below Discovery. Number below Discovery. No. below, No. below Discovery, Bench 1st tier R. L. adj Discov- cry. Big Bend Fraction. Kentucky Bench, Maryland Bench, Virginia Bench, Wedge Fraction Bench off No. Below Dis. on the right limit, Bench off No. 6 below Dis. on the right limit, all on Candle Creek and the benches thereof in the Fairhaven Recording Precinct, Nome Land District, Territory of Alaska, Second Division. and be- ing all the land embraced within Mineral Survey No. 1869 as desig- mated by the Cadastral Engineer in charge. except the Native Bench placer which is excluded from the application; the exterior boundar- ies of said consolidated placer claim, according to the plat and field notes of said survey now on file with said Nome Land Ofice with magnetic variation of from N. 20 deg. 30 min. E. to N. g deg. E. being as follows: Com mencing at Cor. No. of the Vir- ginia Bench this survey. whence U. s. L. NJ. Sur. 1237 bears N. 32 deg. 47 min. W. 1883 it. dis tant, thence along line 1-2 of said Virginia Bench S. 2s deg. A min. E. 5S0 fit to Cor No. ? of said Virginia Bench, and Cor. No. l of No. Below and Cor. No. 1 of Number Below Discovery. thence along line 1-2 of No. 6 Below N 55 deg. 34 min. E. S97.S it. to Cor. No. 3 of No. 6 Below, thence S. AZ deg. 12 min. E. 124.S it. to Cor. No. 1 of No. 7 Below Discovery, thence N 61 deg. 05 min. E. 24O fit. to Cor. No. ? of No. z below Discovery. thence N 49 deg. 51 min. H. 2219 it. to Cor. No. 3 of No. Below Discovery, thence N. 3s deg 25 min. E. 264.4 it. to true Cor. No. of No. Below Discovery, at which point being on the bank of Keewalik River where Cor. not maintainable, witness Cor. bears S. 3S deg. 25 min. W. 94.6 it. distant, thence from true Cor. No. 4, S. 29 deg. Al min. E. 751.- it. to true Cor. No of No. 2 Below Discovery and Cor No. 9 Doctor Bench, Survey 1237. at which point corner being destroyed Dy ice movement, witness Cor. bears S. 78 deg. 54 min. W. 46.5 1t. from true Cor, thence from said true Cor. No. s. 78 deg. 54 min. w. 600.7 fl to Cor. No. 6 of No. 2 Below Discovery and Cor. No. 3 of No. 6 Below and Cor. No. of Bench off No. 6 Be low Dis. on the right limit and Cor. No. 1 Doctor Bench Sur. 1237s thence S. 19 deg. 13 min. E. al- ong line 2-3 of said Bench on No. 6 Below Dis. 595.5 1t. to Cor. No. ] of said Bench off No. 6 Below Dis. thence s. 70 deg. 39 min. W. 71S 1t. to Cor. No. 4 of said Bench off No. 6 Below Dis, and Cor. No. of Wedge