The Nome nugget., 1929-10-19
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
 FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1869
 Nj. \. NO. O872
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
 OFFICE AT NOME, ALASKA.

NIIdl INIE1 W EAl4Ih SOm- PANY, corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Washington, and 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. ? below Discovery, 212 below Dis covery, Number 3 below Discovery. Fraction between Nos. and 5 Creek Claim below Discovery, Number below Discovery, No 6 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 5 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 Office with magnetic variation of from N. 20 deg. 30 min. E. to N. 2s deg. E. being as follows: Com mencing at Cor. No. 1 of the Vir- ginia Bench this survey, whence II. S. l.. M. Sur. 1237 bears N. 32 deg. 47 min. w. 1883 it. dis tant, thence along line 12 of said Virginia Bench s. 2S deg. A min. E. $50 fit to Cor No. of said Virginia Bench, and Cor. No. 1 of No. 6 Below and Cor. No. 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. of No. 6 Below, thence s. 47 deg. 12 min. E. 124S fit. to Cor. No. 1 of No
 : Below Discovery, thence N. 61 deg 05 min. E. 240 fit. to Cor No. ? of No. ' below Discovery, thence N. 49 deg. 51 min B. 2219 1t. 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. 3 Doctor Bench, Survey 1237, at which point corner being destroyed py ice movement, witness Cor bears S. 7S deg. 54 min. W. 46.5 it. from true Cor, thence from said true Cor. No. S. 7S deg. 54 min. w. 600.7 fit to Cor No. of No. Below Discovery and Cor. No. of No. Below and Cor. No. ? of Bench of No. Be- low Dis. on the right limit and Cor. No. Doctor Bench Sur. 1237; thence S. 19 deg. 12 min. E. all ong line 2-3 of said Bench off No. Below Dis. 595.5 it. to Cor No. 3 of said Bench of No. Below Dis thence S. 40 deg. 39 min. w. 718 it. to Cor. No. of said Bench off No. Below Dis, and Cor. No. of Wedge Fraction and Cor. No. 2 of No. l Snowshoe placer survey No.