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INDEX. 



Kuskokwim division 



Land district, to create 



Laws applicable to Alaska 



Lead 



Lode claims, status prior to 1872 



Mail and transportation facilities 



contracts 



Page. 

 16 



95 

 129 



75 



98 



126 



127 



Maps of Alaska frontispiece 



113 



98 



75 

 83 



Mill sites, law relating to 



Mineral lands and mining : 



Act of 1866 



Act of 1874 



Act of 1878 



Act of 1884 



Mineral lands open to exploration, 



etc 



resources 



Miners — proof of citizenship 



Mining claims: 



Adverse claims ... 85, 94, 95, 116, 117 



Affidavits required 88 



Appointment of deputy surve}'- 



ors 118 



Blank forms 122 



Building-stone claims 123, 124 



Charges for survey, etc 119 



Extent of 83, 96, 117 



Fees of receivers 



How patented 



Legal subdivisions 



Location of 



Non-resident claims 



120 



85 



87 



84 



94 



Placer claims 86, 87, 109 



Possessory rights 114 



Proof of citizenship 115 



Priorit}' of possession 89 



Proceedings before receivers. . 120 



Regulations 83 



Right of possession 83 



Survej' of 88 



Tunnel rights 83, 92, 103 



Vein or lode claims 85, 



86, 8g, 99 100, 104 



Mining in winter 78 



laws 82 



repeal provisions .... gi 



Mission stations 



Mosquitoes 



Nulato 



Pelagic sealing 



Point Barrow, climate 



Poplar 



Population of Alaska 



Port Clarance 



Potato crop 



Pribilof Islands, discovery of 



Prince of Wales Island 



Purchase price 



Railroad proposed 



Rainfall 



Reindeer 



Religion 



River system 



Salmon fisheries 



Act for protection of 



Canned product, 1883-1890 . . . 



Sawmills 



Scrub pine 



Seal life in Bering Sea, commis- 

 sioners to investigate 



Silver 



Sitka: 



Location, etc 



Spruce 



Southeastern division 



Spruce 



St. Michaels: 



Climate 



Location 



St. Paul, location, etc 



Stikine River 



Sushitna River 



Tanana River 



Teller reindeer station 



Territorial government 



Thlinket Indians 



Timber, varieties of 



Towns and trading posts 



Trading houses 



Treadwell Mining Company 



Tsimpsean Indians 



Vegetables 



Page. 

 13 



28 

 23 



49 

 26 



36 

 10 



33 

 38 

 44 



8 



9 

 127 

 26 

 41 

 13 

 17 

 20, 69 

 70 

 69 

 37 

 37 



56 



75 



30 

 36 

 15 



35 



27 

 33 

 32 



18 



19 

 23 

 42 



129 

 14 

 35 

 30 



125 

 75 

 14 

 38 



