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INDEX. 
Page. 
Kuskokwim division. 16 
Land district, to create. 95 
Laws applicable to Alaska. 129 
Lead. 75 
Lode claims, status prior to 1872 . . 98 
Mail and transportation facilities . . 126 
contracts. 127 
Maps of Alaska.frontispiece 
Mill sites, law relating to. 113 
Mineral lands and mining: 
Act of 1866. 81 
Act of 1874. 92 
Act of 1878. 93 
Act of 1884. 81 
Mineral lands open to exploration, 
etc. 9S 
resources. 75 
Miners—proof of citizenship. 83 
Mining claims: 
Adverse claims ... 85, 94, 95, 116, 117 
Affidavits required . 88 
Appointment of deputy survey¬ 
ors. 118 
Blank forms. 122 
Building-stone claims. 123, 124 
Charges for survey, etc. 119 
Extent of. 83,96,117 
Fees of receivers. 120 
How patented. 85 
Legal subdivisions. 87 
Location of. 84 
Non-resident claims. 94 
Placer claims. 86, 87, 109 
Possessory rights. 114 
Proof of citizenship. 115 
Priority of possession. 89 
Proceedings before receivers.. 120 
Regulations. 83 
Right of possession. 83 
Survey of. 88 
Tunnel rights. 83,92,103 
Vein or lode claims. 85, 
86, 89, 99 100, 104 
Mining in winter. 78 
laws. 82 
repeal provisions .... 91 
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Mission stations. 13 
Mosquitoes. 28 
N ulato. 23 
Pelagic sealing. 49 
Point Barrow, climate. 26 
Poplar. 36 
Population of Alaska. 10 
Port Clarance. 33 
Potato crop. 3 § 
Pribilof Islands, discovery of.. 44 
Prince of Wales Island. 8 
Purchase price. 9 
Railroad proposed. 127 
Rainfall. 26 
Reindeer. 41 
Religion . 13 
River system. 17 
Salmon fisheries. 20,69 
Act for protection of. 70 
Canned product, 1883-1890 ... 69 
Sawmills. 37 
Scrub pine. 37 
Seal life in Bering Sea, commis¬ 
sioners to investigate. 56 
Silver. 75 
Sitka: 
Location, etc. 30 
Spruce. 36 
Southeastern division. 15 
Spruce. 35 
St. Michaels: 
Climate. 27 
Location. 33 
St. Paul, location, etc. 32 
Stikine River. 18 
Sushitna River. 19 
Tanana River. 23 
Teller reindeer station. 42 
Territorial government. 129 
Thlinket Indians. 14 
Timber, varieties of. 35 
Towns and trading posts. 30 
Trading houses. 125 
Treadwell Mining Company. 75 
Tsimpsean Indians. 14 
Vegetables. 38 
