To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . ght of property in a placermine or diggings during the time for which the grant of such mineor diggings is made. Legal post shall mean a stake standing not less than fourfeet above the ground and squared on four sides for at least one foot 1 Interpretation THE ALASKA COMMERi I At i OMPANY 53 from the top. Both sides so squared shall measure at least fourinches across the surface. It shall also mean an) stump or tree cutoff and squared or faced to the above height and size. Close season shall mean the period of the year duri
To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . ght of property in a placermine or diggings during the time for which the grant of such mineor diggings is made. Legal post shall mean a stake standing not less than fourfeet above the ground and squared on four sides for at least one foot 1 Interpretation THE ALASKA COMMERi I At i OMPANY 53 from the top. Both sides so squared shall measure at least fourinches across the surface. It shall also mean an) stump or tree cutoff and squared or faced to the above height and size. Close season shall mean the period of the year during whichplacer mining is generally suspended. The period to be fixed by thegold commissioner in whose district the claim is situated. Locality shall mean the territory along a river (tributary ofthe Yukon), and its affluents. Mineral shall include all minerals whatsoever other than )®^^ First—Bar diggings: A strip I nature and Si« of Claims | of ad ,cx?feet J* at high water mark, and thence ex-tending across the river to itslowest water AN ESKIMO DOG TEAM IN W1NTKK. Second—The sides of a claim for bar diggings shall be twoparallel lines run as nearly as possible at right angles to the stream,and shall be marked by four legal posts, one at each end of the claim,at or about high water mark, also one at each end of the claim at orabout the edge of the water. One of the posts at high water markshall be legibly marked with the name of the miner and the dateupon which the claim is staked. Third—Dry diggings shall be ioo feet square, and shall haveplaced at each of its four corners a legal post, upon one of whichshall be legibly marked the name of the miner and the date uponwhich the claim was staked. Fourth—Creek and river claims shall be 500 feet long, meas-ured in the direction of the general course of the stream, and shallextend in width from base to base of the hills or benches of eachside, but, when the hills or benches are less than 100 feet
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