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' HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FOR HYDER LIBRARY
That the Carnegie Endow
ment for the Internationa!
Peace has accepted the appli
cation of the Hyder Public j
Library for enrollment on the
list of public libraries receiv- j
ing books from the Carnegie !
Endowment, was the interest- I
ing announcement made this ,
week by Ernest Blue, president j
of the Hyder Public Library j
Board. Mr. Blue also made !
known that the first books |
alloted to the Library undo' j
the Endowment plan, consist- |
ing of ten handsome volumes,
have been received and will
soon be available.
The enrollment of the local
Public Library is made in con
nection with what is termed
International Mind Alcoves,
which consist of collections of
books dealing with the daily
life, customs, art, culture,
government, geography or
history of the various foreign
peoples, which are placed
under certain conditions ir. |
libraries in smail communities
throughout the United States,. !
by the Carnegie Endowment. 1
The books placed in these al- !
coves are chosen from record
publications and are usual!;,
beyond the reach of the sinal
library, save in a limited de- j
^ gree, owing to fund limitations ;
The particular purpose of the I
International Mind Alcove is to j
further the cause of universal
peace by assisting people to
gain a wider knowledge and
understanding of the people?
of the world, apd thereby a
larger interest in them.
The books issued by the
Carnegie Endowment are care
fully selected and are amone
the best of their kind obtain
able, six to eight books being
lead for every one selected ;
The effort is made to select j
only such books as give tin I
reader a fair and unprejudiced i
but sympathetic view of the j
country. When an Alcove has 1
been established some 10 or 12
books are sent as the nuclei .
for the collection. Following
the first installment, four ad
ditional books are sent even i
3 months to be added to the j
collection. The maximum for|
any Alcove is from 80 to 100;
books and this number is limit
ed according to the needs of;
the community and the interns
manifested in them.
Hyder is the first town in i
Alaska to receive this valuable
endowment and local readers j
may truly consider themselves
most fortunate to have access ,
to such a splendid collection of
informative works as are in-'
eluded in the Endowment lists.
The library officials are also!
entitled to warm congratula
tions and thanks for their
initiative and energy in having
Hyder included in the very
limited list of libraries receiv
ing Carnegie Endowment
Books.
Following is the list of books
so far received.
Asia-The Desert Road to j
Turkistan. British Empire-Tho j
Third Route. Black Roadways
(Jamaica). Germany-Towns'
and people of Modern Ger
mans Mexico-Red Tiger. Neth
erlands-The Flavor of Holland.
Spain - Understanding Spain.
Turkey-Urtder Five Sultans.
Veterans May Secure
Local Medical Service
That ex-seivice men may
soon be able to secure free
local medical aid and hospital
i i/ation as a result of arrange
j ments with the Stewart hos
pital and a local medical prac
I litioner, is the cheering infor
mation brought to Hyder war
| veterans in a letter from J. A.
: Talbot, commander of the
j Alaska department of the
j American Legion, to Noel M.
1 Traversy.
j Mr. Talbot quotes a message
from O. G. Fairburn, manager
j '1‘ the Veteran’s Bureau, in
1 which he states that the e§tab
1 lishment of a Veteran’s Bureau
me’dical service at Stewart for
he benefit ot Hyder veterans
may be arranged and asks that
;he names of the hospital and
!he doctor available be trans
mitted to his office.
Mr. Talbots letter explains
that this means that the Vet
eran’s Bureau no doubt con
emplates making a contract
with Stewart hospital to take j
?are of the Veteran’s cases j
arising in Hyder; in which
case they may be able, if do- j
sired, to secure immediate free
medical attention in case of
icknes3 or accident and also ;
•Tee treatment*in the Stewart
hospital.
All that will be necessary, j
Mr. Talbott says, is that the |
ex-service men have an honor-1
ible discharge from the Army,;
Navy or Marine corps during:
ihe world war. Americans’
who served in the Canadian,!
or any of the allied forces, are j
also eligible, altlro Canadians '
who served in the- Canadian
,’ortfes during the war and have
since become Americans citi
zens are not eligible. Local
members of the Legion say:
the establishment of a local
veteran’s medical relief service !
rmong the lines suggested will j
not only mean a lot to sick or !
disabled local veterans,
hicugh affording prompt I
medical attention and hospital-!
ization without cost, but is al-!
:o a most creditable achieve
ment for the American Legion, j
to whose efforts it is solev due. 1
I
It is understood that there
are but a few local veterans
who are rot affiliated with the
American Legion and these
will probably now find it to
heii advantage to affiliate and
participate in the excellent
work it is doing for ex-service i
men.
Hill Renominated for
H y cl e r Postmaster
Oven F. Hill has been re
nominated for postmaster at
Hyder by Delegate Dan Suth
erland, according to Washing
ton press reports.
Dale Pitt Honored
D. L. Pitt general manager i
of the Premier Gold Mining
Co., was elected an honorary
vice-president of the British
Columbia Chamber of Mines
at the recent meeting of that
body in Vancouver and Dr.
Victor Dolmage was reelected
president of the organization.
Coveting More Than One
Country - Autobiography of
Andrew Carnegie. My Diplo
matic Education.
HOSPITAL AIO MOVE
FORMALLY LAUNCHED
Concerted efforts by promi
nent Ilyder citizens to devise
ways and means for providing
stable assistance in the main
tenance of the local hospital,
culminated this week in the
organization of the Ilyder Gen
eral Hospital Association.
The new organization is to be j
incoi pointed under the laws of
Alaska and will be endowed j
with all powers necessary to
j attain the desired object of
| helping to maintain local lies-!
pitalization facilities, Although j
| but three persons are named!
; in the articles of incorporation,
Oren F. Hill, T. H. Evans and
| Ernest Blue, the association!
has the unqualified support j
I and backing of the Hyder!
| Chamber of Commerce, the
j Pioneers of Alaska and a con
isiderable number of leading
! citizens, who appreciate the j
imperative need for maintain-!
; ing the hospital.
The Association is to be \
chartered for a period of 99
I years and is to be a non-stock j
; company. Membership fees are '
fixed at $2.00 per year for
i individuals and $5.00 per year
for firms or corporations. All
persons contributing $25 or
more and firms or corporations
contributing $100 or more at
one time will become life mem
bers. The contracted liabilities .
of the association are fixed at
a maximum of $500.
The organization is to begin
its active existence February 1,
with its principal office and
place of business at Hyder and j
may under the provisions of the
charter, own, control and op-1
erate a hospital at Hyder, deal
in real estate and other prop- j
erty, receive gifts and legacies, ;
borrow and pledge credit with
in the prescribed limitation of
$500; in addition to perform
ing such other acts as may be
necessary or convenient in the
conduct of its business.
In addition to enlisting all
possible local support by mem
bership enrollment and dona
tions, the association is also
planning to have a measure j
introduced in the next Terri
torial legislature providing a
grant of funds for the support:
of the hospital.
Meetings held under the
auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce during the past j
week disclosed that Hyder’s |
participation in the benefits of I
the hospital during tho past)
year was not greatly below j
that of Stewart residents. Hos
pital records presented by i
Mr. Wilson, secretary of the
Hospital Board, disclosed that
462 patient days out of a total
of 1200 patient days were pro
vided by Hyder patients. Tak
ing into consideration the dif
ference in population, the fig-:
ures indicate that the hospital
is fully as useful to Hyder as j
to Stewart.
At the same time, the records
show that the amount of direct
assistance tfiven the hospital
by Hyder residents during the
past several years was rela
tively much less than given by
I Stewart residents.
In view of those behind the
association, the hospital is
j fully as much a Hyder as a|
Stewart institution and should
be given proportionately as
PROSPERITY MSIKG
SPLEilD RECORD
With a net profit record of
! $210,137.82 for the first 1:5
' months of operation, the Pros
perity mine, operated by the
Premiei Gold Mining Company
in the Marmot River section of
the district, is making a splen
did record for production.
I During the productive period
; 19,816 wet tons of ore were
i produced at an average cost
| of $11.60 a ton.
November was one of the I
largest production months, ■
with a record for gross smelter j
returns amounting to $42,480
.20. The value per ton was;
$29.59. Production costs total-1
ed $25,662.92 or $17.97 per
ton, leaving a profit of $16.-1
767.28.
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Mcsi Alaska Silver is
Recovered from Copper ores
Most of the silver produced
in Alaska during recent years
has been recovered from cop
per ores, in fact, during 1929,
the latest year for which com
plete reports are available,
over three-quarters of the sil
ver came from that source.
With the reduction in the out
put of copper ore in 1930 the
quantity of silver naturally
shows a corresponding de
crease. Furthermore, the,1 Av
erage selling price of silver
was only 38.5 cents an ounce,
against 53.3 cents in 1929.
Owing to the greater out
put of gold from placers there
was ome increase in the out
put of silver associated with |
the 'gold. The quantity of ail- j
ver contained in ordinary I
placer gold, however, is rela- j
tively so small, and silver is so i
low in price, that the increase
in the output of gold in 1930
means an increase of only a !
few thousand dollars in the I
value of the silver recovered
from that source. All the gold
lode mines also yield some sil
ver in addition to other metals j
that they contain, and they are
estimated to have furnished;
about 20 per cent of the total
amount of silver produced dur
ing 1930 from Alaska ore.
Nowhere in Alaska are ores !
mined primarily for their sil
vel content. 'Silver - bearing ,
lead ores are known at several
places in the Territory, but the !
high cost of transporting and
smelting them discourages de
velopment or even search for
them except in the more access
ible parts of Alaska.
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Oren F. Hill was elected as j
the Hyder member of the Stew- j
art Hospital Board at the an-1
nual meeting last week. Mr. j
Hill succeeds E. D. Iladdon,!
who represented Hyder on the'
Board during the past year.
much suppoit by Hyder resi
dents as is given by those of
Stewart. Taking into consider
ation the fact that no American .
hospital can be reached except |
after a boat journey of from)
IS to 20 or more hours, and;
after waiting possibly ail the
way from a day to a week for :
transportation, to permit the
hospital to close for lack of j
adequate support from Hyder,
is considered unthinkable by
those associated with the local
support movement.
Soma Good Farming Land
Obtainable ti^y Alaska
About G5.G00 square m:le?
of land in Alaska is suitable
for agriculture, the U. 3. De
partment of Agriculture esti
mate.-:. Not more than 365
square miles of this has been
brought under plow. Most of
Die land, except that in Na
tional forest?, is available for
homesteaders.
Alaska with her 59.278 resi
dents, lies between the same
parallels of latitude as Nor
way, Sweden, Finland, and the
upper third of Russia, which
have a population of more than
10,000,000 and has three ell
matic belts, known as the
coast region, the interior, and
the Arctic. The Territory ex
tends from about 52 degrees
north latitude northward about
1,000 miles to Point .Barrow
well above the Arctic Circle
Naturally it has a varied cli
mate, with the warm Japan
current on the south side and
the frigid Arctic Ocean on the
north'exerting their opposing
influences. The Government
agricultural experiment . ta
tions and hundreds of settler
have demonstrated that d;
verse agricultural commodlriet
can be produced.
The coastal belt extends ir
regulaily about 700 mile
northward to Bering Strait
Winter minimum temperature.
range from 5 degr-es above
zero at Dutch Harbor to 54
degrees below zero at Dilling
ham. Summer maximum tern
perature vary from dp to 96
degrees. Rainfall varies wifely
from 14 to 157 inches annually.
The interior region has long
winters with temporal', nr
ranging down to rnhdmum
from 34 to 76 degrees below
zero and short summers with
temperatures up to from 84
to 97 degrees. Most of the in
terior receives only 9 to 12 in
ches of precipitation, although j
some places in precipitation it i
as high as 16 to 20 inch ex
The Arctic region is unfavor- j
able to crop production except
in a few isolatedd places.
The Matanuska and the Ta1’-1
ana Valley are famous foi
iheir farming. Oats yield from
40 to 75 bushels an acre;!
wheat, 20 to 25 bushels an
acre; barley, 20 to 30 bushel
an acre; and potatoes 800 to
300 bushels an acre. Garden 1
vegetables grow well, as do
canning peas. Dairy cows, hogs
and chickens are profitable.
Areas in southeastern Alaska, j
southwestern Alaska, and on
the'Alaska and Kenai Benin-'
ulas are suitable for agricul
ture. One of the largest poten
tial farming areas lies between
the Tanana and Fortvmile
Rivers.
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The following new books-:
have been received at the Pub
lic Library:
The Door Rhinehart
Murder at High Tide Booth
Exit Wright
Angel Pavement. Priestly
Black Camel Diggers
The Last Full Meas
ure Morrow
Margaret of York Norris
Lantern in her Hand Aldricch
Bhepherd of Guadeloup Grey
Laughing Boy Le Fargo
Revolt in the Desert Lawrence
Sitka Willoughby
Blowing Clear Lincoln
Wild Wind Daily
Green Pastures Connellv
cmss wr refuse
i SILVER tMN OFFER
The latest development in
! connection with proposal to aid
| China by means of a huge sil
j ver loan is contained in press
reports from Tientsin announ
cing that Finance Minister T.
V. Soong, declared in an in
| terview his belief that the
I Nationalist government would
| take no notice of the loan pro
| posal. ■
The minister said, according
| to the reports, that the report
ed willingness to loan China
“00,000,000 ounces of silver
; would not solve China’s finan
cial ills.
“The depression in China, re
sulting from the high rate of
gold, will be removed only by
improvement of China’s econ
omic situation through peace,
good order, better communi
cations, general reconstruction
and improved trade, for which
I the Nanking government is
II 'riving,” he said.
In the event that the Finance
Minister is correctly reported,
; his statement is at marked
variance with that of Judge
I Paul Linebarger, legal advisor
! and representative of the Na
■ tionalist government, who
1 came to the United States re
cently with the avowed object
of seeking a big loan of silver
| bullion for China’s rehabilitat
| ion.
It is also difficult to under
stand how China is to improve
her economic situation, restore
peace and good order, improve
communications and trade and
| inaugurate a general recon
I struction program while silver,
her principal purchasing me
| dium, is at the lowest value in
! history, without recourse to
i loans.
: Consolidated May Take
Over Granby Plant
Indications are prominent
that Consolidated Mining and
j Smelting Company may ac
quire the Copper Mountain
i holdings of Granby Company,
i These include a mine produc
ing between 900,000 and 1,
000,000 tons of ore annually
and a 2,500-ton concentrator,
Isays Western Canada Mining
! News.
During the last few weeks
! leading officials of the Con
| solidated, accompanied by en
gineers, spent several days
making an examination.
Ten company engineers also
went over the mine and ship
ped large quantities of samp
j les to Trail.
There are several other
points that make the propo
sition seem likely. Consolidat
ed already have extensive
holdings adjoining the Granby
properties. The railway which
concentrates would be hauled
to Trail is Canadian Pacific,
with which the Consolidated
I is strongly affiliated.
One of the chief points is
that the Consolidated has a
j copper refinery at Trail which
has little to do unless it has
Copper Mountain concen
trates. With the acquisition of
Copper Mountain, this refinery
may be put into immediate op
eration on a limited scale, and
with the Voight property also
under production, a good sup
ply of copper concentrates
would be ultimately further
available.