The Salmon River District is
Marvelously Rich in Minerals
and Hyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
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VOL. 1. NO. 8.
HYDER, Alaska, Dec. 12, 1919
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
STEWART RESIDENTS PROTEST
AGAINST POSTGFFICE OUTRAGE
Pass Strong Resolutions
Censoring the Govern
ment and Grand Trunk
Management
IN DEADLY EARNEST
Hyder Mining and Business
Men Go Ovtjr and Lend
Their Moral Support to
Meeting
RESOLVED—That the citizens of
Stewart request the postoffice depart
ment to provide a twice a week mail
service between Prince Rnpert and
Stewart, and also that provision be
made for the prompt delivery of mail
arriving at the wharf to’the postoffice.
Moved by Pat Daly, sec nded by Wm.
Tooth, passed unanimously.
RESOLVED—That this meeting of
forty citizens of Stewart PROTEST
against the action of .the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway Company in redhcing
their service from Prince Rui ert from
one boat each week to one boat in two
weeks, and this meeting requests that
the weekly service be immediately re
stored. Moved by Roy Moseley, sec
onded by Wm. Tooth, passed ur.ani
mously.
These two resolutions are the out
come of an indignation meeting held
in the Stewart town hall Thursday
morning after the arrival of the Piince
John, a meeting which will go down in
the history of Stewart as one of the
most momentuous ever held in that
coming city. There was a de ermina
tion and unity apparent which made a
strong impression on the notable vl-it
ors, Frank Moberly, Provincial mem
ber for the district, G.O. Buchanan,
chairman of the Greater Vancouver
bureau of the Vancouver Board of
Trade, and Chas. F.Ca dwell prominent
mine operator who is now opening up
the New Alaska on Salmon river in
Alaska. The meeting was notable in
another respect, in the number of min
ing men who came up from Hyder to
support the Stewart citizens in their
tight against an incompetent or indiff
erent postal and transj ortation admin
istration. It^was the prevailing feel
ing that an injury to one is an injury
to both.
Mr. Moberly held more of an infor
mal discussion than delivering an ad
dress He claimed tne responsibility
for rectifying the deplorable state of
affairs existing at Stewart lay with the
Dominion authorities. However, he
gained some insight into matters per
taining to the welfare of the district,
and promised his aid and that he would
report to the Provincial government.
Mr. Buchanan wili report to the Van
couver Board of Trade the condition of
affairs as he sees them from a commer
cial point of view. He spoke on gen
eral topics of trade, and the effect that
the building of the Salmon river rail
road would have in particular. When
he learned that Hyder has a weekly
mail service from Ketchikan, he said
there was no reason why Stewa t mail
should not be routed this way immed
iately. There would be no precedents
broken. The fact that the ma 1 that
very morning had lain at the wharf
from 5 o’clock until 11 berore delivery
at the postoffice served as a visible ill
ustration of the treatment to which the
residents of Stewart have been sub
jected, and cauie in for anything but
favorable comment.
Mr. Buchanan said there is a move
ment now on foot to have the govern
ment guarantee bonds for the erection
Hyder Happenings
Dune. Mclsaac has left the Premier
anti gone to Anyox.
Louis Robichaud has returned from
a trip to the ontside.
Gus Erickson has built a new house
! near the Portland Cafe.
Bill Murphy has finally taken the J,in
| itiation of the High Dive Club.
Jim Mooney and D. Mclsaac have been
welcomed into the High Dive Club.
Richardson and Moore, building con
tractors, ha\e finished the outside work
| on the Broadvvell building.
Twelve head of horses arrived on the
John this week for the Premier and are
now hauling ore from the mine.
Jim Nesbitt, an oldtimer of the dis
trict who has been on a visit to the
Bell Island hot springs, has returned.
, Miss Leatha Davis is having a new
residence built near tiie building now
occupied by her cleaning and pressing
| establishment.
W.R.Reid. manager of the Alaskan
Hotel, is in New Hazelton on business.
He was formerly manager of the Nor
thern Hotel there.
Attorney C.H Sundmacher has pur
chased a lot between the Alaskan Ho
tel and Nelson and Heath's st, re, and
will put up a builning.
Beruey Stone, the irrepressible Alas
| kan newspaperman, brightened the
j town with his pireser ce for a few days
l in the early part of the week.
A gentle zephyr if ted Pat Quinn’s
lid and rolled it down the street. Pat
threw his gears into high and took after
it. The street turned and Pat skidded.
Anot er High Dive c lub member,
of a smelter and that strong interests
are behind the proposition.
Mr. Caldwell said he had seen the
Grand Trunk oflieiais regarding the
transportation situation, and with
most promising recults, lie urged the
peopl: to cooperate in bringing the
matter before the proper authorities,
and said the town eonld conside • itself
fortunate that Mr. Buchanan had paid
his present visit. In answer to a (|Ues
tion by Pat Daly as to whether he had
a charter to build the Salmon river rail
road he replied that he had permission
to build the road.
Speaking from the standpoint of a
mining man who is thoroughly versed
in the history of the district, Pat Dr ly
gave a very lucid resume of the mining
DALY
operations to date. He laid stress xm
the difficulties experienced in opening
up a new district no matti r how rich
its natural resources, and hoped the
; government could see its way clear to
provide smelting facilities as well as
adequate transportat on. He also spoke
of the good feeling existing between
| Stewart and 1-tyder, and predicted a
I continuation of this spirit of go dfel
j lowship.
I At the close of the meeting a vote of
thanks was extended to the visitors,
Capt. C.G.Brownr gg was secretary.
MARMOT RIVER GLACIER
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
The Portland Cafe management have !
imported Chicken for Christmas.
Mrs. Sadie Brown is building a resi
dence opposite the Star rooming house.
Dr. J.M.Sloan of Seward is expected
to soon become a resident of Hyder.
Ed Edwardson and Bill Hall, hard
rock miners, are down from the Miner
al Hill Mine.
N. S. Hark ley, who has prospected
around these parts since 1905, is back
from a trip to the outside.
The Salmon River Trading Co. are
priding themselves on the quality of
their last shipment of spuds.
S.G.Benson, better known as “Pat,”
returned this w,et k from Vancouver,
to ’ook after his mining interests.
Bud Rann of San Francisco has pur
chased a lot moct to the Bungalow of
Ilan Davis, and will build a pool hall.
Hugh Stratford of Stewart is work, j
ing on a project to transform his Ford
into a gnow tractor. His scheme looks
feasible.
O. B, Bush, v ho bonded the Premier
mine to R.K. Neill, and who is now the
head of the Bush Mine’ Ltd., arrived
last Thursday from Vancouver.
D. B. VanZandt, representing the
i Carste n Pa-king Co. of Ketchikan,
was in town this week looking over the
business prospects. He likes the town.
Bill Hanna, after whom Hanna river
which empties into Meziadin Lake was
named has gone out for medical treat
ment. He was working at the Premier.
Wallie McNaughton, partner of Geo.
Frsser in the Stewart Drug store, is in
. from Victoria and has the store op- ned
again. He is going out soon however.
Jack Clegg, manager of the Salmon
River Trading Co.’s store in Hyder,
has gone to Ketchikan as a witness
against Brandenberg and Walker.
Jas. Mowatt has gone to Sidney In
let B.C. to build a mill for the 'lide
\$fater Copper Co. He expects to finish
in time to join in the spring excite
ment here.
G.E.Austin of the Stewart Trading
Company has supplied a vital want by
i installing a market department in the
] new Hyder store. The firm is receiv
ng large orders of goods on every boat
ind Mr. Austin says he intends to make
!very department absolutely complete.
Hie lays particular stress on the assort
nent of hardware,
Harry Dunbar, a pioneer miner and
umberjack and now a member of the
Bush crew, made a special trip to Hyder
:o join the High Dive Club. He be
ieves in being in the social swim.
W.L.Newell has sold his building on
International avenue to Chas. F. Cald
well, who will have the New Alaska
jfhces there, Mr. Caldwell takes poss
ession the middle of February.
Harry Tanner, superintendent of the
Bush, has gone to Victoria to eat his
Christmas turkey at home. During his
absence development a- the Bush will
be in charge of Mike Carr
W.S. Harris of New Hazelton, better
known to Alaskan and British Colum
bia mining man as “Duke” has been in
camp on a visit to his brother Al, sup
erintendent of the Mineral Hill a d
Lake View properties.
Al Sweeney and Hugh McMillan went
up to the Indian Mines camp last Tues
day to pac- the Unicorn supplies which
had hoen left there across to the Min
eral Fliil camp for storage. E.H. Ter
williger, who was to have had ch rge
of the development, had it been possi
ble to estabhha camp this winter,
waited over for one boat to see that the
supplies were ship-shape. He aays a
start on development will 1 e made as
soon as it is possible to travel on the
snow crust with supplies.
Jack Peterson, for many years a
resident of Skagway, returned to that
place from the interior after an absence
of more than ten years. He will spend
a few weeks at the Sitka hot springs
before deciding where he will locate."
Arrivals in Fairbanks over the Brooks
trail state that mushers are eompelle 1
to carry their provisions with them and
no roadhouse Is doing business along
the route. The houses have been left
open to accommodate wayfarers, but
the proprietors have joined the innum
erable caravan that has proceeded to
the States.
TELEGRAMS
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 12-Rivera:
have broken their banks in central and
southern Alabama and fears are enter
tained for hundreds of people.
VANCOUVER, Dec. 12-Announce
ment of the suit against R.K.Neill by
M.W. Bacon has caused quite a sensa
tion in 1 cal mining circles, and the out
come will be awaited with intense in
terest. Neill is understood to have j
intimated that Bacon has no more show
than the proverbial snowball.
Press dispatches as to the lumber 1
situation carry a warning *to prosper- '
tive builders to purchase their lumber ,
right now. The price on the outside |
on all grades is soaring, and it looks as :
though the bull movement might be
prolonged indefinitely.
DUBLIN Dec. 12-Thomas Kell -,
iien fenien member of parliament, was
wrested in the course of raids by police
ind military. With other sien fenien
arisoners he was taken on a warship to
England.
INDIANAPOLIS, 1 ec. 12—General
resumption of coal mining operations
ivhich ceased for six weeks during the
strike, is predicted for tomorrow.
BERLIN, Dec. 12—Vorwarts, in com
nenting on marginal notes oil a pre
var volume made by the former emp
:ror, say3 there is no doubt Germany,
>efore the war, was ruled by rext to a
n adman.
LONDON, Dec 12—To escape from
mother outbreak of flu, it is reported,
>eople are leaving London and going
o the south of England and France.
GEORGE GROUP
OPTION TAKEN
Confirmation of a verbal agreement
made last summer with W. A.Melloche, i
who represents a strong Belgian com
pany, and who has already acquired
considerable property in this district,
has been received by W.B.George, to
gether with a cash payment to bind the
bargain. The deal is an option on the i
George group up Bear river, owned by
W.B.George of Stewart and his brother
Richard of Vancouver, and containing j
thirteen claims. The property adjoins :
the Bear River mining company’s group
of nine claims, one of the first proper
ties in the district to operate, but Idle 1
for several years past. The latter is
owned principally by the Tanner, Hall
and Toukin interests. Mr. Mellorhe
expects to be in and examine the Ge rge
group as soon as the snow goes next
summer, and will probably start an ex
tensive development urogram. The
sale price runs well into six figures.
Blushes, Brother
W.R.Hull, one of the b.st known
mining writers and all round newspaper
men in the we?t, has commenced the
publication of the Hyder Alaska Miner
at the town of Hyder on Po Hand
Canal. Mr. Hull is a pioneer of Repub
lic, Wash., Grand Forks and other min
ing camps of B.C., and at the head of
the editorial column of the publication
of whose destiny he has charge, pro
claims it to be his intention to make it
“A newspaper whose purpose is to te l
the world abou1 the newest and buisest
town in the northland, and the native
resources which are responsible for its
existence.” We extend to Mr. Hull
our best wishes lor his success.—
Whitehorse Star.
Con Beggs, a mining man well known
in Stewart and In Alaskan mining
camps, who was admitted to the gen
eral hospital some tuna ago in Prince
Rupert, is makipg a good recovery. He
underwent a serious operation.
NEW ALASKA
HAS 27 FEET
OF A LEDGE
Verifii atlon of the report published
last week that the lead had been reach
ed in the New Alaska crosscut tunnel
was received this week with the an
nouncement that where tapped it is 27
feet in width. Specimens of the ore
brought to town look as though they
should carry the values, and Chas, F,
Caldwell, who has the property under
bond, says that from the assays obtain
ed on the surface he is satisfied that
the values in the tunnel will be satis
factory. The New Alaska is on the
Alaskan side of the iine, and about 11
miies up the river from Hyder.
That a strike of high grade gold ore
has been made at the Mineral Hill is
the latest good news from up Salmon
river, and the report is absolutely au
thentic. Average assay samples taken
horizontally fonr feet across the face
of the drift and vertically six feet, re
p esenting practically the full face,
give returns of $100 in gold and high
silver values as well. The drift is a
crosscnt from the tunnel and is follow
ing a fracture which makes one wall
for the ore. The other wall is not in
evidence.
James Kennedy, formerly mayor of
Skagway, where he was in business
for several years, but now associated
with Will H.Clayson at Cordova, left
recently for Portland where he will
visit untiljabout the first of the year
and where his family will reside for the
winter. Mr. Kennedy wili return to
C >r lova early in January.
STREET SCENE IN IIYDER, SNAPPED LAST SUIO ER