The Salmon River District is
Marvelously Rich in Minerals
and Hyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of tt hich Hyder is
. the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
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HYDER ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 1. NO. 6.
HYDER, Alaska, Nov. 28, 1919
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRESS ON
SALMON RIVER
* Allpf the Well Known Prop
erties in Famous Section
Are Steady Operat o r s
* This Winter.
Program at Premier Mine
Includes Shipment of
3000 Tons of High Grade
Ore.
This time of the yeir the mines of
the district are down to a strictly busi
ness basis, and as a source of ne vs are
of a somewhat negligible quantity. Re
ports of new discoveries are noticible
• by their absence. Nature’s mantle of
white having driven the prospector and
small operator into winter quarters.
»Out ide wcrk of every desiription is
necessarily at a standstill and the work
being prosecuted in the developing
mines is carried on in a quiet, steady
manffer.
Considering the shortness of the sum
mer season, and the fact that it is im
possible to see the surface in the higher
mountains until midsummer, it is a
source of gatification that so many pro
perties of the district were able to ac
complish sufficient outside work to en
able them to employ substantial crews
* of men through the winter. An even
"half dozen properties on the Salmon
and Bear river slopes are forging ahead
* with all the men who can be conven
iently employed underground. Of these
the Premier takes precedence, though
the crew now employed there is far
short of what it will be later in the
season when all the stopes are put in
operation. It is General Manager Neill's
expressed determination to ship from
2,500 to 3,000 tons of ore this winter,
and the extraction of this amount means
the employment of fifty or sixty men,
though this figure is not named as being
* authoritative.
It the snow tractor does what its
makers claim for it, breaking the road
• and hauling twelve tons of ore at a trip
as well, the shipping problem will be
greatly simplified But if the tra tor
proves a disappointment the ore will
come down to the inlet by horse pow jr,
it being the intention in this event to
employ at least f rty teams. The road
is being kept “broke,” and for the first
« time in years there was sufficient cold
weather to freeze the ground before
the first heavy fall of snow, thus assur
ing a good solid roadbed. The Premier
company has constructed a wa ehouse '■
on one of their large scows for housing
the ore, and a number of large flat
wagon beds are being constructed for
the ore sleighs, the latter being of the
heaviest and most substantial type.
Assistant General Manager D.L. Pitt,
appointed since the Guggenheim and
Keith interests bought into the prop
erty, has taken hold with a vim which
assures a vigorous and capable man
, agement. Mr, Pitt is ably assisted by
Superintendent W. G, Harris, under
whose direction the Premier has reach
ed its present high State of development.
Mr. Nei 1 has stated that by the end
of next year the ore road to the Pre
mier will be second to none in the west |
it being the ntention to widen and ditch
it wherever necessary, as well as giv- j
ing it a thoroughly modern surfacing.
The story of the Premier road is an
epic in itself, starting as it did, as aj
narrow track for hand sleds, and grad-'
ually improved as funds could be spar
ed for the purpose and obtained from
a none too easy money market. Mr,
Neill has had a long, hard pull of it to
, put the Premier on its feet and over
c uning the difficulties of securing effi
cient transportation facilities has been
not the least of his troubles. However
it now looks as though his worries are
about over, and he can sit back and
take it easy. Anyone however who
thinks that Mr, Neill has planned a life
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PORT LAND CANAL
Joer/opj
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of flowery ease for himself is sadly
mistaken, ss he has always been a work
er and is not yet ready to get out of
harness.
At the Forty Nine, Superintendent
Harry Howson has fifteen men work
ing in two tunne s. known as the Forty
Nine and Occidental. The full face of
the latter is in high grade, and iliip
ments could be made right now if there
was a road to the propeity. Every
thing coming out of the mi le is being
saved and will eventually find its way
down the hill and to a smelter. The
owners are not worrying about expen
ses and can afford to wait awhile to
realize on their invesnment in the mine.
The ore from the Occidental adit, or
such samples as have been brought
down lately, looks more like jewelry
than ore, native silver predominating,
with a generous sprinkling of ruby and
brittle silver. In the Forty Nine tun
nel the drift is in good concentrating
ore which will be saved for treatment
on the property. There is plenty of
high grade showing in the suaface work
ings of this yein which will eventually
he reached by this tunnel.
recent reports have been received
from the Bush Mines Ltd., Superinten
dent Harry Tanner being holed up with
his crew at the property. The last re
port, from an un fficial source, was to
the effect that the high grade ore typi
cal of the camp had been encountered
in the tunnel.
William Noble, whose faith in the
district has never wavered from the
time he first set foot here so many
pears ago that it would be a shame to
mention the date, is crosscutting on the
E Pluribus claim of the Big Missouri
B.C.MINISTER OF MINES ON TRIP OF
EXAMINATION OF BIG SHOWINGS
CTANDING in the foreground of this picture is Hon. Wm.
^ Sloan, minister of mines. This is how the Big Missouri
camp looked last spring when the minister visited the camp.
Since then the camp has been made snug for winter. s Hon,
Mr. Sloan on that occasion visited all the working properties
in the Salmon River section.
group for the high grade ore which ap-1
pears above. 1 he mine is owned by the
Pacific Exploration Co., of which Sir
Donald Mann is the head. Everyone .
acquainted with the district knows what |
kind of a mine the Big Missouri is des !
tined to become. Dan Lindeborg and f
his brother Andy were locators of the j
property, and when Dan was asked the I
other day why he was so persistent in j
his dfetermination to stay hy the camp j
when all interest had passed it by, said '
he always believed that if the Big [
Missouri was not a mine there was no
ase prospecting any further. Dan has
made ajstake out of the property but
nas various other interests which will
daim his attention here. He will soon
he on his way to Honolulu for a vaca
tion.
At the Mineral Hill a full crew is
employed under the superintendency
»f A1 Harris. The Mineral Hill has a
fine showing of ore and is expected to
event ally become one of the heavy
shippers of the district. Ai is also in
' Swanson Denies .Allegation
With regard to the allegat:on that he
had charged an excessive freight rate
for bringing food from Prince Rupert
to Stewart during the strike, Swanson.
if Prince Rupert, who arrived Tuesday
with the Premier snow tractor, denies
that his rates were excessive. He says
le had always charged $20 a ton and
lid so on that occasion. As for his ser
rices during the time he was carrying
the mail, he says that the government
oaid him for only e:ght trips, whereas
le brought the mail nineteen times.
tharge of the Lake View mine up Bear
■iver, on which all the necessary out
lide work was completed just before the
mow came, and wher ; two shifts are
imployed underground. Bill Fillier is
"oreman here. and. he has the reputa
tion of getting maximum results, as
well as keeping around 'him a thorough
f satisfied gang.
On the Alaska side of the line the
only property working is the New Alas
ka, which is under bond to Chas. F.
Caldwell, the well known Slocan oper
ator. A crosscut tunnel is being driv
en under contract and the out ook is
good for the development of a big pro
ducer. Mr. Caldwell is a most enthus
iastic booster for the district. .Beside
his mining interests he also holds the
charter to build a railroad up Salmon
river.
Taken as a w ho'e, the outlook for
continued prosperity throughout this,
the first winter of the new industrial
era here, is most encourag ng, 1 he
towns of Stewart and Hyder are not
Founded on faith alone, bnt upon a
UNICORN WILL
ALSO OPERATE
THIS WINTER
Instructions to begin immediate work
on the Unicorn group on Salmon River
have been received from J.R. McDon
ald in New York. Bill McGrow has
started out with a crew of men, break
ing trail for Reed’s pack train which is
taking in supplies, and will build camp.
E. H.Terwilliger, who arrived on Thurs
day’s boat, will have charge of devel
opment. It is understood that dia
mond drilling operations will be carried
on as scon as the camp is built. A
drilling outfit is now on the Big Miss
! ouri ground, about a mile from the Un
icorn. Housing accommodations for
; the supplies will be provided by A1
| Harris of the Mineral Hill until sucn
; time as they can be moved to the new
| camp.
Starting camp at this time of year is
a difficult undertaking. It is under
stood that the Unicorn is to be diamond
i drilled at once.
INTENSE INTEREST
IN HYOER SHOWN
WAY SOWN EAST
Mrs. Helen Bell, a well known north
ern business woman, will put in a com
plete line of ladies’ ready-to-wear before
spring in Ilyder. She came to town on
the Taku last Saturday and went out
on ths John Thursday. White here she
let a contract to Ed McLaren for the
construction of a store building which
will be located beside Mrs. Martin s
dressmaking establishment on Main
street. Mrs. Bell ha*5 just returned
from a buying trip down east and says
that in Ne.v York, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati she was almost pestered to
death by people who wanted to learn
about Hyder. The firms with whom
she did business tipped it off to the
newspapers, and from the way folks
sought interviews it looks as though
there would be a great influx of che
chacos in the spring.
$170,000 TO BE
3P£KT0H ROADS
That the Alaska road commission and
the forestry department will spend
$170,000 on roads next summer in the
vicinity of Hyder is the word brought
to the town last Saturday by Bernard
M. Stone.
•‘Berney” is known to nearly every
sourdough and all the politicians in this
fertile field of stair.peders and stump
speakers. He drifted into Nome from
New Zealand on the big gold stampede
and has run newspapers in so many
northern camps that limited spa’e for
bids their enumeration. When he says
that the government is going to do
something he comes pretty nearly know
ing what he is talking about. “Berney”
went out on the John bound for Ketch
ikan but will return soon. While here
he made several real estate invest
ments.
Meat Market Expected Soon
Word has been received that Frizz
ells’ of Prince Rupert have a cold stor
age plant in bond and are prepared to
install it in Hyder as soon as a suitable
location can be. secured. One of the
crying needs of the town right now is
a good meat market, and it looks now
as though one would be here soon.
knowledge of the inexaustiblo wesllh .
which Mol her Nature has planted in
our hills, and which the skill, persever
ance and bulldog tenacity of our min
ing men have brought into the light
of day.