ANNOUNCING
. .• —«a
The Completion and Opening
Of The New
TEXAS CREEK
HIGHWAY
Built by the U. S. Government at a cost
. of nearly a half million dollars, with the
express object of opening this new and
remarkably mineralized portion of the
Hyder, Alaska section of the Portland
Canal Mining District to development
' and exploitation.
Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead Ores
abound in this wonderful mineral region anc
offer excellent oppotuniiies for profitable mining
investment under the economical transportatior
conditions provided by the splendid, new Yi
mile highway traversing the Texas creek valiej
from end to end.
In addition to opening this rich mineral regior
to mining endeavor, the Texas Creek Highway
offers a scenic excursion of matchless mountaii
scenery, and the most remarkable glacier vista;
in the world.
For information relative to the mineral resources of th
Hyder District and other data, address the
Hyder Chamber of Commerce, Inc
Hyder, Alaska
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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ALASKA NOTES.
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Fox fur is reported scares
in the Kenai district, and sc
is beaver. Most of the trapped
fur is mink, and there is not £
great deal of it.
E. P. Harwood has resigned
as Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney in the Third Di
vision. He will engage in pri
vate practice at Seward.
Glenn Owen Hendricks, 30
years old trapper, was recently
found dead on the Charley
River. His death is ascribed to
suicide. Burial was at Circle
City.
Mrs. John Heron, Govern
ment nurse at Bethel, recently
was taken from there to An
chorage by airplane to have
a fractured leg set. She suffer
ed the accident in fall on ice.
At Shaktoilik, a village in
habited almost entirely by Es
kimos at the mouth of Shak
toilik River, which flows into
Noiton Sound, a post office ha
been established, and S. David
Mazen has been appointed
postmaster. The chief industry
is reindeer raising.
Idaho Bar, between Little
Minook and Hunters Creek in
the Rampart district will be
mined by hydraulic methods
next summer. The Bar has
been bought from John Mc
Kenzie by S. H. Harbell, John
Elliot, John McCabe, Andrew
Webster and Edward Farrell
The ground is about 20 fee
deep.
Trollers who paid a $25(
license fee required of foreigi
boats under an Alaskan law
that has been held invalid ex
pect to have their money re
turned. If the Territorial Trea
surer refuses restitution, the
Trolling Vessel Owner’s Assoc
iation will take the matter oi
recovery in to the courts, say?
the West Coast Fisherman.
Pilot Matt Nieminen flew
across Knik Arm, answering 2
signal fire, and found George
! Carter, who had walked from
the Little Susitna River. Carter
| told him George Clyde a trap
| per, died on February 27, ap
! parently from heart attack.
Nieminen flew up to the cab
! in. He took Mrs. Clyde and the
body of her husband aboard
j the plane and brought his load
back to Anchorage.
A special to the Whitehorse
i Star from Carmacks, Yukon,
under the date of February 20,
said a discovery of a large
ledge of gold quartz by Fred
Guder, a well known hard rock
man of the Yukon country, on
; the mountain above timber
line between Stodart and Sey
mour Creeks, has been made.
Stodart and Seymour Creeks
are tributaries of Kitchner
1 Creek, which, in turn, is a trib
utary of the big Salmon River,
about forty-five miles from
Carmacks, an important set
tlement.
Assays made show values
running from §80 to §316 per
ton in free milling gold; the
quartz also carries a lot of sil
ver.
RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
FISHERS BLEND STATION, INC.
Metropolitan Center, Seattle Wn.
(Owing to poor reception during the
earlier part of the day in Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
only such broadcasts as occur after
! 5 p. m. daily.)
' Program for week ending Saturday,
j April 18, 1931.
| P. M.
Sunday, April 12
5:00 Enna Jettiek Melodies, NBC-NY.
5:15 Collier’s Radio Hour, NBC-NY.
3:15 Atwater Kent Program, NBC-NY.
7:15 Seiberling Singers. ET.
7:30 Hotel St. Francis Orch., NBC-SF
7:45 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Vocal
Recital.
3:00 First Church of Christ Scientist.
0:00 Standard Brands Program,NBC
SF.
| 9:30 Enna Jcttick Melodies, NBC-NY.
| 0:45 P. S. Nav. Co., Cello Recital,
i 10:00 Kaffee Hag Slumber Hour.
10:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Con
cert Orch. and Vocalists.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, April 13
5:00 Totem Broadcasters, How’s Bus
iness?. NBC-NY.
5:15 One-Quarter Hour in the Nation’s
Capital, NBC-Wn., D. C.
5:30 Gold Medal Express, NBC-NY
0:00 Maytag Orchestra, NBC-Chi.
0:30 Genl. Motors Program, NBC-NY
7:00 Stromberg Carlson Concert, NB
C-Rochester.
7:30 Great Northern Railway, Empire
Builder, NBC-NY.
3:00 Amos ’n’ Andy, NBC-Clii.
i 3:15 Shell Oil Co., Rudy Seiger’s
Obeli Symphonists, NBC-SF.
1:00 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
NBC-SF.
j 9:30 Schwabaeher Bros. Mozart hour.
10:30 Gruen Watchmakers Guild.
10:35 Fisher Flouring Mills Co.
10:50 News Flashes.
11:00 Elks Magazine, Elec. Trens.
11:02 Olympis HotelOrchestra.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital
Tuesday, April 14
' 5:00 Paul Whiteman’s Painters, NBC
NY.
! 5:30 Spratts Patent Program
i 0:00 McKesson Musical Magazine,
NBC-NY.
! 0:30 Happy Wonder Bakers, NBC-NY.
7:00 Westingliouse Salute,, NBC-NY.
I 7:30 Am. Tobacci Co., Lucky Strike
Orchestra, NBC-NY.
3:00 Amos .’n’ Andy, NBC-Chi.
S: 15 Memory Lane, NBC-SF
S:45 Sperry Smiles. NBC-SF.
9:00 Florsheim Frolic, NBC-SF.
9:30 Caswell Coffee Concert NBC-SF
10:30 University of Wash. Hour
11:00 News Flashes.
11.10 Varsity Vagabonds.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Wednesday, April 15
5:00 Listerine Program, Bobby Jones
Golf Chat; NBC-Atla.
5:15 R. C. A. Radiotron Co., NBC-NY.
5:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Co.. Con
5:50 Stock market summaries,
cert Trio.
i 0:00 Halsey Stuart Progarm, NBC-NY.
0:30 Palmolive Hour, NBC-NY.
7:30 Coca Cola Program. NBC-NY.
! 3:00 Amos n' Andy. NBC-Chi
3:15 Camel Pleasure Hour. NBC-SF
! 9:15 Rin Tin Tin Thrillers. NBC-SF
' 9:45 Listerine Program.
10:00 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Two
i Piano Duets.
10:30 Gruen Watchmakers Guild.
: 10:35 Owen Sweden's Washing
tonians.
11:00 News Flashes.
11:10 Varsity Vagabonds.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
5:00 Fleiscliraann's Sunshine Hour,
NBC-NY.
Thursday, April lb
8:00 Am. Radiator Co. Program, NBC
NY.
8:30 Maxwell House Melodies, NBO
NY.
7:00 Lucky Strike Orchestra and Voc
alists, NBC-NY.
,7:30 Standard Symphony Hour, NBC
SF.
8:30 Pepsodent Co., Amos 'n' Andy,
1 8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 MJB Co.; Demi Tasse Revue.
9:30 New World Life Insurance Co.
10:00 Thermoid Rubber Co., Elec.
Trans.
10:15 Fisher Flouring mills Co.
I 10:3u Uncle Hank from Ciderville
Center.
I 11:00 News Flashes.
! 11:10 Hotel St. Francis Dance Orch.,
NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Friday, April 17
5:00 Cities Service Concert Orceslra
and the Cavaliers, NBC-NY.
6:00 Interwoven Pair, NBC-NY.
8:30 Armour Hour. NBC-NY.
7:00 Armstrong Quakers, NBC-NY.
7:30 R. K. O. Program. NBC-NY.
S:00 Amos 'n’ Andy, NBC-Chi.
S:15 Brownbilt Footlites, NBC-SF.
8:30 Sussman, Wormser & Co.; S.
and VV. Melodies, NBC-SF.
9:00 W. P. Fuller, House of Color.
9:30 Eastman Kodak Co.
10:00 Mozart Meditations.
11:00 Gruen Watchmakers Guild,
i 11:05 News Flashes.
; 11:15 Olympic Hotel Dance Orch.
12:00 Fox 5tli Avenue Theatre, Organ
Recital.
Saturday, April 18
5:15 It. C. A. Itadiotron Co., NBC-NY.
5:30 Fuller Brush Co., The Fuller
Man, NBC-NY.
6:00 Gent. Electric Program, NBC-NY.
7:00 Lucky Strike Program, NBC-NY.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy, NBC-Chi.
8:15 Gilmore Circus. NBC-LA.
8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Consolidated Cigar Co., El Sidelo
Minstrels, NBC-SF.
9:30 Spotlight Revue, NBC-SF.
10:00 News Flashes.
10:10 Spotlight Revue, NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.