HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The development of a com
mercial power project of the
ms rmtude of the proposed
So 'e Glacier Creek proposal
wo 1! undoubtedly do more to
ha--an the growth of the min
ing industry than any other
de. elopment likely to occur.
Next Jo cheap means of trans
portation. the development of
cheap power may be consider
ed the foremost need of the
di rict. Indeed it may well be
sa d that cheap power is an
even more important need in
the local situation than trans
pox-tation, for the reason that
the aeouGi ion of cheap power
cn anything like an important
sca»e will inevitably bring
about a solution of our trans
piration problems. The install
ation of a hydro-electric plant
of the dimensions indicated in
the Sou la Glacier Creek pro
posal w’li not only provide an
ample source of power for min
ing purposes but will eventual
1 r become the nucleus of an
electric transportation sys
tem which should fill every
normal transportation require
ment of the district.
With 'his eventuality in view
it w’li be seen that not even
the discovery of a half dozen
rich m'nes would do as much
toward hastening the growth
of the m’ning industry as would
the development of a stable
source of electrical energy
which could be produced and
marketed at a moderate cost.
Back of such production.lies
not only l'ght and power for
domestic purposes but also for
mine and mill; power for
transportation purposes, the
quick and cheap hauling of
mine and null products, mach
inery, supplies and passengers,
in addition to a thousand and
one other uses in the* general
industries which in this locality
form an integral part, of the
one basic industry.
' Reviewing these possibilities,
even tho briefly, it can be eas
ily perceived that not even the
opening ut> of a half-dozen
mines could produce such en
livening effects on the mining
industry as would inevitably re
sult from the proposed devel
opment.
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Tn the~« t’mes when hours of
labor have been reduced,
people should have more time
to make their places more at
tractive.
On« the easiest ways of
be*>."ti<Vng a home is to plant
shrid-bery around it, and one
of the earnest ways to beautify
r is to make its homes at
tractive.
Once you get a bed of shrubs
w-l> -Parted, they need little
attention.
A little spading, trimming
and perhaps fertilizer, and
! these sturdy and independent
■ little bushes take care of them
!selves and ask no favors from
anyone. At their own appoint
j ed time, every shrub in a well
j selected arrangement will
'burst into a rich mass of boom
] If correctly chosen, the bank
;of shrubbery should have some
I bloomers at every period in
;the season. It transforms a
bare and cold looking dwell
ing into a cheerful center of
j radiance and beauty. Every
(home in this communiy should
| be adorned with pretty shrubs.
;The reward is a pleasant place
' to live in and a pleasant town
to look at.
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The motives back of the pro
posed confiscatory tax on fish
traps are so plain that all who !
run may read. Put the traps
out of business and the Indian
will get 25 cents each for his
| pink fish. This might work all
right if it were not for two
factors. At an increased price
of pink fish *how many can
neries would operate? If the
price of the finished product
could be advanced enough to
make it profitable to operate
• and still pay an increased'
j price for pinks, what assur
jance would the canners have,
jthat the Indians would not
I catch enough fish to meet I
their monetory needs and then
|call it a season, leaving the!
i canneries without raw mater
ial? The canners have beeni
taxed and regulated to a point
where many of them have been
seriously handicapped and into !
’bankruptcy. This means a loss
‘to the territory of about .$600,
j 000 a year or 75 per cent of j
jits income in taxes.—Cordova!
Times.
! As between the bee and the
ant, both touted as examples
of industry, a lot of chaps pre
fer to pattern their lives after
the latter, which works for it
self instead of laying up treas
ures for others.
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The head of the president’s
‘agricultural commission says
! he would sooner see no legis
lation passed on farm matters
than the bill-which is propos
ed. Judging from the outlook in
i Congress he is likely to be suit
ed.
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j Washington, it seems, was
mostly asleep when Vice Pres
ident-elect Dawes arrived. If
■he gets anything like a good
, chance though it is our bet
ithat If; will wake the town up.
Just For Fun
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The Blueberry Kid says noth
ing is pei'fect. The man with
the right wife and right boot
legger may have a fountain
pen that leaks.
He was a credit to his college.
He owed everybody.
Men are born equal, but no
system has ever been devised
to insure that they will die
equal.
They say that when a local
radio fan heard an Italian
singing over the radio * he
thought he had tuned in on
Italy.
The thing that comes in the
handiest in cross word puzzles
after all thinks, Eddie Haddon,
is brains.
When a girl gets herself into
deep water there’s usually a
man at the bottom.
Paddy declares we have got to
give the saxophone credit for
one thing; it hasn’t left any
chance of hearing the feller
that used to whistle, “Listen
to the Mocking Bird, with Var
iations.”
An old fasheioned lady read
ing of the strike of the wire
drawers exclaimed, “All, me,
what new-fangled things won’t
they wear next.”
Harry Howard says it’s no
wonder that with the fiddler
and the devil to pay there is
little mystery why the cost of
living is stubborn about com
ing down.
A train was approaching.
“ Here She comes,” said Den
nis.
“Here It comes, ye means,”
says Casey.
“Yez is both wrong,” says
Murphy, “it’s a mail train.”
Merl says that if a husband
ever has the last word at all,
it is usually:
“Al-1-1 right; go and buy the
danged thing, then!”
We warned everyone to pro
tect themselves from the
.Tingle Bug. But in spite of our
warning Jens Pederson went
and let himself get bit—and
look what he did!
The parlor sofa held the twain
Fair damsel and her lovely
swain
Heandshe
But hark! A step upon the
stair!
And mother finds them sit
ting there.
He and she.
Then there was a newspaper
down in Alabama which sent
it’s crack reporter to describe
a wedding of the town’s fair
est and most popular maids.
The reporter turned in a mast
erpiece, particularly with re
spect to the bride’s beautiful
trousseau. And the typesetter
made “trosseau” into “trows
ers,”—And the reporter had to
leave town.
First Townsite Resident: Did
you hear about it?”
Second ditto: “Not a word.”
First T. R.: “But it happened
right in your neighborhood.”
“Yes, I know—but you see
my wife’s been away for some
time.”
It was during an exception
ally dry spell, and a shower
having come up, Mr. Jones re
marked to his Tri-h gardener:
“This rain will do a lot of
good, Patrick.”
It will that, sorr,” replied.
“Sure an hour of it now will do
more good in foive minutes
than a month of it would do in
a week at any other time.”
Johnny was sharply reproved
| for reaching across the table
| to help himself to the butter.
“What did you do that for?”
demanded his mother, “Have
n't you a tongue?”
“Yes mam,” said the lad, “but
mother, my tongue is not as
long as my arm.”
Courtesy, thinks Ray Snyder,
I is the quality that keeps a
! woman smiling when a depart
ing guest stands at the open
door and lets in the flies.
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Wonder who that Jocal lady
. ’? who thinks they ought to put
a stop, to the wireless at once.
“The idea of scattering all
I those messages indiscriminate
ly through the air we breathe!
It must be very unhealthy,”
she says.
i The old colored preacher was
1 reading a passage in the Bible
fo his congregation, when he
came to a passage reading:
I “And seven sons did Milca
I bear.”
| An old brother in the front
row, straightened up suddenly
and interrupted: “How come
lat pahson? Did ye say a
i'ba’ar?” The old minister ad
justed his glasses:
“Yas, brudder, dat’s what de
good book say.” Dat means
brudders and sisters dat dey
jrun out of milk in de house—
de cows had gone dry or
jsomepn’-and de boys went out
an cotched a ba’ar an’ milked
her. Dey was brave people in
,dem times, bredern.”
1 The circus had lost one of its
elephants. While searching for
the animal in the countryside
the keepers encountered an
Irisman working in a field and
the following colloquy ensued:
“Have you seen anything of
an elephant around here?”
hey asked him.
Pat stopped work, scratched
his head thoughtfully.
“No, me by,” he said, “Oi
ain’t seen no illiphants; but,
begorra, if you want to see a
big injy-rubber baste ating
hirnips wit’ his tail he’s over
in yon field.”
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