HYDER WEEKLY MINER
Formeuly The Hyder Alaska Mincer
Published every Monday by the Hyder 14mer Publish
ing Co., Hyder, Alaska.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at
Hyder, Alaska, November 4,1919, under the Act of March
3, 1879. , _
CHAS. F. SANDFORD’..... Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The assurance given by the
Forest Service officials that the
almost: inaecersible Texas creek
section will be opened to devel
opment by the construction of
a pack trail during the coming
summer is most gratifying. The
fact remains, however, that a
pack trail cannot be expected
to provide adequate commun
ication with a section which
gives every promise of becom
ing the center of development
activities in the Salmon River
district during the coming sum
mer. A wagon road 13 an abso
lute necessity if that wonder
full/ mineralized area is to be
opened to early exploitation.
F-’om the tenor of Mr. Flory s
letter to the local petitioners
it appears there is little or no
prospect that the Forest Sei
vice will undertake the task 01
building the highway but the. e
are other agencies through
which it may be achieved and
no time should be lost in bring
ing all possible pressure ;u
bear while the road develop
ment programs for the coming
open season are still in the
formulative stage. As the seas
on is still early it is probable
that the Alaska Road Commis
sion allotments for this divis
ion have not been made and a
strong and determined effort
should be made by the local
business and mining interests
to secure an appropriation
from that body. Those who
are acquainted with the Tex
as section are a unit in assert
ing that there are literally hun
dreds of tons of shipping grade
ore in sight on some of the
properties in that locality and
only a very small amount of
work will be required to place
• several of them on a shipping
basis. Making all due al
lowance for possible overesti
mation, there still remain am
ple evidences that the district
will ultimately become highly
productive with the develop
ment of means of transportat
ion to enable the shipment of
for shipping ore. This being the
case, pack trails and other
makeshift improvements will
delfcy rather than hasten the
pro2Xer-3 of development. As
Mr. Flory says, a pack trail will
make the country “accessible”
and enable ‘developmnt work.”
With tons of ore in plain sight,
needing only a few charges of
powder to prepare it for ship
ment and an open highway to
market it, why should the min
ers and busine33 men of Hyder
be content to have the district
made merely “accessible.”
What is needed to open up the
Texas area is not a pack trail
but a road and the citizens of
Hyder, and particularly the
busines3 element, are far from
serving their own best interests
if they permit themselves to be
put off with a pack trail, when
a wagon road is what they are
asking for and must have if the
riches of Texas Creek are to be
made available this year or
next.
The miners have taken the
initiative, now let the business
interests, as well as all other in
terests in this locality get
squarely behind their effort to
secure the much needed im
provement. A iittle concerted
effort at this time will go a
long way toward achieving the
desired object and even if the
effort should fail this year it
will prepare the way for later
efforts that will surely bring
results if persistently main
Itained.
What Alaska needs more than
any one thing is local canner
ies. One small cannery in Sew
ard loaves more money here
than the P. A. F. or the Alaska
Packers. It provides light work
at good pay to women and
boys, and the fish packed by
the smaller concerns is cleaner,
fresher and a finer food pro
duct. An hundred Alaskan
owned canneries would be of
direct benefit to every citizen.
The larger combinations are a
menace to the smaller concerns
and take from the Territory
without giving a reasonable re
turn.—Seward Gateway.
SOME MINING DEFINITIONS
i The following definitions of
mining terms were published
in the Valdez Prospector 20
years ago, having been handed
I to the editor of that paper by
an old prospector. The definit
ions are as good' today as they
were when published and ap
ply fully as well—or better:
A prospector-— A man who
has a hole in the ground and is
the biggest liar in town.
A proposition man—One who
wears lace boots and corduroy
clothes and never pays a board
bill.
A mining expert—A man who
lean talk about formations, ram
ifications, stratifications, dy
kes, zones, dips, spurs, angles,
telegi’tee, oozites, sedomite and
all the ites tid tites; can see a
mile into mother earth and in
variably condemns the coun
try.
An expert miner—A fellow
who loafs around town look
ing for a job as superintend
ent of a property, but would be
a foreman if he can’t be super
intendent; one who has worK
: in the Treadwell in ’90 and has
been idle ever since.
A “98er”—<-A man who came
to Alaska in the fall of ’97 or
spring of ’98 and knows where
I there are diggin’s that will pay
$50 to the pan and is going
back there just as soon as
spring comes.
A mining promoter—A man
iwho has unlimited capital be
hind him, but none in front of
Ihim; his watch is in soak.
An amalgamator—A man
who wears long finger nails,
draws $5 a shift and deposits
$10 in the bank every day; if
the ore is low grade, the mort
in proportion.
An assayer—A man who
charges you $1.50 for throw
ing your samples out of the
back door and writing a certif
icate.
A mining engineer— One
who makes funny figures on
blazed.Stumps and charges a
big price.
A knocker—One who runs
down the country so as to keep
others out until he can get
what property he wants.-Strol
lers Weekly.
“LORD, TAKE ME AWAY.”
(From the Seward Gateway)
Lord, take me away from this
colu, frozen Northland, ana
carry me off to some green,
sunny isle, where the monkeys
are all trained to harvest ba
nanas, and hula girls dress in
a sweet, sunny smile. I am sick
of development, tired of the
fishes, and wearied no end by
the bureau fights, too; please
grant me, oh Lord, my dearest
of washes, the great empire
building I leave unto you.
Then bear me afar on your
sweet, vernal breezes, and
thru Seattle, before the day
cobles, and establish me well
in the island that pleases, be
fore some official can stick in
his thumbs. A sack full of corn
meal, a patch of red berries to
make into wine; a box of West
over, a bale of Bull Durham,
some books, and, dear Lord,
the world will be mine.
Just For Fun
, “Hasn’t anyone called during
I my two days’ absence?” said
| the doctor to the office boy. “1
left this slate here for callers
to write their names on, and it
is perfectly clean.”
“ Oh, yes,” said the boy. “Lots
of people came and the slate
got so full I had to rub them
out to make room for more.”
The Blueberry kid says it is
his candid opinion that we
ought to have more people lay
ing bricks and less throwing
them.
We pay no attention to it
when a fifteen dollar a week
man buys a new auto out of
his salary. But when a six dol
lar a week girl sports a new
silk waist we all just know
there is something wrong.
We had an argument with
Lee Balch the other day as to
whether December 21 or 22 is
the shortest day of the year, i
Lee said neither one because
the shortest day of the year is
always the one before a note
falls due.
“Mose,” said a negro porter
to a fellow toiler, “ef Ah could
carry five bags at one time like
Ah seen you-all do jest now,
Ah wouldn’t hang aroun’ yere
a-tall. No boy! Ah sure would
take maself off an’ get me a
match wid Jack Dempsey. You
all is jest wastin’ your time, be
in’ big an’ strong as you-all is.
To which Mose, aftef looking
him over for a moment, said:
“Lafe, how much you-all
weigh, boy?
“Ah weighs 135 pounds.’’
“One hunnerd-thirty five* eh?
Well say, Lafe boy, Ah doan’
see no one holdin’ you-all off
from Benny Leonard.”
! One touch of scandal makes
the whole world chin.
Home is a place where you
can eat things pride won’t let
you order in a restaurant.
We don’t do it often, so here
goes— .4
Tiny little parcels
From the grocery,
Keep the average feller
In a state of poverty.
j Paddy O’Donnell says the
radio is a great thing but it
can’t compare with the old
1 fashioned method of broad-.
! casting news over the back
i fence.
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