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Consequence of Which Hyder is
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the North.
HYDER SLASKA MINER
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VOL. 3. NO. 40.
HYDER, Alaska, Sep. }3. 19E2
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
GRANBY COMPANY
HAS TAKEN BOND
ON GEORGE GROUP
The George copper group, near
the head of Bear river, has been
bonded by the Granby company,
who will commence active devel
opment as soon as the property ean
b:s reachdd next spring. This is
the most important deal made on
Bear river since the present era of
mining activity commenced and
will, if present plans materialize,
result in the reconstruction of the
Bear river railroad, which will stim
ulate interest in numerous promis
ing properties along the route.
The George group consists of 20
claims, and is one of the earliest
locations of the district. It is own
ed by W. B. George, of Stewart, and
associates. Mr. George has stayed
by the camp through the dark years
of adversity, when it was impossi
ble to interest capital in the dis
trict, and even the steamships re
fused to call. That his faith and
courage are about to be rewarded
will be a source of satisfaction to
everyone in the district.
MRS. AViSON GONE BEYOND
M. R. Jamieson yesterday receiv
ed a message stating that his wife’s
mother, Mrs. Henry Avison, had
died at htr home in South Fort
George, B. C. Mrs. Avison, who!
was 65 years old, hf.d been ailing
for some time, and her death was
not unexpected. Mrs. Jamieson,
who took her son Lome to Colum
bia College in New Westminster a
week ago, is believed to now be on
her way to attend her mother’s
funeral.
“CHICKEN INN” OPENING
A cordial invitation is extended to
everyone t . attend the opening of the •
' hicken Inn” at Fish creek Friday night. I
S_- teniber 15. There will be dancing ic
th • best music procurable, on a perfect,
n*w, hardwood floor, and a real old-fash*
toned chicken supper will be served.
Mrs. Helen Hell.
Mrs. Elmer W. Smith.
FIND NEW SHOOT
HIGH GRADE ORE
ON DIVIDE GROUP
W. R. Tonkin, vice president
of the American Mining and Mill
ing Company, who own the Divide
and Daly-Sullivan groups and con
trol the Fish Creek Mining Com
pany, of which Mr. Tonkin is pres
ident, came down from tne Divide
Friday with a sack of samples
from a new strike, and that show
native silver, ruby and argentite,
being similar to ore found last fi.ll
and this summer at two other points
on this property. W. R. Macfar
lane, of Macfarlane & Mahood,
accompanied Mr. Tonkin on the
trip, which was the latter’s first
visit to the Divide.
Mr. Tonkin says there is a large
mineralized zone, apparently 1 50
feet wide crossing the claims, and
that this is banded with leads of
high grade ore. Four of these
leads have been definitely traced,
two near the hanging, and two
near the foot walls of the zone.
The new strike was made near the
portal of a tunnel that is being
driven to crosscut the zone, and
which, it is expected, will reach
the hanging wall in about 180 feet,
giving about 150 feet in depth. It
is probable that this tunnel will
open up other bands of high-grade
that are covered by vegetation on
the surface.
The ore brought in last fall by
Grant Mahood, president and
managing director of the American
Mining and Milling Company, ar.d
that discovered in another cut and
shaft this summer, is sensational in
value and spectacular in appearance
and Mr. Mahood has decided to
keep at least a small crew there all
winter, though the base of supplies
at Hyder is 30 miles distant.
Don't lio homo hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
Green Theatre
Saturday Night
N REELS!!
asTiS-:
Mary Pickford
IN
‘ Daddy Long Legs”
AND
Fay Tincher
IN
Mary Moore’s In.
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PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to b«
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
Meet me at the North Star.
Send this paper to your friend
Ketchikan Chronicle at the North Star
Jimmy McDougal went to Rupert
Sunday for a short visit.
Ed Fernald returned Sunday
from a vacation trip to San Fran
cisco.
R. J. McDonell left Sunday on a
business trip to Vancouver and
Victoria.
Tom Powers, who has been tak
ing a month’s holiday Outside, re
turned Sunday.
Arthur Hall left Sunday for New
Westminster, where he will enter
Columbia College.
H. P. Gibson left Sunday on a
business trip to Rupert, where he
will also take in the annual fair.
Andy Anderson, who has been
at the Premier for three months
since his return from the outside,
came down Monday for a rest.
Bernard McDonald left Sunday
for Colnmbia College, New West
minster, after spending the sum
mer holidays with George Tolin in
Stewart.
Wm. Aseltine, superintendent of
the Premier concentrating plant,
was down to meet his wife and two
children, who arrived Sunday from
Barry, Ont
Ben Self, one of the early pio
noers of Rupert, and now the mov
ing picture magnate of that city,
was in camp during the stay of the
Prince Rupert last Sunday.
A special program is being put ]
on at the Green Theatre Saturday j
night, with Mary Pickford in a ten j
reel picture and Fay Tincher in one i
of her inimitable comedies.
Good progress is being made on
the construction of the Salmon
valley telephone line, the erew, who
started at the upper end, having
finished it to Fish creek last night, j
Alex Gallagher says that the j
person who took an eight-foot oar\
out of his gas boat at the old dock
might as well come back and get
the other one so that he will have!
mates.
The Union Steamship Company’s!
freighter Chilcoot was in Sunday ,
with 100 tons of coal for the Craw
ford Transfer. Bill Crawford says
it is good coal, and that the sacks j
are full.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sullivan have
moved into their new store build
ing at the corner of Premier and
Nevada, and Harry Lyon and fam
ily have taken their residenoe on
International.
Mrs. Tanner did not go to Seattle
as reported last week. She board
ed the ship, waved good-bve to her
friends, and then slipped down the!
gang-plank when the reporter was t
not looking. Mean trick on the re*
porter, we ealla it.
The Salmon River Stage Line's
f big Cadillac was bumped from be
! hind by Fred Young’s truck last
j Saturday night on the road to Stew
art and suffered in appearence,
though the damage is superficial.
Yael Rnsenstain has built a warm
storage compartment, connecting j
his store and warehouse, and milk
ing a building 100 feet in length.
He has also purchased the lot di
rectly back of the building and
across the lane.
Dr. L. Hedger, Dentist, has just
returned from a trip to northern
points, as far as Dawson, and is
located in the McGrew building,
near the head of Main street. He
intends remaining in Hyder only a
short time before leaving for the
outside.
Judge James Wickersham ar
rived Sunday to attend to some
legal matters, and on this, his sec
ond visit to Hydes, is staying over
long enough to renew acquainten
ces accumulated in every part of
Alaska during his quarter of a cen
tury’s residence in the Territory.
A. D. Rutheford, game warden
for this district, C. S. Blair and
F. G. Hanford arrived Tuesday by
launch from Ketchikan. Mr. Blair,
who was with Frank Wiss when
the latter was killed by a falling
tree a short time ago a few miles
below Hyder, has just returned
from Shelton, Wash., to which place
he accompanied the body.
Word has been received that W.
A. Melloche, manager for the Al
gunican Development Co. when
they had a number of properties
in this district bonded, was killed
by Mcnican bandits recently. Mr.
Melloche made many friends in
this camp and was known as a man
who let no grass grow under his
feet when there was work to be
done.
L. A. Caruthers, B. C. engineer,
and G. A. Young, road foreman for
the Stewart district, left Sunday for
Rupert. Mr. Young said that ad
ditional men were being put on the
trail to the Big Mifsouri, and an
effort will be made to complete it
to the mine this fall. The trail is
being built on wagon road grade
and will be widened as funds are
available.
HAS k FINE FUR DISPLAY
F. G. i lanford, one of the early pio
neers of this district, and now in the
tanning and fur manufacturing business
in Ketc.iikan, arrived Tuesday with a
sample line of his products, which he has
on display in the Daly Alaska office at
the reni of the Hotel llyder. The col
lection includes ladies'purses, coats, auto
hats, stclts etc., camera cases, caps,
vests, and tne most wonderful piece-work
robes, made of hair seal, which is fast
earning into popularity on account of its
wide a..ge of colors and adaptability to
manifold uses. Mr, Hanford particularly
desires .he ladies to see this collection,
and wili be iu town for several uays.
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Cabins to rent. Blondy Ciiarlton,
FISH CREEK TUNNEL
FOLLOWS TOE VEIN
ON HIGH GRIDE ORE
The new tunnel on the upper
vein of the Fish Creek Mining
Company’s group, now controlled
by the American Mining & Mill
ing Co., has entered upon a shoot
of solid galena ore which, when
W. R. Tonkin left the camp Sun
day morning, was one foot wide,
with a foot of milling ore beside it.
The tunnel was in 25 feet at that
time and the high-grade, that start
ed as a stringer near the portal,
has been steadily gaining in width.
This new tunnel is being driven
in on the lead from the Skookum
creek side of the hill, on the oppo
site side of which considerable
work was done last fall and win
ter on the same vein, and a ship
ment of ore made. 1 he new tun
nel is about I 50 feet lower than
the other workings, and if contin
ued through the hill will gain a
depth of over 300 feet below the
apex, and develop a number of
high-grade shoots that have been
opened up on the surface.
Ten men are now employed,
mining and building a winter camp
and a crew is also being put to
work at the old lower camp on
Skookum creek, where a series of
parallel veins has previously been
opened up and several hundred
feet of tunnels and drifts driven,
giving backs on a large amount of
both shipping and milling ore.
NEW PARTNER FOR "RING"
W. J. Benson, part owner in the Vir
ginia gronp, who visited here three weeks
ago, became so strongly impressed with
the future of this place that he sold out
his business, the Union hotel, in Juneau
and returned Sunday with his wife and
two children, to make their home here.
He has bought into partnership with
L, S. Bigham in the North Star cigar
store and restaurant, and is now busy
making extensive interior alterations.
The firm of Bigham & Benson have also
made a deal with Alex Frazer for the
purchase of the property, including the
lot adjoining on the north.
TO SELL MANN TOWNSITE
A portion of the Sir Donald Mann town
site addition to Stewart, consisting of
several hundred lots, will soon be placed
on the market, with H. VV. >1. Kolston
as agent. The property is situated east
of the railroad track and extends from
salt water to the depot. Mr. Rolston says
that the prices of the lots will be such as
to attract home builders, an influx of
whom is expected to follow the opening
of developments up Bear river, where
great activity is now assured for next
season.
"CHICKEN ms FINISHED
Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Smith announce
elsewhere in this issue the formal open
ing of the “Chicken Inn,” their new hos
telry at Fish creek. The name suggests
home comfort for the wayfarer, and
savors of old-fashioned chicken dinners,
with real country gravy, and all that sort!
of delight. The proprietresses say that j
it was their determination to specialize i
in just such service, that led them to se- '
le-.t the name “Chicken Inn." I
HUSH PREMIER
MIKING RIG MINE
MINING MEN Stf
That the Alaska Premier will
eventually take its place among the
most prominent producers of the
district is the prediction of mining
men who have recently visited the
property. There is an immense
surface mineralization, they say,
and Superintendent Harry Tanner
is proceeding with the development
on a system planned to give maxi
mum results with a minimum ex
penditure of time and money.
A large amount of stripping and
surface crosscutting has been done
this summer on a large vein of sil
ver and iron sulphides, lhat carries
exceptionally high values in gold
for tnat character of ore, and a tun
nel is now being driven in on the
ore. At the point where the tun
nel starts the vein has been stripp< d
across 35 feet and neither wall is
exposed. In addition, a crosscut
tunnel is being driven. There are
tnree parallel veins on the property,
any one of which, from surface in
dications, should make a mine.
P. R. Backus, United States
mineral surveyor, has just finished
surveying the group, and a con
tract has been let and work started
on the constiuction of a winter
camp, which will consist of two
cabins, 20 by 25 feet in size. The
Alaska Premier adjoins both the
Daly Alaskn and the Stoner group
and is in the sulphide be! that is
just now exciting the ir ‘ rest of
mining men all over the < ntinent.
GOOD SERVICE PRAISED
Word has been recei e I that in
compliance with a request from the
residents of Stewart ar mprovtd
boat service will be pr< v:ded this
winter by the Grand Trank sys
tem. During past wmt< r 'he best
that could be secured was the
Prince John or Prince Albert every
two weeks, but now the promise
is made that the prince .upert is
to remain on the run u: ;i! Christ
mas, and after that the h i .ce John
and Prince George will Iternate,
giving a weekly service, with one
of the finest passenger si ip5 on the
i Pacific calling every seo ,d week.
It is also probable that the ships
j will arrive at 8 a. m. instead of at
6 a. m. as at present. Hopping
out of bed at this ungodly hour is
commencing to get on the nerves
of local residents.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker.
Pure, clear, spring-water ICE!!
Order from Potts or Traversy.
Lot for sale in Hyder, B. O.
Best location. Alexander Gallagher,
Ocean View Hotel.
Russian steam baths $1. U. J. Scott.