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VOL. 3. NO. 39.
HYDER, Alaska, Sep. «. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
If, l MINING MAN
SAYS THIS DISTRICT
HAS GREAT FUTURE!
“I consider the Daly Alaska a 16
to I shoq that is, sixteen chances
to win, against one to lose,” said
J. C. Wier, of Wier Bros. & Co.,
New Yoik, before leaving for the
south last Sunday. In company
with R. 1. Claus, a new York
broker and underwriter, Mr. Wier
spent two weeks on the property,
giving it a thorough examination.
“There are seventeen ore expos
ures,” he said, “any one of which
is of sufficient importance to lead
the conservative prospector or op
erator to undertake extensive dev
elopment. You may say that there
need be no fear as to the financing
of the property, though on account;
of its magnitude a large amount of;
capitalwill be required to properly
develop and equip it.”
Mr. Wier is a practical mining
tnan of many years’ experience on
both American continents. Asked
how this camp compares with,
o her mining districts with which j
he is familiar, he replied that each
district has its own individuality
and that comparisons of this kind
are hard to make. However, he
said, he had never seen a district
that gave more assurance of success
to the mine operator. The phe
nomenal and continuous record of
the Premier will result in every
ore exposure in the same belt be
ing thoroughly examined. One of
the first principles of the practical
mine operator, he said, is to secure
property in the vicinity of a suc
cessful mine, where under similar
geological conditions similar results
may be expected.
\Vier Bros. & Co. have already
placed a large block of Daly A!
a-ka stock in New' York, and it is
betraying no confidence to state
that Mr. Wier is undertaking to
arrange for the complete financing
of the property, in this connection
Managing Director Pal Daly, D;
DEVELOPMENT STARTS
ON THE PRINCE JOHN
Work was started Monday on
the John group, on the west side
of Bear river, which is under bond
to C. A. Mackenzie and associates.
For the present ten men will be
employed, though this number will
probably be increased as room can
be made for them undergroud, and
it is the intention to carry on de
velopment all winter. The camp
building is 36x80 feet in size, cap
able of comfortably accommodat
ing 30 men.
There are a number of veins op
ened up on the John, and values
average around $48, though assays
running much higher may be ob
tained from picked specimens. In
one opening as high as $36 has i
been obtained in gold alone.
It is Mr. Mackenzie’s intention
to build a residence for himself and
wife on the property whenever the
government road to connect with
his trail up the hill is completed.
rector Eddie Hambleton and Con
sulting Engineer A. G. Larson went
to Vancouver with Mr. Wier and
Mr. Claus, where a conference
with other officials of the company
will be held.
Pat Daly, before leaving, said
the mine development was satisfac
tory to the management in every
respect. Five big parallel veins,
from 35 to 75 feet in width, and
from 100 to 400 feet apart, have
been proven, four of them since
development started this summer.
The new crosscut tunnel to tap
the upper vein was in 25 feet
when he left the camp and had
passed through a blind vein seven
feet in width, and carrying a good
grade of milling ore, but which is
not counted into the assets of the
property as yet. This tunnel,
which is being driven under con
tract by Chas. Land and partners,
will need to be driven about 60
feet more to reach the vein for
which it .was started, and another
contract will probably be let to
continue it across the ore body.
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Hip, Hip, Hooray, school starts
Monday.
Mrs. Ha»ry Tanner left Sunday
for a visit with relatives in Seattle
Eddie O’Neill, of the Daly Alas
ka staff, spent Monday night in
town.
Mrs. Tibbets of Nine-mile re
turned Sunday from a short visit J
Outside.
C. M. Smith of Ketchikan arrived j
on the Prince of Wales to give the |
camp the once over.
Pete Fit* returned Sunday from |
Rupert, having changed his mind
about going Outside.
W. R. Smith left Sunday for Se
attle and expects to go to New York
before returning here.
Harry Zeffert, the Stewart cloth
ing merchant, left Sunday on a
business trip to Vancouver.
J.O. Stenbraten, "Stampede John”
returned today from Juneau, where •
he has been for a month or more, j
Max Priebe is making extensive
improvements at the International
roadhouse for Magnus Meisingseth.'
P. C. Hickman, B. C. fisheries !
department, arrived Sunday for an j
inspection trip to the Meziadin lake ■
district.
Dave Allen, who was injured in]
a football game in Stewart July 1,
returned Sunday from Rupert. His
leg is okeh,
Harry Jackson, head book-keeper
at the Premier, returned Sunday ■
from a vacation trip to his home
in New York.
The Griffco, the largest ore car
rier calling at this port, cleared
Tuesday night with a cargo of Pre-1
inter high-grades.
Louis Watkins is down the canal j
doing some work on the B.C. Verde
in which he is interested with
Hugh B. McGuire.
N. Thorby. a business man of
Juneau, left for his home Sunday1
after spending several days look
ing this town over.
G. W. (Dynamite) Davis, repre-1
seating Canadian Explosives, ar
rived Sunday and is interviewing
local mine operators.
Miss Esther Olson, teacher of the
Hyder public school, returned to
day from Seattle, where she spent
'
the summer vacation.
Oak Olson, of the firm of Olson
&Mehern, commission merchants
of Juneau, is in camp taking or-1
ders from local merchahts.
Mrs. Dale L. Pitt and daughter
Elizabeth were outgoing passengers
on the Prince Rupert Sunday.
After placing Elizabeth in school
in Prince Rupert, Mrs. Pitt will go
east for an extended visit with rel
atives and friends.
Geo. Clothier, resident mining'
engineer for British Columbia, ar-1
rived Sunday and is in the hills
checking up development work.
Win, Tompkins, an oldtime min
ing man of the Coeur d’Alenes, is a
recent arrival and intends to give
this camp a thorough going over.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ritchie of Ru
pert, who have been visiting friends
in Stewart and Hyder for the past
two weeks, returned home Sunday.
Grant Mahood, president and
managing director of the American
Mining and Milling Co., left Sun
day on a business trip to Vancouver.
Hugh B. McGuire, who owns a
number of valuable mining prop
erties in this district, returned Sun
day from a business trip to New
York.
L. C. Hibbard, of Hibbard-Stew
art Co., Seattle, the largest dealers
in hides and furs on the Pacific
coast, visited friends here during
the stay of the Prince Rupert.
Mrs. Jack Littlepage and three
children arrived on the Prince of
Wales from Ketchikan to join Mr. !
Littlepage, who is in charge of de- j
velopment at the Riverside group.,
Mrs. M. R Jamieson erd son'
Lome left Sunday for New West-.
minster, where Lome will enter i
college. Mrs. Jamieson will visit1
friends in Vancouver for some
weeks before returning.
W. G. Cheney of Katalla, presi- i
dent of the Eureka Oil Co., with
leases in Katalla and Cold Bay, ar
rived on the Prince Rupert Sunday,
accompanied by his son W. L.
Cheney, of Winslow, Wash.
The Azurite arrived Tuesday j
night from Anyox with E. J. Con-;
way, field engineer for thfe Granby 1
Company, who came to make an
other examination of the George
property up Bear river.
W. R. Tonkin, former president!
and general manager of the Fish 1
Creek Mining Co., returned Sunday j
from Seattle. The oompany was1
absorbed recently by the American
Mining ane Milling Co., but Mr
Tonkin still retains a large interest.
T. V. Wilson of Seattle, who
spent the summer working on his |
properties on the west side of the
Salmon glacier, left for the south
Sunday. Mr. Wilson is well satis
fied with the season’s development
and took out a ton of high-grade
silver ore for a smelter test.
Alex Gallagher, who broke a leg
for the second time a few weeks
ago, celebrated Labor Day with
Dr. W. Lt’Arcy Chace, and both re
port that all present, consisting of
both of them, had a most enjoyable
time. Doc. shot a local anesthetic
into A ex’s leg, pulled out a cute
little .irving knife’ and cut out a
chunk of bone that was drifting
around with no visible means of
support—sort of a vagrant, as it
wtre.
GOOD PROGRESS MADE
ON THE B. G. SILVER
C. A. Banks and H. L. Batten,
who are developing the B. C. Sil
ver, both came down Saturday, the
latter to meet his wife and baby
who arrived Sunday morning from
Vancouver, and the former for a
short business trip to Vancouver,
accompanied by Mrs. Banks. They
intend to return in two weeks and
spend the winter here.
Mr. Batten said to the Miner that
work at the B. C. Silver is going
smoothly, good progress being made
in the tunnel which is being driven
to tap the Premier vein. Where
the tunnel was started there is a
large amount of overburden and
sixty feet of loose material was
passed through before solid rock
was encountered and the compres
sor put into commission. The lat
ter started off without a hitch and
is running like a sewnig machine.
Until the tunnel reaches its ob
jective little news from this prop
erty is expected, but residents of
the camp who are familiar with the
situation are expecting to hear
within a few months that another
shipper has been placed on the map.
RUTH AND FRANCIS
GROUP IS BONDED
The Ruth and Francis group of
five claims on Glacier creek were
taken this week under lease and
bond, by responsible parties, and
development has already commen
ced. The owners are Andy Archie
and Jas. Nesbitt. The property
lies between the Dunwell and
Sunrise groups and is easily acces
ible, with a good ktrail built, and
winter accommodations for a small
crew. Two prospect tunnels have
been driven, one 60 feet and the
other 25, each following the vein.
The face of the upper tunnel
shows six inches of antimonial sil
ver ore, lying beside two feet of
iron sulphides. In the lower tun
nel the ore carries more galena
and less antimony.
The Prince Rupert was delayed
for one hour in leaving Sunday, on
account of unloading an abnormal
amount of freight. The first report
was that the ship would not clear
until 2 o’clock, and R. E. Moore,
northern manager for P. Burns &
Co., was left behind. He wired out
to Rupert for the Provincial, which
came up for him Monday morning.
Messrs. Lee, Bucket and Carr
offthe Premier sffice otaff, and Dr.
Carson, the mine physician, came
down Tuesday with the Premier
light truck. On tbeir way to Stew
art their truck side-swiped Frank
Nagel’s Big Lizzie and came to
grief, smashing a wheel and throw
ing the passengers out. One went
through the wind shield, another
out into the tide flats, and all were
somewhat mussed up. A few yards
of bandage and half an acre of
court plaster repaired the damage
to the men, and they returned to
the mine that evening—but in
Felix Seppi’e car.
MS, F, C/ILDWELL
IS HIGHLE PLEASED
BE DEVELOPMENTS
Chas. F. Caldwell, veteran mine
operator, who had the New AU
aska, now the Daly Alaska, unde r
bond three years ago and has been
here for a week looking over the
leading properties of the camp,
left Sunday for Zion City, where
is General Overseer of the Chris
tian Catholic Apostolic Church in
Zion.
Mr. Caldwell expressed himself
as highly pleased with the progress
of development here, though he
says that the volumn of mineral
thus far exposed gives but an ink
ling of what may be expected.
People down east, he said, are
slow in realizing that the Premier
is the greatest mine in the world,
and he believes that the Big Mis
s5uri will in time become as fam
ous. He was greatly impressed
with the acumen that Harry Hoy -
son has shown in obtaining such
wonderful results in the short time
he has been in charge tnere, and
says that if he is furnished with all
the men he needs, and given a
free hand for a year, Mr. Howson
will develop a shipping mine that
will be another big surprise to the
mining world.
As to the Daly Alaska, in which
he has always had the greatest
faith, and which he was forced to
abandon only through the financial
market being n a state of chaos at
the time he had it bonded, Mr.
Caldwell says that its success is
assured beyond any question of a
doubt.
Beside being a confirmeJ opti
mist, Mr. Caldwell is a master o -
ganizer, and his return to this camp
with the financial support to bring
to fruition his long-cherished plans
for a railroad up Salmon river may
be expected when the proper time
arrives.
Lot for sale in Hyder, B. C.
Best location. Alexander Gallagher.
Ocean View Hotel.
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Russian steam baths $1. 1! J. Scott.
Califomiens Attention.
All those who are interested in the
fitting observance of ADMISSION DAY
September 9th., please communicate with
Dr. Chase, at the Alaskan Hotel, Hyder.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Charlton.
For sale. Lot No. 11, Block No. 6. Hy
der Townsite. Price $300. VV. H. Thwaite,
P. O. Box 2132, Portland, Oregon.
LOST, small white purse, with bills
and mirror. Please return to Miner of
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One-half interest in a lot on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for
one-half the original cost Ask Joe Greed