The Salmon River District is
Marvelously Rich in Minerals
and Hydcr is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hydcr is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
HYDER ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 1.
NO. 7.
HYDER, Alaska, Dec. 5, 1919.
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
SUEING FOR
HALF INTEREST
IN PREMIER
War is Declared on R. K.
Neill by Maurice W. Ba
• con, Mining Promoter of
Spokane.
Declares Himself in, Under
the Terms of an Alleged
Grubstake Agreement of
• Four Years Ago.
SPOKANE, Dec. 5—Suit for a half
Interest in the Premier mine has been
started by Maurice W. Bacon of Spo
kane who alleges that Neill was loaned
a grnbstake by him in June, 1910,
whereby it was agreed they should
share equally in anything Neill secur
ed. It is alleged in the information
that Neill deceived Bacon as to the
value of the property as reported ty
i^eill to Bacon, and obta'ned it for
himself.
LUMBER GOING
UP TUJHE SKI
VANCOUVER, Dec. 5-Prices on
lumber are soaring. On November 26
rthe base price on export lumber was
*$30, and clears were $35. The price
has advanced to base of §32 and cleats
$42 in Washington and the last bulletin
•posted in Vancouver following the ac
ceptance of the same priee, was an ad
vance to $52 on clears.
Die NOT REAOH
THE IMBii
• The attempt to get in snpplies and
build a camp at the Unicorn has been
abandoned, and B. H. Terwilliger, who
, came up to take charge of the work, ;
will return to Seattie. There is no
doubt but that this wili be only a tem
porary delay. In February and March
it is possible to go anywhere in this j
country with any kind of loads on the
snow crust and no doubt advantage
will be taken of this fact.
The crew who made the attempt to
* reach the property got as far as the
Indian Mines camp, about four miles
from the Unicorn. They had shoveled
■ throhgh drifts seven or eight feet deep
and would have gone on had not Mr.
Terwilliger called a halt. The non
perishable goops which they took up,
they left at the Indian.
Ernie Woodworth’s piledriver crew
have finished their long, cold job ar.d
sleds are running between Iiyder and
Stewart. The community is admiring
the way the bridge boys stayed with
the proposition under abont as adverse
working conditionsjas cou'.d be found.
Jas. Mowatt, the contractor and j
* builder, is back from a visit to Ketch
ikan. While there a Times reporter
got hold of him, and the resultant in
terview was a good boost for Hyder,
given in Jim’s own inimitable manner. I
Mr: and Mrs. F.L Lake returned on '
Monday from Ketchikan. Mr. Lake j
had the Silver Heeis thoroughly over- j
hauled, an 1 al30 bought a new speed j
boat for Joe Green. Both boats were
towed back by the Taku.
Mrs. Maud Pleming, proprietress of j
the Star ro >ming house, is home again j
* after a visit of six weeks with relatives {
in Sheridan, Wyoming. She says she
heard a great deal of talk on the out
, side about Hycer.
A player piano is the latest attrac
tion at the Bungalow. It seldom gets
a rest.
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INVESTORS TRY
TO BOY CLAIMS
That mi ing investors are keen to
get hold of properties in this district
this winter is manifest by the fact that
two substantial offers have been turned
down by local owners during the past
week. Bill McGrew and associates,
who own a group in the vicinity of the
New Alaska, had an offer for the prop
erty, but declined to sell. Bob Gorman
also turned down a substantial offer
for his claims rear the Big Missouri
It is understood that a fairly heavy
cash payment was a pert cf the prop
osition.
Next Friday night a pound dance will
be held in Stewart. Big doings.
Col, T.A.Lamb, who served with the
British army inTurkey, has been spend
ing the past two weeks with William
Noble, superintendent of the Big Miss
ouri, and visited the mine. Ho express
es himself as highly pleaseq with the
way the mines of this district have de
veloped 3inee his last visit at the time
of the Bear river boom nine years rgo.
Cul. Lamb is an intimate friend of Sir
Donald Mann, head of the company
who own the Big Mifsouri, and was his
secretary when he built the railroad
from Stewart up Bear river.
A genuine black- face minstrel show
i3 being organized, with local talent B3
the performers, and its sponsors expect
to perpetrate it abont the middle of
January. Billy Orr and Bobby Small j
are responsible f r the idea, and both I
are old hands at the game. They want j
to get in touch with evervona who is ;
willing to take part in the doings’ and
ask all such to see one or both of them
a3 soon as possible. The show wili be
1 given for aom- good cause and will be
the big event of the winter. Arrange
ments are being made to bold it in the
town hall in Stewart.
Arrangements for the big Ne v Year
masquerade ball at Stewart are pro
gressing, and the prediction can. now
be made that this will be the big social
event of the season. Everybody in Hy
der is going, and that the Ste.vart cit
izens will turn out en masse is a fore
gone conclusion. Now that the road is
completed and sleds running, there are
no drawbacks to visiting back and forth
between the two towns, and the rides j
to and from Stewart on New Year’s !
eve will not be the least enjoyable part !
of the evening's entertainment.
REPORT FIND
OF HIGH GRADE
IN NEW ALASKA
It was reported Wednesday on good
bnt unofficial authority that ore had
been strnck in the crosscut tunnel on
the New Alaska and that it was of ex
ceptionally good quality. The man
who gave the information said that
the contractors who are doing the
work refused to talk about it, but that
he was certain that his statement was
correct. The tunnel has been driven,
he said, something over sixty feet, the
contract being for one hundred feet.
Chas. F.Caldwell, who has the prop
erty under bond, has telegraphed that
he expects to come up from Vancouver
on the next boat.
Opening up th< New Aieska adds
materially to the known extent of the
high grade ore zone, as the property
is only nine miles from Hyder, and 0:1
the Alaskan side of the line.
COAL FAMINE
GROWS WORSE
CHICAGO, Dec. 5—The coal famine
is growing In severity and business
houses remain open only si.\ and one
half hours daily.
CARPENTIER WON
LIKE WHIRLWIND
LONDON, Dec. 5—Georges Carpen
tier, the French champion, won from
Beckitt, the English heavyweight, in
one minute and ten seconds of actual
Sighting.
The first Premier ore to come down
from the m ne this winter was hauled
out last Sanday and since then a num
ber of teams have been making reg
ular trips. Besides the Premier teams,
the Bush four with Jimmy Robinson at
the reins are te:ng employed, as well
as the big Forty Nine four which are
Angus Chisholm’s pride. 1 hey are
hauling more than ene hundred'sacks
to the load, the road never before hav
ing been in such good shape.
IIYDEE STREET SCENE
This picture wa3 taken last sum
mer adout th • time the building
boom started. It show3 Main St.,
which is now the principal busi
ness section.