LOCAL MINING COMPANIES
Alphabetically arranged li»t
of active and semi-active min
ing organizations operating in
the Portland Canal Mining Dis
trict.
Note: In compiling the following In
dex of local mining concerns the
publishers have bean unable In some
instances to secure much desired in
formation; owing principally to in
ability to locate the office address
es of various companies. As a result,
the list fails to Include titles or
other data relative to a small num
ber of companies.
These will be added to the list as fast
as the necessary information can be
secured.
Companies not represented in the
listing are requested to advise this of
fice.
Adanac Mines Company of Alaska:
Cap. 1750,000, Par $r.00; properties
Fish Creek, Hyder district. Ameri
can registry.
Albany Mining Co., Ltd: properties
Bear R. district. Canadian registry.
American Mining A Milling Co: Cap.
$3,000,000, Par $1.00; properties Fish;
Cr. Hyder district. American reg.
Amalgamated Mines, Incorporated:
Cap. $5,000,000, no par; subsidiary
Amalgamated Mines, Ltd., controlling
Hyder Lead Mines, Inc., properties
Texas Cr. Hyder district. Amer.
Amalgamated Mines Ltd: Cap. $5,000
000, par $1.00 (see above) Canadian.
Alaska-Canadian Consolidated Mining
Co. Ltd: prop. Salmon R. dist. Can.
Atlas Gold-Copper Company, Inc.:
Cap. and reserves $1,200,000, par $1;
prop. Bear River dist: C&n.
Bayvlew Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap. $3,
000,000, par .26; prop. Bear River
district. Can.
British-Canadian Silver Mines Ltd.:
Cap. $1,500,000. par $1; prop. Salmon
district. Controlled by Selukwe Gold
Mining & Finance Co., Ltd., London.
Can.
B. C. Bonanza Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Salmon dist. Can.
Beaver Development Syndicate: Cap.
500,000 units, par $10; prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Bear Valley Mines, Ltd: prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Bimetallic Syndicate: Cap. 15.000
units par $10; prop. Marmot R. dis
trict. Can.
Big Missouri Mining Co.: Cap. $5,000,
000. par $1; prop. Salmon R. dist.
Amer. (Controlled by Buena Vista
Mining Co. )
Bitter Creek Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1.
500.000. par .50; prop. Bear R. dis
trict. Can. (Controlled by Marmot
Metals Mining Co. Ltd.)
Black Hill Mining Co., Ltd: Prop.
Bear R. dist. Can. (Controlled by
Marmot Metals Mining Co„ Ltd.
Bridgeport Syndicate: Cap. 20,000 un
its. par $10; prop. Salmon R. Hyder
msirict. American.
British Dominion Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Salmon R. Dist. Can. (Controll
eil hy National Silver Mines, Ltd. )
Buena Vista Mining Co.: Cap. $500,
000. par $1; prop, Salmon R. district;
Can. (Controlling Big Missouri Co.)
Bush Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd.:
Cap. $8,000,000, par .50; prop. Salmon
R. dist. Can.
Butte-Hyder Mining Co., Inc. Cap. $1.
000,000, par SI; American.
Cassiar Gold Mines, Ltd.: Properties
Salmon R. district. Canadian.
Century Mines, Incorporated: Cap.
$5,000,000. no par val., prop. Salm'on
R., Hyder dist. American.
Chief Metals Mining Co.: Property
Salmon R. dist. Amer.
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Co: Controlling George Gold-Copper
Co., Bear R. dist.; Buena Vista Min
ing Co.. Salmon R. dist. Can.
Commonwealth Mining Co.: Prop.
Cascade River. American.
Crest Consolidated Gold Mining Co.,
Ltd.: Cap. $2,000,000, par .50; prop.
Salmon R., Hyder dist. Can.
Dalhousie Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop.
Bear R. dist. Can.
Dandy-Star Mines, Ltd,: Prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Daly Alaska Mines Co.: Cap. $2,000.
000. par $1; prop. Salmon R., Hyder
district. Amer. 1
Dunwell Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1,000,000
par $1; prop. Bear R. dist.
Emperor Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1,500,000.
par $1; prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
Extenuate Gold Mines, Ltd.: Prop.
Salmon R. dist. Can.
Forty-Nine Mining Co. Prop. Salmon
R. district. Can.
George-Enterprise Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
George Gold-Copper Mining Co., Ltd.:
Cap. $1,500,000, par $1. prop. Bear R.
dist. Can.
Georgia River Gold Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
$3,000,000, par $1; prop. Georgia R.
Can.
Glacier Girl Minileg Co., Ltd.: prop.
Bear R. dist. Can. (Controlled by Mar
mot Metals Co.)
Gold Standard Mining Co., Ltd: Cap.
$3.0000.000, par .25; prop. Texas
Creek, Hyder dist. Amer.
Hyder Lead Mines Inc.: Cap. $2.
600.000 par $1; prop. Texas Creek,
Hyder dist. Can. (Controlled by
Amalgamated Mines, Inc.)
Independence Gold Mining Co., Ltd.:
Cap. $3,500,000, par $1; prop. Bear R.
dist. Can. (Controlled by Revenue
Consolidated Mines, Ltd.)
Indian Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $3,000.000,.
par $1; prop. Salmon R. dist. Can.
International Metals Exploration Co.,
Ltd.: Prop. Marmot R. dist. Can.
L. and L. Consolidated Mines, Ltd.:
Cap. $500,000, par .25; prop. Bear R.
diet. Can.
kakeview Mines Ltd.: Cap. $1,000,000,
par ..25; prop. Bear R. diet. Can.
Last Chance Mining Co.: Prop. Sal
mon R. .(list. Can.
Marmot Metals Mining Co., Ltd.:
Cap. *1.600,000. per .60; prop. Marmot
R. (list. Can. (Controlling Melvin Syn
dicate, Glacier Girl Mining Co., Black
Hill Mining Co., Bitter Creek Mines
Co.)
Marmot River Gold Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
$1,000,000, par .25; prop. Marmot R.
(list. Can.
Marmot Engineer Mine Syndicate:
Cap. 15i000 units, par *10; prop. Mar
mot R. (list. Amer.
Marmot Consolidated Mines, Ltd.:
Cap. *5,000, 000, par *1; Marmot R.
dlst. Can.
Marmot River Development Co. Ltd.:
Prop. Marmot dlst. Can.
Marlund Mines, Ltd.: Prop. Marmot
R. (list. Can.
Mayflower Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap. $1,
000,000, par .50; prop. Bear R. dlst.
Can.
Mayou Gold-Copper Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Bear R. dlst. Can.
M. C. Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Bear
R. dlst. Can.
Melvin Mining Syndicate: Cap. 25,000
units, par *5.00; prop. Marmot R. dlst.
Can. (Controlled by Marmot Metals
Mining Co.)
Mountainview Gold Mining Co.: Cap.
*500,000, no par; prop. Fish Cr. Hy
der dlst. Amer.
National Silver Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1.
500.000 par .50; prop. Salmon R. diet.
Georgia R. dlst. Can.
Ninety-Six Mining Co.: Cap. $2,000,
000, par *1; American.
North Country Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
$2,000,000 par *1; prop. Bulldog Creek,
Marmot dlst. Can.
Northern Light Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $5.
000,000 par $1; prop. Salmon R. dlst.
Can.
Northern Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Sal
mon R. dlst. Can.
Ore Mountain Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop.
Bear R. dlst. Canadian.
Outland Silver Bar Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
*1,500.000, par *1; prop. Salmon R.
dlst. Can.
Oversight Mines Syndicate: Cap. 20,
000 units, par $10; prop. Marmot R.
(list. Amer. **
Pat. Daly Mining and Development
Co., Ltd.: Prop. American Creek, Bear
R. dist. Can.
Pedro-Ceorgia River Syndicate: Cap.
15.000 units par $10; prop. Georgia R.
dlst. Can.
Porter-ldaho Mining Co., Ltd. Cap.
*2.000,000, par .50; prop. Marmot R.
dist. Can. (Controlled by Premier
Gold Mining Co., Ltd.:)
Portland Canal Gold Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
*1,000,000, par .25; prop. Georgia R.
dist. Can.
Premier Border Gold Mining Co., Ltd.
Cap. $2,500,000, no par value; prop.
Salmon R., Hyder dist. Can. (Also is
registered under laws of Alaska.)
Premier Gold Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
$5,000,000, par $1; prop. Salmon R.
Red Hill Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap. $600,
000. par .20; prop. Barney's Gulcb,
Bear R. dist. Can.
Red Reef Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Mt.
Rainey, Bear R. dist. Can.
Red Top Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Revenue Consolidated Mines, 'Ltd.:
Cap. $2,000,00, par $1; prop. Bear R.
dist. Can. (Controlling Independence
Mining Co.)
Ruby Silver Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
$250,000, par $1; prop. Bear R. dist. I
Can.
Rufus-Argenta Mines. Ltd.:Cap. $3,000,
000, par $1; prop. Bear R. dist. Can. ;
Sebakwe and District Mines, Ltd.: 1
Cap. £200,000, par 2s 6d, prop. Sal- ,
mon R. dist. British.
Silverado Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $500,000, :
gar $1; prop. Mt Rainey, Bear R. dist. j
(Controlled by Premier Gold Mining i
Co.) Can.
Silver Crest Mining Co, Ltd.: Cap. ,
$500,000, par .25; prop. Salmon R. dist,
| Can.
Silver Bell Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop.
Mt. Rainey, Bear R. dist. Can.
Silver Ledge Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
$250,000, par .25; prop. Glacier Creek.
Bear R. dist. Can.
Silver Range Consolidated Mines,
Ltd.: Prop. Marmot R. dist. Can.
Silver Slipper Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
$500,000, par .25; prop. Mt Rainey,
Bear R. dist. Can.
Stewart Central Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
$250,000, par .25; prop. Bitter Cr.,
Bear R. dist. Can.
| Sunshine-Morning Star Mining Co.,
Ltd.: Cap. $1,000,000, par .25; prop.
Glacier Cr., Bear R. dist. Can.
Terminus Mines, Ltd.: Cap $1,000,000.
par $1; prop. American Cr., Bear R.
dist. Can.
Titan Gold Mining Co.: Cap. $1,500.
000, par $1; prop. Fish Cr., Hyder dist.
Amer.
United Empire Gold 4. Silver Mining
Co., Ltd.: Prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
Vancouver Mines, Ltd.: Prop. Ameri
can Cr. Bear R. dist. Can.
White River Placer Syndicate: Cap.
20,000 uni ts, par $5; prop. Nass R.
dist. Can.
Woodbine Gold Mining Co., Ltd.
Cap. $5,000,000, no par value; prop.
Salmon R. diet. Can.
Geology of Hyder and Vicinity
By Prof. A. F. Buddington
Department of Geology, Princeton University
FROM U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. 807
Twelfth Installment
A typical specimen of the por
phyry from the dikes associat
ed with the Texas batholith, as
seen with the microscope, is
found to consist of phenocrysts
of plagioclase, orthoclase,
hornblende, and rounded
quartz in a dense groundmass
of quartz and feldspar that
consists in part of a micro
graphic intergrowth of the
quartz and potassic feldspar
crystals. The rock is usually
highly altered; the plagioclase
is mostly altered to sericitic ag
gregates with come epidote,
and the hornblende and biotite
to chlorite and epidote. Titan
ite, apatite, and magnetite are
present as accessory minerals.
At a few localities dikes of
quartz porphyry cut the rocks
of the Texas Creek batholith
and also the near-by sediment
ary and volcanic rocks. These
dikes are so much altered that
their original nature cannot be
determined. The evidently co»
sisted of phenocrysts of quartz
and feldspar in dense ground
mass. The quartz is in euhe
dral crystals and unaltered,
but the groundmass is partly
altered to sericite, and the feld
spar phenocrysts are almost
wholly altered to aggregates of
sericite and quartz. Sparse
ferromagnesian minerals have
been altered to chlorite and
muscovite. In some of the
freshest specimens of these
dikes both orthoclase and plag
ioclase phenocrysts are present
in addition to quartz; in others
only remnants of plagioclase
can be identified, and quartz
phenocrysts are sparse. At the
Cantu prospect on Salmon Riv
er and at the upper workings
of the Daly-Alaska mine such
porphyry dikes are cut by met
alliferous veins.
Aplite and Pegmatite
Aplite dikes are usually com
mon within 500 or 600 feet of
the roof or borders of the bath
olith. They tend to occur more
abundantly and to extend far
ther from the contact in the
country rock than in the batho
lith. As a rule, they are prac
tically restricted to the imme
diate vicinity of the contacts of
the batholith or its outlying j
stocks. The aplite is generally
white and fine grained. A few
of the dikes are shattered and
veined and impregnated with
sulphides. On the* Mountain
view property an aplite dike is
impregnated with molybden
ite, and on the Dugas claims,
north of the West Fork, an ap
lite dike is veined and impreg
nated with pyrite, galena, and
sphalerite. Pink aplite dikes
are found in the Texas Creek
batholith and the sediments
and volcanic rocks of the Hez
elton group, but these belong
to the younger Hyder and
Boundary batholiths.
~The~aplite dikes consist al
, most wholly of quartz, micro
perthite or microcline, and al
bite; but the proportions of
these minerals are highly vari
able. Quartz ranges from a
trace to 40 per cent, albite
from 25 to 75 per cent, and po
tassic feldspar from 12 to 60
per cent. The more sodic vari
eties may be associated with
the more sodic (quartz diorite)
facies of the batholith, but fur
ther study will be necessary to
verify this suggestion. The
microperthite has only a very
slight intergrowth of the plag
ioclase phase, and the micro
cline is often present. Calcite
is a very common secondary
mineral facing fractures in the
rock. Otherwise the rocks are
fresh and chemically unalt
ered. Physically, however,
they are severely mashed and
locally pulverized.
The pegmatite dikes are rel
atively few and small and were
not studied.
Hyder and Boundary Batholit
ic Intrusions ..and ..Associated
Dikes
Character and Extent
The rock about the town of
Hyder is a quartz monzonite
that forms a part of the east
ern border of the main Coast
Range batholith. The rocic
around the head of Boundary
Glacier is a granodiorite that ■
is either an apophysis or an
outlying stock of the eastern j
border of the main Coast j
Range batholith. Both these |
intrusive masses send off dikes
of granodiorite porphyry far
MAP OF
PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
HYDER, ALASKA
into the jsurrounding country.
Dikes of aplitc and pegmatite,
malchite, and lamprophyre
cut the intrusive rocks as well
as the sedimentary and volcan
ic rocks and are believed to
have originated as late facies
of the Hyder and Boundary
batholithic magmas. The ap
lite and pegmatite dikes in
general are not found in the
country rock far from the con
tact of the main intrusive mass
es, but the malchite and lamp
rophyre dikes may occur a
score or more of miles away.
Continued next week.
The body of an unidentified
man found at McCloud’s Har
bor, on the osuth side of Mont
ague Island, was buried nearby
recently,, after a coroner’s jury
had failed to find any marks
of identification on the re
mains, which were in a fair
state of preservation. The de
ceased was apparently about
45 years old and was thought
to be a fisherman, who had met
death by drowning.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
Hyder, Alaska,
October 19, 1929
To John Carlson (deceased), bis
heirs, executors, administrators, as
signs and to whom it may concern:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended during the years 1922,
1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and
1928 twelve hundred dollars in
labor and improvements upon the
Alaska Quartz Claim Lode and the
North Star Quartz Claim Lode be
longing to the Monarch Group,
situated near the top of ridge on
Fish Creek, the location certificates
of which are found of record in
Volume One of Lodes at pages 124
and 125 respectively in the office of
the Recorder, Hyder Recording Pre
cinct, Hyder, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
section 2324 of the Revised Statute of
the United States, and the amend
ment thereto approved, January 22,
1880, concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount to
hold said lodes for the years above
mentioned, July 1st of each year
being the end of each assessment
year. And if within ninety days from
the personal service of this notice,
or within ninety days after the final
publication thereof, being January 18.
1930, you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of such expenditure
upon or for the benefit of the Alaska
Quartz Claim Lode and the North
Star Quartz Claim Lode, two hundred
dollars on er.ch of said claims, a
total of $400.00, you holding a one
third interest in each of said claims,
your interest in said claims will be
come the property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made the
required expenditure of $100 each
year on each of said claims, by the
terms of said section.
JOHN HOVLAND.
Publish Oct. 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23,
30, Dec. 7, 14, 21, 28, Jan. 4, 11, 18.