Tb<> Salmon River Olatriet la
Marvelously Kith in Minerala
anti llyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder 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. 2. NO. 40.
HYDER, Alaska, Sep, 14. 1921
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Preparing to Work
The Big Missouri
Solution of the mystery: "Where
is Pat Daly?” was solved Sunday
morning by that husky pioneer
himself by his arrival on the George,
apparently none the worse for his
many months’ association with the
big bugs of New York. Whether
the same can be said of them after
{heir association with Pat is anoth
er story, which doesn’t matter any
way. Pat brought with him his
tin flute, with which he hypnotiz
ed the millionaires of the metrop
olis with as much ease as the Pied
Piper of ancient lore persuaded rhe
rats to perforce do his bidding
But, joking aside, Pat had a very
successful session in the big town.
He was instrumental in interesting
substantial business men in the
mining game in this district. These
men have organized the “Portland
Canal Mines," with a capitalization
of $2,500,000, incorporated in New
York, and the "Daly Mines Ltd.,”
with a nominal capitalization, in
corporated under the laws of British
Columbia The former is the hold
ing company, ooptroling all the
stock of the latter, which was or
ganized as an operating company.
T. A. Wilson, a mining engineer
of wide experience, oame from New
York with Pat, and expects to
spend several months in the district,
fn company with Dan Lindeborg
they are leavinglfor the Big Missouri
where Mr. Wilson will make a
thorough examination with a view
to outlining a development program.
His plans in the latter respect can
not, of course, be told until after he
has gone over the property, but he
has intimated that it will bo the
polioy of the company to lose no
time in getting operations under
way. He has a preliminary know
ledge of oonditions at the Big Mis
souri through studying reports
made by other engineers and pre
vious operators.
The Big Missouri hes long been
considered one of the most promis
ing properties of the district, its
vast surface mineralization and
knewn deposits of high grade ore
leaving no doubt in the minds of
mining men who are familiar with
it, as to its ultimately becoming the
producer pf an enormous tonnage
of marketable ore. It is generally
conceded that with the application
of proper metallurgical methods,
the property will without doubt
prove to be a bonanza.
The group, which was located by
Dan and Andy Lindeborg, pioneer
prospectors of the Salmon basin,
contains about 20 claims, and even
a superficial examination of such
an area is no small undertaking.
Two good camps have been con
structed and a large amount of
preliminary development work done
which will be to the advantage of
the new operators. A considerable
amount of diamond drilling has
also been done, with, it is under
stood, satisfactory results. The
property is easy of access, being
only a short distance beyond the
Premier, and supplies and equip
ment can be taken in at any time
of the year.
For sale, house and lot, Enquire of
Hugh MacDougall.
Dry wood for sale. Blondy Charlton.
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SOLD AT THE SAME PRICES AS IN THE STATES
Developing; and Printing;
hYDER DRUG CO.
Oren Fs frltL, Prop.
Ryder, Alaska'
''THE POSTOFFICE STORE’*
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Meet me at the Mecca.
Send this paper to your friend
Ketchikan Chronicle at the Mecca.
Get your bread from Jimmy Carter.
Bob Demis went to Ketchikan Satur
day night.
The calendar says that Autumn com
mences September 23,
It is reported that the Carmen left Ket
chikan at 3 P- m. today.
Albert Wile, postmaster at Ketchikan,
spent Saturday in camp.
Eli Watland came down from the Pre
mier Saturday for a few days' rest,
R. W.Scott, of the Commonwealth crew.
i3 in Petersburg on a business trip.
Ole Olson, who has a logging contract
at the Premier, was down yesterday.
L, W Patmore, an attorney from Rupert,
was in camp during the stay of the George.
Jack Adkins, one of the Mecca propri
etors, returned Sunday from a short bus
iness trip to Rupert.
Johnny Barrett, the popular National
Grocery salesman, was in camp during
the stay of the Carmen.
Dick Johnson was down during the
week from the Premier where he is work
ing for Ole Olson at logging.
Chas. P. Hickman, of the Canadian
fisheries department arrived Sunday on
his annual tour of inspection.
Kenny McLeod is chief factotum at
Tooth.s Smoke Shop during the absence
of the owners on the outside,
Casey Williams came over on the ( ar
men for a look at his old stamping ground
and to jolly along his many friends here.
Charlie Lund, who has been working
at the Patricia on the Marmot for several
weeks, came over Saturday for a visit in
town,
Emil Davis and Eddie Holm were up
from the Commonwealth Saturday. They
are now building winter quarters on the
property.
S. G .Benson returned Sunday from
Vancouver, where he went last week with
Mrs. Henson, who is visiting there with
her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Warren have return
ed to their home In Ketchikan. Mr, War
fen has been engaged on the pile driver
at the wharf.
Bill> George and Vince Lade were In
town Saturday. They have about finish
ed assessment wofk 6n the George group
of 20 claims up Bear river.
W.RMcDonell, son of Paddy McDon
(li, arrived with his wife from Seattle
Sunday and will assist in the manage
m nt of the McDonell Hotel.
The Albert was in Wednesday with
tram equipment and mine supplies, leav
ing for the soildi in the evening with 178
tons of Premier rloncentrates,
Word has been receiver! thdt Mi. and
iis. IIiF.Gordon have now a baby boy at
their home in Maple bay, Mr, Gordon is
connected with the Canadian telegraph
service.
J.E.Kell«rman, who is interested with
his uhcles, S. P. and Jack Fitzgerald, in
inihing properties in this section, has re
turned to Seattle after spending the sum
tner here.
§ahdy Connacher returned Sunday af
ter an absence of about a yean He has
been prospecting with Tommy Herring
ton in the country between Hazelton and
Bella Coola.
Once more the ubiquitous black bear
has brought grief to a tram creW. When
Charlie Skoning’s brew went to get their
lunches last Wednesday nddn they found
a cub engaged in sorting out thfe pie and
ham sandwicheli while His mother kept
Watch. Efforts to retrieve part bf the
grub were repulsed bjr the old bear, who
okatrt soma of th« msn op *towtfi
Mrs, M. R. Jamieson and her mother,
Mrs. Henry Avison, arrived Sunday from
South Fort George. Mrs Jamieson accom
panied her son Lome to Edmonton, where
he has entered college.
Mrs. Oren F, Hill, who has been in
business in Ketchikan, arrived Saturday
and will remain in Ilyder, helping Mr.
Hill with the postoffice and thus giving
him more time to talk Kodaks.
.A crew of men is building a bridge
across the Marmot which may be finish
ed in time for the prospectors and opera
tors to come out over this fall. They have
been fording or crossing on logs all sum
mer.
Deputy Marshal J. K Green, Mr. and
Mr*. II.C.Rhough. and Mr. and Mrs. E.H.
Bartholf started up the river Monday
morning. The marshal went up to have
a look at the new Texas creek trail, and
the others are on mining business.
Homer Ficklin has finished his logging
contract at the Marmot, having put in
265,000 feet of logs for the Lawrence and
Wotkman mill, and 160 piles for the Pre
mier wharf. In addition he got out four
spruce logs 50 feet in length and scaling
9000 feet, for a new float at the wharf.
Captain and Mrs. Otto Owen of Swamp
Point were in camp Saturday night, tak
ing in the movies and Mrs. Dann's birth
day dance. They came up on the Chu
quala, towing the Anyox racing launch
"Wayward Girl,” which was sent to Ru
pert on the George and will compete in
the boat races during the fall fa!r.
Captain Janney, who came here with
the Vancouver Board of Trade excursion
and later delivered two tecturds on avia
tion in the interests of a company he was
promoting to operate a line of flying ma
chines into the Fort Norman district, is
now on a hunger strike in the Edmonton
jail. He was taken back there from
Vancouver on a charge of misappropriat
ing company funds.
"Goosie" Smith, formerly in the restau
rant business here, is in Anchorage from
Valdez creek, where he was in charge of
the commissary department for the new
organization that has taken over the old
Monahan ground and other producing pro
perties. He reports that the company
had a very successful season, but had a
shortage of supplies, which could not be
brought in over the summer trail in its
present condition.
The government trail crew game down
from Texas creek yesterday, having fin
ished the work for the season, which con
sisted of building five miles of trail be
yond the bridge across Salmon river. It is
the intention to eventually build through
to the foot of the Salmon glacier, afford*
ing a means of transportation for claim
owners of the upper Salmon basin. If
this trail should be widened to a road
over which automobiles could travel, it
would be a great attraction to tourists,
since the Salmon glacier is one of the
most easily reached in Alaska, and af
fords attractions which other glaciers of
the Territory do not possess.
FOR SALE
Bill's Boarding House, with or without
restaurant equipment.
House 24 x 24 feet, with woodshed and
some wood.
Must be sold soon in drder to settle
estate.
Enquire of Jas. Pitcher
AdmV. Wnii Hamilton Estate.
Imperial Baths. Russian steam baths 31
Nice now residence for sale. Finest
homoslte in Hydcr B. M. fiten*.
DON 'S BE A PARASITE
Paste this in your hat. II
yon are living in Hyder, no
matter what your occupation
you are dependent entirely
upoh the mining business. If
you sit back and let others
stand all the expense of adver
tising this district, if you re
fuse to part with a little of the
money you are making directly
or indirectly out of the mining
business, you are a parasite,
and have no right to look loyal
and progresfeive oitizens in the
face. From a moral stand
point it would be perfectly le
gitimate for a financial and so
cial boycott to be declared
against any firm or individual
who adopts the policy of letting
others bear the brunt of con
tributing to the general wel
fare,
SENDING SCHOOL SUPPLIES
The newly elected school board
have been busy on the school
question, keeping in communica
tion with the authorities in Juneau.
A mess re received from the Capi
tal ;>j iy in the week states that
school supplies for Hyder have
been ordered, and that desks will
be sent from the Treadwell school.
A teacher will be engaged, and the
baatd will be advised as to school
funds immediately upon the return
of L. D. Henderson, territorial
school superintendent
HOME FOR ORE EXHIBIT
M. R. Jamieson has finished an
attractive annex to the Hotel Hy
der whioh will be used for house
ing a permanent ore exhibit. The
room is 20 feet in length and six
feet wide, with windows dear
aeross one side, the opposite side
being occupied by racks for ore spe
cimens. One end of the room con
tains a glass case for the rarer and
more valuable specimens, and a
writing desk extends across the
other end. The room is beautifully
panelled with native wood effect
and the ere racks ore finished with
white enamel paint so as to give
the specimens the most attractive
display. Bob hopes to soon have
an exhibit whioh will be a credit
to the distiict and an attraction
not only te visitors but to all the
local mining men.
DEPUTY MARSHAL KILLED
Telegraphic advices from Fair
banks state that Deputy United
States Marshal J. L. Anders was
shot and killed September 9, by
Sam Cote, a Hot Springs farmer.
Later in the day Cote was slain by
a posse in a fight with Hot Springs
men. Anders came to Fairbanks
in 1909 from Dawson where he ran
a cigar store.
Mrs. JohnSon, Sanitary laundry, A street
Ask Rube Miller about house cleaning,
suit pressing, shoe shining, wood for sale,
Or leave ordefi tot Frazer and Adkins.
Modern house and two lots fot sale
very reesontw* Bnquire Ryder Drag (.<*
BOOST FOR YOURSELF
BY BOOSTING EXHIBIT
Eveiy able-bodied man in the
district is expected to dig up for
the dance to be held in Pioneer
Hall next Friday evening for the
purpose of raising funds to help
send the mineral exhibit to Chicago.
Were it not for the mines there
would be no Hyder. Every person
here, no matter what his occupation,
is getting his bread and butter out
of the mining industry, and every
thing that helps this industry helps
eaoh individual.
By boosting for the mining in
dustry, eaoh person is boosting for
his own welfare. Self preservation
te the first law of nature, and self
preservation here consists in doinef
everything possible for the promo
tion of mining.
The Chicago exposition offers the
finest possible opportunity to adver
tise the mihtral resources of the
camp, and the exhibit sent from
here should be the best the district
can pioduoe, and should he proper
ly displayed and intelligently ex
plained to the thousands who will
see it.
It takes money to acoomplish
this, and one of the easiest ways
for everyone in the camp to help
the good cause along is to hand in
a five or ten spot to the dance com
mittee.
W, 3. BARTHOLF KILLED
W.B.Bartholf, aged 44, died Sun
day from the effects of an accident
received while working at the Lucky
Shot mine in the Willow creek
quartz district. The accident hap
pened while Mr. Bartholf was work
ing his shift at the mill. In step
ping over the line shaft his left
trousers leg became entangled in
the shaft connection and his entire
left limb was badly twisted and
mutilated, and praeticallfr- severed
below the knee.
Harvey Bartholf, on the same
shift, s iw the accident and imme
diately shut off the mill and with
his ass >ciates immediately render
ed every assistance possible.
The Lucky Shot mine, of which
the deceased was a part owner and
manager, is located on the west
side of Willow creek divide, on
Craigy creek The boys made a lit
ter and started in with the injut ed
man for Fishhook Inn with the in
tention of seouring an automobile
to rush the injured man to Wasilla
where a special train had been sent
by the Alaska Ensineering Commtte
sion to bring him to Anchorage tor
medical attention. Before leavi g
it was necessary to cut off the 1
jured limb below the knee and a* o
to stop the flow of blood with a
tourniquet. When about six m l s
from the mine the injured man died
from the shook of the accident. ! fe
was conscious up to within fifteen
minutes of death and suffered i n
tense pain.
The deceased teavs a wife, is
father. B. S. Bartholf, and Ral, a
brother, besides several other ;e
relatives.—Anchorage Times.
Mr. Bartholf was well knov n
Hyder. having spent last su. 'r
in the vicinity prospecting, a t
inu interested in a number >
per ties, He was a nephew {.
Bartholf, who is operating >*
b«»rict>