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VOL 3, NO. 43
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18,1927
FIFTY CENTS A MONTH
HYDER LEAD PLANS
EXTENSIVE WORK
Extension of the present tun
nel an additional 200 feet to
further determine the ore oc
curences, is the major propos
al of the summer development
program of the Hyder Lead
Mines, Inc., according to an
announcement following the
annual meeting a few days
ago. The company, which is
in an excellent financial po
sition .also plans to run an
other tunnel later on to cut a
very promising ore body far
ther up the mountain. It is
also planned to survey the
ground during the season .pre
paratory to obtaining a patent,
A financial report covering
the season of 1926 read at the
annual meeting, disclosed de
velopment expenditures to the
amount of $15,094 last year.
Future annual meetings of
the company will be held on
the first Monday after Janu
ary 15, as a result of a decis
ion made at the last meeting.
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BOARD OF TRADE
VISITORS DUE FRIDAY
More than 100 represent
atives of the Vancouver Board
of Trade are scheduled to vis
it the district next Friday. The
visitors will arrive on the Prin
cess Alice .which has been
chartered for the occasion,
Frida ymorning and remain
throughout the day, visiting
the mines and other points ot
interest.
The program arranged by
the Stewart Board of Trade in
cludes a visit to the Pi-emiei
mine in the forenoon, a trip to
the Dunwell in the afternoon
Following the Dunwell visit,
the Stewart Board of Trade
members and the executives
of the Premier and Dunweli
mines will be the guests of the
visitors at dinner on the Prin
cess .Alice. The evening will
be devoted to a dance, at the
conclusion of which the visit
ors will leave for the south.
The visiting party will include
many prominent Vancouver
business and mining men,
among them Frank E. Wood
side .president of the B. C.
Chamber of Mines.
The Stewart Board of Trade
has extended an invitation to
the Hyder Chamber of Com
merce and Hyder citizens to
attend the dance to be tender
ed the visitors.
S. A. Knowles .manager’of
the Big Missouri, left Sunday
for Tacoma to confer with the
head officials.
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Curtis Gardner left Sunday
on a business trip to Juneau.
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B. G .Raymond, head of Com
monwealth Mining Co., arriv
ed from Seattle Saturday to in
augurate the season’s develop
ment work on the company
properties in the upper Bear
River and Cascade River sect
ions.
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Jack Fitzgerald, well known
mining man, returned last
Sunday from a vacation trip
below.
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R. M. Stewart, president of
the Dunwell Mines company,
arrived from the south Mon
day, accompanied by his.
daughter.
FOURTH PROGRAM
SHAPING UP
Preparations for the coming
Independence Day celebration
are gradually assuming defi
nite shape under the direction
of the committees named at
the recent meeting .Although
no definite announcements can
be made at this time, it is
practically certain the cele
bration will be the most elab
orate so far held here.
The personnell of the vari
ous sub-committees was com
pleted this week with the nam
ing of the following commit
teemen by their chairmen:
Finance: Holger Johnson,
chairman; E. D. Haddon, N.
M. Traversy.
Decorations: Merl F. Thomas,
chairman; Edgar Provinse,
Hubert Thomas, Frank Reich
enbach, Chas. Barbee, O. F.
Hill, Jens Pederson, Ben Oien,
E. E. Charlton.
Parade: T. W. McDonald,
chairman; Donald Martin, D.
J. Mulcare, Hubert Thomas.
Sports: W. C. Blanton, chair
man; Sidney Anderson ,Chet.
Larson, H. C. Buckmier, F.
Cooper.
The entertainment commit
tee, of which Clyde Hager is
chairman ,has not been report
ed.
The general committee has
decided to offer a prize of
$100 for the baseball contest.
Another $100 will be awarded
as prizes in connection with
the parade, the first prize to
be $50, second $30, third $20.
Prizes for the various sports
will total $200.
RIVER AGAIN THREATENS
SERIOUS DAMAGE
Salmon River went on an
other rampage last week and
not only threatened to cut its
way through the townsite near
the Me Grew barns but also
changed its course below the
3awmill and threatens heavy
damage to the Salmon River
Dock Co. dock. The vagrant
current is now running direct
ly under the dock and has al
ready washed out a number
of piles, permitting the struct
ure to settle over a large area.
Although no appreciable
damage was done to property
in the townsite, the river
threatened to break through in
a couple of spots and was pre
vented from doing so only by
the timely efforts of a crew of
men employed by the Hyder
Townsite & Improvement Co.,
assisted by property owners of
che locality and others who
generously volunteered their
services. With Wm. McGrew
in charge of operations, con
siderable rip-rap work was
done before the danger was
averted.
Beginning with the present
issue, the Herald will appear
hereafter on Saturday evening.
\dvertisers will kindly present
changes not later than Wed
nesday evening, to secure in
sertion in Current issue.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Kring,
ormer residents of Valdez, ar
ived from States Saturday
ind contemplate spending
•ome time in the district. The
:ouple recently visited the
nuch heralded Weepah strike
>ut decided to return to Alas
ka.
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Mrs. R. C. Gregg returned
Wednesday from a week’s vis
1 it in Ketchikan.
DETAILS OF NEW
BUSH CONSOLIDATION
Details of the new consolidat
ion of local mining interests
known as the Bush Consoli
dated Gold Mines are contain
ed in a circular letter to the
press, giving the following
data:
The new company possesses
a capitalization of 6,000,000
fifty cent shares; owns 64
claims, of about 3,500 acres,
part in Alaska and part in
British Columbia. The incor
poration embraces holdings of
the former Bush Mines, Ltd.,
and other holdings acquii’ed
by the president, O. B. Bush,
aggregating 22 claims; the
holdings of the Gold Cliff Pre
mier Mining Co., embracing 28
claims lying southwest of the
Premier in Alaska, and the
properties of the Extenuate
Gold Mines, Ltd., totaling 11
claims north of and adjoining
the National Silver. The con
solidation of interests also car
ries with it, a stock interest
amounting to 212,500 shares,
a one-fourth interest, in the
Georgia River Gold Mines,
Ltd., with an aggregate of 28
claims in the Georgia River
section and also the Gold Coin
Group of 150 acres in the
same section. The consolidat
ion represents one of the larg
est groups of properties in the
! district.
Associated in the enterprise
with O. B. Bush, who is presi
dent, are prominent Toronto,
New York and Vancouver in
terests. Geo. R. Bancroft and
B. W. W- MacDougall, well
known mining engineers, have
been retained to organize and
carry out the company’s op
erations, which will include
an extensive diamond drilling
campaign.
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STEWART COUPLE WED
Miss Estelle Magar, and Mr.
James Comer, well known
Stewart young people, were
united in the matrimonial bond
by U. S. States Commissioner
T. W. McDonald at the Com
missioner’s office Tuesday ev
ening. The ceremony was wit
nessed by Miss Mary Mutas
and Hugh McDonald and was
a complete surprise to the
many friends of the contract
ing parties.
The bride has resided in the
district during the past three
years and held the position of
stenographer in the Mining Re
corder’s office in Stewart dur
ing the summer periods. She
is a young lady of charming
personality and affable dispo
sition and a great favorite. Mr.
Comer, who is known to nearly
everyone in camp as “Jimmy,”
is engaged in the taxi business
and has resided in Stewart for
a long period.
CLOSED SEASON
ON BLACK BEAR
Although the fact appears to
be unknown to some, there is
a closed season for black bear
in Alaska. Regulation 19 of
the Alaska Game Regulations
provides that black bear, in
i eluding its brown and blue
! (glacier bear) color variations,
may not be legally killed be
! tween May 31st and October
1st.
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Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill, of
I Tacoma, arrived Saturday, to
I visit Mrs. Hill’s sister, Mrs. J.
i L. Campbell.
TERR. LEGISLATURE’S
ENDORSEMENT OF
PEACE RIVER R. R.
Following is the text of the
resolution passed by the last
Territorial Legislature endors
ing the Peace River-Stewart
Hyder railroad project. The
resolution, known as House
Concurrent Resolution No. 5,
was introduced by Represent
ative Win. L. Paul, of Ketchi
kan :
WHEREAS, the Great Peace
River District, being the North
ern part of the Province of Al
berta and the North Eastern
part of the Province of Brit
ish Columbia', Dominion of
Canada, contains in excess of
eight million acres of agri
cultural land, and
WHEREAS, the inhabitants
of this vast domain have join
ed with the citizens of North
ern British Columbia in an en
deavor to bring about the con
struction of a railroad from
the end of the main line of
the Edmonton Dunvegan &
British Columbia Railroad at
Spirit River, Alberta to the
Pacific Coast, and
WHEREAS, the town of Stew
art, British Columbia .Canada,
is situated at the head of Port
land Canal and on the Bound
ary Line between Alaska and
British Columbia, and is con
nected to the Peace River Dis
trict by easy passes through
a semi-mountainous country
which presents no difficult en
gineering problems, (the en
gineer’s estimates on complet
ing and equipping the road be
ing $31,000,000.00), and
WHEREAS, it is accepted by
the Government of the Domin
ion of Canada that the eco
nomic and industrial condit
ions of the Peace River Coun
try make it imperative that
such definite action be taken
in the immediate future as
will provide transportation for
the products of the district to
the Pacific Coast and the mar
kets of the world, and
WHEREAS, the Premier of
Canada has heretofore stated
that a railway outlet for the
Peace River District to the Pa- j
cific Coast will be constructed j
as soon as humanly possible,
and,
WHEREAS, the matter is
now being discussed in the Do
minion Parliament at Ottawa,
and •
WHEREAS, the Honorable j
Charles Stewart, Minister of i
the Interior, Dominion of Can
ada, in a speech on the floor
of the House of Commons, in
Ottawa on February 14th,
1927, gave his unqualified in
dorsement to the construction j
of the Railroad over the Stew-!
art British Columbia Route,!
and
WHEREAS in the event the
road is built over the Stewart j
Route the rail head will be at
the Stewart waterfront, which
is separated from the water
front of Hyder, Alaska, by
the International Boundary
Line, a strip 120 feet wide, and
WHEREAS the town of Hy
der, Alaska, has an available,
accessible water-front one and
one-half miles in extent, and
WHEREAS we believe that a
transcontinental railroad with
! its eastern terminus in Minne
; apolis and St. Paul, or Duluth,
and its western terminus in
; Alaska will bring about a new
■ era in the development of this
' great empire, by providing an
TO WORK ON
LAST CHANCE GROUP
H. A. Hallum, head of the
Seattle Oxygen Co., and owner
of the Last Chance Group, ar
rived from the south Saturday
accompanied by his son, to in
augurate this year’s develop
ment work, on the Last
Chance. The property adjoins
the well known Cantu group
on the east and is on the Can
adian side of the boundary
line.
Mr. Hallum brought in a
large quantity of supplies and
equipment and plans to do con
siderable development work
during the season, in addition
to building a permanent camp.
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NEW C. N. R.
BOAT SCHEDULE
The summer schedule of the
C. N. R. boats was inaugurat
ed with the arrival of the
Prince George Saturday morn
ing. Until later in the year the
Prince George and Prince Ru
pert will alternate on the
weekly run between Vancouv
er and Stewart, arriving here
at 7 a. m. and leaving at 9 a. m.
Saturday morning. The Prince
Charles will also make a week
ly trip, arriving on Tuesday at
8 a. m. and leaving at noon.
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The palatial steam yacht,
Oaxaco (pronounced Wahaco)
owned by Capt. G. A. Han
cock, Los Angeles millionaire,
arrived in port from the south
Thursday evening to com
mence a short pleasure cruise
in Canadian waters. Including
Capt. Hancock, the vessel
which is rated at 914 tons, net,
carried a party of 12 persons.
The principal object of the lo
cal call was a visit to the Pre
mier mine, to which the visit
ors repaired following their
arrival.
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S. Hamilton, of the Premier
office staff, left for the south
Saturday.
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Mrs. Hughes .wife of Fred J.
Hughes .supervising engineer
for the Bureau of Public Roads
on the Salmon River road ex
tension, arrived from the
south Saturday, accompanied
by her two sons.
other solution of the transport
ation problem, and greatly as
sisting the upbuilding and
prosperity of the Portland
Canal Mining District and
Alaska as a whole;
THEREFORE, be it resolved
by the Legislature of the Ter
ritory of Alaska, in Eighth
Regular Session assembled,
That we give our unqualified
indorsement to the construct
ion of a transcontinental rail
road with its Western termi
nus in Hyder, Alaska, and
pledge our moral support to all
those who are endeavoring to
bring about the realization of
such project, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLV
ED, that a copy of this Reso
rution be sent to the Council
of Hyder ,Alaska.
Passed the House May 3, 1927.
SUMNER S. SMITH
Speaker of the House.
ATTEST:
CASH COLE
Clerk of the House.
Passed the Senate May 4,1927.
BARTLEY HOWARD
President of the Senate.
ATTEST:
RUTH REAT
Secretary of the Senate.
MAY EXPORTS BEAT 1926.
Alaska exports during the
month of May exceeded by
more than a half-million dol
lars those of the same month
last year, when total exports
of $1,220,253 were reported.
Following is the statement for
last month:
Animals.$ 100
Curios. 1,575
Fish:
Fresh & frozen ex
cept shell-fish)
Halibut. 129,231
Salmon. 41,164
All other. 1,723
Canned (except shell
fish)
Salmon. 355,062
Cured or preserved
except shell.)
Cod. 6,574
Herring. 129
Salmon. . 48,050
Shell-fish
Clams. 21,603
Crabs. 2,880
Shrimps. 16,405
Other Fish Products
Oil. 270
Furs and Fur Skins:
Blue Fox. 7,634
Silver or black fox.... 4,465
Red Fox. 12,710
White Fox. 375
Mink. 14,480
Muskrat. 5,763
Seal. 700
All other. 29,637
Manufactured furs.. 435
Ore, matte and reg
ulus:
Copper. 845,191
Lead. 12,450
Stone, including
marble. 23,812
Wood: Timber and
Lumber. 23,025
All other articles.... 1,425
Total value of pro
ducts of Alaska.$1,606,868
Products of United
States returned. 138,464
Total value of ship
ments of merchan
dise. $1,745,332
Items included in
“All Other Articles”
395 lbs. Mohair. $ 237
808 lbs. Wool. 288
j 5 Paintings. 900
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Total $1,425
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| The Salmon River road will
! be closed to traffic at Fish
; Creek from 6 p .m. Saturday
! June 18 to the following Mon
day forenoon, according to
notices issued by Fred J.
Hughes of the Bureau of Pub
lic Roads. The stopping of
traffic is necessitated by blast
ing operations on the new
road at that point.
j A raft of saw logs contain
i ing 400,000 feet of timber ar
: rived Thursday evening from
I the Ketchikan district, con
I signed to the Hyder Lumber
; Co. The raft was towed over
! by the tug Meteor.
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| A ball team composed of
players from the Riverside
mine crew and the Johnson
Gardner road crew, crossed
bats with the Hyder ball team
Tuesday evening and gave
the locals a trimming to the
tune of 11 to 7.
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J. B. Watson, president of
the Woodbine Mining Co., ar
rived from the south Monday
evening, accompanied by his
daughter, Doris, and G. R.
Jameson, mine engineer. , -.