TV Salmon River District ia
MiVt-elousiyKirh in Minerals,
and Hydei ia the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hjdf'r is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
This Paper ia Out to Publish a I'
the Mining: News. Keep. Your,
Friends Posted by Sending them
the Paper after You Have Read
it. Boost for Hyder all the.
Time.
VOL. 8. NO. 13.
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HYDER, Alaska, Mar. 8. 1922
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FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
OF
NO SOLUTION
DOCK PROBLEM
IS FOUND YET
T.vo questions of importance to
the community formed the princi
pal base for discussion at the meet
ing of the Hyder Commercial Asso
ciation last Tharsday night—the
dock situation and a health officer,
and Ex-senator John Ronan, who
was sent from here ar a represnta
tive to the American Mining Con
gress in Chicago gave an interest
ing and instructive talk as to his
experience there and impressions
gained while in the east.
The dock situation was gone into
as thoroughly as possible with the
information at hand on that date
W. L. Balch, who has assumed the
interests of Captains Ed Williams
and A1 Clary in the project, told of
the anvancement thus far made
and negotiations with government
bureaus. No satisfaction has yet
been obtained as to the willingness
of the government to build, or as
sist in building, the approach in
spite of the estimates issued a short
time ago from Juneau which in
cluded this item.
i’he promters have been in com
munication with Col. Steese and
Delegate Sutherland in Washington
and the former wired that lie had
sent to Juneau for the plans and
tiiat a permit would issue as soon
as the eustomary red tape could be
unwound.
The road and forestry officials,
C.W. Cheatham and Chas. H. Flory,
apparently, could be looked to for
no hel|: unless the dock is placed
at the foot of Premier Avenue, and
private interes's will not build a
d >ck there because of ti e prohibi
tive cost and long distance from
tiie main business section of the
to vn. The logical place for a dock
is at the fool of Main street, where
deep water'can be reached by buil
ding 1000 feet beyond the end of
the present planking.
A dock, Mr. Bab b said, might be
expected to pay a reasonable inter
est on tiie cost of construction, but
not on both the cost of the dock
. and approach.
A committee consisting of J. K.
Green, Walter Blanton and II. fi.
Howard was appointed to trk- up
with the business men of the town
tiie m itter of building the approach.
Dr. W. D’Arcy Chace dilated upon
tiie necessity of a health officer
here. The application made by
r.e executive committee to the
territorial Board had been turned
down, but because of Hvder’s loca
tion on the intern a tint ai boundary
there is a possibility that the ^Fed
eral authorities may appoint a
health officer here. The executive
committee was instructed to take
the natter up with Washington,
JOHN T, REED
VICTIM OF FLU
IN SEATTLE
John T. Reed, Hyder’s first U. S.
Commissioner, who served from
April 1 1920 until he was succeeded
by John W. Frame Dec. 1, 1921,
died in Seattle Feb. 24 and was
buried in that city the following
day.
The news was brought to Hyder
by Ex-ssnator John Ronan on his
return from the east last Thursday.
Mr. Ronan was with Mr. Reed in
Seattle daily for a week er more
before his death, and when the
latter contract«d a severe case of
the flu and was taken to a hospi
tal, Mr. Ronan telephoned frequent
ly to ascertain his condition, and
each time was informed, even on
the morning of the day he died,
that Mr Reed was progressing nicely.
Death, therefore, was sudden and
unexpected.
John T. Reed was born in St.
John, New Brunswick, October 29,
1855. He joined the big rush to
Dawson in 1898, and in 1900 went j
to Nome, where he resided until
1910. Three years later he return
ed to Alaska. settling in Juneau
w here he was connected with the
district court until his appointment
as commissioner for Hyder. On i
leaving here it was his intention to
first take a vacation in the south
and then return to Ketchikan and
open a law office.
Mr Reed was a member of Igloo
No. 20, Pioneers of Alaska, in Hy
der, the Arctic Brotherhood, Ju
neau lodge of Elks, No. 420, Mt.
Juneau lodge No. 147, F. & A. M.
and the Eastern Star Chapter No. 7.
He is survived by a wife a..A two
sons, who live in Boston.
“AS A MAN THINKS"
NEXT MOVIE ATISaOT ON
Why does society punish a faith
| less wife tno.se severely than a
faithless husband? This perplex
ing question of the double standard
of morality is discussed and ans
I wei ed in Augustus Thomas’ fam
ous American success, '‘A» a Man
thinks," starring Leah- Baird, which
will be shown at the moving pic
ture theatre next Saturday night.
BfiAW YOUR OWN
CONCLUSIONS
j
A dispatch from St. Catherines,
Ont., says that nearly one handred
' and twenty-eight thousand Ameri
can autos passed the Niagara bor-*
der into Canada last year and it is
said that totfrists spent fifty-seven
million dollars in Canada.
For Rent--Business lot on Interna
tional Avenne, Lindeborg Addition, $10
a*month or will arrange terms, Addrew
IWrOare Miner, /
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to be
E’ound elsewhere try ,
The Midget Emporium.
Meet me at the North Star.
Send this paper to your friend
Ketchikan Chronicle at the North Star
Charlie Lund eame over from the Mar
mot river Monday.
Stewart is just as close to Hyder now
as it was a year ago.
Joseph Flanagan of Tacoma arrived in
C imp on the Kupert.
Mickey Nash came down early in the
week from the Premier.
C. Paris, a coal miner from Pennsyl
vania, arrived on the Carmen Saturday.
Hugh McDonald, an oldtimer of the
Cimp. returned Thursday from the Out
8 de.
Jack Young has sold his cruiser, built
in Hyder by Dr. Hawes, to Nick ( hrist
evich. >
Bill Duff, who is operating a shoemak
ing shop at Eleven-mile, was in town
Monday.
Bob Cameron and Jim Daly of the Fish
Creek Mining Company's crew, came to
town Sunday.
P. C. Beaudreau is working with II. F.
Gordon and J. R. lirown on the I)omin.
ion telegraph line.
The jail is to be moved from the piling
onto the Lindeborg addition. Quite an
appropriate move.
H. E. Moore of Rupert, manager for
P. Burns & Co., was in camp during the
stay of the s. s. Rupert.
Jim Macintosh and Hill Watson are
cutting 200 cords of wood under contract
for the Crawford Transfer.
R. C. Jeffery, former owner of the Nor
thern Pool Hall, left Monday for Seattle
to make an indefinite stay.
Jack Sutherland returned Saturday
from Ketchikan. His case is set over
until the May term of court.
Jas. S. Pitcher, president of the Hvder
igloo of Pioneers, returned Saturday from
i
a visit of several weeks Outside.
Wm. Gray and Pete Wilson of the Hy-I
der Lumber Company returned Thursday j
from a visit of several weeks in Seattle.
A. J. Cofiey, a millwright formerly |
with the Alaska Gastineau company at;
Juneau, arrived Saturday on the Carmen, j
The Carmen arrived from Ketchikan |
Saturday evening with eieht passengers
and left on the return trip Monday eve
ning.
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It is reported that Capt. .las. Anderson
has purchased a 52-foot launch in Seattle
and is now on his way here with the
new craft.
Hyder folks are wishing that the de
’ partment in charge of installing the Stew
i art wireless station would hurry op and
! install it.
According to word from Vancouver,
‘Eddie Hamilton, proprietor of the Stew
art Hotel in 1920, intends returning north
this spring.
The fare to Rupert on the G.T.P. boats
has been out from $12.50 to $10.00. tn
1912 it was $2 when applied on a through
| ticket to Vancouver.
| Chas. Knipple, a pioneSf mining man
| of Hyder, and now one of the leading
| business lights of Stewart, honored the
camp with a visit Monday.
T. W. McDonald, Hyder’s new deputy
| marsfia'f, returned Saturday ffom Ketchi
kan with bis wife and son aftd feaS enter
ed upon his term of office here.
A. H. Wilson, the ‘'cat doctor” whtf
keeps the rheumatism away from the
joints of the Premier caterpillars, i# bdcft
on »ha job after * tri* QotsMe;
W. D. Wallace, who packed for the
Alaska Engineering Commission during
construction of the Alaska railroad, ar
rived in camp Saturday from Anchorage.
D. W. McLaman, one of the pioneer
contracting carpenters of the camp, re
turned Thursday on the Rupert from
Vancouver, where he underwent an op
eration. *.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Newell of Stewart
returned on the Rupert from a trip to
Vancouver. While there Mr. Newell fol
lowed the fashion by developing a full
sized case of the flu.
C. A. McKenzie, principal owner of
the M. C. group, was in camp during the
stay of the Rupert, coming up from Vic
toria on business. Mr. McKenzie intends
doing considerable work on the M. C. this
season.
The Grand Trunk steamer Prince Ru
pert arrived at*6 a. m Thursday with 30
passengers and 90 tons of freight, includ
ing a large shipment of hay and oats.
The steamer left for the south by way of
Anyox at 2 p. m.
A letter from Hob Keith says that
Silas P. Silverman, son of Sam Silver
man and president of the Tidewater Min
ing company, stated in Vancouver that
a wagon road would be built to the Forty
Nine mine this year.
Byron C. Riblet, president of the Rib
let Tramway Co. of Spokane, who built
the Premier tram, arrived on the Rupert
and has been spending the week inspect
ing the work with T. If. Graham, superin
tendent of construction.
Stampede John writes from The Pas,
Manitoba, that he was waiting for the
weather to moderate before going into the
new mining district 110 miles further
north. At that time (Feb. 22) it was 45
balow zero and growing colder.
Emil Ilavfi. Wm. Nepsted and George
Rockland came up Saturday from th«
Commonwealth where they have been
driving a tunnel on the big showing. The
tunnel is now 27 feet under cover-with
ore all the way, and there is no apparent
change in the quality. Quite an appre
ciable amount of molybdenite occurs in
the ore.
Owing to a break down of the engine
that operates the Alaskan Hotel electric
plant, there was no moving picture show
Saturday nisht. The pictures advertised
were run the next night however, and
will be shown again tonight (Wednesday)
j for the benefit of the Stewart contingent
[ who came over and were disappointed.
I Admission free, everybody Welcome,
Before the next high water comes and
the anticipated movement of real estate
out into the canal commences, there may
: be a lot cf property transfers in the Lin
deborg addition. People who have hung
j onto lots there for years in the hope that
i the Hycer townsite and "Improvement"
; company would make some improvement
are tryinti now to sacrifice and are hop
j ing that in the expected influx of stran
| gers this spring there will be some suck^
| ers on whom they ean unload.
i f-‘-“-“-““
HYBSi TRANSFER STAGE
FOR 13-MILE
i
Leaves Salmon River Store
i Monday Wednesday Saturday
AT 10 A. M.
V - TT.pr -j fr»riTi~--n linnri -rTtirv,./
HYDER MINERAL EXHIBIT
DREW MOST ATTENTION
JohnRonan, who went with Hy
der’s ore exhibit to the American
Mining Congress in Chicago, and
arrived home last Thursday, says
that in spite of the apathy shown
by Chicago people in the proceed
ings and disposition on the part of
the local papers to give no public
ity, the convention was a "huge
success, all the mining states, as
well as Canada and Mexico, send
ing fine exhibits, though that sent
from Alaska attracted the greatest
attention and created the most
comment. The Hyder exhibit was
given particular notice by mining
men, who fecognized at once that
it was an exhibit of commercial
ore# as actually mined rather than
a collection of picked specimens.
Mr. Ronan says that Outside
mining men know very little about
the Premier, it being the policy of
the Guggenheims here, as well as
every other place they operate, to
cast a mantle of mysterious secre
cy over their doings.
SINKING PUMP HERE
FOR FISH GREEK GO.
A sinking pump arrive i on the
Rupert for the Fish Creek Mining
Co. and is being installed in the
winze near the end of the crosscut
tunnel on the upper lead, which is
now down about 30 feet. During
the cold weather this winter the
winze was comparatively dry, but
with the spring break-up the pump
will be needed. Superintendent
Tanner intends continuing the
winze, which has been in good slop
ing ore all the way, as far down
as present sinking facilities will
permit.
SILVERADO RETURNS !
MOST SATISFACTORY
According to information from
Seattle the smelter returns from
the first shipment of Silverado ore
were exceedingly gratifying to the
operators, J. J. Coughlan and Capt.
James Anderson. Two grades of
ore were shipped, and the first
grade is reported to have yielded
3475 a ton and the second grade
$210,
ORE SHIPMENTS
The freighter Anyox last Sunday
! loaded 650 tons of Premier high
grade ore at the terminal bunkers
and cleared for the Tacoma smelter.
The Granby company’s tug Tar
tar was in Saturday and took out
a barge with 500 tons of Premier
second grade ore worth about $50
a ton.
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Laundry work done right and promptly
delivered. Tub and shower baths, new;
! modern, strictly up to date. Jim Johnson.
Shoe shine stand, Alaskan Hotel, Rube
Miller. Leave orders for laundry.
Don’t go home hungry. Get a lur.eh at
the Ocean Vtfw;
THE “HYDER SILVER DOLLAR”
The “Silver Dollar,” a seven-col
umn, four-page publication resem
bling a newspaper, published in
Ketchikan and prepared in Hyder
by Commissioner Frame and Jack
Sutherland, has made its appear
ance, being brought to town by the
Carmen Saturday.
Mechanically the "Silver Dollar”
is a credit to the Ketchikan Chron
icle, who did the printing.
Editorially, it is well written, as
was to have been expected with
the facile typewriter of that vet
eran master of the English lan- j
guage, John W. Frame, clickingout j
the rythmic phrases.
From a news standpoint it is aI
paradox—full of fact and fancy, of I
valuable information and glaring|
exaggeration. Here is an agglom
eration of truth and fiction that
causes the reader acquainted with|
conditions here to gasp.
Do you wish to haye your merj
cenary instinct excited? Do yot;
wish to be hypnotized into the del
lusion that there is a get-rich-quicl
road starting from Hyder to a foij
tune easily reached without partic
uhir effort or previous experience
You may have the wish gratifie
by reading the alleged news co
umns of the “Silver Dollar.” DaJ
zling statements, cunningly tucka
into a number of the "articles” ca|
not help but ha\e the same eff^
upon an unthinking mind as
fresh shot of dope on u hop-head.|
The follow ing is an example:
“Atl you have ti do in the
Hyder district is to get yc
a ‘raw-hide’ and go to work|
The ore i s i rich in many
places that you can carry i|
down in baskets and makl
inone'."
This s unds iihe the “mount]
of gol i" story that caused the stj
pede to Stewart in 1910, with
ormous financial loss, and res
ing in the district receiving a b|
eve from which it has not . t
recovered. Unfortunately T.ertl
nears to be no criminal law to
tect the public from the el ect]
such wild and misleading ; wbl|
statements.
Of course, where fact and fi|
are so intimately blended, ct]
dictions must be expected,
pare the following:
From the news columns:
“When you reach Hyder
can step into a Cadilac and
at the Premier in haif an
and see for yourself, the
est gold and silver mine in|
the northland.”
From the editorial columnl
“True, you can’t exatninj
ore in the Premier, becaus
one is permitted to enter,|
you can see the ore afte
comes out. ThaPs end
You dont need to assa|
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