'tie Salmon Wrtr District is
Marvelously Rich in Minerals
and Hydet in the Gateway
Consequence of \\hich Hjder
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
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HYDER
MINER
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VOL. 3,
NO. 31.
HYDER, Aluk*. 'July 12. 1922
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FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Wonder Mine
Premier Pays
Third Dividend
.lane 29 the Premier Gold Min
ing Company distributed a divi
dend of 15 eents a share, amount
ing to $750,000. This is the third
dividend in the company’s history.
The first was for $400,000, and was
declared at the end of 1921. The
second was for $500,000, for the
first quarter of 1922. The total to
date is thus $1,650,000. This in
formation is obtained from Mining
and Engineering Journal-Press of
New York and is authentic.
Mining Truth of Spokane, which
obtained advance information that
the dividend would be $800,000,
says that this is the most sensa
tional dividend record in years, not
in the Pacific northwest alone, but
covering the country as a whole.
Continuing Mining Truth says:
"Nor is this all. Information from
the same sources is to the effect
that another $800,000 distribution
will be made in September next,
bringing the total for three-quarters
of a year up to $2,500,000, or ex
actly half of the Premier Gold Min
ing Company's capitalization of
5,000,000 shares of a par value of
one dollar.
When it 13 considered that it was
only about six years ago that R. K.
Neill of this city took hold of the
property, then a doubtful prospect,
and that it was not until after the
month of October 1919, that the
Premier Co. came into corporate
e;.srence, the achievement be
comes all the more astonishing.
Following the deal by which
N ‘.11, Trites, Wood and Wilson be
en ne associated with New York
interests, represented by the Am
erican Smelting &. Refining Com
pany, Isaac Untermeyer, Guggen
heim Bros., and Minor C. Keith in
the Premier Company, much addi
tional development has been ac
complished, an aerial tramway, 11
1-2 nnles in length Constructed, a
combination concentrating, flota
tion and cyanide mill erected and
put in operation, together vi uh the
thousand and and one incidentals
in construction and other details
of a large mining enterprise, all
within less than three years, gives
the whole performance the outstand
ing position in mining developments
of the past decade.
Added to these considerations is
the fact that the location of the
mine is in an extremely ragged
country, where seasonal climatic
conditions are by no menus favor
able to quick action, thus adding
(a the lustre of the achievement, j
Stock in the company is held
closely among the parties or cor
porations previously mentioned.
The Premier Company is a Canad
ian corporation. First-class ore
goes to the American Smelting &.
Refining Company's smelter at Ta
coma; second olass material to the
Granby smelter at Anyox B. C., and I
1 the lower grade material is milled.
Values are In gold and silver.
Management is lodged with the A.
S. & R. Co., with H. A. Guess, of
New York, as vice-president and
managing director. Dale L. Pitt
[is plant manager.”
ALASKA PREMIER
DEMANDS TIME
OF HARRY TANNER
Harry Tanner has resigned as
superintendent of the Fish Creek
Mining Company in order that he
may devote his entire time to the
development of the Alaska Premier,
| owned by the Alaska Premier Min
ing Company, which he organized,
and in which strong financial in
terests of New York and Seattle
are associated.
The Alaska Premier group con
sists of 17 claims lying between
and adjoining the Daly Alaska ang
the Stoner group, the latter of
which was recently bonded by the
Federal Mining and Smelting Co.,
a Guggunheim corporation. The
property carries an immense sur
face mineralization, with bodies of
sulphide ore identical with those
contained in the Premier mine,
which is only a short distance away.
Development work has been carried
on for several months under the
ioremanship of Wm. McGrew one
of the original locators, a large
amount of stripping and surface
cutting being done. A tunnel is
now being driven and the full face
is in ore of good grade. The prop
erty is being surveyed for the pur
pose of obtaining a patent.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the matter of the estate
of Henry Bibinger, deceased.
Notice is hereby given, by the under
signed administrator of the estate of
Henry Bibinger, to ail persons hav
ing claims against said estate, to file’
within thirty days from the date hereof
with the United States Commissioner in
the town of Ilyder Alaska, ail such claims:
with the proper vouchers.
Hyder Alaska, July 7th, 1922.
Edwin Evans.
First publication July 12, 1922.
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PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn’t to be
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
Meet me at the North Star.
Send this paper to your friend
Ketchikan Chronicle at the North Star
Mr.and Mrs. H. C. Comer and son Jack
returned on the Prince Kupert from Van
couver. i
A dance will be given by the Stewart
Citizens Association in the Stewart Hotel.
July 28.
H, L. Batten, superintendent of the
B. C- Silver, returned Sunday from Van
couver.
Harry Hicks has purchased the “light
house" building and intends moving it to
Hyder B. 0.
Pat Watkins, an oldtimer of the camp,
has returned after spending the winter
in Arizona.
P. R. Backus. United States mineral
surveyor, is surveying the Alaska Pre
mier group for patent.
W. S. Sullivan has erected a store buil
ding at the intersection of Premier, Ne
vada and International Ave.
Dave Allen, who was injured in the
football game on July 1, has gone to Hu
pert to have his knee examined.
C. A. Mackenzie left on the Prince Ru
pert for Vancouver and Victoria, with
the expectation of returning in two weeks
Dr and Mrs. Bayfield left for the south
on the Prince Rupert, the Doctor having
resigned as resident physician at Premier
Alex Gallagher, who broke his left leg
1 about two weeks ago for the second tiraeT
has returned home from the Stewart hos
pital.
R. W. Wood, president of the Premier
Gold Mining Company, arrived Sunday
for one of his periodical visits to the
mine.
Mrs. Bunting, Mrs. Frazer and Mrs.
Giantz picknicked this week at the Vir
ginia group, which Win. Hunting is de
veloping.
Artiiur G, Hill, representing the Amer
ican Steel Products Co, of New York, left
o 1 the Prince Rupert after spending two
weeks in camp.
Joe Fall, superintendent in 1920 of the
Hercules, died recently in Victoria. While
hire he made many friends who will re
gret to learn of his passing.
Jim Johnson, proprietor of Johnson's
bath house and laundry, left Sunday for
Rupert to have an operation performed
Hj is accompanied by bis wife.
The N'arada, a 90-foot power boat own
ed by the Hume Packing Co. of Ketchi
kan, was in port most of the week, being
brought over by Capt. J. S. Hume.
Fire, which broke out Sunday morning
on the roof of R. L. Clothier's residence
in Stewart, was extinguished by Mrs.
Clothier before the fire brigade arrived.
Lome Jamieson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. R. Jamieson, retured Sunday from
Edmonton where he is attending college,
and will spend the summer vacation here
G. A. Wilson, district manager for the
Canadian Explosives, left on the Prince
Rupert for Vancouver, after spending a
week in camp interviewing mining oper
ators.
Edgar Provence has opened his new
store adjoining Lawrence's jewelry estab
lishment, with fruits and groceries. His
stock of general merchandise has not yet
all arrived.
Capt. C. H. Nicholson of Vancouver
and R. Beaumont of Rupert, execiutves
of the Grand Trunk steamship system,
were in port during the stay of the Prince
Rupert They were accompanied(by their
wW*f- I
Theodore Carlson of Munro, Wash,, who
is interested with Hugh B. McGuire in the
j Vancouver group and other properties of
the district, arrived Sunday to look over
their holdings.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jancowski returned
from the south on the Prince Rupert.
Mr. Jancowski, who was gassed in
France, spent the winter at tho Tran
quille sanitarium.
Dennis Dwyer, who spent the winter
in Mayo, returned Sunday. ' He has
property on the Marmot and believes that
this camp holds greater prospects for
success than the widely advertised far
northern camp.
Murdock McLeod, one of the oldtime
miners of the camp, who left here last
winter, was killed recently in Nanaimo.
McLeod was of a retiring and quiet dis
position, but very popular with all his
acquaintences here.
The Prince Rupert brought in more
than 100 passengers last Sunday, includ
ing a number of tourists, B. (' govern
ment officials, and officials of the Grand
Trunk system, as well as local residents
who had been outside.
The Chilliwack and Amur arrived this
week with cat goes of lumber for the Pre
mier, to be used principally in building
residences. The Amur took away a full
cargo, 800 tons, of Premier high-grade ore
for the Tacoma smelter.
Jack Littlepage, engineer for Carl
Strong of Ketchikan, who has a bond on
the Riverside group, arrived on the Car
men and is now at the property. He is
accompanied by M; 1). Ickis, who is as
sociated with Lindeborg Bros, id the own
ership of the property, and has been in
i Ketchikan all winter.
; William Sulzer, former governor of
j New York and a brother of the late Chas
Sulzer, who was elected Delegate toCon
gress from Alaska six years ago, will be
I here next month on mining business. lie
1 is president of the company operating
1 the Jumbo mine on the west coast of
| Prince of Wales island
Dan Davis is a happy man. Mrs
Davis and their daughter Mary arrived
j from South Bend, Indiana, last Sunday
; for an extended visit and Mrs. Throck
l martin, of Franklin, Indiana, Mrs. Davis'
! Sister, is also here. Mrs. Throckmartin
! is making her first visit and Mrs. and
j Miss Davis have not been here since the
i summer of 1919.
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NOTICE TO C liEDITORS
, In the matter of the estate
' of Ira Evans, deceased.
1 Notice is hereby given, by the under
signed administrator of the estate of Ira
Evans, to all persons having claims
against said estate, to file within thirty
days from the date hereof with the
United States Commissioner in the town
of Ilyder Alaska, all such claims with
the proper vouchers.
Hyder Alaska, July 7th, 192?.
■ Harry Hummed.
First publication July 12, 1922.
Last publication August 2, 1922.
i NOTICE OF SEIZURE ANI) SALE
Office of Collector of Customs. Juneau,
I Alaska, June 16, 1922.
Notice is hereby given that sale at
! Public auction to the highest bidder for
, cash will be held on August 2, 1922, at
10 o'clock a. m., at the Custom-House,
Hyder, Alaska, covering one (1) piano,
imported via highway July 1921; this
merchandise having been seized and
forfeited to the Government of the
United !-tales.
John C. McBride,
Collector of Customs.
First publication June 28, 1922.
Last publication July 13, 1922,
MAURICE D. LEEHEY
SAYS HYDER WILL
BE ANOTHER BUTTE
Maurice D. Leehey, mining law
yer of Seattle, who spent two weeks
here recently on business for the
Daly Alaska Mines Company, was
1 askeil on the eve of his departure
, for the south, for his impressions.
Mr Leehey is no stranger to these
parts. He was first on Portland
Canal 10 years ago as attorney for
j the former Brown-Alaska Compa
i ny which built the smelter at Had
ley, on Prince of Wales Island, and
operated for a time the Bluebell
group at Maple Bay. Later he was
counsel for M. K. Rodgers, and sec
retary of the Hidden Creek Copper
Company which developed the Hid
den Creek mine at Anyox, now the
Granby. Mr. Leehey said:
MUNRO GROUP
CARRIES HIGH j
' GRADE GALENA
! Pat McBride, Alex McDonald and
J. E Munro have gone up to the
Munro group to start development
and expect to work there for the
next two months.
The Munro is on the west side of
the Salmon glacier opposite the Big
Missouri. The owders intend driv
ing a tunnel that crops on the face
I of a cliff 150 feet in height and
stands perpendicularly, being visi
| hie to the top of the cliff.
Where the tunnel is to commence
the lead carries six inches of galena
that assays $150 a ton. The own
; ers hope to get out a shipment this
fall, as the Texas trail has been fin
1 ished from the Salmon valley wag
i on road to the glacier, and the last
ter forms a natural roadway, so
most of the difficulties heretofore
connected with transportation to
! that section have been overcome.
British Columbia officials who
were in port during the stay of the
Prince Rupert last Sunday, ordered
a continuation of the Salmon valley
road to the Big Missouri flats this
season. Haray Howson and Grant
Mahood showed them where this
work is absolutely essential to the
development of the district.
Pure, clear, spring-water ICE!!
Order from Potts or Traversy.
Russian steam baths $1. Il.J. Scott.
Lawrence. Watchmaker.
Cabins to rent. Btondy Chariton.
Don’t go home hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
R«}ni«r draft on ice. Hotel Hyder.
“Just_30 years ago this month I
graduated from college and the
same afternoon was on the train to
join the Cripple Creek rush. I have
been following mining camps ever
since, from Colorado to Nome.
Never have i been so assured of
the future of any district as this
minute I am of the Salmon river
deposits. Many times I have heard
of the discovery of another Butte,
where I lived for the best part < f
ten years. Butte is still without a
peer, but they all have their da>.
and I now risk the statement that
you have another Butte right is.
this valley, and will prove it in • 1«,
next five years.”
, Continuing, Mr. Leehey saio he
was not so much concerned o\ t r
high grade ores, desirable and sen
sational as they are. "What I fet i
sure you have is large bodies c i
good ore of medium or even low
grade. You can mine and ship hen
as cheaply as in Juneau, where the
Gastineau reports for one whole
quarter show a mining and milhm,
cost of 63 cents a ton. Ore that
cannot be shipped even from the
great Kennicott will be a bonauz i
in this valley. And you will have
many mines and a Butte tonnage
herein the next few years, formin
[ ing investments are now coming
into favor. Have you noticed tl e
rapid rise in copper and other min
ing stocks during the past thrte
months? Why, copper sti cks rose
steadily even while the price of
copper stood still and even fell oif
a cent or two.
"Yes, I am optimistic. I have
been so often disappointed that I
am now from Missouri alright, but
what I have seen the past ew days
in this valley has shown toe. You
will have a splendid city i ;ht here
in Hyder, built up by anot ,er min
ing camp like Butte.”
Mr, Leehey came to Hy ier with
Jesse J. Kahn of Vancouv. presi
dent of the Daly Alasi.-i Mines
Company, which recently ecordeii
deeds from Charles 0. Knipple,
Daniel Davis and William McGrew
for the Eleven Mile group. They
have been investigating the prop
erty, which is being developed by
Pat Daly as general manager, with
Eddie Hambleton as his capable
assistant.
For rent, store building. Premier amt
International Ave. W. S. Sullivan.
One-half interest in a lot on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for
one-half the original cost Ask Joe Groat