Marr Building
Company
Win contract for anything in the building line
J^othing too big for us to handle
Nothing too small for us to overlook
Absolutely expert work guaranteed on all jobs
J. W. Mark, Manager. Office, Hotei. Hydf.r
HYDER LUMBER CO.
LUMBER
Rough
| Dressed
Flooring
Ceiling
Rustic
Wainscot t:rg
From a sliver to a cargo
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
Stewart Edward White, big game
hunter, autnor and traveler, whose
western stories are familiar to mil
lions of people, is making arrange
ments to tour Southeastern Alaska.
It is understood that Mr White and
L. W. Peck, a literary man of San
Francisco, will spend several weeks
cruising in Alaskan waters this
summer. They have purchased the
Hydah, a 50-foot launch, for the
purpose.
9bme interesting documents bear
ing on the early history of Juneau
have been discovered among his
father’s possessions by John Harris,
a son of Richard Harris, one of the
first discoverors of gold in Silver
Bow basin, and the founder of the
city. An old newspapeo, parts of
Harris’ original diary describing
the trip from Sitka to the present
site of Juneau in 1880, a chart with
various points checked off and loca
tion notices were among the many
I things found.
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Laundry
Ketchikan, Alaska.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
See FT. Hucke for shipping
instructions;
A penny presented by George
Washington to the little son of a
Capt. Mason of Revolutionary war
fame, is still in the possession of
the Mason family at Wrangell. It
was handed down from father to
son for many generations.
Mrs. Nellie B. Merrill, 60 years
old, who was formerly engaged in
business in Fairbanks and Nenana,
died in Seattle at the home of her
daughter, Mrs Nora W. Powers.
She at one time owned and operat
ed the steamer Helen M. between j
Fairbanks and Iditarod. She also j
had two tug boats.
Seven cars of Alaska and Puget j
sound salmon left for the eastern
markets recently, making the sec
ond large shipment of salmon from
Seattle in"March. The fish will be
distributed from St. Paul to middle
western and southern points. Four
car8 of peanuts prepared by a Se
attle firm were in the same train.
The salmon shipment aggregated
550,000 pounds.
Lester D. Hfenderson, territorial
commissioner of education for Al
aska, who recently returned to the
coast from interior Alaska, stated
that there are now about 200,000
head of reindeer in the north and
that despite the fact that ten ppr
cent of the animals were killed each
year for meat the herds are on the
increase. Alaska affords grating
grounds for approximately fifty
mil1 ion head of reindeei, he said.
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO.
OF HYDER
Incorporated under the laws of A laska
Capital Pa|d Up $13,000.00
Commercial and Savings Departments
Domestic and Foreign] Exchange
Money Telegraphed to all Parts of] the
United States
HYDER PAINT SHOP Painting, Paperhanging
- Kalsomining
Traversy Bros.
SIGNS
Paints, Oils, Stains, Varnishes, Shellac, Wallpaper, Deadening Felt.
Cheese Cloth, Kalsomine.
Sutherland Building, Main Street
Cfie ®Hatrr's Hot
soon after you light your fire
it [will give you the surprise of
your life—and in unlimited quantity
—and you dont have to put in an
expensive water-works system.
yyith Harry Hanson’s patented
hot water coil in your cook
stove you can have real hqme com
fort. All the principal homes of
Rupert are so equipped and Stewart
forks are installing the system as
fast as Hanson can do the work.
Qome on over to Stewart and see
how it is done. Anyone there
can tell you where to find
HartK Hanson
Fir Lumber
Flooring
Ceiling
Sash-Doors
Store Fronts
Store Fixtures
SPEED
W. L. BALCH
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
SERVICE SATISFACTION
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HYDER, ALASKA
* if* t i 4,
Gateway to the Great Sainton River Mineral Arsa
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine"
You Have to Come to Hyder to
Reach the Mines
FASTEST GROWING TOWN IN THE NORTH