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VOL 6, NO. 18
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGER OPERATIONS
FOR CANTU GROUP
Conrad Wolfle, head of the
Cantu Mining Company, spent
the past week in Hyder look
ing ovei development work on
the Cantu property, near the
head of the Salmon River val
ley. As a result of the survey
he has decided on a much lar
ger scale of operations than
has been employed heretfore
in the development of that
highly regarded property.
The enlarged plan of opera
tions, which will be put into
effect at once, includes the in
stallation of a largermachine
ry plant to facilitate the driv
ing of tunnels into the large
porphyry zone traversing the
property above the main show
ings. One tunnel will pene
trate a large mineralized show
ing extending from a point
near the border of Salmon
Glacier to the porphyry zone
about 2000 feet above
The massive silver-lead show
ings from which the earlier
shipments of high grade ore
were obtained will also be fur
ther explored by extending
(he tunnel as soon as conditions
are favorable. This work will
probably be done under con
tract. As a result of the prev
alence of ores of shipping
grade practically at the sur
face on this part of the proper
ty, the managements plans to
start shipments early in the
spring and to continue them
throughout the year. There is
an. abundance of this ore eas
ily accessible and indications
are that no difficulty will he
found in maintaining a steady
output of shipping ore after
the work is started.
The new machine equipment
will indued a 25 h. p. com
pressor, in addition to a com
plete outfit of other mining
appliances. An enlargement
of camp facilities, with quart
ers to accomodate an increased
crew will be started immedi
ately. These will include both
bunk and mess house facilities.
The plans also provide for the
employment of two shifts as
soon as conditions permit.
To facilitate the carrying out
of this program as soon as pos
sible, the Bureau of Public
Roads, together with a number
of Cantu company employees,
started last Monday to place
the road in shape for transport
ing the machinery and lumber
supplies to the property. The
company also plans to com
plete the truck road from the
Salmon River highway to facil
itate shipment of supplies and
ore to and from the property.
This work will be launched as
soon as snow conditions render
it feasible.
At the annual meeting of
stockholders of the Cantu Min
ing Company, held this week,
the following directors and of
ficials were elected to direct
activities during the coming
year.
Conrad Wolfle, president
and manager; Wm. E. Keyes,
of Bellingham, Wn., vice-pres
ident; E. D. Maddon, Hyder.
secretai-y and treasurer; Gen
eral J. M. Ashton, of Tacoma,
PREMIER COMPANY SHIPS
PROSPERITY HIGH GRADE
A second largo shipment of high
grade ore from the Prosperity group
| in the Marmot River section left for
■ the Tacoma smelter this week, it is
| reported from the Marmot.
The shipment is said to have totaled
I close to eight hundred tons and is the
j second inane by the Premier Gold
j Milling Company from its Marmot Riv- i
i er holdings. The first shipment was 1
| made during the latter days of Novem- j
j her and ranged around GOO tons,
j Values obtained by the Premier from j
j the Prosperity ores are not definitely I
j known, but are said to run around
! S200 per ton, although some is said ,
> to average considerably more. On tlu»
| basis of the reported value of tlie eitr
| ller shipment, the last one should run j
| something over §10.000
REED NAMED CUSTOMS
COLLECTOR, WRANGELL
i
R. W. J. Reed, well known
here, has been named by Col
lector of Customs J. C. Mc
Bride, to be deputy collector in
charge at Wrangell, which po
sition was recently left vacant:
j by the death of Fred E. Bron- J
| son, who had filled the post for
more than a quarter of a cent
ury. Mr. Reed has been in
! charge of the customs office at
Nome for many years. He is
now in charge at Wrangell.
MINING EDITION
DESCRIBES HYDER
The Evening Empire of Prince
Rupert has issued a splendid
16-page special edition devot
ed principally to mining and in
dustrial development in the
Prince Rupert and Portland
Canal districts and also in
! eluding an excellent descript
I ion of the Hyder section and lo
jcal mining activities.
Owing to*iack of space a com
; plete review cannot be given
i in the present issue and will be
j presented next week. The
I publication is an admirable ad
5 vertising effort and reflects
great credit on the enterprise
of the Empire management. A
special edition of such magni
tude is usually beyond the ca
pacity of a small publication
| and the Empire publishers are
; entitled to special commedat
j ion and an adequate monetary
jieward for their splendid at
j tempt to advertise their t#wn
i and district.
I STEELE FILES FOR
TERRITORIAL SENATOR
A Juneau dispatch reports
that Will A. Steele has filed
for the nomination for Terri
torial senator on the republic
an ticket.
His filing is the first for a
First Division legislative posit
ion, with the exception of
Grover C. Winn’s formally an
; ncunced candidacy for the of
| fice of Representative.
Mrs. John Campbell, propri
etor of the Campbell boarding
i house, returned from the south
Thursday morning.
D. L. Pitt, manager of the
Premier , is back from a visit
of several weeks in the States.
Mrs. Pitt and Master “Billy”
Pitt, who has been ill for some,
are on a trip to Honolulu.
Wn., and J. A. Hall, Hyder,
, directors.
PACIFIC-YUKON
HIGHWEY PUNS
ARE TAKING FORM
—
; Plans for the proposed inter
national highway through Can
ada to Alaska are already com
mencing to take definite form,
according to late reports from
I the south.
The passage of one or an
other of the several Congrfcss
i ional bills providing for invest
igation of the proposal by a
governmental commission, in
! in conjunction with a similar
Canadian commission, is virtu
ally assured. Governmental
j departments have also evi
j denced unusual interest,even to
the extent of issuing literature
| descriptive of the suggested
j route.
The latest indication of the
interest the government is tak
ing in the project is provided in
i an announcement made recent
! ly in Seattle by Donald McDon
ald, originator of the highway
proposal, to the effect that a
; squadron of Navy planes is
scheduled to make an aerial
reconnaisance of the entire
route next summer.
A suggestion of practical im
portance appearing lately is
the possibility of utilizing the
old McKenzie-Mann railroad
survey, covering the country
from Nass River via Telegraph
Creek to Atlin, a total distance
! of about 400 miles. This sur
vey cost a large sum and pro
vides for a water grade route
from the Nass to the Stikine
River. Whether the suggested
route can be fitted into the gen
eral trunk line scheme is, of
course, a matter for engineer
ing judgement but the plan
appears practical and will save
a large sum for actual con
! struction purposes.
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$2.50 GOLD PIECE
MAY DISAPPEAR
j A Washington, D. C. press
! report announces that the $2.
! 50 gold piece may disappear
from the list of American coins.
Secretary Mellon has requested
! Congress to enact legislation
to provide for the discontinu
I ance of that unique coin. He
! said the gold is needed for cred
| it purposes and that the pieces
disappeaied from circulation,
especially after being given
| away as Christmas presents.
Wm. A. Hesse, Ketchikan
mining engineer and edputy U.
; S. mineral surveyor, has an
nounced his candidacy at the
Apiil primaries for the office
of Territorial Highway Engin
eer, now held by Robert. J.
Sommers. Mr. Hesse will run
as a democrat.
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Operations were suspended
on the Mountain Boy property
last week in respones to a tele
gram from the controlling in
terests in Montreal, but the
message ascribed no reason for
the suspension,
FLYERS DETAIL
FINDINGS AT
WRECKED PLANE
No further news of the search
for the bodies of Col. Ben. Eiel
son and Earl Borland was re
ceived during the past week,
aside from brief reports from
kthe ice-bound schooner Nanuk
stating that six men had been
landed at the Eielson plane by
Joe Crosson and C. H. Gillam,
the aviators who located the
wrecked airship about 90 miles
from North Cape, Siberia,
two weeks ago. The search
party landed at the wreck by
Crosson and Gillam included
three Russians, two natives and
a member of the Nanuk crew,
who were said to be deter
mined to remain at the scene of
the catastrophe until the bodies
of the lost aviatbrs are found.
Two dog teams from the Nan
uk were also reported on their
way to the wrecked plane to
assist in the search.
Capt. “Pat.” Reid and Pilot
E. Young also visited the
wreck, where they left one of
the large Fairchilds planes to
house the searchers while try
ing to locate the bodies of the
unfortunate aviators. Capt.
Reid reported six feet of snow,
hard as ice, with digging very
difficult.
Describing the wrecked air
plane, Pilot Crosson said in a
laido from the Nanuk that the
plane must have hit the ground
at flying speed, as the parts
were scattered several hundred
feet apait, the right wing be
ing 200 feet from the cabin.
The throttle was bent and wide
open and the propellor was
badly bent and wrapped
around the engine. Some of the
engine cylinders were also
found to be broken off. The
altimeter showed 1000 feet al
titude and the clock had
stopped at 3:40 o'clock. De
spite the force with which the
plane apparently struck the
ground, a case of eggs in the
cabin was found to be only
slightly damaged.
The fact that Eielson s plane
! was 90 miles from the Nanuk
j and ten miles inland from the
| coast is believed to indicate
that Eielson overshot the Nan
uk in fog and circled over the
reindeer camps 25 miles north
of the vessel while trying to lo
cate a landing place. Unable
to land, he is believed to have
turned back in the direction in
which he had come. A Russian
heard-the plane about 50 miles
from the Nanuk going west
ward, indicating, it is thought,
that Eielson was trying to fly
back to East Cape.
The plane crashed not many
miles from a small village be
tween Takakokogen and Cape
Wankanem.
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Conrad Wolfle, managing di
rector of the Cantu Mining Co.,
left Monday for the south after
a short visit, devoted to speed
ing up the company activities.
j Rev. Henry R. Cross, pastor
| of Hyder M. E. Church, left
j Monday evening on a short vis
it in the States.
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I FIFTY NINE PERCENT
OF LAW INFRACTIONS
PROHIBITION CASES
Nearly fifty-nine per cent of
all criminal actions in the
courts of the First Division last
year were based on alleged vio
lations of the anti-liquor laws,
according to statistics based on
warrants served by the U. S.
Marshal’s forces .
Of a total of 794 cases involv
ing criminal prosecutions aris
! ing in the division during the
calendar year of 1929, 461
were for purported infringe
ments of either the national
prohibition act or the Alaska
Bone Dry law. There were
766 warrants served and 28
actions were started without
service of warrants. Out of
230 warrants served in Ketchi
kan, 164 were in prohibition
cases, while in Juneau the
numbers were 146 out of a to
tal of 264. Four warants were
served in Tenakee, all for al-1
leged dry law infractions. Yak
utat had one out of two. Hoon
ah matched Tenakee with
three out of three. Port Alex
ander had seven, all prohibit- j
ion warrants. Sitka scored 30
out of 38; Skagway 8 out of
19; Haines 22 out of 33; Doug
las 4 out of 7; Hyder 6 out of
7; Petersburg 25 out of 44 and
Wrangell 27 out of 39.
Fines in prohibition cases
during the year totaled $26,
546 and jail sentences aggre
gated 33 years, 1 month and 4
days.
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GAFFNEY OUT FOR
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR
Thomas Gaffney, of Nome,
member of the First and Eighth
Legislatures as representative
of the Second Division, has
filed his declaration of candi
dacy for the democratic nomi
nation for the office of Terri
torial Auditor, now held by
Cash Cole of Juneau.
Mr. Gaffney is a pioneer of
the Nome district and a man of
the highest integrity and abil-1
ity, as has been amply evi
denced in his career as a legis
lator.
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NEW COPPER PROCESS
VERY PROMISING
Discovery of a new and high
ly promising process for the re
covery of copper from copper
sulphide ores by a hydro-elec
tric metallurgical process, has
been announced by the School
of Geology and Mines at Wash
ington State College, accord
ing to late press reports.
The process, inspired by the
success attained in electrolytic
methods for zinc extraction,
was developed after long re
| search and is of especial im
portance to the small mine
; owner, who under proper con
ditions, can treat his own ore
at the mine from beginning to
end, produce a very pure cath
ode copper, and eliminate de
ductions in extraction and var^
: ious penalties usually charged
against the shipper when ore
is sold outright to a smelter.
The details of the process have
not been made public as yet.
It is said to depend primarily
NEW VESSEL FOB
LOCAL SEBVICE
The newly constructed and
up to date motorship W. B. Fo
shay will enter the Alaska
shipping service during the lat
ter part of the present month
as a result of controlling shares
of outstanding stock passing in
to the hands of Seattle and
| Alaska men during the past
| week , according to Seattle
! press reports. The transaction
provides that the full owner
I ship of the new motorship will
pass into the hands of the
Northland company and also
for the payment of all claims
against the vessel and the dis
missal of the receivership cre
ated by the failure of the W.
B. Foshay company.
Under the new control the
name of the vessel will be
changed to “Northland.”
Although the information is
not contained in the official an
nouncements, the Herald has
learned from excellent author
ity that Hyder will be the first
port of call of the' new vessel
after entering the Alaska ser
vice and will probably remain
on the local run for some time,
as the motorship Norco is to be
withdrawn for extensive over
hauling and repairs as soon as
the new ship is commissioned.
This is expected to require
from 60 to 90 days. Thereafter
the Norco will alternate with
the Northland on the Seattle
Alaska run under a weekly
sailing schedule.
SICK VETERANS ARE
ENTITLED TO FREE
HOSPITALIZATION
That sick or disabled war
veterans in need of hospital
care are entitled to receive the
same without charge and re
gardless of whether the illness
or disability can be traced to
their army service, is the wel
come news for ex-service men
conveyed in a letter from J. A.
Talbot, first vice-commander
of the Alaska department of
the American Legion, received
by D. J. Mulcare, local immi
gration inspector.
Relative to the subject the
letter says:
“There is a matter of interest
to veterans which you boys in
Hyder may have overlooked.
At the present time if a veter
an is in need of hospitalization,
he can get it whether he can
trace his illness or disability
to the service or not. If a vet
I eran requires medical attention
whether it be for T. B., a brok
en leg, piles or anything at all,
he is entitled to admission to a
Veterans hospital, without cost
to the veteran. Transportation
expenses to and from the hos
pital are also allowed.
This information may save
some sick veteran a lot of mon
ey, so hope you will give the
matter as much' publicity as
possible.”
Further details regarding
the subject may be obtained
from Mr. Mulcare.
upon cheap hydro - electric
power for its chief advantage
over the old methods of copper
extraction.