tlM SaldKM Wve» District I*
Marvelously Rich in Minerals
And Hydei is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
HYDER ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska • British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 4. NO. IS.
HYDER, Alaska, Mar. 31. 1923
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
DU ALASKA
HAS RESUMED
Work, on the Daly Alaska,
K'hich has been closed down since
iast November, was resumed this
week, a contract having been let j
to Charlie Lund and associates j
[or driving 100 feet in the No. 1
tunnel, which was started last
summer and will eventually cut i
all the five ore zones that eross
the property.
Wm. Sloan, who was the com
pany assayer last year, has been
placed in charge of the operations.
Mr. Sloan recently returned from (
Vancouver and Seattle, where he
met the company officials and also
J. C. Weir of New York, who
last summer assumed the financing
for the company, after making a
thorough examination of the prop
erty. Mr. Sloan says that ample
funds are now on hand to carry
out the development program, and
that real mining is to be done this
season. The No. 1 and No 2
tunnels are to be driven simulta
neously and drifts run on the ere
bodies as they are opened up.
Two compressor* and three ma
chine drills have been ordered and
should arrive on the next Ameri
can freighter from Seattle. 1 he
Work will in all probabi! y be done
by contract
i
GOVERNMENT ENGINEER
MAKES INVESTIGATION
Junior Engineer Longacre, of!
the Alaska Engineering Corps, paid
Hyder a visit this week, arriving on
the Prince Rupert and leaving for
Ketchikan on the Prince of Wales.
Us was sent here by Col. Steese,
head of the department, to inves
tigate condith ns, ai d especially to
look into th** necessity for the con
struction of the Fust street con-,
necti >n with thig •we ■ »*:»t wharf |
approach, against v. Mcl some
protest has been made by citizens
don-resident on the piling. Mr.
Longacre looked into all phases of
c mditions affecting every section
of the town, and also secured com
plete data as to present and pros
pective mine develop merit, not
»nly on the Alaskan but on the
r?. 0. side of the line in the Salmon
basin.
Mr. Longacre has been with the
War Department for six years, in
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and
New Orleans, coming here from
the last named city.
Large coal hunter, now in Salmon
River Store, for sale. Ernest Blue.
W oj delivered $4.3') p-r rick. See
Moo :ey. Erickson or McPiuo,
INDEPENDENCE
PASSES BEYOND
PROSPECT STAGE
Enthused by the volume and
apparent richness of the ore body
opened up this winter in the Inde
pendence tunnel, and speaking in
superlative terms of the work ac
complished by Owney McFadden
and Eli W all and under trying con
ditions, S. P. Fitzgerald is back
from a visit to the property, which
he thoroughly sampled. Sam is
strong in his praise of the accom
plishments performed by the two
husky miners, going so far as to
say that in his opinion they have
established a record for the district
in the amount of actual develop
ment done during the time they
took to drive l 50 feet and pack
in all their supplies on their backs.
So far as the ore showing is
concerned, he has no hesitation in
placing the Independence beyond
the prospect stage. The crosscut j
at the face of the I 50-foot tunnel
shows 23 feet of ore, with only
one wa'l in sight, and in fact all
the work, with the exception of a
smailgdyke, shows ore of apparent
high milling grade. At thi* writ
ing he has not received returns on
the samples taken from 100 feet
of the work, but the mineral in the
ore shows for itself and there is
no question as to its being of
commercial value.
The bunkhouse at the Dunwell
mine on ?kicier creek was com*
pie ely destroyed by fire just be
fore noon on March 14, a defective
tlue being responsible for the blaie.
Chu'he Bibeau and Tommy Finne
gan, who were on the graveyard
shift in the mine, were asleep in
the house when the fire started
and were somewhat scorched be
fore reaching open air. Charlie
lost his watch but saved his blan
kets and his life, and he says that’s
something. The other men of the
mine crew lost everything they
had in the place. One-half of the
erew came to town to await the
construction of a new bunkhouse,
work on which has already com
menced Temporary quarters were
pr ovided for the others, and min
ing has continued.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn’t to be
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium*
Al Sweeney was down this week
from the Titan.
Jim Daly is confined to his home
with rheumatism.
Dan Woodmore has gone Up to
work at the Titan.
Bill Saunders is bock from a
business trip to Vancouver.
W. H. and Mrs. Tolin left Thurs
day on a vacation trip to Seattle.
Mrs. Harry Scovil left Thursday
for a visit with relatives in Vic
toria.
Dave Sutherland, of the Premier
office staff, is on a business trip to
New York.
J. W, Christian has returned
from a visit with his daughter in
Telkwa, B. C.
J. S. Pitcher has gone to Ketchi
kan to take up his new duties as
game warden.
W. A. Noble, Canadian customs
officer at Silver Heights, is away
on a trip to Vancouver,
Eric Johnson returned this week
from a visit in Hupert and has
gone to the Daly Alaska.
Deputy Marshal T. W. McDonald
has been called to Ketchikan to at
tend the district court session.
The Portland Canal Moose are
to hold a smoker on the night of
March 26 in the Ocean View hotel.
Tom Norberg, who mined at the
Premier last summer, is hack from
Rupert where he spent the winter.
C. A. Banks, manager of the B.C,
Silver, returned Thursday from
Vancouver, accompanied by Mrs.
Banks.
Jim Mooney has moved Sir Ed
ward Lawrence Casey’s teat and
is building a house en the lot it
occupied.
The Anyox and Amur loaded
Premier high-grade ore and con
eentrates this week for the Taco
ma smelter.
Miss Lillian Miller of Denver
who has been visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Anna Miller, left Thursday
for her home.
Walter C. Blanton, proprietor of
the Silver Grill and Northern Pool
Hall, has returned from a business
trip to Seattle.
D. A. Hoffman, representative of
the Sullivan Machinery Co., has
been interviewing local mining op
erators this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dann and H.
C. Comer returned on the Anyox
from a visit Outside, bringing two
automobiles with them.
Misses Beatrice and Hilda Horst
I man left Thursday, the former to
'enter school in Rupert alid the lat
ter to visit an aunt in Vancouver.
the Union Steamship Company’s
freighter Chilliwack was in Friday
with lumber for the Premier and
coal for the Crawford Transfer Co.
Jack Talbot, of the Ketchikan
firm of Talbot & Spaulding, who
intend biiilding a large wharf here
next summer, was a Hyder visitor
this week.
Niel McDonald, owner of some
j promising claims in the Upper Sal
'rtton basin, has gone to Seattle
I with the expectation of being away
| about a month.
Herb Anderson, who has been a?
the Premier and B. C. Silver for
eight months, came down this week
aqd joined the contracting ereW at
the Daly Alaska.
Among the HydeJ residents who
| have gone over to attend the dis
trict court in Ketchikan are Sam
; Potts, Harry Lancaster, Fred Ccn>
i eron and Postmaster Oren F. Hill.
Three electric lights placed out
; aide the Hotel Hyder for the ben
efit of the public, have been stolen.
So Hyder finally has grounds for
claiming to harbor the meanest
than.
I Mrs. Helen Howard left Thurs
day for California after spending
| several months here with her son,
; H. H. Howard. She intends re
! turning soon to her old home in
New York State.
Andy Archie left Thursday for
Seattle, where he hopes that an
operation will relieve him of the
lameness with which he has been
afflicted since he fell over a cliff
at the Prinee John three winters
ago.
Mrs. J. Yohn, of Burns Lake, B.
C., who recently leased the two
upper floors of W. K. Tooth’s busi
ness block in Stewart for rooming
house purposes, arrived Thursday
with her furniture and has taken
possession of the premises
R. K. Neill, rediscoveier and
heavy owner of the great Premier
mine in the Portland Canal district
and a leading mining operator of
the Northwest for the past twenty
five ynrs, returned to Spokar.e
two weeks ago after concluding a
business trip to New York and
other Eastern cities. He is now
on a trip to Nevada and the state
of Nayarit, Mexico, where he is
developing properties of great pro
mise.—Mining Truth.
Don't go home hungry. Rat a lunch n
the Ocoan Vi*w.
MAPLE BAP
IS PRODUCillG
GOOD RESULTS
Vince and Jim Lade, who have
the contract for developing the
i Outsider mine at Maple Bay which
| is under bond to the Granby com
j pany. Were in this Week, along
j with E. J. Conway, field engineer
i for the company, coming up on
the Azurite. With them were
| Dan Woodmore, Wm. MePher
i son, Monte and Mrs. Howe.
I
I They have been driving tw o tun
nels, one of which is in 60 feet
I
and the other 100 feet, both fol
| lowing the same vein, and on ore.
The vein shows to be seven feet
wide and carries seven per cent
copper. The contractors took
down men to replace W oodmore,
McPEfson and Howe, who had
quit, and also Blackie Irving, to
run the eating department, which
had been efficiently handled by
Mrs. Howe*
JOHN CARLSON KILLED
While engaged in loading ties
at Forestriale on Friday last, John
Carlson slipped from the gang
plank while carrying a tie, which
fell on him, causing his instant
death. The remains were shipped
to Smithers on Sunday.—Omiuica
Herald.
We have been unable to learn
whether this is the John Carlson
who is well known in Hyder as a
miner, but when the latter left here
last fall it was with the intention
of taking a tie contract on the
Orand Trunk.
METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, April 1, Easter Sunday
3 p. m„ Christening and Baptis
mal service.
8 p. m., Easter services.
Special music afternoon and eve
ning.
F. E. Reddick,
Pastor.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker.
*
Russian steam baths $1. H. J. Scott.
SHAMROCK DANCE
GIVES PLEASURE
TO LARGE CROWD
The Shamrock dance given on
the night of St. Patrick’* Day by
the Hyder Commercial Associa
tion was a satisfactory financial
and huge social success. The
Ocean View Hotel ballroom and
foyer were taxed to their full ca
pacity in accommodating the Hy
der, Stewart and Hyder B. C,
residents who came to enjoy them
selves and incidentally to contrib
ute to a good cause, the construc
tion of a planked roadway along
First street, which is nearing com
pletion but not yet thoroughly fin
anced. The hotel was lavishly
decorated with green festoons and
streamers, while shamrocks were
everywhere in evidence. Green
electric lights lent a subdued moon
light effect to the scene.
A novelty was introduced in
the form of a "sight-and-unseer
auction which afforded many a
laugh as purchasers opened their
packages and displayed the ludi
crous objects for which they had
so frantically competed in the bid
ding. Noe! Traversy as auction
eer established the fact that if he
ever desiies to retire from painting
and paper hanging he has another
profession that he may adopt.
Two of the Association members
dressed as a poverty-stricken wid
ow and her infant son for whose
benefit the auction was supposed
to be held, added a touch of real
ity to the proceedings. The music,
supplied by Will Camercn at the
piano and Billy Orr at the drums,
was up to their usual standard of
excellence, and the supper left
nothing to be desired.
Mr. and Mrs. Tooth donated
the use of the hotel, besides sup
plying the coffee, cream and sugar
and attending to the decorating,
for which the committee in charge
of the affair desire to express their
sincere thanks.
FOR SALE
For Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
Late Model Ford Touring Car. In A-ONE
Shape. Just been painted. Good rubber
and a good self-starter. Mechanically
perfect. See GROVER FRAME.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Charlton.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
Safety - - Speed - - Service
Northbound
Jefferson
Northwestern
Alameda
SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
March 26
March 30
April 9
Southbound
Alameda
Jefferson
Northwestern
Alameda
Sailings subject to change without notice
0. M. Taylor, Aoent.
Mareh 30
March 30
April 0
April 20
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