HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Monday.
Application made for entry at the post office at Hyder, Al
aska, as second class matter, under the Act of March 8,
1879.__ _ _
Chas. F. Sandford. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Despite the recent unsatis
factory turn of events in con
nection with certain properties
from which much was ex
pected, reports from the Texas
Creek section indicate growing
appreciation of the possibilities
of that remarkably mineraliz
ed area as development work
progresses.
Two new and promising finds
have been made during the
past few days, while work on
several properties has reveal
ed most satisfying assurances
of the permenancy of the ore
bodies contained. Although but
little time for prospecting re
mains, it is not improbable that
equally encouraging results
may be obtained on other prop
erties before the close of the
open season.
The failure of the recent op
erations on one of the Ibex
claims and the hasty with
drawal of the operators after
failing to find the ledge just
where it was expected to be,
.has proved nothing at all re
garding either the claim or the
district in which it lies.
The properties involved in the
peculiar denouement are in no
way considered less valuable
as potential producers than be
fore they failed to measure up
to expert theories, which, how
ever applicable to other min
eral areas, have more than
once been proved to be erro
neous when applied to the lo
cal field, where geological
conditions are universally con
ceded to be unlike those of any
other known mineral region.
Dame Nature has ways that
may safely be included in that
list of things of which old Solo
mon said “No man knoweth”
and not even the greatest ex
perts can tell what vagaries
may develop in her manifest
ations.
The famous Premier itself,
with a record as a dividend
payer almost beyond compare,
was condemned by the experts
more than once before it enter
ed upon its present spectacular
career. And all because it fail
ed to measure up to expert
views of what should be.
The failure of the Ibex claim
to measure up to expectations
may be somewhat disappoint
ing, but it cannot be said to
provide a logical reason for
condemning either the claim
itself or the properties sur
rounding it. It simply failed to
substantiate the theories of
those in charge of operations.
One trifling hole in the ground
does not always prove a mine
by any means.
Assuming the worst view of
it, the fact remains that it is
beyond reason to think that
every mineral outcrop, will de
velop into a mine. No matter
how promising it may appear
at the surface, there is always
a chance that a ledge will be
come a disappointment when
subjected to the test of steel
and powder.
Countless abandoned pros
pect holes in every mineral
region provide mute evidence
that only a small percentage of
the ledges discovered and ex
ploited develop into workable
propositions.
Failure must occur or mines
would be developed at a rate
to glut the world with min
erals in a few years.
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The Herald is gratified to
find a considerable, 'increase
of interest on the part of the
public in Hyder’s newest pub
lication. Considerably more
support is being given to the
present publication than was
accorded its immefdiate pre
decessor, the Hyder Weekly
Miner. Not only has there
been an increase of subscript
ions, but the advertisers are
showing a disposition to be
more liberal than in the past.
Inasmuch as advertising is the
very life blood of a newspaper
it is indeed encouraging to
receive the additional support
extended in that manner.
It should not be forgotten,
however, that the paper must
acquire considerable more sup
port before the plethora of
its accumulated wealth will
enable the editor to eat three
squares a day regularly.
Hyder needs a newspaper.
The camp has now reached
a stage of development where
publicity counts. The time
has passed when the principal
office of the newspaper was
advertising the undeveloped
resources. Larger and more
important developments are
now appearing. The district
is no longer an area of pros
pect holes. Paying mines are
being opened up; new mills
are being constructed, and
the mining industry is grow
ing at a steadily increasing
pace. Inasmuch as the district
is greatly dependent on out
side capital for further devel
opment of its resources, the
progress now being achieved
should be given the widest
publicity possible, in order that
its possibilities as a field for
investment may become known
to the world. It is perhaps
unnecessary to suggest that a
newspaper is the only medium
through which this result may
be effectively achieved. Mon
ey spent in supporting the loc
al newspaper is therefore a
good investment that will ul
timately yield a splendid re
turn by attracting to the com
munity those who will invest
in its resources and increase
its industries, with resultant
increases of prosperity for all.
MAIL SERVICE FOR HYDER
(The Alaska Weekly)
! Something should be done
j to give Hyder a mail service
worthy of the name. At the
present time mail tor Hyder
goes by way of Ketchikan
and thence by gas-boat leav
ing each Wednesday night to
Hyder. Mail arriving after
Wednesday lies in Ketchikan
for a week. Here we have a
case of a mining community
where daily developments of
importance are taking place,
forty-eight hours from Seattle,
and receiving Seattle mail in
an average of ten days after
date of mailing.
The Canadian National Rail
ways have a ship leaving Van
couver for Stewart and Hyder
every Wednesday night and
the Union Steamship Company
has a boat out of Vancouver
for these points every Friday
morning. Mail should be
handled over the C. P. R. to
Vancouver and from there to
Hyder, instead of by way of
Ketchikan.
Nothing is more important
to a Tlistrict in the midst of
intensive development than
means of rapid intercommuni
cation with the outside from
whence financing, supplies,
land publicity must come and
I every effort should be made
to give the Portland Canal
section a more satisfactory
mail service.
Harry Howard, of the Midg
et Emporium, was discussing
the use of the word “odium”
with Hubert Thomas, his bus
iness associate. Loren Jamieson
who officiates as extra clerk
in the establishment, entered
the store just then and hearing
one of the partners repeat the
word, without catching the
drift of the conversation, he
hastened to display his know
ledge of the stock by suddenly
exclaiming: “Odium! Why,
we have some of that here.
Seems to me I’ve seen it some
here.”
Cards, invititions, bill heads,
j statements, letter-heads, envel
opes, business cards, hand-bills
and advertising cards at the
'Herald office.
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Just For Fun
‘One rainy day last week pass
ersby on International Avenue
were puzzled to see a motley
array of pots, pans, teakettles,
coffee pots, pails and tin cans
distributed along the roadway
in the vicinity of the Midget
Emporium building.
Guarding the variega'ked as
sortment of hardware with
watchful eye was little “Bust
er” Scott.
Someone asked:
“What are you doing with
all those pots and cans, Bust
er?”
“Catchin’ rain,” Buster grave
ly replied.
“But what are you catching
it for?” inquired the mystified
onlooker.
Buster turned a solemn eye
on his interlocutor as he said:
“Well, you see, if I can catch
all the rain it can’t rain any
more.”
A well known former Alas
kan druggist was one day on
the witness stand in the District
Court qualifying as a bonds
man,
“Doctor,” said the examining
attorney, What is your drug
store worth in round figures?”
“How do you mean,” the
druggist asked, “wholesale or
retail”?
The attorney hesitated a sec
ond before he replied, “Well,
wholesale for instance.”
Oh, about $7,000,” the drug
gist said.
“And how much do you fig
ure it ft worth retail doctor”?
The druggist scratched his
chin reflectively for a moment
before gravely replying;
! “Well, somewhere close to
$40,000.”
And even the Court smiled.
Back in the good old days
before Alaska adopted the
bone dry law, two inebriated
individuals were leaning on
the bar in one of the early day
placer camps arguing in friend
ly manner over the ownership
of a dog which both of them
claimed. At length one of them
apparently realizing the fu
tility of further argument,said:
“Now look-a-here, (hie) Bill;
tain’t no use us argyfin’ about
that dawg. We don’t neither of
us get nowhar. I’ll, (hie) make
ye a proposition. Which ever
one of us can tell (hie) the big
gest lie gets that dawg-see?
The other agreed and the
pair retired to chairs near the
glowing stove to prepare for
the contest, while the crowd of
chair warmers gathered a
round to act as judges.
Both sat for some time cogi
tating deeply, while the gang
egged them on with numerous
suggestions.
While the contestants were
still cudgeling their brains for
a start, the door opened and a
(recently arrived missionary
known locally as “the Preach
er”, entered. Seeing the crowd
around the stove, he inquired
I of the bartender, what the ex
citement was about. When
told that a lying contest was
on he became highly indig
nant. Assuming his most pious
aspect he descended upon the
unsuspecting contestants and
opened up the vials of his
wrath.
The crowd fell silent but
i neither one of the contestants
appeared to pay the slightest
attention to his tirade until the
Preacher, with a dramatic
wave of his hand, declared;
“You had ought to be asham
ed ! Two grown men deliber
ately telling lies! Why, I never
told a lie in my life!”
Then one of the contestants
slowly raised his eyes and
with a jerk of his thumb in the
Preacher’s direction, said to
the other one:
“Say, Bill, (hie) give him the
dawg.”
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