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VOL 1, NO. 22
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HYDES, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1925
FIFTY CENTS A KGNTH
BIG DEAL MADE FOR
MARMOT PROPERTIES
A mining deal of consider
able importance, involving
many of the best known prop
erties in the Marmot River sec
tion, was completed last week
by Thomas Campbell, well
| known mining man, when a
block of mining ground which
, comprises a total of seventeen
properties, including some of
the best known claims in the
1 Marmot River district were
taken .over under bond by Mr.
Campbell, who contemplates
incorporating them under the
name of the Sterling Mining
‘ Company, Inc., the headquart
ers of which will be in Stew
art
Included in the bonded prop
erties are the well known Fra
ser group, owned by Wm. Fra
- ser and comprising seven
claims l the Dwyer group, the
Crawford claim, owned by H.
C. McGee, and also the Fraser
Forks properties, of 3 claims.
The Wire Gold properties, in
which Mr. Campbell is an own
er will also be included in the
holdings of the new company.
rne properties an ot wmcn
have fine surface showings,
are contiguously situated and
form practically a solid block
between the Porter-Idaho and
the Patriciq. Owing to situat
ion they form practically the
key to the basin along the
North fork of the Marmot. The
Fraser group was worked last
summer by W. R. Hamer, who
is associated with Mr. Camp
bell, in the present deal, and
considerable ore was extracted
and shipped to the smelter
from open cut workings. A 68
foot tunnel was also driven
last fall to cut the lead at
depth but the work was not
completed until too late in the
season to mine.. Values obtain
ed from the surface ores ran
close to $200 per ton. Assays
of ore taken from the tunnel,
which cut the lead at about
100 feet, showed a streak
about 18 inches in width along
the hanging wall running
around $300 per ton, the bal
ance of the vein, being of good
milling grade. About 30 feet
of tunnel was also driven on
the ore on the Wire Gold last
year and disclosed some very
promising ore. Owing to their
location in the same ore belt as
the Porter Idaho, which
achieved a splendid record for
production last year, all of the
properties are considered of
high potential value. The op
tions obtained by Mr. Camp
bell extend over a period of
three years. It is his intention
to leave for Victoria next
week to file articles of incor
poration.
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Yael Rozenstain, local mer
chant who Jeft recently on an
extended visit in the States, is
now on his way back to Hyder,
according to a recent message
to J. D. Lyons, wftoj is locking,
after the Rozenst^n' store dur-l
ing the owner’s absence. The!
message stated that he had
left New York and would be
in Seattle by February 10, but
expected to remain in that lo
cality for two or three weeks.
TO EXPLOIT 6 MILE
GOLD FIND
It is reported in letters from
the States that a company has
been formed in Spokane to ex
ploit the gold strike made late
last fall near 6 Mile, by mem
bers of the Seims, Carlson road
! construction crew.
According to the report, sank
I Tiles of the gold incrusted ore
I brought to Spokane by Messrs.
O. G. Carlson, superintendent
! in charge of the company’s
activities, and O, P. Elvigion,
bookeeper, by whom the initial
locations were made, created
a great sensation. This was
scarcely to be wondered at In
view of the spectacular char
acter of the ore, picked sam
ples of which assayed better
than $32,000 per ton. No de
tails concerning the company
or its personnell have been
forthcoming. It is stated, how
ever, that the organization is
amply financed and will prob
ably undertake considerable
; development work as soon as
conditions are favorable.
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Miss Mildrrd Prout and Sam
uel McIntyre Manning were
the principals in a pretty home
wedding at Premier Wednes
day evening. The nuptial knot
was tied by Rev. A. W. R. Ash
ley, rector of St. Mark’s Epis
copal Church, of Stewart, who
made the trip to the mine in
the face of extreme difficul
ties owing to the bad state of
the trails at that time. Miss.
Minerva Grant attended the
bride as bridesmaid and Si.
Manning, a brother of the
groom, acted as best man. The
ceremony embraced the full
ritual -of the Episcopal church
and was a decidedly pretty af
fair. The wedding w&s follow
ed by supper and a general
jollification which lasted until
a late hour Thursday morning,
when the happy couple came
to town to catch the Prince
Rupert, on which they depart
ed on a wedding journey to
the South. . ,
Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Helmer,
of- St. Paul, - Minn., accom
panied by their two young
daughters, were arrivals on
the Rupert Thursday.
Mr. Helmers is associated in
the firm of Seims, Helmer and
Schaftner, of St. Paul, of
which the Seims, Carlson Com
pany, contractors for the Sal
mon River road construction
work, started last year, is a
Pacific Coast branch. The par
ent organization is a noted con
istruction contracting and hy
! dro-electric engineering firm
and has been connected with
some of the largest construct
ion and power development
projects of recent years. Mr
Helmer is here in connection
with the road contract and al
so to investigate a number of
other projects in which he is
interested. ?
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Jack. McCallum well known
old timer of the camp and
prominent figure in the Port
er Idaho company, arrived
from the South on the Watson
after an absence of several
weeksv
GOV’T RUSHES AID TO
EPIDEMIC STRICKEN NOME
In an effort to check the rav
ages of an epidemic of dip
theria which has raged in
Nome, metropolis of North
western Alaska, during the
past two weeks, the govern
ment is rushing supplies of
diptheria tnti-toxin to the
stricken community by dog
team and airplane. Quantities
of the serum are being relayed
over the snowy wastes by the
fastest dog teams obtainable
and other shipments are being
rushed from Seattle by boat,
and will be hurled through
the air by a high powered air
plane from Anchorage, while
a naval airplane is being pre*
pared to undertake a flight
with additional supplies of the
life protecting serum.
At last accounts the dread
disease was confined prin
cipally to the Eskimos, many
of whom had died, although
several deaths had occurred
among the whites, with others
probable. All of the whites to
succumb were children below
eight years of age, although a
considrable number of adults
were taken down with the
malady.
The present outlook is that
unless ample supplies of serai;*
are soon available the disease
is certain to spread to other
districts. At the outbreak of
the epidemic the only supply
of anti-toxin on hand was sev
eral years old and only about
40 per cent efficient by reason
of age. This largely accounts
for the disease gaining a head
way which can be checked
only by the most drastic quar
antine measures and ample
quantities of the precious ser
um.
Up to the time of going to
press one shipment of anti-tox
in had been relayed to Nome
by dog team, arriving at the
disease infested town in the re
markable time of 127*4 hours
or 5 days, 7*4 hours from Ne
nana.
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Clay Porter, head of the Port
er Idaho activities and the
man who developed that rich
property from a prospect to
a mine of the first class, return
ed Thursday from Vancouver
and Victoria, where he assist
ed in the conversion of the
Porter Idaho Syndicate into a
corporation.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sullivan
left on the Admiral Watson
for Ketchikan, where Mr. Sull
ivan will remain while Mrs.
Sullivan continues on to the
south to visit a brother in Los
Angeles and other relatives in
the East. Mr. Sullivan will re
turn to Hyder after a few
weeks stay in Ketchikan.
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Mrs. McKinley, wife of a
member of the Premier forces,
arrived from Vancouver Thurs
day, accompanied by their two
children. The family will re
side in new apartments at No.
1, Premier.
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C. W. Cheatham, district en
gineer for the Bureau of Pub
lic Roads, was a passenger on
the Watson from the South, en
route to Ketchikan.
MANY OVERPAY GOV’T
ON INCOME TAX
Nearly three-fourths of the
persons making out income tax
returns are' overpaying the
government, according to the
Collector of Internal Revenue.
The new lav/ provides for an
additional credit based on the
amount of the taxpayers net
earned income, with certain
lifnitations. For example, if a
single man working for a sal
ary has an income of $2500,
he would be entitled first to a
personal exemption of $1,000.
If he has no other deductions
to make, in the way of taxes,
contributions, etc., his taxable
net income would be $1,500.
The normal tax of 2 per cent
would amount to $30. He may
also credit himself with 25
per cent( of the tax due on
earned income) if $30, or $7.
25, and has to remit to the Col
lector of Internal Revenue the
remaining sum of $22.75. This
may be paid in full or in quar
terly installments.
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means wages, salaries, profes
sional fees, and other amounts
received as compensation for
personal services actually ren
dered, but does not include
uiat part of the compensation
derived by the taxpayer for
tjksorial services rendered by
him to a corporation* wftieh
represents a distribution of
earnings or profits rather than
a reasonable allowance or com
pensation for the personal ser
vices actually rendered.
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The committee in charge of
the forthcoming St. Valen
tine’s dance of the Pioneers of
Alaska has announced a new
date for holding that much an
ticipated event. Instead of Fri
|day, February 13th, St. Valen
I tine’s eve, the entertainment
will occur the following even
ing, Saturday, February 14th,
the evening of St. Valentine’s
day itself.
The change in date was due
!to a prospective conflict with
an entertainment to be given
in Stewart on the evening of
February 13th.
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Merl F. Thomas, proprietor
! of the Hyder Mercantile Co., is
back from a visit of several
weeks to the marts of the big
Outside, where he arranged
for a supply of the best class
of goods in all the various lines
carried in his establishment.
Mr. Thomas states that Hy
der is attracting much attent
ion in the States and all indi
cations point to the entrance of
considerable new capital into
the local development field
during the coming season.
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Mrs. Wheeler, wife of E.
Wheeler, an employee of the
Riverside mine, arrived from
Los Angeles on the Admiral
Watson to join her husband.
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Local friends of Mrs. Chas.;E.
Hill, sister of Mrs/VJ! L.1 ..Camp
bell, who has been v#ry ill' in
the Tacoma General Hospital,
at Tacoma, for some time, will
be glad to learn that she is re
ported much improved.
ROUSING WELCOME
GIVEN NEWLYWEDS
Attorney Ernest Blue, and
Mrs. Blue, who until a few
days ago was Miss Dorothy
Hollister Brown, of Minneap
olis, arrived Thursday on the
Prince Rupert, at the end of a
wedding journey which in
cluded visits to Victoria, Van
couver and other points. Mr
Blue’s many local friends gave
the newly-weds a unique re
ception on their arrival. Fol
lowing greetings by a delega
tion at the Stewart dock, the
happy couple were conveyed
by a team of six dogs to the
Midget Emporium, where they
were photographed under the
direction of Harry Howard,
who acted as master of cere
monies of a committee of wel
come, formed a few days ago,
and thereafter held an inform
al reception and received the
greetings and felicitations of
their friends. As Mr. Blue is
personally known to practical
ly every individual in the dis
trict, the committee has also
prepared plans for holding a
public reception in Pioneer
Hall Saturday evening, at
which Mr. Blue and his bride
will be given a real Alaska
welcome and the“ glad hand’
by every one in town. The re
ception will be followed by a
►dance amfiumrhemi, the latter
prepared by the ladies of Hy
i dev.
; As indicated in a telegram re
ceived on the occasion of that
| happy event, Mr. Blue and
I Miss Brown were wedded at
the Drake Hotel in Chicago.
The wedding was a quiet af
fair, with only the immediate
members of the bride’s family
attending. The nuptial cere
mony was conducted by the
I Rev. Frederick \ Hawley, of
Chicago. Following the wed
Iding they proceeded to Minne
apolis, where they spent sev
| ral days with the bride’s par
l ents, Mr. and Mrs. Rome G.
j Brown, before proceeding to
the Pacific Coast via the Can
! adian Pacific.
Mrs. Blue, is an affable and
charming lady, whose pres
ence in our midst provides a
welcome addition to the social
life of the community. She is a
[ graduate of Smith College and
also attended the University of
Minnesota. She is a member of
The Kappa Kappa Gamma
Greek letter fraternity, one of
the largest college fraternities.
After leaving college she en
gaged in social service work,
at first in connection with a
family welfare association and
later with the American Red
Cross, being associated with
medical social service of that
organization in the U. S. Vet
erans Hospital at Waukesha,
Wisconsin. During the war
period, Mrs. Blue also lent hei
services to the Red Cross In
home work. Her father, Mr.
Rome G. Bown, is an old ana
highly respected member of
the' Minnesota bar and senior
member of the law firm of
Brown and Guesmer, as well
as a prominent member of
I the American Bar Association.
, As the camp’s pioneer attor
OLD TIMER PASSES ON
W. L. Paulson, widely known
old timer of this section and
associate of M. D. Tckis in var
ious minin'? pr^oerties in the
Salmon River district, passed
away January 23 at the Alta
Crest Sanntarinm, near Sno
homish, Wn. according to in
formation received by John
Hovland on the last mail.
Death was due to tuberculosis
of the lungs and was the cul
mination of a long illness. The
deceaesd was aged about 50
years. He was an assayer and
mining engineer by profession
and was associated with the
mining industry in various
narts of Alaska for many
years.
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Late exchanges report that
radio fans in most of the coast
towns were no more successful
than those of Hydor in picking
up the Alaska program, re
cently broadcasted by the Se
ttle Post mteir?encer, thus
disclosing that the failure to
hear the program here was no
due to local conditions or im
proper handling of apparatu .
Press comments indicate thn
no more than scant and d -
jointed fragments of the p.
gram were caught at any p in
>n the lower Alaska coast.
Kindly disposed persons who
have table scraps to dispose of
should remember the gulls and
crows during period? of heavy
snowfall. As a resul. of their
nability to find food, at such
dmes the birds become raven
ously hungry and although
naturally shy of human beings
will frequently run almost any
risk of being captured to se
cure a morsel of food.
After being fed a few times
the birds become so tame
that many w ll almost eat
from one’s hand and display
little or no fear of their bene
factor.
Lay your scraps on a piece of
paper or board where the
birds can reach them. Al
though many may not realize
the fact, the birds are our
friends. Most of them stay in
this locality throughout the
year and perform invaluable
services as scavengers, hence
it is to our benefit to help them
in times of stress.
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Sponges of the “fan” tyne
have been found recently in
the waters of Cook inlet.
ney, president of the Chamber
of Commerce, and one of the
leading spirits in a majority ot
local activities, the groom is so
well known to everyone that a
relation of his antecedents and
connections is decidedly super
fluous.
Owing to the present acute
ness of the local housing prob
lem, Mr. and Mrs. Blue have
not yet decided just whert
they will reside and will re
main for the present at the
Campbell Hotel.
In conclusion the Herald ex
tends to the newly wedded
pair, its own as well as the best
wishes of the entire commun
ity for a long, happy and pros
perous journey over the matri
jmonial sea.