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HYDER, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,1924
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
$#• HOLDS BUSINESS LUNCH
A large and representative
' gathering of business men at
tended the first monthly lunch
^fc^eon of the newly organized
t ^tiyder Chamber of Commerce
held at the Ideal Cafe Tuesday
last, and not only enjoyed an
% excellent luncheon, but also
* set in motion a number of pro
ects which will ultimately ire
ound to the benefit of the
Community and district.
: Chief among the matters dis
cussed by the gathering was
question of devising ways and
eans to secure protection for
the town from the encroach
ments of Salmon river. A com
mittee of the Chamber has the
matter in hand and is outlining
a definite plan of proceedure.
Photographs have been taken
wand a map prepared showing
the area inundated during
periods of high water. The
plans of the committee include
i. presentation of the situation
to the Rivers and Harbors
Committees of both houses of
Congress and Colonel James
Steese, head of the Alaska
Jkcad Commission.
£he destruction of the Sal
? n River telephone line by
tn*;se in charge of the road
construction operations of the
Bureau of Public roads in the
vicinity of Seven Mile, was al
a subject of considerable
ussion.
^<;nccurum{$ tu me aucgauuns
made, it appears that the road
o'.i struction contractors, Seims
'1 Carlson, felled trees
<t9k- :\#<yross the telephone line at
^*«!s«p|v€ral points without attempt
«— f% to avoid damaging the
wires or to notify the owners
hat removal was necessary.
T . otests on the part of the tele
phone officials, it was claimed
, resulted in their being told
the company had no permit
p- from the Forestry bureau to
satablish the line and deserved
itb consideration for that reas
on addition, it was charged,
rtt one of the Bureau of Pub
Roads officials presented
t a further defense of the
contractor’s action the state
ment that the line was “no
good anyway.”
The value of the line as a
maans of communication be
tween Hyder and the camps
and road houses along Salmon
River valley was emphasized
by several speakers and its de
k struction severely condemned.
The various speeches demon
strated that the new Chamber
is thoroughly alive to the need
for concerted action in secur
ing benefits for the community
£ and district and is preparing
to take an aggressive stand in a
large numbers of matters af
fecting the communal welfare.
The organization meeting of
thee Chamber was held August
6th at Pioneer Hall/ with
practically all business inter
e^ s represented, in addition
to a considerable number of
% citizens.
firmest Blue was elected
pr;;'ident; Merl F. Thomas,
vice president, E. D. Haddon,
secretary, and H. H. Howard,
. tie. surer. The following ex
ecutive. committee was also
named, Ernest Blue, Merl F.
Thotnas, E. D. Haddon, J. A.
. Hall and J. A. Talbot. Twenty
Jj^fife persons signed the roster.
^ ' Matters discussed at the init
jallmeeting were publicity,
riv-T protection, street light
r * and the establishment of
"J 'ix i> ineral exhibit to demon
resources
^strace the mineral
*of the district.
Meetings of the Chamber
wilr be held every second Tues
day and a luncheon will also
be held monthly. Quarters for
NEW MINISTER
COMING SOON
The pulpit of Hyder M. E.
Church, vacant since the resig
nation of Dr. F. E. Reddick
several weeks ago, will soon
be occupied by a new minister,
according to a communication
from Dr. J. T. McQueen, Dist
rict Superintendent of Meth
odist-Episcopal churches in
Alaska, to J. A. Hall, of the
Salmon River Banking Comp
any.
Writing from Chehalis, Wn.,
Dr. McQueen says that Hyder
has not been forgotten and he
is planning to send a minister
here after the M. E. Confer
ence at Bremerton, Wn., Sept
10, at which time all mission
ary appointments are made.
Dr. McQueen says he plans
to send a good, capable man
here about the latter part of
the present month and express
es the hope that he will win
the confidence and loyal coop
eration of the residents of Hy
der.
GOOD PROGRESS ON
TEXAS PACK TRAIL
The trail building activities
of the Forest Service on Tex
as Creek are rapidly opening
an avenue of easy access to
that hitherto difficult region.
The pack trail has now reach
ed a point about three miles
above the Texas Creek bridge
and is being pushed forward
at an excellent rate in spite of
numerous handicaps due to the
rough character of the coun
try. Three men are also en
gaged in the construction oi a
bridge ner,r the government
cabin four miles farther up the
creek. A crew of fifteen men
is employed under the direct
ion of James D. Lyons. It is ex
pected that the trail Mil be
completed to the government
cabin at mile 7 by the close of
the season.
Although at present extend
ing less than half way up the
creek, the new trail is already
proving of great benefit to the
miners of that section by facil
itating the transportation of
supplies and opening the way
for quicker communication.
When completed the trail will
extend to within a short dis
tance of the Texas Creek Corn
stock group, near the head of
the creek and will cover prac
tically every important miner
al location in the valley below
Chickamin glacier.
R. E. Lundvall, of the Wash
ington Mining Syndicate has
completed assessmeht work
on the Syndicate properties on
the Marmot and has gone to
the States for the winter. Mr.
Lundvall expects to return in
the spring with a large outfit
and proceed with development
on an extensive .scale.
a combined Club and meeting
rooms are also being consider
ed. All residents of Hyder
who are interested in promot
ing the growth and welfare of
the town and district are in
vited to join. Charter mem
bership has been fixed at the
nominal sum of $10 with no
assessments.
The charter is still open, en
abling those who apply at once
to take advantage of the low
membership fee. After closing
the charter an increased fee
will be charged.
Mineral location and proof of
labor blanks at the -Herald of
fice.
HOBO GROUP SOLD TO
VANCOUVER PEOPLE
A mining deal of more than
nominal importance was con
summated during the past
week when the Hobo Group,
adjoining the Alaska Premier
properties in upper Salmon
River valley, was sold by Al
bert Johnson and Marius Ped
erson, to Messrs. Chaffee and
Frazier, of Vancouver, B. C.
The deal was negotiated by
William Bunting, with Mr.
Frdzier, acting for the pur
chasers.
The price paid for the prop
erty is $16,000, of which $2600
was cash, balance in three
months.
The Hobo Group comprise*
six claims and contains some
splendid surface, showings,
said to carry good values in
gold and silver.
In a statement to the Herald,
Mr. Frazier said the new own
ers expect to proceed with de
velopment and two tunnels
will probaably be run but no
definite program will be out
lined until after his return to
Vancouver.
Mr. Bunting will probably be
in charge of such development
work as may be inaugurated.
FAILURE TO PERFORM
ASSESSMENT WORK
FORFEITS LOCATION
Owing to considerable-con
fusion locally regarding the
performance of annual assess
ment work on Mining Claims;
the following article from the
pen of Maurice D. Leehy, re
painted from the 1 Alaska
Weekly, will serve to correct
some very erroneous impress
ions.—
“In Alaska, the annual
assessment work must be com
pleted before noon of July 1.
“Further, the failure to fully
complete assessment work in
Alaska, before the end of the
fiscal year for which the work
is intended, absolutely for
feits .the location and renders
it void. Such a failure in the
States merely renders them sub
ject to forfeiture; that is, the
ground may be located by
another qualified locator. But
in the States an owner who
failed to do the assessment
work on such a mining claim
may still hold it by resuming
work, if he does so before any
body else has made a new lo
cation on the ground. In other
words, such a failure in the
States merely makes the claim
‘subject to forfeiture,’ while
the failure in Alaska actually
forfeits and terminates all
rights of the locator. An Alask
an location cannot be held aft
er such failure by resuming
work or by continuing work
started before the end of the
assessment year and not com
pleted in time. The Alaska lo
cator loses his claim even if no
location is attempted by any
body else. The only way such a
locator in Alaska can hold
such ground is by a new locat
ion, and in Alaska a forfeiting
claim owner cannot make a
new location of the same
ground until another year has
passed. See Act of Congress of
March 2, 1907 (35 Stats. L
1243). Thatcher vs. Brown,
190 Feb. 708 and 711 111 C.C.
A. 436. ”
The Porter-Idaho has install
ed a large float at the ore land
ing on the Marmot, to facili
tate shipping.
Pete 'Miller, an employee of
the Jumbo mine at Kennecott,
was killed recently while al
work in the mine.
I
MINING NOTES
Hewitt and Carlson have dis
covered a splendid vein of ore
on the Ibex No. 7, a new locat
ion made by them during the
Rast spring adjacent to the
>ex Group, located by them
last year. Samples of the ore
brought to town during the
past week show a large per
centage of steel galena and
gray copper. The new vein, is
said to have a trend approxi
mately the same as the Home
stake, leads, and is thought to
be an extension of the splendid
showings on the latter proper
ty, which lies a short distance
to the north of the new find.
A new camp of sufficient
size to house a crew of 18 men
is under construction on the
Daly Alaska.
An additional 300 feet of
tunnel is being added to the
500 foot drift run during the
past winter.
Joe Connors and Dave Mc
Vey are prospecting their
ground near the Homestake
Group and are said to have un-'
covered some fine looking ore.
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Work on the Cronholm-Bart
holf properties in the Salmon
glacier section is proceeding
, at an excellent rate and ship
ments of ore will be made
this fall if conditions are favor
able.
George Bond and associates
are erecting cabins on their
properties on the south fork of
Marmot river and expect to do
considerable drifting during
the remainder of the season,
McGee and1 wMfUiydotog as>
sossment work on the Montana
group on the south fork of
Marmot.
Dan Woodmore and Ray Sny
der left Saturday to put in a25
or 30 foot cross cut on the 96
claim on Mineral Hill, upper
Salmon Valley. The projected
drift is expected to cut the
main lead at a depth of ap
proximately 30 feet and will
open up to some extent a
splendid looking lead.
Monroe, McBride & McDon
ald, are doing assessment work
on their very promising look
ing properties on AugustMt
and expect to get out a few
tons of ore for sampling pur
poses if conditions are favor
able.
Six men are at work on the
Fraser group on Marmot riv
er and a ton of ore a'day is be
ing prepared for shipment. A
new tunnel is also being driv
en to tap the ore at greater
depth. The property is being
operated under bond by W. R.
Hamer, who expects to put out
at least 100 tons of ore by the
close of the summer season.
A steady steam of high grade
continues to pour down from
the Porter-Idaho and ship-.
, ments are going to the Tacoma
smelter at regular intervals,
with returns maintaining the
high standard that marks the
property one of the richest in
the district. Returns on 106
tons sent to the stnelter ran
$176 per ton.
Despite poor trail conditions,
combined * with bad weather,
Bryson and Hamer, packing
contractors for the Porter-Ida
ho, are landing three tons or
more of ore on the beach daily.
Six men and 98 head of stock
are employed.
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ASKS DATA ON LOCAL
PREPAREDNESS DAY
DEMONSTRATION
In a Seattle telegram ad
dressed to the “ Mayor, ” Col
onel Hartman, U. S. Signal
Corps., requests cable inform
ation concerning the attitude
of citizens toward National
preparedness and the number
participating in whatever pa
triotic demonstration is held
here September 12. Following
is the complete text:
“Mayor, Hyder, Alaska,.
On September 12th, please
cable Signals, Seattle, to arrive
not later than 1 p. m. Seattle
time, for transmission to Com
manding General, 9th Corps
area,
lst-Estimate number of organ
ized reserve personnell partici
pating in patriotic demonstratr
ion.
2nd-Same for citizens. <
3rd-Brief description of dem
onstration.
4th-Resume indicating attitu
de of people toward national
preparedness.”
Signed Hartman.
Colonel, Signal Corps.
As a public report will prob
ably be made from the returns
received, it appears that the
message presents an opportun
ity to gain some advertising
for the town, in addition to
demonstrating our patriotic in
clinations, and a number of cit
izens are endeavoring to work
up a celebration, which it is
hoped will materialize.
Tne time is short but a pro
gram of appropriate exercises
could be arranged and would
provide a fitting testimonial of
our sentiments toward the day.
DISASTROUS FIRE AT
KENNECOTT MINE
The Me Carthy News of Aug.
7, says:
This afternoon a most disas
trous fire broke out in the
power plant of the Kennecott
Copper Corporation resulting
in the total loss of the plant,
at an estimate of between $1,
500,000 and $2,000,000. The
fire began about 3:15 on the
top side of number four boiler
and in two minutes it was a
roaring inferno of smoke and
flame, barely giving time to
the men on shift to make good
fheir escape.
The mill, machine shop and
a number of the employees
residences in the immediate
viqlinity escaped a !f|m|iliar
fate thru the promptitude of
the men and their heroic ef
forts after the first alarm was
sounded. We extended our
sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. La
mell, whose house was burnt
to the ground and through it
that part of the power plant
being situated next door to
where the fire first began
were unable to save it.
We fear that owing to this
calamity, there will be quite a
lot of men thrown out of work,
not only at the Kennecott
mines but also at the Green
Butte, as all their power was
supplied by the Kennecott
plant, consequently all operat
ions in both camps are at a
standstill and without lights.
.Word was recently received
at Nome that the motorship
Nome, owned by Gus Hend
rickson of Nome, and under
charter tor Sam Magids and
Arnold Castel, had been seized
by the Bolshevist officials on
the Anadyr coast, the cargo
confiscated and ' Magids and
Castel arrested. Magids took
a cargo from Nqme under some
form of arrangement with, the
officials at Moscow, but. the
BolsheviatB at Anadyr refused
to' recognize the orders from
Moscow.
BAD CHECK PASSERS
LAND IN LAW -0'» 3
Two passers of bad •'hecks,
who recently conducted oper
ations in this vicin'ty came to
sudden grief dur’ig the part
few days and are now in dur-*
ance vile awaiting the penal y
of the law.
The first of these diacinle? of
the easy money theory, known
here and in Stewart as “West”
and also as “Rutherford,” wa3
captured at Prince Rupert a
few days ago, after making h's
getaway from this locality,
with both Canadian and Am
erican officials hot on his tra 1.
George Gonders, the second
of the bad check duo, was ar
rested last week on the com
plaint of Deputy Marshal T.
W. Me.Donald, after v" t Ti
ming several local people out
of sums ranging from $40 to
$150, and was bound over to
the Grand Jury after a prel'm
inary hearing before Commiss
ioner Chas. F. Sandford T"e>
day afternoon. The hearing
disclosed that Gonders had not
only been guilty of passing
worthless paper, but had alco
added forgery in one n* his
operations. Although fully a
ware of the consequences of
his acts, Gonders mad° no at
tempt to get away and is said
to have promised to return the
money to his victims. When ar
rested he was working for
Seims and Carlson, contract
ors, for the new road improve
ments on the Salmon River
road.
West, or Rutherford, is said
to be an old offender and has
served several prison terms in
Canada on various charges.
So far as could be a3certain
ed he found buf one victim In
Ilyder and one or two in S ew
art. although several are said
to have narrowly escaped the
wiles of the smooth and gen
foel appearing swindler.
OLD TIMER PASSE3 ON
Thomas Carp outer, employ
ed on the Premier tram lino
«nd widely known old turner of
■he Portland Canal d?
1’ied in Stewart General Hos
pitsl Wednesday evening, at't
U-r an illness of short deration.
I The deceased was taken to the
I hospital in an unconscious con
dition early Wednesday after
; noon apd died at 10 P. M with
out having regained conscious
ness. Death was due primarily
•to liver trouble of long stand
ing.
, Mr.* Carpenter was born at
Bary, Ontario in 1862. Before
coming to this section he was a
pioneer of British ColumHa,
where he was engaged in the
hotel business in Vancouver, ^
Westminister and Hazleton.
Prior to engaging in the hotel
business he followed railroad
ing and possessed the dis’irrt
ion of having been one of the
first to pull a train into Van
couver.
Following his arrival in Hy
der in the fall of 1919, the de
ceased, was associated w'th R.
J. McDonnell in the / laska
Hotel. For the past eighteen
monthsMr. Carpenter was em
ployed on the night shift at
Angle Station No. 1 of the Pre
mier tram line. He was known
as a person of sound integrity,
a conscientious worker and
possessed the esteem of all
who knew him.
He is believed to be survived
by relatives in Ontario but
their residence is not known to
hislocal friends. The remains
were laid to rest in Riverview
Cemetery Saturday afternoon,
following impressive funeral
services n Pioneer Hall under
the auspices of Igloo *\b. 20, ‘
Pioneers of Alaska, of which
he was a member.