HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
at 8 p. m.
Sunday School at 11 a. m.
Everyone Welcome
Rev. C. T. Hatten, Pastor
BRIEF ITEMS FROM AH
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA 1
Wireless reports from Kod
iak and Dutch Harbor say the
recent severe earthquake trem
ors along the lower Alaska
Coast were not felt at those
places.
G. W. Glass recently acquir
ed leases and options on about
two and a half miles of placer
ground on Moore Creek in the
Kuskokwim section and has
left McGrath to prospect the
; property with a view to install
ing a dredge if the returns are
'favorable.
Following the earthquake on
the lower .Alaska coast, two
snowslides came down over
the Alaska railroad tracks at
Mile 71.2 and Mile 71.4. The
first slide was 400 feet long
and ten feet in height. The
'second occurred at approxi
mately the same time and
measured 80 feet in length
and 12 feet deep.
The Associated Oil Company
stopped drilling in the Kana
itak field last month owing to
extreme cold freezing the oil
| residue used as fuel, making
it impossible to continue. The
company had reached a depth
of 2300 feet. The Standard Oil
Company is down over 3000
feet, with prospects encourag
ing. The Associated Company
will install new machinery anjd
resume drilling in the spring,
according to Manager G. L.
Jones.
Reliable reports say the Unit
ed States Smelting, Refining
and Mining Company has ac
quired the Hammon Consoli
dated Goldfields Company, of
Nome, where the latter com
pany operates three of the
largest gold dredges in the
Territory. The deal is said to
include all the Hammon Com
pany holdings at Nome, as well
as valuable equities in the
Fairbanks district.
G. G. Lemons prominent Eng
lish mining promoter, who se
cured capital to install the first
dredge in the Fairbanks dis
trict and who returned to Fair
banks a year ago on a new pro
motion scheme, followed by
coming of more English money,
is again back in the country.
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PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
HYDER, ALASKA
THE PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
Presents Grenter Opportunities for Legitimate Mining Investment than any -Mining District
on the Continent. In *additionto the great Premier, the most Spectacular Silver-Gold Mine
in Existence, with a. record ok'over Seven Millions in Dividends in Four Years, the Portland
Canal District contains Two Producing Mines; a Half Dozen or More on the-Very Thresh
old of Production, and Numerous Partially Developed Properties Which Hold Forth ■* Every
Prospect of Becoming Paying Mines.
The Minerfilization is Proved: Only Capital and Intelligent Mining is Required to Make
the District the Greatest Mineral Producing Area on the Globe.
VANCOUVER SUN BOOSTS
ALASKA- CANADIAN RAIL
ROAD EXTENSION
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The following splendid boost
for the -proposed Stewart-Hy
der railway extension is re
printed from a recently issued
special mining edition of the
Vancouver Spn. Owing to the
wide circulation and prestige
of the Vancouver journal, the
article represents perhaps the
most,valuable bit of publicity
so far received by that import
jant proposal.
The original article was sup
plemented by a quarter page
topographical map of the pro
posed route from Peace river
and also by a reproduction of
the so called O’Dwyer survey
from Spirit on the Edmonton
and Dunvegan railway to Ft.
Cornell on the Skeena river,
including an outline of the sur
vey of the Stewart extension
from that point, made in con
nection with the Bear river
railway plan of Sir Donald
Mann. —(Editor.
The above topographical il
lustration shows at a glance
the geographical location of
the only International World
Port. Situated at the head of a
natural deep-water canal pen
etrating the coast i-ange of
mountains and terminating at
Stewart, B. C., and Hvder,
Alaska, one hundred miles in
land from the Pacific Ocean,
this water highway positively
ELIMINATES the necessity of
millions of dollars in construct
ions, maintenance and oper
ating, a FIXED CHARGE FOR
ALL TIME against all other
trancontinental railroads to
the south of this point.
The map shows an existing
railway from Edmonton to
Spirit River; Mr O’Dwyer’s of
ficial government survey from |
Spirit River to Fort Connelly,
and projected route surveyed
for Sir Donald Mann from that
point to Stewart and Hyder.
Stewart and Hyder are the
bases for operations in one of
the richest lode mining sect
ions on this continent. The
metalliferous mining resources
of the Portland Canal District
are producing real wealth. One
; mine in this district has paid j
lover $6,000,000 in cash divi- j
dends in four years. The Gran
:by Company there have mined
millions of dollars in wealth
and distributed same in nat
jural channels of commerce.
Other properties under devel-,
iopment in the Stewart District
j will soon add to this accomp
lishment.
! Anthracite coal is the back
bone of Pennsylvania. Over a
dozen railroads are required to
haul anthracite coal from
ir'ennsylvania mines to tide
water. Anthracite coal at
Ground Hog Mountain, JOS
miles east of Stewart, is ih
abundance. Forty-seven square
miles of the estimated 2000
square miles of anthracite
fields contain—computations
made by Pennsylvania Coal
Engineers;—one thousand one
hundrer million tons of coal
for which ready all-the-year
markets exist on the Pacific
and Atlantic seaboards.
Sir Henry Thornton’s invest
igation showed that the Peace
River area would produce 600,
000,000 bushels of wheat, in
terms of money at recent
prices, $1,200,000,000.00, and
in terms of traffic, 1200 train
loads of 50 cars each. A pro
portional traffic composed of
other grains, oats, barley, flax,
etc., mixed farm products,
stock and mineral production,
would also be automatically
added, at least doubling the
total.
A short-haul railway from
the Peace River District, ter
minating at Stewart, B. ,C„
would be less than one-half
the length of any other rail
way route to tidewater from
that point. The foregoing
short-haul PHASE is the EC
ONOMIC solution of populat
ing Northern British Columbia j
and Alberta with ULTIMATE j
MILLIONS of people. Given ■
this ECONOMIC transportat-!
ion system, "highly profitable ;
farming would result, in ad- j
dition to the permanent and J
very profitable factor created
by transportation of Anthra
cite Coal from Ground Hog
fields to tidewater and world
markets via Stewart, B. C., a
traffic of necessarily tremend
ous magnitude. This Stewart
railway with a mile extension
would connect Alaska over ex
isting railways with Minne
apolis, St. Paul and all other
American points, involving
practically the same length of
rail haul and the same cost for
railway freight per ton, deliv
ered at Hyder, Alaska, a Ter
minal point, as compared with
any of the other Pacific Coast
Terminals, American or Can
adian, thus ensuring IMMED
IATE PROFITABLE operat
ion of the railway.
No exception can be taken to
this international interchange
of traffic from a national view
point, as the main line of
the Canadian Pacific Railway
crosses the State of Maine en
route to Atlantic Terminals
and the Canadian National
operate a network of railways
in the United States with one
of the most important Termin
als at Chicago.
Hundreds of millions of dol
ENORMOUS DEMAND
FOR ALASKA FURS
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick sale.
Money sent same day shipment comes in—cash, draft or
money order, whichever you want. ACT NOW—if you
have one skin or a hundred. Ship to us at once.
Fouke FurId.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
lars are in the vaults of the
Federal Reserve Banks of the
United States awaiting invest
ment. Show the American in
vestor where he can put this
money to work where it will
be safe and also earn a hand
some profit, and he will under
take a policy of fully develop
ing the resources of Alaska to
the utmost possiLle extent, a
| policy dictated by both com
mercial and patriotic reasons,
and one which will include
co-operation in providing the
necessary railway connection
with Hyder, Alaska, as the
| only possible Terminal.
ALASKAN COMMERCE HAS
ALREADY EXCEEDED $1,
500,000,000.00. With a direct
all-rail route, rapid ECONOM
IC transportation facilities for
Alaska will make her past
commerce of one and one-half
billion dollars, multiply many
fold, and this 450-mile link cf
railway will secure to Minne
apolis and St. Paul and other
American cities, their full
share of the existing known
(Sommerce and traffic, also an
opportunity to increase their
business enormously.
BRITISH COLUMBIA MIN
ERAL PRODUCTS HAVE EX
CEEDED $800,000,000. The
450-mile railway link will bi
sect and at once provide trans
portation for one of the rich
est mineral belts in the world,
comprising the Portland Canal
area containing Gold, Silver,
Lead and Copper; the Ground
Hog area, Anthracite Coal,
■the Ingenika area,* Silver and
Lead; the Omineca area, Gold
;and Silver; the Hudson Hope
area, Smokeless Coal and
j Hematite Iron, with the inev
itable result of bringing in a
big NEW population for em
ployment in the HIGHLY
iPAID minig industry and cre
lating a great NEW demand
! for CANADIAN MANUFACT
iURES. Given an international
rail connection at Stewart, B.
C., and Ilyder, Alaska, coup
ling up Canadian and Amer
ican communities with the
| farthest west and providing
:fo’r Northern B. C., and Al
\ borta, by the same line of rail
way, transportation facilities,
| for tl^pir basic commodities ov
er a short-rail haul to tidewat
er at Stewart, then both nat
ions will share in an IMMENSE
and INEVITABLE increase in
Commerce and Wealth and
the INDUSTRIAL EAST, both
in Canada and the United
States, will reap enormous ben
efit from their respective Can
adian and Alaskan territories.
OVER MILLION U. S.
MINE WORKERS
According to figures compil
ed by engineers, a survey of
the mining industry in the
United States reveals that
there are approximately one
arid a half million mine work
ers in the country. About 35
par cent of these work above
ground and the other 65 per
cent underground.