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VOL. 3. NO. 41.
HYDER, Alaska, Sep. 2Q. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
FIRST AEROPLANE
GIVES RESIDENTS
UNUSUAL THRILLS
Shortly after 9 o’clock Monday
morning the first aeroplane to visit
the head of Portland Canal arrived
from Rupert with Capt. Thomp
son at the wheel and Capt. Swan
son, master of the gas boat Pro
vincial, as passenger and pilot.
The distance of about 125 miles
was covered in one hour and 14
minutes. George Bierns and Lm
S Bell, who own the machine, ar
rived Sunday on the Prince Ru
pert. Mr. Bierns, who is one of
the best known residents of inter
ior British Columbia, being mixed
up in several transportation pro
jects, met many old friends here.
The machine is an all-metal,
five-passenger monoplane, of the
latest model, and lands on either
land or water. Mr. Bierns says
he is figuring on fitting it with skis
so that he can land on snow.
Monday afternoon was cloudy
but calm and three ascensions
were made with local joy-riders
as passengers, the first party to go
up being Mr. and Mrs. Tooth,
Mrs. Helen Bell and Wm. Mc
Grew. Then Mr. and Mrs. Tan
ner, M. R. Jamieson G.C. Turner
and Herb McEwan took a spin
through space.
After that Customs Collector and
Mrs. Cameron, Will Cameron Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Crawford
and Edith Crawford traveled the
air route down the canal. All are
enthusiastic regarding the novel
sensation of emulating the eagle,
though some complained when
they landed that their ears hurt,
Coming down from an elevation
of 4,500 feet to the dense atmos
phere of terra firma in a few sec
onds’ time was no doubt the cause.
George Bierns, who has travel
ed the unmapped portions of Brit
ish Columbia, probably, more than
any other living man, and knows
the potential wealth Iving idle
through lack of anyth ig but indif
OPTION IS TAKEN ON
SUNRISE 6R0UP
T. J. Rinehart of Puyallup, who
has been here for several months
looking over various properties,
has taken an option from Pat Mc
Bride on the Sunrise, Sunrise No. 1
and Elizabeth claims, and left last
Sunday for Seattle to try and inter
est capital in the proposition. Mr.
Rinehart has been mining all his
life, principally in Colorado, Mon
tana and the southwestern states,
and he says the showings on the
Sunrise group are good enough for
any country. The claims are lo
cated at the head of Salmon gla
cier, which forms a natural road
way from the property to the Tex
as creek trail. On the surface the
lead shows eight inches of grey
copper and steel galna that assays 1
$78.83 per ton. A few shots were
put in, giving a depth of four feet, j
and there the high-grade is four- j
teen inches wide and assays $171 i
per ton.
M. ALLISON FINISHES
SEASON DEVELOPMENT
M. Allison, who spent the sum
mer working on his group of eleven
! claims between the headwaters of
i rj
Mosquito creek and Bitter creek,
feft Sunday for Ft. St. James B. C.,
where he has a ranch with hiyu
| moose and Bulkley Valley mowich,
' i. e. snowshoe rabbits, for visitors.
jMr. Allison brought down some
| nice-looking specimens of sulphide
' ore and says that surface stripping
and crosscutting has exposed a
j large body of this character. He
i has had assays from picked speci
mens running as high as $94 in
gold and silver. He expects to re
turn neKt spring and continue de
; velopmerit.
ferent trails traversing the vast spa
ces of the interior, believes that the
aeroplane will prove the factor to
open up this wealth. In fact the
I plane has already made a number
of reconnaisance trips, and on one
flight from Hazeiton to I utahde
lake at the extreme head of Finlay
river, he was one hour and fifty
minutes. The best time made to
the lake with a pack train is three
weeks.
Green Theatre
Saturday Night
ANITA STEWART
IN
“A Midnight Romance”
AND
Comedy
fcDITII ROBERTS, NEaL BBRNS
and EDDIE BARRY
IN >
“He Married His Wife”
[Courted His Widow md Honeymooned on Hi* Own Alimony]
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to be
Found elsewhere try i
The Midget Emporium,
R. J. McDonell returned Snnday
from a business trip to Rupert.
The hand-embroidered quilt raf.
fled at the Midget Emporium, was
won by Miss Frances Hall.
W. Stamford, M. E„ of Victoria,
returned Sunday to look after his
mining interests up Bear river.
A. B. Trites, who has the Big
Missouri under bond, returned Sun
day from Vancouver and has gone
up to the mine.
Mrs. J. Mehlfeld, mother of Geo
Mehlfeld, who has been visiting!
here for some time, left Sunday for
her home in Seattle.
Wylie Graham, operating foreman
of the Premier tramline, returned
Sunday from a vacation trip of
several weeks Ontside
The customs house and eommis
sloner’s offloe have been moved
back off of the reserved strip along
the international boundary.
The Marmion cleared for Anyox
Friday with a cargo of 300 tons of
j Premier silicious ore, and towing a
! scow with 1200 tons additional.
Bernard M. Stone has beeu ap
I
i pointed special agent for Alaska of
she Sanity League of America,
which is seeking a repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
Dalby B. Morkill, provincial land
surveyor for British Columbia, has
completed his seasons work in this
section and left Sunday for Smith
i ers where he will survey a number
j of claims.
buy Larson arrived on the rnnce
j of Wales last Thursday, coming
i from Wrangell. He has been pros
j pecting on the Iskut river, on what
j is believed to be an extension of
! the Portland Canal mineral belt.
Con Edwards, who has mining
property on the west coast of Prince
of Wales island, and H. F. Bain,
boiler inspector of the London Ac
cident and Guaranty Company,
were round trip passengers on the
Prince of Wales.
Captain H. P. Crowther, U. S.
mineral surveyor, has finished sur
veying ths Stoner group for the
j Federal Mining and Milling Co.,
; and also four claims for H. B.
Stoner. He is now working out the
lines of the Virginia group and
Charlie Lake's Cascade claim.
! Hugh Davies, second engineer on
the Anyox, has reeeived a clipping
from an Old Country paper showing
i that his brother, J, Davies, of Twnan
Dolwen, Abergele, won the “Bod
jnant ChallengeC up,” (presented by
i the Right Hon. Lord Aberconway,)
I for the best gelding or mare calcu
j lated for husbandry, at the Llanwrst
I show, the big North Wales expo
! sition. (Note—The names in this
i are spalled correctly.)—Ed.
Mrs. Helen Hill, known all over
the north as “Mother Hill,” arrived
on the Prince of Wales, coming
from Mayo. Mother Hill mushed '
in to DawsoD over the Dyea trail in |
1898 and has been in practically i
every stampede camp in Yukon and 1
Alaska since that date. She is!
•aid to be the last of the early •
pioneer women to leave the north.
Capt. E. V. Clary, who has been
employed with E. J. Williams for j
the past seven years, accompanied ;
by Mrs. Clary and their two child- ’■
ren, Eunice and Robert, were south
bound passengers on the Spokane 1
on their way to California, where
they will make their home. They
will visit in Los Angeles for a few
weeks and then go to San Diego —
Ketchikan Chronicle
i I
Jack Regan and Jim Grant have!
purchased the launch owned by C.
S. Blair, Wes. Myers and the late
Frank Wiss who was killed by a
tree a few weeks ago. Messrs. Re
gan and Grant have also taken over
the logging contract upon which
the other three were working, and
which calls for 200,000 feet of logs,
board measure. The timber is be
ing cut for the Hyder Lumber Co.
Joe McDonald, “Diamond Joe",
who diamond drilled the Titan two
years ago, has been working there
since development started under
the unit syndicate plan, and came
down Friday, leaving Sunday for a
short visit in Prince Rupert. Joe
says that the face of the tunnel
was in good looking ore when he
left and he is glad to be taking an
intrest in the property as a part of
his wages.
Judge James Wickersham, Pat
McBride and T. J. Rinehart took a
three days’ hike the latter part of
last week, mushing up the Salmon
glacier and examining the prospects
on the west side of that body of
ice, crossing over to Summit lake
and returning by way of the Indian
mine, a trip of sixty odd miles.
The Judge says there is a great
amount of prospecting and develop
ment work being done throughout
the district they covered, and
blasting in ~al| directions sounded
like cannonading.
Ernest Blue, accompanied by his
wife ai.d son, arrived Sunday on
the Prince Rupert. Mr. Blue, who
has been attending the convention
in Mooseheart of the Loyal Order
of Moose as representative from
Alaska, returned west via the Grand
Trunk, meeting Mrs. Blue and their
son in Rupert, they having come
north from their home in Seattle.
There \ ere more than 1160 dele
gates .it the Moose conversion, Mr.
Blue says, and twice that many
visitors. But for the railroad strike
the number would undoubtedly
have been much greater.
CRIPPLE CREEK TUNNEL
GIVES ENCOURAGEMENT
Harry Hummel, who is driving
a tunnel on the Cripple Creek pro
perty at Nine-mile, was down Fri
day and said that he has the tunnel
15 feet under cover and that the
face gives every encouragement
fo» continuing it. On the hanging
wall there is a streak of solid steel
galena from the thickness of a knife
blade up to four inches, and the
foot wall is in quartz which is be
coming sprinkled with galena.
Between the high-grade and the
quartz is a greenstone horse from
a foot to two feet in width, but he
believes that this will eventually
pinch out and that the high-grade
and quartz will make one lead.
The tunnel starts from the road,
and is ideally situated for shipping,
should any considerable tonnage of
good ore be opened up.
ALMOST READY FOR
STARTING PRINCE JOHN
Bill Irwin was in Saturday night
and said that his crew had finished
the trail on the west side of Bear
river as far as the first Prince John
camp, and that he expected to be
able to get through with pack
horses to the upper camp within a
week. The crew was put on by
C. A. Mackenzie, who has the
Prince John bonded, to augment
the work being done by the govern
| ment, which was not proceeding
with enough momentum to reach
its objective in time to be of ser
vice to the property this fall. Bill
| Irwin has taken a contract for 300
! feet of underground development,
I the first 160 feet, according topres
: ent calculations, being a crosscut
j tunnel and the other 140 a drift
I along the vein.
GOLD, SILVER, COPPER
ON MARMOT CLAIMS
_
H. C. Magee was over for the
week end from the Patricia group
on the south fork of the Marmot,
and reports that an average sam
ple taken across an eight-foot cut
on the “Black Canyon” lead assays
$169.88. Dr. McKechnie of Van
couver is interested in the property.
I Mr. Magee has also done some work
j on the Fountain group, adjoining
the Montana, stripping a copper
. lead that shows 15 feet wide, with
about four feet very heavily min
! eralized with chalcopyrite.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
One-half interest in a lot on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for
one-half the original cost Ask Joe Green
tawrance, the Watchmaker.
II
I!
HAS AUSPICIOUS
OPENING PARTY
Fall and winter social activities
of the district commenced Friday
night with the opening of the
“Chicken Inn," the attractive way
side hostelry built this summer at
Fish creek by Mrs. Helen Bill
and Mrs. Flmer W. Smith. Mo;e
than fifty friends of the hostesses
motored out from Stewart, Hyder
B. C. and Hyder Alaska, and ail
are full of praise for the hospitality
shown them. Mesdames Bell and
Smith spared no pains to bring the
affair to the acme of perfection, ar d
how well they succeeded is evi
denced by the fact that their gue? s
are speaking of this as the precur
sor of many enjoyable parties to
come.
The ballroom, which occupies
two-thirds of the ground floor, was
in the pink of condition, and Will
Cameron at the piano—well, every
one in the district has danced to
his music and knows what that
means. A1 Blackburn, the spec
ially imported Virginia chef of the
Alaska Cafe, was loaned to pre
pare the supper, and his Southern
style of cooking chicken, say—the
demaud was such that “Tony” and
“Dad" almost needed rolier skates
j to keep it moving fast enough,
j Between the combination of
! chicken and dancing, the party did
j not break up until 3:30 a. m„ and
| then the guests departed only with
| regret that the nights are not longer.
Among those present were:
From Stewart; Mr. and Mrs.
' Crosbie, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron,
! Mr. and Mrs. Dann, Mrs. Tolin,
Mrs. Gibson, Miss Lois Comer,
Miss Phyllis Cameron, Jack Gray,
Allan Cardan, Pat O’Hara, Geo.
Turner, Mr. Mabee, G. Stewart,
Master George Tolin; from Hy
der B. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Tooth;
from Hyder Alaska; Mr. and Mrs.
Bunting, Mr. and Mrs. Backus,
Mr. and Mrs. Baynton, Mr. and
Mrs. Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Mayo,
Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Watson, Mrs.
Davis, J. F. Ritchie Jr., F. Dorey,
G. C. Turner, F. G. Hanford, C.
S. Blair, Mr. Kline, E. R. Stivers,
A. Baynton Jr., W. McGrew, J.
Williams, Dr. Hedger, R. Stuart,
H. H. Howard, F. Reichenbach.
Mr. Nicholson, J. Comer, Bud
Collier, H. Hucke, F. Seppi, W.
Orr, Walter Blanton.
Experienced Northern woman wants
job cooking. Enquire at Miner office.
Pure, dear, spring-water ICE!!
Order from Potts or Traversy.
Lot for sale in Hyder, B. C.
Best location. Alexander Gallaghe ,
Ocean View Hotel.
Russian steam baths $1. II. J. Scott.
Cabins to rent. Btondy Charlton.