HYDER \tfEEKLY MINER
Formerly The Hyder Alaska Miner
Published every Monday by the Hyder Miner Publish
ing <Jo., Hyder, Alaska.
Entered as second-classmatter at the postoffice at
Hyder. Alaska, November 4,1919, under tne Act of March
8, 1879.
CHAS. F. SANPF0RD...~~7" . . ..t.."Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
With the greater part of the
district still practically unex
polred, the Portland Canal
mineral area is a veritable land
of golden opportunity for the
earnest, industrious seeker for
mineral wealth. Furthermore
it is a section where the novice
at prospecting has practically
as good a chance to locate a
valuable property as the ex
peri 3nced prospector. That
the assertion is true needs no
further examplification than
is provided by the case of Joe
Jackson, discoverer of the won
derfully mineralized Texas
Creek region, which is now at
tracting the attention of min
ing men throughout the coun
try. Joe, an untutored, unletter
ered Finnish lad, employed as
a camp cook and possessing no
mining experience whatever,
decided to go prospecting one
day. Suiting action to desire,
Joe started forth, making his
way a short distance beyond
the borders of the small ex
plored mineral area. Here,
scarce a good days journey
bom the gerat Premier, he lo
cated and staked one of the
largest surface showings of
galena ore ever known—
a massy ledge of mineral, hun
dreds of feet in length, yards
in width and protruding from
fhe eroded country rock in a
rugged upthrust which at a
distance resembles the crumb
1 ng ruins of some ancient cas
tle. Assays of the raw, surface
ore disclosed values in silver,
gold and lead of $96 and bet
ter to the ton. Some one
has said: “God had his arms
around Joe Jackson” that bal
my July day less than a year
ago. However that may be, cer
tes it is that, inexperienced and
unsophisticated as he was, Joe
climbed among the rugged
heights and found one of the
most remarkable surface min
eral showings ever revealed
to the eyes of man, in addition
to opening a new and unknown
field in which hundreds of
others located valuable mining
ground.
Joe Jackson is not yet rich, in
the active sense. Perhaps he
may never be. Like so many of
his kind on whom the gods of
luck have smiled in the North
land, he may trade this re
markable depository of wealth ;
for some pitiful mess of pot-;
tage; throw it away in pursuit j
of some foolish lust, but that;
Joo Jackson possesses a for-1
tune in the making a a result
of his unsophisticated pros
pecting effort all agrre who
have seen th mighty ledge of i
mineral he found among the j
hills. Time will be required ao;
make its inherent riches avail-J
able. Roads and trails must be !
made into the almost inaccess
ible mountain fastness where
it lies and development work
must be done to open the great I
ore body for commercial ex-;
lo:tat!ion. These things take j
time and only a few short j
months have passed since Joe j
and Fortune met on that lonely 1
mountain side.
Call it “fool’s luck’’ if you
will, the fact remains that
there are few places under the
sun outside of the Hyder min
ing district where an inexper
ienced greenhorn cq|n locate
a fortune by the mere exercise ;
of energy and determination.
The bulk of the Hyder dis
trict is still an unknown land
so far as the prospector and
miner is concerned. What lies
among the craggy peaks a few
miles beyond the confines of
the explored areas no man can
tell. Yet always as men go far
ther into the mountain fast
nesses more mineral is reveal
ed. A bettor land for the man
who wants to prospect for a
fortune cannot be found in the
new world or the old, for every
where that men with strength
and courage have gone the op
portunities for mineral discov
eries have appeared in profus
ion.
We do not cousel the influx
of the jobbite or those who
hope to gain riches by little ef
fort. Conditions are unfavor
able at present for the wage
seeker unless experienced in
mining, and the easy money j
element will find that brawn
aa well as brain must be exerts
i ed to wrest from Mother Earth
|her buried treasures. But for
| the man who comes to pros*
i pect and imbued with the true
prospectors courage and deter
mination to. find a fortune,
the land is one filled match
less opportunities for fortune
in return for sincere and stur
dy effort.
Just For Fun
In the ancient days whiskey
was aged in wood by the dis
tiller. Now-a-days the distiller
merely makes it. The under
taker supplies the wood.
“Give me two eggs, one fried
on one side, one on the other,”
growled the irascible looking
customer to the colored waiter.
“Ya’, Ya,’Yas sir,” stuttered
the astonished darkey as he de
parted for the kitchen with a
dazed look in his eyes.
After a few moments he re
turned, nervously approached
the customer and stammered:
“ S-s-s-say, boss,” he began,
timidly, “Would you mind
repeatin’ dat dere order ob
lyou’rn?”
; The customer glanced up ang
| rily at the shivering darkey.
| “i said I wanted two eggs,
one fried on one side, one on
the other,” he growled. “Now
get out and get them and be
j mighty quick about it! Do you
get me?
“ Ya-yas air! Right away,
sah,” the waiter hurriedly re
! plied as he hastened away.
After a short time he return
ed with his right optic closed,
hi collar loose, coat ripped up
the back and wearing a much
bedraggled aspect. Limping
painfully to the table where
the customer was seated, he
quavered haltingly: "S-s-s-say,
boss; would you-all mind
changin’ dat order jes’ a little
bit? Ah did de bes’ Ah could
sah, but ah done had a fright
ful altercation wM de cook.”
Man is but a worm of the
dust. He cometh up, wriggleth
about—and then some chicken
gets him.
Jones was the father of four
teen. One day he decided to
take them all on an excursion
into the country. On reaching
a busy street corner, he halted
for a moment at the crossing
to admonish his offspring to
follow close behind and hasten
their steps in crossing to avoid
being run down. On reaching
the farther corner, Jones found
further progress blocked by!
the bulky form of the traffic j
officer.
“What have you been up tp?”
demanded that Worthy, glow
ering at the mystified Jones.
.-“Who? me?" stuttered the
surprised Jones. “Why, I’ve not
been doing anything.”
"Then why,” demanded the
suspicions copper, "is all this
here crowd a’follerin' you?”
Nothing is impossible, accord
ing to the old saw. But we won
der if the guy who wrote it
had ever tried to scratch a
match on a cake of soap.
Although Alaska ladies are
usually keen on voting, we
don't suppose they are quite as
much interested in the hats in
the ring as they are in the hate
in the show windows.
A restaurant, according to
Max Behrmann, is a place
where a man will kick about
things he is afraid to kick
about at home.
World Census
Shows Big Surplus
Of Females
That there are more women
than men in the world, is the
conclusion drawn by a statist
ician after recent- researches.
Among the 475,000,000 in
habitants of the earth, there
are 250,000,000 women, 25,
000,000 more than the number
of men, his figures show. In
Germany there are 1,026 wom
en to each 1,000 men; In Rua>
sia, 1,400 women to each 1,000
men; and in France and Bel
gium, respectively, 1,098 and
1,033 for each 1,000 men. The
1920 census reports for the
United States show that there
are 1,040 males to every 1,000
females in this country. The
preponderance of women in
foreign lands is believed to be
partly explained by the death
toll of numerous wars in the
past few generations.
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
Sunday School at 11 o’clock
Classes for all ages
Preaching at 8 o’clock P. M.
Rev. F. E.Reddick Pastor.
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