'T1'-' •Salmon River District is
A1 clouxly Rich in Minerals
and llyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
This Paper ia Out t* Publish aP
the Mining News. Keep Your
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Time.
VOL. 2. NO. 25.
HYDER, Alaska, May 3i. 1921
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Re-opening
Of Spider
is Planned
From present indications it ap
pears that the cloud which has
been hanging ovei the Spider mine
since the Algunican Development
Company suspended operations last
winter wilt soon bfe brushed away,
work resumed on the property and
the original owners, Hamilton and
Larson, fully protected.
This is th« statement given out
bv F.C. Drumm, an attorney of
Orange, Cal., and Nick V. D. Brock,
a mining man of the same town
who is heavily interested in the
company. Mr. Drumm and Mr.
Brook left for the south Sunday
after spending several days In the
camp and interviewing all those
having a monetary interest in the
settlement of the company's ac
counts here. They made a propo
sition to the creditors which the
latter accepted, and foreclosures
have been suspended until after
such a time as confirmation or re
jection is received from the other
California members of the compa
ny, which it is expected will be
about the 19th of June.
Suspension of work on the Spi
der was brought about by the ab
normal rate of exchange against
Belgian money due to the war, and
ronsequent indisposition on the
part of the Belgian capitalists to
make further top-heavy invest
ments. It appeals now that the
\meriean interest* are out to save
o the company what is undoubt
edly one of the best properties of
(he Salmon basin. Jean Vauophen.
president of the company, has gone
to Belgium to personally explain
h ' aituation to his associates there.
Owing to a mistake on the part of the
Alaska Film Exchange director there was
somewhat of a mix-up in the moving
pictures Sunday night, reel 4 coming
where reel 2 should have shown. This
had the audience guessing, but it was no
fault of the machine operator, who could
not know that a mistake was being made
until the reel was run off,
COMPARES SALMON
ORE OCGURRANCES
TO THE COMSTOCK
Hugh B. McGuire, who controls
the Montana and Tip Top fradtions
comprising a group nearly a mile
in length and lying between the
Big Missouri, Montana and Unicorn
groups; the Vancouver group of
seven claims connecting up the
Premier and the Indian, and an at
tractive copper proposition situa
ted between the Marmot and Geos
gia rivers, returned on the Albert
Sunday, having spent most of the
winter in the oil fields of Arkan
sas.
Mr. McGuire has taken part in
practically every mining excite
ment on the North American con
tinent of the past 30 years. From
hia knowledge gained in the wide
field of experience he has no hesi
tancy in predicting that the Salmon
river basin will produce several
shipping mines. He compares this
section, in its formations and mode
of os- ocCurrances, with the fam
ous Comstock belt of California, of
which he has made a particularly
close study.
What his mining program will be
for this season he has not yet fully
determined, but he will do consid
erable work and also crowa-grant
a number of properties on the B. C.
side.
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EASTMAN
AUTOGRAPHIC KODAKS
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FEATURE ON YOUR KODAK
HYDER DRUG CO:
Oren Fj Hill, Prop:
Hyder, Alaska.
YOUR EASTMAN KODAK AGENTS
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Meet me at the Mecca.
Send this paper to your friend.
Ketchikan Chronicle at the Mecca.
Mrs. Nicholson has returned from a trip
to Juneau.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Pitcher are both
down with the flu.
If it isn't to be found elsewhere, try
The Midget Emporium.
The Taku II was in Thursday from Ket
chikan with eight passengers.
Nick Beiler has returned from a two
months' sojourn at Tenakee Hot Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Connor expect to
leave shortly for their old home, Nenana,
Pat Benson has had a spacious veran
da built across the front of his residence.
Roy Clothier, the Stewart assayer, has
returned from a business trip to Terrace.
(on Beggs writes that he is now in
Valdez after a visit of several weeks in
Seattle.
Blackie Knox and Bert Corrigan, who
left three weeks ago for Ketchikan, have
gone through to Seattle.
The launch Pachena was jn Thursday
from Rupert with (4 passengers and a
full cargo of merchandise.
<'. W.Cheatham, superintendent for the
Alaska Bureau of Public Roads, was in
camp during the stay of the Taku.
Roc. Carder, a pioneer of the camp and
owner of considerable property here, is
now at McGrath, on the Kuskokwim.
The Albert was in Sunday with about
25 passengers and a capacity cargo of
freight, principally general merchandise.
The B C. government has put the road
between Hyder and the rid wharf into
good shape by giving it a aurface coat of
gravel.
Various residents have received garden
plants, befry bushes, rose bushes etc.
from the government experimental farm
in Sitka.
Sam Reschamps, an oidtimef of Stew
art, who located mining property on| Am
erican creek in 1910, Urrl’ ed T hursday
from Seattle,
The oil tanker Petfoleum it of the Stan
dard Oil Company's fleet arrived Sunday
morriing and lay at the wharf Until Mon
day morning discharging.
Although Having a population df over
300, Hyder needs one more child df sdhool
age in order to secure a school hefe, The
minimUm limit is seven.
Joe Fall, who last year was superinten
dent Of the Iletcules, returned dn the Al
bert from the Outside ahd intends spend
ing some time in the camp
Sixteen fine horses, six for the Premier
and ten for the Road Commission, arriv
ed ori the Albert. The Premier biinch
includes two claSsy saddle hfitses.
Tofn Hanson, forrherly forerfian at Nine
mile, and Gils Anderson and GUs Christ
ienson, formerly at the Premier, returned
on tlie Albert frbm a visit in ttiipert.
The dance given in Stetvart last hight
for the benefit of the strikers was well
attended and thoroughly enjoybd. The
various taxis were kept bils^ trfihspoii
ing Hyder people over.
Jimmy Carter has taken bvef “bill's
Boarding House" on the tbreit rfesferve
and is ttirnihg but bread ahd pastry.
Later on lie expects to branch out with
a short order restaurant.
All miners' licenses ih 8:C. expirfe" at
midnight tdnigHt, llfay .1l. Milling Re
corder J.P.Scarlett will keep his office
open until that hodr fhr the benefit hf be
lated applicdnts for renewals.
Benny Erickson and wife arrived Sun;
day from prattle 13 spend the summer ih
Stewart: Bbhny &&§ one of the first
prospectors up the bedr ti . tfr kfid is atlil
int*r«»ttd in (hit UiSiftet.
Ole Olson has built a bridge from In
ternational avenne across the creek to
his cabin.
John McNeill, a pioneer of 1910, who
has property up the Bear river, returned
Thursday from Seattle.
G. E. Hodgkinson has reopened the
Ocean View Cabarat on the wharf ap
proach between Hyder and Stewart.
Yesterday was Decoration Day and a
national holiday. Nobody in llydereven
thought to bury a dead soldier on the
ball grounds.
Ed Belmont, who has been in camp for
a month or more, left on the Taku for
Ketchikan and intends going to Cold Hay
to participate in the oil excitement.
Geo. J. Frizzell, the Rupert marktt
man. came up Thursday to help Stewart
play ball against the strikers. And even
then the latter won the game by such a
majority that it would be a shame to tell
the score.
S. P. Fitzgerald, who has started work
on a new showing on the Independence
group, came down Sunday to set out his
cabbage plants in his home garden. He
and the plants were both lucky. Monday
it rained.
Customs Collector E.1!.Stivers. who has
been in Ketchikan attending court, came
over on the Petroleum ll and put in two
busy days in his office while the ship was
in port. He returned to Ketchikan Mon
day morning.
Father Vanderpool «,f Ketchikan lias
sent Oren *\ Hill an exquisite luncheon
set to be raffled at the Hyder Drug Store
The set is made from the highest grade
linen and beautifully 'hand embroidered
by the ladies of the Altar Society of (lie
Ketchikan Catholic Church
Dr, R.N.Rogers has returned ffom his
old home In Oxford, N.Y., to resume his
practice here A Winter's feasting on the
fatted calf has put him >n such shape
that he needs some nlot*’ mountain climb
ing to train down to his accustomed don
tours,
Wm. McNeish, auditor for the British
Cotuihbia Compensation Board, spent sev
eral days in catttp checking ovef mining
pay rolls. Mf. McNeiSh fakes all of B.C.
north of Vancouver island and west of
Teikwa. He was one time mayor Of Jti
Vancouver and Was a particular friend of
oil the newspapermen.
Prince Rupert papers anhounce the
death in Victoria of Harry E. Rdss> for
merly propfiefhr of the Ehipres9 hotel in
Rupert, and Well knowh throughout the
north. He Was a special friend of min
ers and loggefs, many of whom Have rUa-'
son to be grateful for his generosity. He
leaves a wife and three small children.
John Haati caught a mountain goat
kid a few days ago on the cliffs above
the Silverado group and stahfed tb
camp with it. The kid, which Was
about two days old. Seefnfed perfectly fcoh
tent in his arms, but when he placed it
on the ground to shift the position of his
rifle it hopped away with a bttrst of speed
that Would make 0 race horse ashamed
of himself.
COMPARATIVE WARE SCALE
Following is a table shoeing the
wages paid in variotls oamps ol the
Northwest wheie large ntiihbers of
nteh ar<* bnlployfed:
M inets MtickerS Laborers
Aiiydx $5.00 $4.50 $3.75
Sdrf Inlfet 5.00 4.50 3.75
Premife* 5:50 5.00 4:75
Cteur d'Alene 4.23 4.00 473
Kmtenay &
Slocdfc 4:3(1 4:00 m
Several scores of residents derived am
usement Thursday afternoon from watch
ing a bear which was feeding on the
mountainside across the canal. One man
who had a strong pair of glasses declared
that he could see five bears at one time
but thsn he had probably been over to
Stewart that morning.
SILVERADO SHOWING
HIGH GRADE SILVER
LEAD IS WIDENING
Albert Peterson, who is helping
John Haati open up the ore show
ing on the Silverado group, was in
town yesterday with ore samples
to have ass yed, and also with a
number of loose specimens which
are about as fine as can be found
anywhere aside from native gold
and silver. The specimens show a
preponderance of grey copper with
a sprinkling of chalcopyrite and
steel galena. Some of the surface
ore is beautifully colored with bro
mide of silver. Assays sunning as
high as 1,100 ounces in silver have
been obtained and the boys are
keeping a close check on the val
ues with the in tenth n of sacking
the ore and rawhiding it down the
hill for shipment.
John Haati, who discovered the
property, said Sunday that the lead
has been traced from the gulch in
which one of their tunnels starts
and which is plainly visible from
Stewart, across the mountainside
to the glacier, a distance of 1,000
feet. Three tunnels have been
started and driven 27, 8 and 4 feet.
In the face of the longest tunnel
the lead has widened to two feet.
On the surface it was nine inches
in width.
OH! POOR, POOR STEWART
Hydes ball players took revenge
Sunday afternoon oil the home
grounds for the three wallopings
they have received this year at the
hands of the Stewart team, and
sent the Canadians back home
rending the ambient ozone With a
chorus of pitiful meowing. And
the score, it was a noble score, a
most magnificent soore—20 to 14—
one that the Big League teams with
their meafely little marks of 1—0,
2—1, eto., never even approach. It
was a scord *o bring a look of enVy
into the eyes of a seasoned crick
eter—almost. It looked at times
as though no dne could gb out but
the tide.
Stcwaft looked Sunday afternoon
like the original Deserted Village,
nearly evesybody and his cousin
coming over to see the game. Some
of them went home poorer in pocket
but wiser in experience. The only
Hyder folks who failed to see the
slaughter were those who couldn’t
gel there. The boys have done con
siderable work on the grounds and
intend doing more. By mid-season
they expect to have one of the best
diamonds itl Alaska.
Get Union-made Silver Springs Beer
wholesale dt Tooth's.
Cowhidcj for iawhiding, at C&rblyn’s
BUtcher Shop, Stewhrt.
Big reduction in all kinds of Hardware
Staple gr&ene*. Jack daikon.
Commom
wealth To
Start Work
Emil Davis, one of the three or
iginal owners of the Commonwealth
group of eight claims, his partners
bejng W.LDuff and J. W. Marr. re
turned Sunday from Outside in
company with R.W.Scott, an old
time newspaperman, who will take
a whirl at hard rook mining for a
change. Mr. Davis brought in suf
ficient equipment to start opera
tions on the Commonwealth and
will star* with five men, building a
temporary camp, cutting a trail to
the property and doing enough sur
face work fo determine the best
place to start a permanent work
ing tunnel.
Mr. Davis, who has t been south
for two months, spending most of
his time in Seattle, Tacoma and
Puyallup, says that the company
is strong financially ahd will mint
on a large scale if the present pro
posed development justifies the
expenditure of the capital neces
sary to the undertaking of exten
sive mining operations. The prop
erty is situated 14 miles down the
canal from Hyder on the Alaska
side. Surface prospecting has sat
isfied the locators that they have
an immense body of concentrating
ore.
BUYS PROPERTY FOR STORE
Mrs. Helen Bell, probably the
best known business woman of Al
aska, returned Sunday to Ketchi
kan after spending a week in camp.
While here 6he purchased the
Broadweli building on Main street
and in two weeks expects to return
with a complete stock of ladies
ready-to-wear and men's haberdash
ery Mrs. Bell has stores in Ket
chikan and CordoVa and Was also
forme' ly in business in Am linage
and MdJarthy: t be c used out the
Anchm age store and the McCarthy
place was burned. She is no stran
ger in Hyder, having visited here
at various times since the incep
tion of the campi Last year she
built a residence on the forest re
serve:
ASK CONTRACTS FOR MAIL
Superintendent McGiath of the
railway mail service has wired from
Seattle for Postmaste* Oren F. Hill
to secure figures on the cost of
transporting mail daily betwt v'
Hyder and Stewart, and also Id
makit g a rouad trip to the Stewarf
wharf upon the arrival of Canadian
mail boats. This action is being
taken with the intention of giving
Hyder a much better mail servuA
than ha» been provided in the past
iriail from the south being shipped
through in bond on the Canadian
boats When quicker time can be
made than sending it by way of
Ketchikan. Meanwhile the Amer
ican boats will continue to be util
ized, as frequently time can be
saved by sending mail that way.
The first mail to arrive for Hyder
on a Canadian boal arrivedStmdwp
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