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 ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Claude Shea, special officer
for the suppression of liquox
traffic among the Indians in
the Third Division, has resign
ed.
The Atlantic and Pacific Pro
ducts Company will operate a
new cannery at Kvichak Bay.
—
The Fairbanks Exploration
company are proving up on
their titles, and awaiting the
arrival of Norman Stines, gen
eral manager, when further
activities are expected.
—
The Caw Packing company
was recently incorporated in
Seattle with a capital stock of
$25,000. The company will
pack herring at Ouzinkie,
Alaska, where the construction
of a saltery will soon get under
1 way.
Miss Loretta Weatherspoon,
who came with her parents to
Ketchikan last year, and
Frank Bilingsley, a papular
Ketchikan jeweler, were mar
ried at Ketchikan recently.
Simeon Andreaofsky, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrea
ofsky, of Kodiak Island, was
born recently. The infant had
a fully developed set of molars,
one of the second cases on
record, the 4irst being at
Cleveland, Ohio.
The rumour has reached Mc
Carthy that Jack Dolan, well
known Shushanna trapper and
old sourdough, has been lost
on the trail. According to re
ports he left Shushanna for
Snag River and had not been
heard of for about three
months.
MAP OF
PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
llYDER, ALASKA
Presents Greeter Opportunities for Legitimate Mining Investment then any Misting District
on the Continent. In ^additionto the greet Premier, the most Spec teenier Silver-Gold Mine
in Existence, with a record ofover Seven Millions in Dividends in Four Years, the Portland
Canal District contains Two Producing Mines; a Half Doxen or More on the Very Thresh
old of Production, and Numerous Partially Developed Properties Which Hold Forth Every
Prospect of Becoming Paying Mines.
The Mineralisation is Proved: Only Capital and Intelligent Mining is Itngnired to Make
the District the Greatest Mineral Producing Area on the Globe.
J. S. Huntington, who has a
trading post at Alatna, 500
miles up the Koyukuk river,
stated at Anchorage recently
that Pete Dow and “Chin
chilla” Williams, with othei
operators, will open up several
claims on Hammond creek this
summer. Good pay was found
last year, and $50,000 of dirt
blocked out, but owing to their
being unable to control the
water had to close down.
According to reliable reports
the quartz property being op
erated by S. R. Moore at Ferry,
in the Fairbanks section 13
showing up very favorably, A
crew of fourteen men is work-)
ing.
The Consolidated Goldfields
company have five drills work
ing on Ester Creek, in the Fair
banks district and is also pros
pecting in the Big Chena dis
trict. Mr. Dyer, manager, is in
vestigating quartz properties
at Ester dome, in the interest
of his company.
The Tanana Goldfields, Ltd.,
is getting ready to rush their
dredge to Fish creek as soon
as it arrives.
The Treadwell-Yukon mill at
Mayo is operating at full ca
pacity, and w’th excellent re
sults. Individual miners who
ire getting out ore this winter '
ire so far very well pleased
with the results of their op
erations. From now on ore con
:entrates will be delivered at
Mayo on wheels and sleighs
;he whole year round for ship
ment to smelter.
The tagging of salmon to de
;ermine their migratory habits,
routes and periods of travel,
will be carried on for the first
time in Southwestern Alaska,
the Pacific Coast and British
Columbia waters in the same
season, this year, according to
In The District Court of The
United States. For the ..First
Judicial Division of the Dist
rict of Alaska.
In the Matter of the Hyder
Miner Publishing Company,
Bankrupt.
No. 48 BKCY.
In Bankruptcy
Notice of Sale.
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of an order duly signed
and made of record on the
18th day of April, 1925, in the
above entitled court, the un
dersigned Trustee will sell at
private sale all the assets of
the above named Bankrupt as
shown by the Inventory on file
in the above entitled court.
Sealed bids will be received
jy the undersigned Trustee for
any portion or all of the prop
erty of the said estate, as
shown by the said Inventory,
all of which may be seen at the
r^fice of the said Trustee in
Hyder, Alaska.. All bids re
ceived will be opened at the of
fice of the said Trustee at Hy
der, Alaska, on the 25th day
of May, 1925, at the hour of
2:00 P. M. of said date.
Chas. F. Sandford
Trustee.
Date of first publication April
22, 1925.
Date of last publication May
20, 1925.
Dennis Winn, agent in Alaska
for the United States Bureau
of Fisheries. The tagging
method will also be carried on
to some extent in the Heren
deen Bay distict.
Incorporation papers for Alka
ka’s first aerial company, filed
at Juneau,reveal that the Fair
banks Airplane Corporation of
Fairbanks intends to purchase
a 530,000 air limousine to car
ry eight passengers comfort
ably to points in the interior.
The company was capitalized
for $50,000. The incorporators
were It. C. Wood, president of
the First National Bank, J.
>'red Struthers, and Jame3 A.
Itodebaugh, pioneer airplane
owners of the north,all of Fair
banks. The company success
fully operated three planes to
mining camps last summer
from Fairbanks.
Kecent advices from Nome
say that Fred Johnson arrived
recently from Shugnak on the
Kobuk river, and brought inter
esting reports on the operat
ions in the vicinity of Cali
fornia and Dahl Creeks, both
tributaries of the Kobuk,
which flows into Kotzebue
Sound. The two creeks accord
ing to Mr. Johnson, are very
rich. He says that on California
creek, Frank Ferguson and his
partners took out $40,000 in
one month and behind them
one man rocked oul $200 in
four days from their tailings.
This cleanup was made on one
piece of ground 100 feet long
after the men had worked all
summer making ready for op
erations. Since the freezeup the
proprietors of the California
creek layout have been freight
ing in lumber for construction
and will continue operations
the whole eight miles, the
length of the creek which they
control. Mr. Johnson has a lay
on Dahl Creek and took out
pieces of gold from his prop
erty weighing up to 18 ounces
and worth $300. California
creek men took out nuggets
worth §250 each.
The old trading post of Nu
chek, at one time one of the
jmost important settlements on
Prince William Sound, and the
village of Kininiklik, both of
which were set aside for years
for native use, are being
abandoned by the Bureau of
Education and will henceforth
oe opened for industrial sites,
if so desired. The two towns
come under the recent govem
; nent decision to relinquish a
large number of reservations
|in Alaska which might be of
j commercial value if made pub
I lie domain or part of the nat
ional forest, in which they are
located. Nuchek once had a
native population of over 300
and was headquarters when
the last Russian governor, Bar
anoff was in that section.
When Baranoff represented
the Russian crown in Alaska
his headquarters were moved
from Sitka to Kodiak, thence
to Nuchek and back to Sitka,
where the seat of government
wia established when the
United States purchased the
territory. While on Prince
| William Sound, Baranoff ex
ploited the sea otter in partic
ular and the natives in gen
jeral. As late as 1835 Nuchek
iwas a trading post of the Alas
ka Commercial Company. It is
there, too, that Captain Aber
crombie cached his outfit when
he explored* the Copper River.
The settlement is on Ilinchin
1 brook Island fronting Hinchin
brook Straits.
RECORD FUR
PRODUCTION 1924
Fur production statistics for
1924 compiled by the Biologi
cal Survey disclose that furs to
the approximate value of $2,
000,000 were shipped from
Alaska last year. The figures
given do not include the value
of the fur seal pelts taken on
the Pribiloff Islands and rep
resent only pelts from land
fur-bearing animals.
A compilation of the figures
obtained from the records of
postmasters and express agents
in various parts of the Terri
tory show declared fur sh'o
ments to the value.of $1,707,
834. It is known however, that
large numbers of pelts are
shipped out for which no def
inite figures are obtainable. It
is indicated, however, that the
value of the undeclared ship
ments will bring the total to
two million dollars or over.
This is said to be one of the
best records of fur production
in years, especially in view of
the fact that the average price
of skins last year was less than
in 1923, and the added fact
chat there was a close season
on beaver and marten, two of
the most valuable fur bearers.
According to the bureau fig
ures a total of 286,347 skins
were reported shipped from
the Territory. Mink led all oth
ers with a total of 39.356, val
ued at $334,526. Red fox at
tained second place with a
total of 13,353, value $267,000.
Other pelts in order of value
were a3 follows: White fox,
15,743, value $229,162; musk
jrat, 194,053, value $194,053;
I Marten (trapped in 1923), 6,
019, value $150,475; beaver
i (trapped in 1923), 5,713, val
ue $114,260. Decreases in the
the number of furs, other than
marten and beaver, shipped as
against the 1923 figures are
loted in several instances. The
greatest falling off was in
muskrat, which showed a de
cline of 25,558 pelts. One not
able increase is shown in blue
fox, which gained 810 skins.
! Mink shipments also increased
by 18,688 over the preceding
! year. ,,4 J
locAl stocks
(Vancouver Quotations)
April 25th.
Bid Asked
B. C. Silver 1.30 1.40
Indian .09% . 1 0
Silver Crest — .10
Dunwell 3.90 4.50
Glacier .24 .30
Independence .15 .20 *
Premier 2.35 2.40
Rufus .12 —
L & L .20
Daly Alaska .20
Bay view .10
Forty Nine .31 .3.