HYDER WEEKLY MINER
Formerly The Hyder Alaska Miner
Published every Monday by the Hyder Miner Publish
ing Co., Hyder, Alaska.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at
Hyder, Alaska, November 4,1919, under the Act of March
CHAS. F. SANDFORP...... Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Ginger up! Spring is almost
here. The days are growing
longer; the winter snow is van
ishing from the*hills; the first
green buds are showing on
the trees. Time to arouse from
the lethargy and discontent of
winter and to busy ourselves
with preparations for the new
season of warmth and activity.
A few weeks and the hills will
once more resound the rumble
and roar of rending, rock and
bursting charge, the long pack
trails will wind their way
among the frowning peaks and
a row host will delve deep in
the bosom of Mother Earth in
ser. ch of golden wealth. Time
to ringer up, friends, for spring
is nlmost here.
The Hyder-Stewart mail sit
uation appears to be one in
which the citizens of Hyder
could interest themselves with
advantage to their community
as well as of the neighboring
community across the bound
ary line. A brief survey dis
closes a most astoiishing and
wholly uncalled for situation
with respect to mail commun
ication between the two places.
Despite the fact that each
town is in plain view of the
other, a period ranging from
three days to a week is re
quired to send a letter from
one to the other through the
mails. Mail forwarded via the
Canadian steamers, landing
twice a week a few hundred
feet beyond the boundaries of
Hyder, must go to Prince Rup
ert, more than a hundred miles
away and then return over
identically the same route and
be landed at the dock from
which it left before it can
reach Stewart. Mail forwarded
from Stewart postoffice to Hy
der also goes to Prince Rupert,
from which point it is sent to
Ketchikan, where it is held un
the sailing of the mail boat
leaving that port once a weelT
for Hyder. A letter following
the latter route travels approx
imately five hundred miles and
requires from a week to ten
days to make the roundabout
trip. To obviate the delays in
cident to this situation the res
idents of the two towns are ac
customed either to walk the
several miles between or pay
from one to two dollars for
transportation by the stages
plying between the two com
! munities at intervals, Thd
Miner understands that efforts
in the past to induce the gov
ernment to establish direeft
mail communication between
the two points have failed.
From what we can learn of the
matter it appears that the Can
adian government was willing
but our Uncle Samuel refused
to see that the rapidly growing
commerce and business inter
course between the two towns
justified the small appropri
ation necessary to maintain a
direct mail service, thereby
perpetuating for a time at least
a condition that is distinctly
nimical to the welfare of Hy
der and its people. It appears
to us, however, that the gov
ernment is not alone to blame
that this distinctly detrimental
situation continues at the pres
ent time. Had not the citizens
of Hyder consented to accept
as final the decision of the
third or fourth assistant post
master general and carried the
'matter to the postmaster gen
eral himself it is very probable
that the situation would be dif
ferent today. And by the same
token the Miner opines that a
united and determined effort
on the part of our citizens to
remedy this highly undesirable
jituatwii Would not be without
effect.
During the course of a dis
cussion of the local outlook in
a downtown business establish
ment the other day, someone
asked: “What is thfe matter
with the Hyder Commercial
Association?” There was no
answer. Then some one else
remarked, rather irrelevantly
we thought, “Say, I’ve been
reading up about this sleeping
sickness, an’—” But just then
Mortician Merl Thomas turned
[
to his assistant and said-also
irrelevantly- “Say, wjhere did
we put that embalming fluid?”
Just For Fun
According to the Blueberry
Kid, the best way to cure that
longing for the old home town
is to go back there and try it
again.
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“Paddy” McDonnell wants to
know why it is that so many of
our intelligent and leading pri-!
vate citizens • are suddenly
transformed into unmitigated
chumps when we elect them to
the Territorial legislature.
Rastus collided with an auto
mobileand awoke in the hospit
al. The next day he was yisited
by a client seeking young attor
ney. “I saw the accident,” he
said, and you should be able to
get big damages, for it was all
the fault of the driver. ”
Rastus squirmed indignant
ly, then: “Go way fo’m me,
white man! Haint Ah done got
damages enough a’ready ?
What Ah needs is repairs!”
A weii known mining eiigin
eerwas sent to investigate an
active mine in western Colo
rado, which his principals were
proposing to buy. Going down
the deep shaft in an ore buck
et he noticed that the cable was
very thin and weak at several
points. “About time this cable
was changed,” he remarked to
miner who was a fellow pass
enger in the bucket
“Yas, I reckon,” the latter re
plied, “Y’see, We changes’ em
every three months 'an we’ll
change this one tomorrow if
we gets up all right today.”
The bosses’ buzzer sounded
and the highly industrious
Simpkins sprang from his high
stool and hastened into the
sanctum with all speed.
"Simpkins,” said t,he chief,
“You are a great worker. I
have been watching you closely
and your inclination for work
is most astonishing. No detail
appears too small to escape
your attention and you are al
ways ready to undertake any
task. I have noticed that you
are the first to arrive in the
morning and the last to leave
in the evening.”
“ Thank you, sir” replied
the elated Simpkins, with vis
ons 'of a substantial raise. “I
always try to do my duty by
the firm, sir, and be of all the
assistance that I can, sir.”
“That's jso, Simpkins,” the
boss replied. “ And thats just
why I am going to lay you off
this we^k. It’s men like you
who ferret out all of the firm’s
business secrets and then go
and start a rival business
across the street. Good day.”
Bill Smith came out of the |
Koyukuk with a fat poke and
visited the States, after 20
years in the wilderness, dur
which time many, things had
happened. Among other things
he had never seen an auto
mobile. Early on the first day
of his arrival he saw one go
whizzing by, closely followed
by a motorcycle.
! Bill stared in perplexity for a
moment before exclaiming ex
citedly: “Gosh! I’ve heard of
’em but derned if I ever heard
they had colts.”
ORIGIN OF LEAP YEAR
The Leap Year was introduced
1957 years ago by Julius
Ceasar who decreed that every
fourth year should have 366
days instead of 365 days. The
reason for this was that there
are about 365 and one-fourth
days in a year, or more exact
ly, 365 days 5 hrs. 48 min.
45.51 sec. A year of 365 days
is about one-quarter of a day
less than the true year, and as
the error amounts .to about a
day in four years, it is correct
ed by the leap year.
Since the year is not exactly
365 V4 days in length, the cal
endar founded by Ceasar con
tained a slight error? which
was corrected inl582, by mak
ing the century years ordinary
years unless they are divisible
by 400. The present calendar
will not get in error by so
much as a day until more than
3,000 years have elapsed.
In spite of the fact that the
system is satisfactory, the cal
endar is still very faulty in im
portant respects. The chief ob
jections to it are that the
months are not all of the same
length, that the days of the
week do not fall on the same
days of the month in success
ive years, and that all those
holidays' which occur at spe
cific dates fall on all days of
the week in the course of a
few years. A considerable part
of this confusion arises from
the fact that the present cal
endar is based at the same
time on the motions of both
the moon and the sun. Since
here are 12.4 months, accord
ing to the moon, in a year, it is
impossible to harmonize^ them
in a simple way.
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