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VOL 5, NO. 47
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31,1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW BASE TO
BE SELECTED BY
N. P. SYNDICATE
The Western Canada Airways’
flying boat “Pintail," with W. E.
Gilbert pilot and John Stewart as
passenger, made a trip to Tiegan
lake Sunday, to take in supplies to
the three Northern Prospecting
Syndicate prospectors there.
On arriving at the lake a notice
, on a tree at the campsite notified
them that owing to the failure of
the plane to arrive as expected on
August 15th, they had pulled out
* for Bowser lake the day before,
but as they had not got far the
arrival of the plane was heard and
they turned back.
The plane had been delayed
owing to foggy weather on the
coast. At the lake the conditions
were different, and the men could
not understand its non arrival, so
decided to leave while they had
sufficient grub to carry them
through. •
Mineral Belt Further West
No mineral of sufficient extent
was discovered, and exploration
showec that the mineral belt lay
furthei 10 the westward than was 1
supposed when Tiegan lake was
selected as the base of operations
for the rediscovery of the ore
bodies found by plaoer miners in
1885.
Gilbert and Stewart cruised for
several hours with the plane, cov
ering four or five hundred miles
and noting the physical character
istics of the country below them.
North of the range of high peaks
* that appears to mark the eastern
border of the contact belt, is a
great stretch of country that Mr.
Stewart says appears to be good
grazing land.
Mr. Stewart got his feet wet in
getting away from Tiegan Lake,
and when the plane reached an
elevation of 10,000 feet the cold
was uncomfortably noticeable.
To Select New Base
The prospectors are to be brought
back to Stewart by plane and a
new base will be selected nearer
the mineral contact from which
exploration can be made to better
advantage, and when this is ob
tained the prospecting work will
* be continued.
REVENUE CUTTER UNALGA
PAYS PORT SHORT VISIT
The American revenue cutter1
“Unalga" arrived Sunday at Hyder
and was in port until Monday
afternoon, giving the crew a
chance for a holiday ashore. The
“Unalga" has a varied and Inter
esting history and a book could be
written about the little vessel;
which patrols the sealing grounds, j
visits desolate and. Isolated spots
along the Alaskan coast, brings
succor to vessels in distress, and |
covers a field that extends from
Hyder to the Arctic Ocean. From
here the vessel will go to Halibut
Bay, where some of the boys figure
on going after bear.
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GEORGIA RIVER MINE
INSPECTED FROM AIR
N. T. Burdick,, one of the prin- j
cipals in the Georgia River Mining'
Co., Mrs. Burdick, Wellington Beat- '
on, president and organizer of the
company, an old-timer of the dis
trict and acceded to be one of its
main stand-bys, and R. G. Mellin,
mining engineer for the company,
had the thrilling and unusual ex
perience yesterday of taking an
air trip over the Georgia River
section and looking from above
upon the surface activities now
being carried on there. They rode
with Walter Gtfoert, pilot for the
Western Canada Airways, in the
flying boat “Pintail,” which now
makes Stewart its base.
Chas. F. Sandford, editor of the
Hyder Herald, left Monday night
for Ketchikan to recuperate. He
was accompanied by his daughters,
Frances and Mrs. O. E. Smith, the
latter of whom has a home in
Ketchikan.
30-ft. Face At
Mountain Boy
Reach Intersection ot High Grade
Vein and Mann Lead
After several attempts spread
over a period of some weeks, the
intersection of the high grade vein
with the Mann vein on the Mount
ain Boy property has been reached,
and shows a width of some thirty
feet of exceptionally good milling
grade ore, according to what would
appear to be a well founded rumor
circulating in town this week.
Exact information as to Just what
the situation is at the Mountain
Boy seems very difficult to obtain,
the management stating that they
have no information to give out.
However, in following up the report
through unofficial channels, it
appears that the intersection is
located at such a steep place- on
the mountainside that it was only
reached by use of ropes from
above, by which method it was
opened up. It is further understood
that the management are making
the necessary arrangements to
drift toward this intersection on
No. 3 level.
Development on Mountain Boy
has been in progress ever since
last fall, and since spring very
aggressively. This has resulted in
a great deal of work being done,
and although the management re
fuses to give out any information
at present, it is known that very
satisfacory results have been ob
tained.
MELVIN MINE PRODUCES
SPECTACULAR SILVER ORE
A 100-pound sample of ore from
the Melvin is pronounced by old
timers to be the best specimen of
silver ore of its size ever exhibited
in Stewart. The piece of ore, which
is eight or ten inches in thickness,
is practically saturated with native
silver, which is seen on all sides,
intermingled with galena and
other silver sulphides, with a small
percentage of gang matter.
Experiments are now being made
in C. M. Bryant’s office in an effcrt
to determine the best method of
treating this ore. Fifty pounds of
it were pounded up and yielded 27
ounces of native silver.
Flier’s Wife
Also A Pilot
Pilot W. E. Gilbert and Mrs. Gil
bert arrived from the south on
Monday aboard the flying boat
“Pintail,” of the Western Canada
Airways’ fleet. The “Pintail1 is a
new ship specially equipped for
vertical photography and was
brought north from Vancouver to
Swanson Bay by Major McLaren,
where Pilot Gilbert met it and j
brought it north for the express
purpose of taking a number of
local pictures, as well as doing a
lot of photography from Grease
Harbor up the Naas to the Cran
berry River for the Power Corpor
ation of Canada.
Mrs. Gilbert, though a pilot her
self of considerable flying experi
ence both in B. C. and Northern
Manitoba, was a passenger from
Vancouver to Stewart, and as such
is the first woman to have flown
this journey, making the 615 air
miles In six and a half hours. In
speaking of her trip, Mrs. Gilbert
stated that from Campbell River
to Swanson Bay they flew all the
way in a storm,, but from there
north to Stewart they experienced
good weather. She is much struck
with the scenic beauties of Stew
art, and is most anxious to do
considerable flying here. Flying a
Moth plane of her own in Vancou
ver as a member of the Aero Club
of B. C., and having flown a num
ber of types of machines, Mrs.
Gilbert is one of the few women
pilots in B. C„ and of which it is
believed that there are only nine
teen In Canada and the U. S. A.
R. G. Mellin, managing engineer
of the Georgia River Mining Co.,
returned Monday from Vancouver
Island where he celebrated his
twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
DELEGATE ENDORSES
LOCAL PROTEST OP
COMPENSATION ACT
Efforts of the Hyder Cham
ber of Commerce to direct at
tention to the need for drastic
alterations in the present Alas
ka workmens compensation
law is now attracting: the at
tention of other territorial com
mercial organizations and the
various officials and newspap
ers to whom copies of the re
ceni vigorous resolution of pro
test passed by the local body
were sent some days ago.
Judging from comments ap
pearing in the press and in let
ters received from individuals
and organizations it is very
probable that the local protest
against the distinctly inhibitive
and highly discriminatory pro
vision of the act will be strong
ly supported during the next
legislative session.
Included among the answers
so far received is the following
communication from Dan.
Sutherland, Alaska delegate to
Congress, in which he sets
forth in no uncertain terms
his views regarding the law.
The communication, dated
July 11, reads as follows:
Your communication of July
2nd transmitting a copy of the
resolutions passed by the Hy
der Chamber of Commerce on
June 4th with reference to the
Alaska Workmens Compensat
ion Act is at hand.
Although action to correct the
most unusual and unsound
features of the compensation
act of the 1929 legislature
does not lie within my province
as Congressional Represent
ative but is strictly a matter for
the Alaska legislature to hand
le, I feel that I am warranted
in saying to you that for sever
al past sessions of the legislat
ure proposals have been made
to adopt a workmans compen
sation for the Territory that
would be based upon the mod
ern ideas of some of the pro
gressive states but invariably
the proposal has been rejected
and we still cling to the anti
quated form of the original
Alaska Compensation Act.
During the last political cam
paign in the Territory I called
public attention to the ridicu
lous feature that was enacted
in the session of 1927 whereby
a premium was placed upon
the employment of alien work
men in Alaska industry. Sever
al candidates for the legislat
ure announced that they would
try to have that objectionable
feature of thei law repealed
but it is evident that nothing
was done to correct it at the
recent session.
Thus an alien has every advan
tage over a citizen when seek
ing employment, particularly
in the mines.
This feature was placed in
the law simply because a large
number of young aliens are
employed in some of the larger
quartz mines of the Territory.
Certainly a mine operator is
going to employ an alien in
preference to a citizen when
under the law it costs twice as
much to compensate for the
loss of a citizen’s life as it does
PRELIMIMBY WORK
OH POWER PROJECT
WELL UNDER WR
Activities on the new Ameri
can Creek power development
project of the Power Corporat
ion of Canada are now well un
der way. A crew of about 20*
men is engaged in clearing a
road from the Bear River high
way to the site of the proposed
power plant and in clearing
the timber from the site of the
projected dam and power
house. A large amount of pre
liminary investigation work is
necessary before actual con
struction work is started, ac
cording to the Corporation rep
resentatives. This will include
examination of the rock found
ations of both the power and
dam sites.
to compensate for the loss of
an alien’s life.
There is a trite saying of Pres,
ident Wilson to the effect that
“legislation is generally con
ceived for the benefit of the
few and not in the interest of
the many” and it certainly ap
plies to some of the actions of
the Alaska legislature. Why
on earth a body of men select
ed to represent the people of
the Territory should incorpor
ate in their compensation act a
feature so unjustly adverse to
citizenship is beyond my com
pirehension.
There were several men in the
1927 session who vigorously
opposed this feature of the
compensation law but there
were also several slick fellows
who were working for their
masters—the large mine oper
ators— and they were able to
secure a majority of votes for
the measure.
I, of course, would have you
understand that I am in favor
of a workmans compensation
act for Alaska and I raise no
question regarding amounts
fixed in the present law for in
jury or death but I believe the
whole act a most unscientific
hodge-podge and should be
changed to conform with the
co-operative methods thathave
been adopted by many of the
States. I believe the revenues
of the Territory are ample to
allow participation by the Ter
ritory in the payment of com
pensation to injured workmen.
It is possible that other busi
ness organizations in Alaska
may take this matter up and
make it an issue for the next
election of legislative mem
bers. It seems to me that la
boring men throughout Alaska
should be informed regarding
the strange compensation law
they are now working under
and they might make some ef
fort to have it changed.
At least a citizen of the Unit
ed States resident in Alaska
ought to be informed that his
legislative representatives have
discriminated against him in
securing employment, and
have by law made aliens pre
ferred employees.
Sincerely yours,
Dan. Sutherland
NEWST JOTTINGS
CURING ON LOU
MINING ACTIVITIES
Indications pointing to poss
ible acquisition of the well
known Indian property by the
Consolidated Mining & Smelt
ing Co. are disclosed by re
ports from the upper Salmon
that Consolidated representat
ives are engaged in sampling
the mine.
A cable report covering de
velopment progress on the B.
C. Silver, issued by the London
office of the Selukwe company
July 13, provides an interest
ing insight from official sour
ces regarding the recent high
ly promising ore discovery on
that property in the announce
ment that the ore body encoun
tered in drift 636 on the 6th
level had been opened for a
distance of 120 feet, with the
ore continuing in the face. The
average value for the whole
120 feet was given as $22 per
ton across a width of 7 feet.
As ore was still to be seen on
both the hangings and foot
walls, indications pointed to
the ore body being of some
what greater width, the esti
mate being around ten feet.
Some of the cut samples were
said to have given assays rang
ing between $60 and $100 per
ton.
The ore body is considered
the downward continuation of
the rich 4H Premier stope, ac
cording to the report.
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Notice
..As a result of conditions cre
ated by the death of Mrs. C. F.
Sandford, the Herald finds
itself compelled to appear for
a short period in the present
form and somewhat devoid of
the usual news interest.
The kind indulgence of pat
rons is requested until such
time as publication in the usual
form can be resumed.
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Securing Data
on Road Project
The committee from the Stewart
Board of Trade and the Hyder
Chamber of Commerce, appointed
for the purpose of working on the
Alaskan International Highway
project, is busily engaged accumu
lating data, with good results.
The idea appears to be meeting
with an exceptionally favorable re
ception in a number of quarters,
even outside British Columbia. The
Hon. George Parks, governor of
Alaska, is intensely enthusiastic for
it; so also is the head official of the
Alaskan road system. It is learned
from Alaskan sources that Gover
nor Parks has expressed himself as
favoring an appropriation by the
Territorial Government of Alaska
for assistance in fostering the
project.
Alaskan sources also state that
every Chamber of Commerce in
Alaska has Joined the organization
fostered by the Chamber in Fair
banks, known as the International
Highway Association, for the pur
pose of doing everything possible
to bring the project to. early
fruition.
Wellington Beaton, head of the
Georgia River and Hyder Lead
Mining companies, arrived from
Vancouver last Saturday.
AMERICAN CREEK
MINING COMPANY
SURVEY COMPLETE
The work of surveying the. big
mineral holdings of the Ameri
can Creek Mining Company, on
American Creek in the upper
Bear River section, has been
completed by Dalby B. Morkill,
B. C. Land Surveyor, according
to Oren F. Hill, president and
managing director of the com
pany, who returned to town
Tuesday, after spending most
of the past week on the prop
erty. Mr. Morkill is now en
gaged in survey work in the
Marmot River section.
Mr. Hill informed the Herald
that work on the company
property, comprising fifty-two
claims and fractions, is prog
ressing steadily under the di
rection of A. Pasco, local met
allurgist and assayer. Between
10 and 12 miles of trail has
been built leading to the many
different known ore bodies and
showings, from which hun
dreds of assays have been
made during the past four or
five years. The- work now in
progress is confined entirely to
systematic development of the
surface showings. The com
pany is also constructing a
?ood camp, so located that the
various and widespread ore ex
posures can be reached by the
shortest route possible to at
tain.
No more convincing evidence
af the confidence of local min
ing men in the future of the
American Creek Mining Co.
property could be found than
is presented in the authoritat
ive statement that William H.
rolin, manager of the Mount
ain Boy Mining, has purchased
a very large block of stock in
;he former company, the prop
;ies of which adjoin the Mount
ain Boy.
The Mountain Boy is already
a proven mine and sensational
developments on the property
are expected to be announced
in the very near future, accord
ing to those in a position to
know the inside facts regard
ng recent operations.
New Books at the Library
New books at the library include
;h« following: “The Cradle of the
Deep," by Joan Lowell; “Dr. Jekyll
ind Mr. Hyde,” by R. L. Stevenson;
‘AH Quiet on the Western Front,”
jy IS. M. Remarque; “Hunky,” by
rhames Williamson; “Son of the
3ods,” by Rex Beach; “The Scarred
Dhin,” by WiU Payne; “The Flam
ng Forest,” by James O. Curwood;
‘Barrack-room Ballads and De
cartmental Ditties,” by Rudyard
Kipling; “Peacock Feathers,” by
remple Bailey.
An American bi-plane circled at
i considerable height over the
liead of Portland Canal last Tues
iay. Nothing definite can be as
certained as to this plane, but pilot
Gilbert of the Western Canada
Airways, believes that it is a plane
piloted by Paddy Burke, and hav
ing as a passenger Mr. Mitchell, a
mining man of Spokane.
C. L. Hibbard, of Seattle, one of
the heaviest owners of the Outland
Silver Bar, arrived Tuesday morn
ing and went up to the property.
Mrs. C. Gardner left with her
children on the Monday night boat
tor Portland, Ore., where she will
put them in school for the winter.
Ed. Monnahan left Monday night
tor Prince Rupert, where he will
take his brother, who is in the hos
pital after an accident on the
Premier tram, to Vancouver.
Gus Anderson, who has been In
Newfoundland working for some
time on a property controlled by
the Premier Co., returned Satur
day and has gone up to the
Premier.