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VOL 3, NO. 23
RYDER, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 31,1927
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BIG BODY HIGH GRADE
ORE AT RIVERSIDE
The splendid success attend
ing the Riverside winter devel
oment operations reached a
climax last week when nine
feet of high grade ore was en
countered in the upraise be
tween No 3 and No. 4 tunnels,
a short distance below the lat
ter level. The ore body in
question is the downward ex
tension of the fine ore body
found in the No. 4 tunnel some
weeks ago. The exact value
of the ore found in the raise
has not been made public, al
though company officials ad
mit that the ore is high grade
throughout. The ore was first
encountered in the upraise at
a point about 40 feet above
the No. 3 level and has widen
ed from 4Vfc feet near the first
point of contact to 9 feet at
the present elevation of the
raise. Officials state that the
raise, the driving of which has
been in progress for some
weeks, will ; be completed
today (Monday).
With (he completion of the
upraise drifting operations will
be renewed on the 4th level
and also in the easterly exten
sion of the No. 3 level, 95 feet
below No. 4. '
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Federal Prohibition Agent
Fred Handy and several oth
er members of the federal pro
hibition enforcement forces in
Alaska whose names were not
ascertained, arrived from the
westward Friday on the motor
ship Venture. The party re
mained in camp until Sunday
morning in pursuance of what
is somewhat enigmatically des
ignated as “official business.”
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G. A. Kiiburn, Trail smelter
representative, left for the
• w south Thursday after spending
» a week in the district in the
• interest of his company. Dur
< ing the course of his stay Mr.
Kiiburn visited several of the
more prominent properties in
the upper Salmon section
where development work is in
progress.
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The power boat Salmora was
a visitor from Ketchikan
Thursday, having taken the
place of the Taku II, while
the latter vessel was undergo
ing repairs. The Taku II is ex
pected to be back on the run
this week.
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S. A. Knowles, engineer in
charge of the Big Missouri op
erations, returned Thursday
from a trip to the States.
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R. G. Mellin, managing engi
neer of the Riverside mine,
left for the south Thursday
after a short visit.
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Thos. MacKay of the Premier
office staff returned Thurs
day from a visit in the south.
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..i-. Dr. J. H. Carson, Premier
„ .mine physician, left Thursday
on a vacation trip to the south.
Dr. Underhill, who arrived
from Vancouver on the same
day, will be in charge of the
Premier hospital during Dr.
Carson's absence.
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PEACE RAILROAD
AGAIN LOOMS LARGE
That Chicago and Seattle in
terests are planning to make
the old Portland Canal Rail
road the initial unit of a pro
posed railroad line, which is
planned to extend first into
the Groundhog coal country
and later into Peace River dis
trict, is indicated by the fol
lowing news article reprinted
from the Vancouver Sun of
January 24. The Green inter
ests mentioned in the an
nouncement refer to Joshua
Green, well knon Seattle capi
talist. It says:
The sections of standing tim
ber up the Bear River valley
from Stewart, B. C., and Hy
der, Alaska, on the Portland
Cnal, and also the block on
the Marmot river nearby, are
being taken over by the syndi
cate headed by a Chicago bank
and trust company and the
Green interests of Seattle and
operations there will be started
this coming season, it was an
nounced here Saturday by O.
E. Erickson, capitalist of Se
attle, one of the earliest pio
neers of the Premier gold
mine.
In connection with the pur
chase of this timber, Mr. Erick
son also announced, the Chi
cago owners have completed
their plans for the reviving
and reconstruction of the Port
land canal railway up the
Bear river, which was started
nearly 20 years ago by
the Mackenzie interests. The
check-ups on this line have
been completed and were in
spected by Mr. Erickson > on
his last visit to bankers in New
York.
At the present time the devel
opment of the Bear river mines
during the next year will pro
vide traffic and pay for the
construction of the line, he
said, but the real object of the
Chicago owners is to get into
the enormous coal areas of
Groundhog mountain and past
there into the Peace River, fol
lowing the general plan laid
out by the Mackenzie and
Mann people, including a land
grant from the government.
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E. A. Schneider returned
last week in his launch from a
hunt’ng and trapping trip in
the Nakat Inlet section, near
the entrance to Portland Canal.
Mr. Schneider reported that
trip was not much of a success
as trappers and hunters were
operating at every point visit
ed and game was scarce. A
wolverine and a few other
7>elts of small value were the
only skins obtained.
Mr. Schneider left Saturday
in his boat for Ketchikan,
where he will be a member of
the petit jury drawn for the
February term of the district
court at that point.
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j The steamship Panama, re
cently purchased by the Alas
ka Steamship Company for
, service on the Seattle-Alaska
route has been renamed the
Aleutian, after the Aleutian
Islands, according to Seattle
press reports. The new steam
er is a sister ship of the crack
! steamer Yukon, of the same
company.
TEXAS CREEK WAGON
ROAD IS ASSURED
FOREST SERVICE APPROPRIATES $90,000
FOR ROAD INTO TEXAS VALLEY: $14,000
FOR NEW SALMON ROAD SECTION
Long continued efforts of the
Hyder Chamber of Commerce,
the Texas Creek Claim Own
ers Association and citizens
generally to induce govern
mental construction of a wagon
road into the rich Texas Creek
section were rewarded last
week by the announcement
that the Forest Service has
recommended the expenditure
of $90,000 for that purpose;
and has also given assurance^
that if more funds are require
ed for the completion of the
road and the necssary bridge
over the main Texas Creek
they will be fortchoming ,as
needed.
The announcement was con
tained in a telegram to the
Chamber of Commerce from
Dan Sutherland, Alaska dele
gate to Congress, who, as
shown by recent communicat
ions' on the subect, has been
actively engaged in furthering
the project and has personaly
urged Col. W. B. Greely, Chief
of the Forest Service to author
ize the project. The telegram
also announced that Col.
Greely has recommended a
further allotment of $14,000
for surfacing the new sect
ion of the Salmon River
road between the cemetery
and Fish Creek. The full text
of the message follows:
Washington, D. C.
January 26, 1927
Chamber of Commerve
Hyder, Alaska
Chief of Forest Service ad
vises me has recommended ex
penditure of ninety thousand
dollars for projected road
from Salmon River road to
Texas Creek section. If this
amount not sufficient for con
struction of road, including
bridge, increases will be rec
ommended later.
Further recommendations al
j lot fourteen thousand for sur
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| Due, it is believed, to the de
i spicable activities of one of
i that most contemptible breed
of human vultures, the surrep
titious dog poisoner, “Pal,”
the Airdale puppy belonging
to D. J. Mulcare, is dead, and
Dave Mahood’s “Laddy” is
slowly recovering from a dost
! of poison, from the ultimate
effects of which he was saved
only through the resuscitative
efforts of Oi’en F. Hill, of the
Hyder Drug Co.
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j “Laddy” became a victim Fri
day evening but his condition
was discovered before it wa*
too late. Mr. Mulcare's pupp>
i expired Saturday noon. Both
| animals displayed unquestion
able symptoms of strychnine
| poisoning.
As there' are no troublesome
varmints in the district, it is
considered impossible that the
dogs could have imbibed pole
| lacing Cemetery-Fish Creek
Section of Salmon River road
project.
Dan. Sutherland.
The Texas Creek project em
braces the construction of a
wagon road from the Salmon
River bridge near Nine Mile,
along the westerly slopes of
Mineral Hill, and thence
westward across the main
Texas to a point on the
West fork about V2 mile be
yond the present Texas Creek
bridge, a distance of approxi
mately 4Vi miles. Data cover
ing the exact route of the pro
ject is not available at this
time. It is indicated, however,
that the course of the high
way will follow practically
the same course as the pres
et pack trail but will be placed
on a somewhat higher elevat
ion with a view to overcoming
the steep climb beyond Texas
Creek where the switch-backs
are located. Bureau of Public
Roads engineers have estimate
ed the cost of the project at
$125,000, including costs of
bridge construction.
The authorization of this
highly important and neces- 1
sary project is locally of uni- 1
versal satisfaction. Hardly a ,
person in the district but .
realizes that the opening of
the proposed road will result
in a wide increase of activities 1
in the Texas region and an im- <
mediate increase in the min* 1
eral output of the Hyder dis- ]
trict.
Although the effort to secure
the proposed highway has :
been carried on in desultory ■
manner by various local agen- i
cies for several years, credit <
for its final success is due pri- (
marily to the indefatiguable
efforts of the Hyder Chamber '
of Commerce during the past
two years. 1
oned bait, set out by some on* i
in defiance of the law. Efforts 1
to trace the movements of the ,
dogs prior to getting the pois- ,
on are said to have eliminated
entirely the possibility of
chance poisoning in the case of 1
one of the animals. Both dogs ]
were entirely harmless, one j
being a mere puppy, and the ^
other a harmless, good naturea
animal whose chief delight was
to haul the Mahood children ^
around in a sleigh. i
Following an investigation of |1
the poisonings, Mr. Mulcare! ■
and several of his friends be- ! <
came so convinced that the <
loss of his animal was due toJ(
dastardly maliciqusness that
they are offering a reward of
$300 for information leading 1
to the conviction of those re- (
sponsible. If, as they believe, 1
[the poison was administered i
purposefully, the depraved and i
GOV’T OFFERS HUGE
TRACTS TIMBER TO
START PULP INDUSTRY
To assist in the establishment
of the paper manufacturing in
dustry in Alaska, the govern,
ment through' the Forest Ser
vice, has offered for competi
tive bidding two huge tracts
of timber, conditional on their
use for paper production, ac
cording to Washington press
dispatches.
At the present time, with
Alaska capable of producing
at least 1,000,000 tons of pape*
pulp—yeaniy, American paper
buyers are under the necessity
of looking to Canada and
Newfoundland for a large pan
of their supply.
Each of the great tracts of
fered embraces approximately
five billion feet board meas
ure of timber suitable for pap
er manufacture. One tract is
located in the northern part
if the Tongass National Forest
near Juneau. The other is situ
ated at the southern end of
;he same forest adjacent to
Ketchikan. Under the terms 01
.he sale offer, successful bid
iers for either tract will be re
tired to establish a paper
Tiill of from 200 to 500 tons
:apacity and must expend
it least $8,000,000 or $10,
)00,000 in water power
ievelopment, paper plant ana
ogging equipment. Tenders on
he tract in the Juneau district
vill be opened April 25, and
m the Ketchikan area on
\pril 15.
According to reports enough
imber is offered in each sale
o supply a 500 ton mill run
ling 300 per days per yeai
or a period of 50 years. This
s said to ifurnisb protection
or the large investments nec
issary to establish the indus
ry. The contracts) offered al
ow a period of fifty years for
:utting the timber* and fivt
'ears additional for engineer
ng work and plant construct
on. The government will Icon
iider no bids lower than 60!
:ents per 100 feet for spruct
ind nothing under 30 cents for
lemlock. The price at which
he sales will be made will be
iffective until April 1942,
vhen it will be determined for
he succeeding five years on a
>asis of current value, with a'
^determination every five
'ears thereafter.
Several groups, including the
learst interests are seeking
lower permits for paper mak
ng in the Juneau tract and
he Zellerbach Paper Co. and
nternational Paper Co. have
ijed applications for power
ind timber in the Ketchikan
irea.
onscienceless scoundrel who
:ommitted the act should be
impelled to suffer extreme
>enalty of the law, which
>rovides a maximum sentence
>f 3 years in the penitentiary.
Sven this is all too light a pun
shment for such vicious and
nexcusable wickedness.
LITERACY TEST BILL
FAVORABLY REPORTED
H. B. No. 9211, commonly
known as the White bill, re
quiring a literacy test for vot
ers of Alaska, has been favor
ably reported for passage
by the Committee on Terri
tories of the House of Repre
sentatives and is on the House
calendar for consideration by
that body early during the
present year, according to the
United States Daily, of Wash
ington, D. C.
The bill was introduced last
(year by Rep. White, of Maine
and.was placed on the unani
mous consent calendar ovei
the opposition of Delegate
Sutherland but unanimous con
sent was never obtained for
its consideration.
The measure makes no alter
ation in the existing election
laws of Alaska save in the de
gree that it provides a literacy
test for voters, which requires
that every person, before be
ing allowed to vote, shall,
without assistance, legibly sign
his or her full name, and write
his or her sex and address in
the registration or poll book.
If it appears to the election
officers that the voter has not
the ability to read and write
as required by the bill they
shall be required to read in
English not less than 10 lines
chosen at random from the
Constitution of the United
States by the election officers,
and to write legibly in English
a passage of not fewer than
10 consecutive words similarly
'1 t'.srn from the Constitution.
lhe report of the Territories
Committee states that the tesi
provided is considered a fair
test and is in accord with simi
ar laws of most of the States.
The report further points out,
that the very few states that
have no literacy test for voters
have no need of it. since there
i? scarcely any illiteracy in
• hose states, while a majority
of the states have even strong
er .provisions on jthe subject
rh&n are included in the Alas
i.
■ measure.
Respecting the Indian vote in
Maska, the report says in part:
“The bill does not impose
any restrictions upon Indian
ii.iacns that it does not also
impose on all other races. * * w
* * * * If all the illiterate In
dians, Aleuts, and Eskimos in
the Territory were to vote, and
the vote should be consolidat
ed, as the Indian vote in South
eastern Alaska now is, there
would be perhaps seven or
eight thousand additional il
literate votes cast.* * * The
population of Alaska is 52,000,
several thousand more than
half being illiterate Indians,
Aleuts, and Eskimo.
The lit acy test provided is
to protect 1 lie Govercnnen*
from th • dangers incident vc
the control of ions by ti
group voting of an illiteral
citizenry.”
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Reprts of the'recent sessb
of the Alaska Game Comn
sion in Juneau indicate tn
there is small likelihood tl
the- Commission will apprrv
imposing a license for hu" v
on residents of the Territory
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