The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published - Saturday at the Herald
Building, Second Ave., Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Sole Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the
postoffice at Hyder. Alaska, under the
act of March 3, 187!*.
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The Hyder Weekly Herald
extends to its readers every
where best wishes for a happy
and prosperous New Year.
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An Appreciation
With the present issue, the
Hyder Weekly Herald will sus
pend publication owing to con
ditions which have been prev
iously explained. We will,
iherefoie, avail ourselves of
ibis last opportunity to extend
through thes.- columns our
grateful thanks to the subscrib
er.* and advertisers who have
given us their support during
the ten years in which this pub
lication has been in existence
and to express our most pro
found regrets that conditions
compel us to sever, for some
time at leas; the pleasant bus
iness relationships established
during that period.
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Hold Fast You Faith.
Before stilling the editorial
voice, we would again admon
ish the good people of Hyder,
and particularly those who are
directly interested in mining, to
hold fast their faith in the fu
ture of the Hyder mineral dist
rict.
Conditions hereabouts have
admittedly been very discour
aging during the past four
year-:; more as a consequence
of the great decline in the val
of silver in 1930 than of condit
ions created by the economic
depression. The depression
has, indeed, dealt us some
rough knocks, but that unwar
ranted and arbitrary debase
ment of silver prices was an
overwhelming disaster to a
community that po-sesses no
other productive resource than
mining, with silver as the pri
mary productive element, and
it is not to be wondered at that
many of us have all but given
up hope that the camp’s pros
perity will be again restored.
Indeed, to some it has seemed
that Hyder as a mining camp
was inevitably doomed to share
the fate of thbse numerous
‘ghost camps” of the old West
which sank into oblivion when
their mineral resources were
dissipated or lost.
While such an eventuality
may ultimately appear, in
dubitable evidences indicate
that it will not occur for a long
time. Chief of these is the fact
that the mineral resources of
the Hyder district are neither
dissipated or lost. They are
still here, scarcely touched and
barely tried, and the ultimate
possibilities of the camp lie
still before and not behind it.
It should not be forgotten
that a vast and demonstratably
valuable mineral wealth still
reposes in the nearby mount
ain fastnesses and that some
day, possibly not far away,
means will be forthcoming to
garner it from its age-long
resting places and bring it to
the uses and benefit of man
kind.
Present and future enhance
ment of gold and silver prices
and the ever-increasing need
for greater supplies of those
metals to carry on the world’s
commerce and industry will ul
timately turn the eyes of capi
tal in this direction.
Regardless of the few earlier
development failures, product
ive mines will yet be opened up
in the district. Among those
unnumbered massy ledges of
ore seaming the towering
slopes of Salmon valley and
Texas creek will be found
some that will yield great
stores of wealth.
ivioney, time ana tne indust
rious hand of labor are the
keys that will unlock the doors
to the treasure house and bring
unbounded prosperity to the
district and to those whose
faith in the future of the camp
will last until their coming.
And come they will; let no
one doubt it. For where gold
abides, soon or late men will
seek it out, and with untir
ing effort bring it forth to fill
i their coffers and enrich their
| lives and the lives of those who
I follow them.
i So, we say again: hold fast
j your faith in the future of your
camp and district. Let not
trial and adversity diminish
your confidence that the Hyder
camp will one day rank as one
of the rich mineral producing
regions of the world.
Although the time be long
and patience be strained by the
seeeming endlessness of wait
ing, forget not ‘.he stores of
wealih rep’osing in your hills
and know that they will in
evitably be brought forth and
that you may share in such re
wards as they will bring. Like
the Psalmist of old, “look unto
the hills” for the fulfillment of
your hopes and rewards for
your patience.
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Lots of folks having trouble
with their water pumps since
Jack Frost decided to visit us.
And, my! what language some
of them use!
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I11VM11 VV UUIUi A 1UUAU1UU
Nome Residents In Good
Shape For The V/inter
Amazing progress has been
made in the rehabilitation of
Nome since the great fire dis
aster of September 17, and am
ple housing accomodations and
supplies are available to meet
the requirements of the resi
dents, according to announce
ments made in Juneau by R. D.
Stewart, ex-officio federal In
spector of Mines, who recently
returned from the Bering Sea
camp and who personally as
sisted in putting through the
rehabilitati'on program.
Many of the merchants have
constructed their new quarters
and othei’3 have established
temporary quarters and plan to
rebuild their establishments in
the spring. A new motion pic
ture theatre with new sound
equipment is in operation and
the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration has provided
a bunk house for the accomo
dation of single men who had
no homes.
Practically everyone left in
the town has found employ
ment and there will be no
haddships or suffering during
the winter, Mr. Stewart said.
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An incipient blaze in the res
idence of P. Fiorin on Third
Street caused a bnef excite
ment in Stewart last Monday
afternoon but did only slight
damage.
Hieronymus K. F. Munchhausen
Was a Good Entertainer.
Hieronymus Kiirl Friedrich Munch
hnusen <pronounced monk houzen)
was a memlier of an ancient Herman
noble family and was horn at Bod I
enwerder, Hanover, on May 11. 1720.'
The ancestral home Is still there, the
residence of the burgomaster, and the
family arms (a monk beside a house)
Is cut in the stone. The Baron served
for many years as a cavalry officer
In the (tusslan army; on retiring, In '
1700, to his estates he would amuse
himself and his boon companions with |
extraordinary stories of his adventures
and prowess, particularly In the Turk
ish campaign of 1707 to 170!). A for- |
mer professor and literary hack, flu- •
dolf Krlch linspe, who hud heard some
of these stories, used them as a r -o- I
j lens for a 4!) page hook lie published j
! in London in I7S7>, called “Baron j
MunchImustm's Narrative of Ids Mar- 1
velous Travels and Campaigns in Rus
sia.'' Further editions have addeil new
material to the books, with illustra
tions by many ot the foremost artists
of the Iasi century. The Baron died
on February 22. 17!>7. In the garden
of his home Is still shown the “lying
villa," where some of Ids tall yarns
were narrated.
Why Hoopsnake Does Not
Roll Along Like a Hoop
The Imopsnnke Is a small and harm
less snake of the south Atlantic states,
so-called because of the notion that
It curves itself into a hoop, takes Its
tall into its mouth and rolls along
at a merry clip. This notion Is pure
ly mythical, although it is believed by
many, especially the hnckland negroes, t
That any snake could perform such a
feat is absurd, and taking into con- i
sideration the anatomical pecularities
of the vertebral column It is clearly
impossible. The hoopsnake does much
of his traveling underground, burrow
ing deeply Into the soil, lie is a rath
er good looking snake, with a blue
black batk. marked with three red
lines, and nn under side of the shade
called nude, dappled In black.
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