HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sandford. Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
T.iis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm cr other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
rormation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Why More Farm Land ?
It should be evident to any
student of the agricultural sit
uation that there is too much
land under cultivation in this
country already. The Secre
tary of Agriculture himself
says that “we need to reduce
our present acreage by 30 or
40 million acres.”
In spite of this situation,
which has existed for several
years, we see the government
spending hundreds of millions
of dollars on Boulder Dam.
which is intended to bring un
der cultivation a vast area of
farm land through irrigation.
Numerous other irrigation pro
jects have been built by the
government for the same pur
pose, and more are in prospect
There is now before Congees
a proposal to spend tome 40
million dollars on the Colum
bia Basin irrigation scheme,
whereby about a million and a
quarter acres more would bt
made available for farm pur
poses.
While these things are go
ing on, the Farm Board is
spending half a billion dollars
in a futile effort to handle the
surplus farm crops already on
hand. And all the taxpayers,
including the farmers, must
dig in their pockets to pav the
bill.
Commenting on the situation,
Farm and Ranch, a leading ag
ricultural publication, says:
“That this Columbia Basin
project should be turned down
flatly by Congress, if the inter
ests of the country and espec
ially of the farmers are to be
served, will be recognized by
all unbiased men. The federal
government should leave all ,
economic activities to private i
enterprise.”
Good Idea.
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( From Mining Truth.)
Seattle Times announces dis
continuance of the daily ex
tended stock and bond tables
of the New York Stock Ex
change and Curb. Good idea.
More newspapers should adopt
it. Public confidence in Wall
i Street is at a low ebb, and if
, newspapers refuse to pander
to the desire for gambling data
it need never return. The Times
decision is significant, for this
newspaper was one of the
j vvc.rst offenders during the
boom, and was also a strong
advocate of the type of blue
;ky law which diverted capital
‘Tom legitimate industry into
| lock speculation.
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Canada’s Discoverer
I
Canada has honored her dis
coverer, Jacques Cartier, the ,
famous French navigator, by
he erection at Quebec of a
magnificent statue, a replica of
.hat laised to his memory in
hi? native seaport, St. Malo, j
France, where he was born in
1494.
Commanding two ships under j
a commission from Francis I of
France, in 1534, he crossed the
Atlantic touching Cape Buena
/ista. Newfoundland, sailed
ioi thward along the coast and
hen southward through the
Straits of Belle I,?le, discover
ng the mainland of Canada
ind taking possession in the I
name of his king, thinking it a
part of Asia. The following
year he explored the St. Law
rence as far as the Indian vil
lage of Hochelaga, the present
;ite of the city of Montreal, j
After many hardships, with
his crew weakened by scurvy,;
a disease then unknown in Eu
rope, he returned to France in
1536.
In 1541 Cartier returned to
j Canada with five ships and es
i tablished a settlement, which
i he named Charlesbourg-Royal,
! near the present site of Quebec.
S The rigorous climate and at
| tacks of hostile Indians so dis
| couraged the settlers that Car
i tier abandoned the place and
j took them back to France in
j 1542. He lived quietly at St.
j Malo until his death in 1557.
! While Cartier did not found
a permanent colony, his explor
ations blazed the way for the
building cf a great empire,—
but under another flag.
Just for Fun
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Congress should amend the
migratory bird act so as to pro
vide a sanctuary for lame
ducks.
A fashion expert says men
should wear bright clothes this
summer. Well, ours are shiny
enough.
In the matter of declaring a
further moratorium on war
debts it locks like Europe has
beaten us to it.
The increase in divorces is
most alarming to all except
those who get divorced.
Much crime, like other things,
is charged to people who will
never pay.
MODERN S’LANGUAGE
Fred—1“’S’neagle.”
Harry—“’S’not, ’S’nowl.”
Bert—“’S’neyther, s’n’awk.”
“I’ve called for a little light
on the financial situation.” said '
the man in the rural editor’s
sanctum.
“Well, you’ve come to the
right place,” replied the editor.
“If there is anything we are
light on it Is the finances.”
An exchange reports that i
New Hampshire girl advertised
for a iob and among other ac
complishments mentioned that
-he could make good home
brew. She received 28 offers
of a position and 93 proposals
of marriage, two of them by
wire.
INTERESTING NOTES j
More than 55,000,000 stems
of bananas were imported into
the United states during 1931.
Automobiles entering Mani
toba province, Canada, in 1931
from the United States num
bered 4,500 more than in 1930.
An airplane with a horizon- *
tal revolving wing has been !
flown successfully in Europe *
without a pilot. :
A device has been invented 1
that automatically will shut 1
water out of pipes when freez- €
ing weather is threatened. t
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
May 31, 1922.
Oren P. Hill killed a bear
last Sunday but did not get
the hide, as the animal fell
onto an inaccessible ledge.
Yesterday was Decoration
Day, a holiday which in the
eastern states ranks second on
ly to the Fourth of July. In Hy
der the day was observed by
CustomsrCollector Stivers, who
flew his flag at half mast.
T. T. Thompson has fenced
off a considerable portion of
the Lindeborg addition be
tween Kansas street and the
down-town business section for
a cow pasture.
United States Surveyor Fred
Dalquist arrived from Juneau
this week and is making a fin
al survey of the forest reserve
townsite and residents will re
ceive their lots as soon as the
necessary formalities are com
pleted.
Homer Ficklin and Angus
Kennedy returned Mon day
from a successful trapping ex
pedition to the Meziadin lake
section. They overstayed their
grub limit and lived 12 days on
beaver meat with no trim
mings.
Hyder turned the tables on
Stewart and took ample re
venge for their defeat in the
first game of the season byde
feating the Canucks to the tune
of 13 to 8 on the home grounds
last Sunday.
C. W. Cheatham, senior en
gineer for the Bureau of Pub
lic Roads, and L. F. Vaile, sup
ervisor of roads in the Tongass
national forest, completed this
week the preparation of plans
for the construction of the Hy
der dock approach and actual
construction work is expected
to commence about July 1. The
approach will extend from the
end of Premier avenue straight
out to deep water, a distance
of about 2600 feet. The dock
will be built by Lee Balch and
Fred Dorey and Chris Soren
son, who has the contract, will
arrive from Ketchikan within a
week to start work on it.
Plans for protecting the river
bank to prevent further dam
age to the town from floods
were laid at a public meeting
in Pioneer Hall Monday night.
C. W. Cheatham and L. F. Vai
le of the Bureau of Public
Roads and T. H. Evans, local
road foreman, were pi'esent
and the first named outlined
the government’s project, to
build two wing dams, approxi
mately 400 to 600 feet in
length, which will provide pro
jection from the rock cut to the
>ld sawmill site, the citizens of
he town to provide the necess
iry protection below that point,
las. Pitcher, Lee Balch and Ed.
Snider wer elected to raise the
lecessary funds, and are al
•eady on the job with suffici
>nt money in the bank for pres
et requirements.
PROFESSIONAL
ptrast pi ue
(Attorney at ^ato
§5gi>*r, ^.laafea
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL t MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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CHAS .F. SANDFORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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