ANNOUNCING
The Completion and Opening
Of The New
TEXAS CREEK
HIGHWAY
Built by the U. S. Government at a cost
of nearly a half million dollars, with the
express object of opening this new and
remarkably mineralized portion of the
Hyder, Alaska section of the Portland
Canal Mining' District to development
and exploitation.
abound in this wonderful mineral region and
offer excellent oppolumiies for profitable mining
investment under the economical transportation
conditions provided by the splendid, new 12
mile highway traversing the Texas creek valley
trom end to end.
In addition to opening this rich mineral region
to mining endeavor, the Texas Creek Highway
offers a scenic excursion of matchless mountain
scenery, and the most remarkable glacier vistas
in the world.
For information relative to the mineral resources of the
Hyder District and other data, address the
Hyder Chamber of Commerce, inc.
Hyder, Alaska
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative .To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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ALASKA NOTES.
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Michael Boich, 44 unmarried,
was accidentically electrocuted
recently while working for the
Yukon Consolidated Gold Cor
poration on Boar Creek in the
Dawson district,
George Carlson’s automobile
left the Tongass Highway as
he was driving into Ketchikan
early the other morning and
plunged into the bay. He es
caped from the submerged car
through a broken window.
When the tide went out the
machine was recovered, only
slightly damaged.
Work on a three-mie high
way in West Petersburg, rep
resenting an outlay of $00,000,
will be started late this,winter
or early in the spring. Of the
total amount, $75,000 will be
derived from the Federal for
estry fund and $15,000 from
the Territorial treasury.
Nicholai Kalmakoff and his
team of five dogs were drown
ed when they slid into a vent
holfe in Becharof Lake 'near
Kanatak, which is at the head
of Portage Bay on the south
side of the Alaska Peninsula.
He was taking wood on a sled
across the glare ice of the lake,
and the heavily loaded sled got
beyond control.
Owners of radio receiving
sets in Ketchikan will have to
take out city licenses, costing
$1 a year each, according to a
new ordinance. The license
money will be used to find and
remedy radio interference. A
machine for detecting radio
interference has just been
ordered by the city at a cost
of $300.
Black bear hole in as early
as October for the winter, ac
cording to Wesley Meyers, old
timer and homesteader at Mud
Bay in the Ketchikan district.
The last week in October, at
an elevation of 2,000 feet, on
a hillside back of Ward Cove,
he unearthed a black bear
from its winter den.
Five thousand dollars has
been lent fo,r ten years with
out interest by the United
States Senator Lawrence C.
Phipps, of Colorado, to the
Alaska College of Agriculture
and school of mines for use as
a student loan fund to help
finance worthy needy students.
II. lleffeiing,. 85 years old,
who gels out wood fuel at
Ciooked Creek for boats of the
White Pass and Yukon Route
plying the Stewart River,
journeyed to Dawson recently
with a horse and sleigh for
his winter supplies. The trail
was heavy and travelling \va
hard. He said he would get out
alone his accustomed 300
cords of wood this winter.
“Mollie, Girl of the Yukon
Trail” is the title of a song
composed by Ray A. Walker,
of Port Orchard, Wash., form
erly employed at Cordova on
the Copper River and North
western Railway. The song is
dedicated to John Newman ot
Seattle, “Packer Jack” of the
Skagway Trail in 1897 and
1898. lie recently gave to
Skagway a bronze bust of
Mollie Walsh, who kept a tent
restaurant there in the days of
the Klondike stampede.
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PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
IIYDKR. ALASKA
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RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
FISHERS BLEND STATION, INC.
Metropolitan Center, Seattle Wn.
(Owing to poor reception (luring the
earlier part of the day in Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
1 only such broadcasts as occur after
5 p. m. dally.) \
Program for week ending Saturday,
{ February, 14.
-O
P. M.
Sunday , February 8
5:<H) Enna Jet tick Melodies, NBC-NY.
5:15 Collier’s Radio Hour, NBC-NY.
15:15 Atwater Kent Program, NBC-NY.
7:15 Studebaker Champions, NBC-Chi.
17:45 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Vocal
Recital.
S:00 First Church of Christ Scientist.
0:00 Standard Brands Program,NBC
SF.
0:30 Enna Jettick Melodies, NBC-NY.
0:45 P. S. Nav. Co., Cello Recital.
! 10:00 Kaffee Hag Slumber Hour.
10:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Con
cert Orch. and Vocalists.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, February 9
5:00 Totem Broadcasters, How's Bus
iness?, NBC-NY.
I 5:15 One-Quarter Hour in the Nation’s
Capital, NBC-Wn., D. C.
i 5:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Co. Con
ceit Trio.
I 8:00 Maytag Orchestra, NBC-Clii.
i 8:30 Genl. Motors Program, NBC-NY
j 7:00 Stromberg Carlson Concert, NB
C-Rochester.
7:30 Great Northern Railway, Empire
Builder, NBC-NY.
;S:00 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chl.
8:15 Shell Oil Co., Rudy Seiger’s
.Shell Symphonists, NBC-SF.
! 0:00 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
NBC-SF.
i .0:30 Scliwabacher Bros. Mozart hour.
10:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Vo
Ensemble.
11:00 News Flashes.
I 11:10 Varsity Vagabonds.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital
Tuesday, February 10
5:00 Paul Whiteman’s Painters, NBC
; ny.
I 5:30 Fisher Flourng Mills Co., Con
cert Trio.
; 8:00 McKesson Musical Magazine.
NBC-NY.
: i: 30 Happy Wonder Bakers, NBC-NY.
7:00 Westinghouse Salute,, NBC-NY.
: 7:30 Am.vTobacci Co., Lucky Strike
| LOO Arnos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chi.
515 Violet Hay Music Box, NBC-LA.
3:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Florsheim Frolic, NBC-SF.
9:30 Fisher's Blend Hour.'
10:30 University of Wash, Hour
11:00 News Flashes.
11,10 Varsity Vagabonds.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Wednesday, February 11
500 P. S. P. & L. Co., Concert Trio.
5:15 R. C. A. Radiotron Co., NBC-NY.
5:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Co„ Con
cert Trio.
6:00 Halsey Stuart Progarm, NBC-NY.
6:30 Palmolive Hour, NBC-NY.
7:30 Coca Cola Program, NBC-NY.
S: 00 Amos n’ Andy, NBC-Chl.
S:15 Camel Pleasure Hour, NBC-SF
| 9:15 NBC Drama hour, NBC-SF
j 9:45 I’. S. Power & Light C’o., Piano
Duo.
10:15 Uncle Hank from Ciderville
Center.
i 10:30 Totem Broadcasters; Parisian
Quintet, NBC-SF.
i 10:50 News Flashes.
11:00 Olympic Hotel Varsity Vaga
bonds. directed by J. Robinson,
ies, NBC-SF.
i 12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Thursday, February 12
5:00 Fieischmann's Sunshine Hour,
NBC-NY.
i!:0rt Am. Radiator Co. Program, NBC
NY.
6:30 Maxwell House Melodies, NBC
NY,
7:00 Luekv Strike Orchestra and Voc
alists, NBC-NY.
'7:30 Standard Symphony Hour, NBC
SF.
3:30 Pepsodent Co., Amos 'n' Andy,
S:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
):00 SIJB Co.; Demi Tasse Revue.
9:30 P. S. P. & L. Co. Story Teller
10:00 Fisher Flouring Mills Co.;
Piano Paintings, NBC-SF.
11:00 News Flashes.
11:10 Hotel St. Francis Dance Orch.,
NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Friday, February 13
5:00 Cities Service Concert Orcestra
and the Cavaliers, NBC-NY.
6:00 rnterwoven Pair, NBC-NY.
6:30 Armour Hour, NBC-NY.
7:09 Armstrong Quakers, NBC-NY.
7:30 R. K. O. Program, NBC-NY.
S:00 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chi.
S:15 Brownbilt Footlites, NBC-SF.
3:30 Sussman, Wormser & Co.; S.
and W. Melodies, NBC-SF.
i:00 Chevrolet Chronicles, (ET).
,):3u Schwabaeher’s Little Symphony
Hour.
10:30 News Flashes.
10:40 Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Pac.
Nomad, NBS-SF.
11:00 Olympic Hotel Varsity Vaga
bonds, directed by .1. Robinson.
12:00 Fox 5th Avenue Theatre, Organ
Recital.
Saturday, February 14
5:15 R. C. A. Radiotron Co.. NBC-NY.
5:30 Fuller Brush Co., The Fuller
Man, NBC-NY.
6;00 Genl. Electric Program, NBC-NY.
i 7:00 Lucky Strike Program, NBC-NY.
j S:00 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chi.
S:15 Gilmore Circus, NBC-LA.
3:15 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Consolidated Cigar Co., El Sidelo
Minstrels, NBC-SF.
9:30 Spotlight Revue, NBC-SF.
10:00 News Flashes.
10:10 Spotlight Revue, NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.