The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
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Alaska, under the act of March
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The Need For Optimism
In times such as these a cer
tain amount of pessimism is
doubtless to be expected, as not
everyone has the capacity to
maintain an optimistic spirit in
the face of long continued ad
versity' and discouragement.
It requires a stout faith and
well controlled nerves to avoid
becoming depressed when it
seems that the bottom has been
knocked out of most every
thing that makes for progress
and prosperity and security,
and hopes for the future are
dulled by the fact that no one
seems to know what it is all
about and what to do to make
things better.
At the same time we are
much surprised to find that
some of our most prominent
citizens have so far yielded to
despondency and uncertainty
as to become veritable calamity
howlers and appear to find
some kind of consolation in im
pressing their morbid views
on others who are striving to
maintain their courage.
This is a mighty poor attitude
for anyone to cultivate and
doubly so for the business man
who is looking to sell goods or
anything else. Continually re
iterating how “tough” things
are or repeatedly harping on
the uncertainties of the future
is surely not an encouragement
to people to spend their mon
ey or undertake activities
which will help to relieve con-!
ditions. On the contrary, it'
can have no other effect than !
to cause people to tighten still
further their purse-strings and i
to buy only the absolute essent
ials. In effect it is like putting
a clamp on every pocketbook j
and encouraging people to getj
along on as little as they possi
bly can. Worst of all, it tends
to breed in the minds of peo- j
pie a fear of the future that is
liable to remain with them long
after the present crisis has,
passed, thereby causing them
to continue a hoarding atti
tude long after it is justified by
conditions.
Those who make their living
by trade should be the very
last people to do or say any
thing that will tend to weak
e» or destroy such confidence
and optimism as may repose in
j others. The business man, no
matter what his personal views
may be of a discouraging situ
ation, should be the last to dis
courage others. For their own
good and the good of their
community, they should main
tain a constant attitude of
cheerfulness as far as the pub
lic is concerned, even though
their personal views may be
contrawise.
Conditions can never be made
better by instilling doubt and
discouragement in the minds
of those who still retain, how
ever unreasonably, some of the
hope and confidence which
alone can restore the world to
normalcy.
Just for Fun
■-o
We used to worry about get
ting into a rut. Now we only
hope to get out of the hole.
Herbert and Franklin seem
very cordial now, but we
doubt that either will call the
other “Old Potato.”
Sometimes a woman who!
boasts that she wouldn’t marry j
the best man on earth finally!
marries one of the worst.
The Fundamentalists deny I
that we came from monkeys, j
but readily admit that we are
going to the dogs.
An impecunious foreign no- j
bleman who marries an Ameri
can heiress seems to make a
fair exchange, after all. He
wants money, she wants a title.
Then when they both get what
they are after they may be
happily divorced.
INTERESTING NOTES
In 1930 patents were issued j
to the number of 1,797,‘580 to
Americans, while 4,359,000
was the total for all the other j
nations of the world combined.
|
At the Chicago World’s Fair |
photographs of exposition vis
itors will be made in complete
darkness by a new process
from Rochester.
Of the 14,000,000 foreign*
born inhabitants of the United I
States, 8.7 per cent cannot.
speak the English language, j
—
A spray gun has been invent- j
ed for applying ink to worn-j
out typewriter ribbons.
Fcrty-eUht per cent of the
population of the United States
is in communities of less than
5,000.
The Japanese alphabet po
ssesses two sets of characters—
katanaka for the use of men,
and hiranage for women.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
November IS, 1922
-o-—
Morris Pederson and Albert
Johnson went up to the Virgin
ia Monday to clear off the ov
erburden from a spot selected
by A. G. Larson as a tentative
tunnel site.
Suit has been entered in the
Supreme Court of British Co
lumbia by William Bunting
against John Hovland and
Louis Watkins claiming $12,
000 commission on the sale last
August of the Unicorn group
of mineral claims for $120,000,
according to the VancouviS
Province.
At the conclusion of the re
cent shut-down of the Big Miss
ouri, the shaft was down to
about 90 feet, with a full bot
tom of ore that is said on reli
able authority to assay 215 oz.
in silver and $90 gold. The !
shaft was making 30 barrels of
water a day when the work
stopped, but could be drained |
by a crosscut from the Mann j
tunnel. Gold assays from the
surface on another part of the
property also ran high. Two
that can be authenticated are j
$1,725 anti $1,493 in gold |
alone.
Government trail work in i
this section is finished for the !
season, the crew working up I
Texas creek toward the Chick
amin having come down Sun
day. Part of the gang came in
to town, the balance remain
ing at Nine-mile for a short
time to do some bridge work.
The Chickamin trail was fin
ished as far as the glacier and
and will be of considerable
benefit to-prospectors wishing
to look over the Chickamin
district next season. A trail
was built up Fish creek to
within one and a half miles of
the Titan, and a branch up j
Skookum creek to the Fish ;
creek mine. i
Work was started Monday on
the constrction of the new
planked roadway on First
street. The committee went
around once and secured a cash
guarantee of $675 for a start
from eight business men who
have no lots on First street.
The lot owners will pay accord
ing to their holdings. Gus Er
ickson and Alex McPhee are to
set the piles. There were sev
jral transfers of property on j
*'irst street during the week. H. 1
fl. Howard and Walter Elan- j
on bought 100 feet at First
and A streets from Kate Ryan I
and Harry Comer; P. Thanum
and Fred Dobzinski of Ketch
kan bought Jim Mooney’s lot
and intend building a machine
•hop. W. R. Reid bought a lot
j-om Jim Hewitt.
'tSvm&t piue
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JJyber, JUaslta
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS .F.HHFORD
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