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HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1927
FIFTY CERTS A MONTH
NEW SILVERADO ORE
CREATES SENSATION
Samples of native silver ore
from the new strike on the
Silverado Group on Silverado
mountain, created a sensation
in the camp during the past
week.
Chunks taken from the new
vein during the early days of
week appear almost solid sil
ver and were characterized by
experienced mining men as the
richest they had ever seen. A
block of the ore several inches
in circumference and cut into
a cube with a hacksaw, ap
pears to be almost solid silver
throughout and is quite the
most spectacular sample of sil
ver ore so far found anywhere
in the district. Good sized
samples carrying silver values
running into the thousands of
ounces per ton are said to be
scattered throughout the vein,
although the general average
of the ore across the vein ap
parently runs in the neighbor
hood, of $200 per ton. In addit
ion to the uusual displays ol
native silver, the ore also
shows ruby silver, gray cop
per and pyrites, and is said to
contain important gold values.
The vein has been traced for
about 150 feet on the surface,
one end being concealed un
der the small glacier extending
downward from the mountain
crest opposite town, the othei
being buried under a deposii
of glacial debris left by the
fast receding glacier. ~
Owing to the vein striking in
the general direction of the
Prosperity and Porter Idaho
groups, it is believed that
the lead may be a continuat
ion of the rich high grade
veins found on those proper
ties, which, although located
on the opposite side of the
mountain are said to be only a
thousand feet or so distant,
measuring straight through the
mountain. The new vein is be
ing prospected by open cut
ting, withr a crew of 10 men
employed.
ANOTHER DRILL
FOR GEORGE COPPER
The Cosolidated Mining &
Smelting Co. has added anoth
er diamond drill outfit to the
two which have been engaged
in drilling on the George Gold- j
Copper property in the uppei
Bear River valley.
The new drill outfit arrived
from the south Sunday.
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The Northland Transportat
ion Co. motorship Norco will
sail from Seattle for Ketchikan
and Hyder on September 22,
according to advices received
by the Hyder Dock Co., Inc.,
local agents.
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Forty-eight tons of Riverside
contcentrates left for the Selby
smelter on the Norco.
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Two compressors arrived Sun
day from the south for use in
the construction of the pro
jected wagon road to the Big
Missouri.
The new road, which will be
in the neighborhood of 5 Yi
miles long, will be built under
the direction of Supt. S. A.
Knowles, of the Big Missouri.
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Thos. H. Evans, Bureau of
Public Roads superintedent
for this district, left on the
Highway last week to look
over the road construction pro
jects of the Bureau in other
parts of the district. Mr. Evans’
immediate objective was the
Jupeaji section.
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MiMMlaaUiU
PREMIER ACQUIRES
LARGER INTEREST
PROSPERITY GROUP
As a result of the purchase in
recent days of various sized in
terests from Messrs. Fred R.
and Wm. J. Jancowski, Gerald
Stewart, Eli Watland and G.
Davis, the Premier Gold Min
ing Co., operator of the fam
ous Premier mine, has acquir
ed an additional 24 per cent
interest in the noted Prosperity
group in the Marmot River
section and now owns 76 per
cent of that highly regarded
property.
The transfer of the new in
terests was completed during
the past week, with the pay
ment of substantal sums to the
several partes in interest.
Recent reports from the
group indicate that ore of ex
cellent grade and carrying con
siderable native silver is being
developed in the cross cut tun
nel, which cuts the vein at a
vertical depth of 80 feet below
the outcrops. The vein is said
to average about 4 feet in
width over a distance of 100
feet on this level.
It is reliably reported that
the company plans to run an
ither tunnel some distance be
low this level and will continue
ievelopment through the com
ing winter. Freighter Jack
Rennie is now taking up sup
plies for the winter operations,
it which a crew of eight or
;en men will be employed.
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DR. YOUNG KILLED
Dr. S. Hall Young, veteran
Alaska missionary and known
to a majority of Territorial
residents, was killed by being
struck by an interurban street
car at Clarksburg, W. Va.,
September 2, according to
press reports. The remains
were interred at Syracuse,
N. Y.
The noted clergyman was 80
pears of age and in robust
health at the time of the acci
dent.
During the course of his resi
dence in Alaska; Dr. Young es
tablished the first Presbyterian
mission in Alaska at Wrangell
in 1878. Later, in the days of
the Klondyke rush, he estab
lished missions at Eagle and
Rampart on the Yukon, after
erecting the first Presbyterian
church in Dawson. He also es
tablished the first churches of
the denomination in Nome and
Fairbanks. In 1901 he was*
named superintendent of all
Presbyterin missions in Alaska.
He is also noted as the author
nf several books on Alaska, in
cluding “Alaska Days with
John Muir,” “Advetnures in
Alaska,” “The Klondike Clan,”
and “The Mushing Parson.”
His death will be widely re
gretted throughout the North
land, in the annals of which
his name is written as a great
leader and a true and unselfish
friend of all mankind.
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The motorship Santa Rita, ar
rived from Juneau and inter
emdiate points Monday night,
bringing Jajck Tripp, a well
known commercial traveller.
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Ida Lawson was fined $250
by U. S. Commissioner T. W.
McDonald Sunday morning,
after entering a plea of guilty
to a charge of possessing and
selling intoxicating liquor pre
ferred By deputy U. S. Mar
shl Donald E. Martin.
The defendant was later re
leased on * payment of the fine
imposed.
MANN PREDICTS GREAT
FUTURE FOR PEACE—
STEWART R.R. LINE
[Editorial note:- The follow
ing interview with Sir Donald
Mann sets forth with remark
able clarity the tremendous de
velopment possibilities of the
proposed Peace River-Stew
art railroad, as seen by Can
ada’s famous “Empire build
er,” and the man whose far
seeing vision first discerned
the feasibility and value of
such a route to Canada and the
United States. As the original
exponent of the proposal his
views on the subject possess an
unusual valve and should
provide a strong urge toward
its early realization.. The art
icle is reprinted through the
courtesy of the Portland Canal
News.
Winnipeg, August, 1927.
Discussing the business out
look a few days ago, Sir Don
ald Mann expressed the belief
that Canada was on the thres
hold of an era of unparalleled
progress and prosperity.
Sir Donald being one of the
Empire builders who rocked
the cradle of the Dominion in
its infancy and who has done
as much and, some say more,
than any other to make Can
ada what it is and what it is
to be, ought to have a clearer
vision of his country’s future
than most others.
“In the winter of 1879” said
Sir Donald, “I hewed the tim
bers in the primeval forest to
build the first railroad bridge
in western Canada between
the Great Lakes and the Pa-:
cific.
“The bridge was built on the
ice over the Red River and I
watched with much misgiving
the first locomotive go over the
bridge. There was not another
bridge between the Red River
and the Rockies over which a
team of oxen or horses could
then cross in safety.
“The Canadian Prairies were
then a trackless waste over
which millions of buffalo rang
ed. A few scattered tribes of
Red Men, some French Can
adian trappers, missionaries
and Hudson’s Bay trading
posts were all there were from
Winnipeg to the snowy peaks
of the Rockies.
“India, Australia, Argentine,
Russia and the United States
supplied all the world’s wheat
exports at that time. Last year
Canada provided more than
half the wheat exports of the
world.
u id w vi in i ciucui vex uiai
had not the Canadian Prairies
been gridironed with railways
during the generation before
the Great War the Allies
I would have been starved into
! submission before America
1 could have come to their aid.
“Men are but links in the
chain of human destiny. It is
| not what has been done, but
! what remains to do which
counts.
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“One summer's day in 1893,
I stood on the banks of the St.
Mary’s River in the Kootenays
when a very tall, very hand
some red headed prospector
came along and offered to sell
me a mine for $10,000 that he
had just discovered. He was
one of the Sullivan clan from
Bantry Bay, Ireland, and he
had come to the Kootenays
that very year chasing fortune
and he had found it twenty
miles west of where I met him.
There was not a railway with
in hundreds of miles and little
NICE ORE ON
MONARCH GROUP
A fine vein of silver-gold ore
is being developed by Marshal
D. Ickis on the Monarch Group
in the upper Fish Crqek area.
The vein, which is said to be
a continuation of the Fish
Creek lead, has been traced
for several hundred feet and
has widened out under open
cut development from a few
inches at the surface to 3 or 4
feet a short distance down. Ore
of milling grade is coming in
strong at several points and
the vein also carries a streak
of high grade along the wall.
The ore shows steel galena
and gray copper and also car
ries good gold values. Samples
taken from the vein in earlier
periods have assayed high in
the latter metal, values up to
$200 per ton having been ob
tained. Competent mining men
state that the property is a
very promising one. A small
crew is assisting Mr. Ickis in
his operations.
prospect of one, so I did not
buy. That mine is now earning
net profits of $12,000,000 a
year for the Consolidated Min
ing and Smelting Company.
"Less than twenty years ago
when we succeeded in financ
ing the construction of the C.
N. R. from Edmonton through
the Yellow Head Pass to Van
couver there were financiers,
economists and statesmen who
called the enterprise madness.
_“Now that same Yellow Head
Pass line linking mid-conti
nental America with Vancouv
er is universally acknowledged
to be the best and most eco
nomic railway ever built across
the North American Continent.
The Sante Fe, the Union Pa
cific and every other railway
line to the Pacific may expend
a billion or more in tunnels
and grade betterments, but
they can never compete as car
riers with the C. N. R. from
the Great Lakes to the Pacific.
“But even the best sometimes
may be bettered. Before the
Yellow Head Line to Vancouv
er was completed I discovered
that a railway run due East
from Portland Canal through
the Peace to the Saskatchewan
River would far excel the C.
N. R. line in grades and curva
ture and in the actual costs of
transportation.
“The route to the Portland
canal at its apex is a thousand
feet lower than the Yellow
Head Pass and there are no
deep rock canyons to be negoti
ated between the Saskatch
wan and Poi’tland Canal.
“From Saskatchewan to Port
land Canal stretches the most
productive mineral and agri
cultural potential empire in
North America.
“That Portland Canal line
will tap bigger and vastly bet
ter agriculture, coal, metal,
mineral and water power re
sources than the Maritimes,
New England and New York
possess.
“Three hundred miles East of
Portland Canal are immense
deposits of the highest grade
smokeless coal ever yet mined
or discovered. It contains but
2% ash, 15% moisture with
76% carbon. It is better than
the best Welsh smokeless coal
and it is much better fuel than
the best Pennsylvania anthra
cite.
“The Peace and Portland
Canal Railway will tap these
coal fields where are billions
HOWARD OUT FOR
ALASKA DELEGATE
Territorial Senator Bartley
Howard of Anchorage, has an
nounced his candidacy for the
office of Alaska delegate to
Congress on the republican
ticket. The announcement was
made at Nome.
Senator Howard, who was
president of the Teritorial Sen
ate during the last session, out
lined as his reasons for desir
ing to succeed the present in
cumbent in 1928 as follows:
“I have just completed an
extensivs tour of Alaska,” he
said.
“I am convinced the people
of the Territory desire a
change in the Delegate to Con
gress.
“The people believe great re
sults for Alaska can be obtain
ed by a Delegte in accord with
the Administration at Wash
ington, .a Delegate who has
consistent and constructive
policies, not one of continuous
agitation and opposition.
“Therefore, I take this op
portunity of announcing my
candidacy for the Republican
nomination for Delegate. If
elected I will endeavor to car
ry on a constructive policy for
the development of Alaska
which I believe I advocated as
President of the Territorial
Senate at the last session.”
of tons above the railroad
tracks.
“When a canal is built around
the Grand Canyon of the
Peace, a short canal at Ver
million and one at Fitzgerald,
this coal can be taken in
barges to the Arctic Ocean
and west into the interior of
British Columbia over the
Peace, Finlay, Parsnip and
Omineca Rivers.
“A dam built at the Grand
Canyon of the Peace can de
velop 1,500,000 H. P. of hydro
energy. When an outlet is pro
vided at Portland Canal this
smokeless coal of the Peace
will have a monopoly of the
coal markets of every city and
seaport on the shores of the
Pacific.
“This coal pulverized and
blown like oil into the ships’
furnaces will prove a cheaper
and better fuel than oil.
“These are the reasons why
I believe the Peace and Port
land Canal Railway will be
the greatest and most profit
able coal carrier ever built.
“There are 50,000,000 acres
of the finest virgin wheat
fields to be tapped by this rail
way.
“Somewhere near the Grand
Canyon of the Peace, will arise
a bigger metallurgical centre
than Pittsburg and a greater
industrial city than Detroit.
“Iron, copper, zinc, lead,
manganese, limestone, sulphur,
sodium-chloride, gypsum and
hundreds of billions of tons of
tar sands are all tributary to
the Peace.
“I have known all these facts
for seventeen years and could
have succeeded in financing
the Peace and Pacific Railway
thirteen years ago only the
World War paralyzed rail de
velopment.
“Now that I have passed the
Psalmist’s three score and ten
I must leave the achievement
of such a great enterprise to
younger men.
‘It is the best and biggest
transportation and industrial
project to be carried through
in the white man’s world.
AUGUST EXPORTS
SHOW DECLINE
Reductions in the volume of
ore and fish shipments, the
latter due to the unusually
backward season, are respons
ible for a decline of nearly
three-fourths of a million dol
lars in the value of Alaska ex
ports in August, as compared
to the same month last year,
according to the monthly re
port of Collector of Customs
J. C. McBride, printed below:
Animals:
Blue Foxes.$ 6,880
Curios. 2,724
Fish:
Fresh & Frozen
(except shellfish
Halibut. 125,747
Salmon. 21,305
All Other. 1,343
Canned (except
shellfish)
Salmon. 11,039,488
Cured or preserved
(except shellfish)
Cod. 41,491
Herring. 182,587
Salmon. 367,739
Shell-fish
Clams. 15,732
Crabs. 4,202
Shrimps. 17,112
Other Fish Products
Fertilizer.. 4,780
Meal. 100,953
Oil. 235,178
All other Fish and
Fish Products. 1,015
Furs and Fur Skins:
Blue Fox. 8,525
Silver or black Fox.... 765
Red Fox. 5,812
White Fox. 22,665
Mink. 7,054
Muskrat. 45,022
Seal. 1,318
All Other. 72,969
Manufactured furs.. 10,046
Oil: Whale. 62,155
Ore, matte and
regulus:
Copper. 583,857
Lead.:. 14,608
Trophies, speci
mens, etc. 70
Wood: Timber and
lumber. 16,977
All other articles.... 8,005
Total value of pro
ducts of Alaska. 13,028,124
Products of United
States Returned. 380,287
Total value of for
eign products. 555
Total value of ship
ments of merchan
dise. 13,408,966
Items included in
“All Other Articles”
Hairseal skins $ 175.00
Paintings 1450.00
Whale fertilizer 4,160.00
Whaletail 155.00
Ivory 2065.00
“Some doubtless may think
this railway premature.
“Forty years ago statesmen
and financiers said the C. P. R.
undertaking was stark mad
ness and that it would bank
rupt Canada and every man
who had anything to do with
it. How little they knew and
how short sighted they were!
“Was it not Ruskin who said:
‘Only one man in ten thousand
thinks and only one in ten mil
lion has vision.’
“It was the far seeing Can
adian Railway builders who
saved the British Empire from
destruction during the World
War.
“Armageddon may come
again and if it does it may be
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