The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
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at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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Gold Standard a False Measure
The manner in which the gold
standard of values imposes
crushing debt burdens in such
times as these is well exampli
fied by substituting some or
dinary commodity for gold,
which, as the measure of com
modity values, forms the bas
is of loan transactions.
Say, for instance, that four
years ago you borrowed a yard
of cloth representing a value of
$1 injrold and now have to re
pay the debt. Through the
depreciation of commodity val
ues in the interval, it is now
necessary t o return to the
lender three yards of cloth to
return to him the value repre
sented by the yard of cloth
loaned you. In other words
the dollar will buy three
times as much cloth now as it
would four years ago.
You may say that all you
owe is one yard of cloth. But
the fact remain3 that your
creditor gave you cloth worth
under the accepted standard of
values $1, therefore you really
owe him a dollar's worth of
cloth, not merely a yard of
cloth. If you pay him a dollar
in money instead, you would
have to sell three yards of your
cloth to obtain it.
That such a condition is un
just to he debtor will not be
gainsaid and when it is under
stood that such situations can
be and are at intervals artific
ially created by manipulation,
it will be seen that a measure
of value which not only will
permit such conditions but also
is 'susceptible of deliberate in
fliction, is a false and vicious
measure of value that should
be corrected.
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The Lenten Season
The observance of Lent, the
great fast preceding Easter, is
a custom which originated with
the early church, probably in
the latter part of the second
century, but the number of
days included in the Lenten
season has varied widely at
different times.
In the beginning, it appears
from the writings of Irenaeus
and Other early fathers of the
church, only one or two day's of
fasting were observed. By the
fourth century periods o f
three, six and even seven
weeks were observed in various
countries, with widely differ
ent customs with respect to the
continuity of the fa.-;t.
As at present observed, Lent
is a fast of forty days, not in
cluding Sunday's, beginning
with Ash Wednesday—this
year on March 1—and ending
.he Saturday before Easter.
Lent is observed by the Rom
an Catholic, Anglican and
Lutheran churches.
Just for Fun
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The influx of office seekers
into Washington this month
may also be classed as a sort of
‘hunger march.”
The succes of the “new deal”
may depend to a large extent
upon who happens to get the
winning cards.
If Uncle Sam would only
agree, the sentiment to make
him pay the cost of the late
war would be unanimous.
The United States is so uneth
ical in its foreign relations that
it refuses to build enough war
ships to comply with the 5-5-3
treaty.
Our private statistican reports
that girls with steady jobs
scored remarkably high matri
monially during the recent leap
year.
One more couldn’t do any
harm. Why net have a “Mind
Your Own Business Week?”
Stop us if you have heard
this one. Maybe it’s old but it
strikes us as pretty good.
Asked why the Almighty made
so many women “beautiful but
dumb,” a wag replied: “He
made them beautiful so that
men would marry them, and he
made them dumb so that they
would marry the men.”
INTERESTING NOTES
—
There are some 30,000 lakes
I in Florida.
_
Among non-farm families
Pennsylvania has the largest
number o'f home owners of any
state in ithe union.
Express matter carried by
airplanes in the United Slates
| has more than doubled within
j a year.
—
Nearly half a million tons of
i commercial fish have been
’ taken from the Great Lakes in
the last decade.
Experiments to produce a
cheap motor fuel from wood
I are making progress in Czech
j oslovakia.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
February 7, 1923
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5us Johnson has purchased
from Miss Kitty Mack the
planked lot opposite the Hotel
Hyder and plans to erect a
new building on it.
Billy Frame has put double
wheels on his car so that he can
run out on the snow crust to
pass teams.
A son was born February 8
to Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Bigham,
with Dr. W. D’Arcy Chace and
Nurse Lillian Miller in attend
ance.
Work in the upper tunnc-l of
the Fish creek mine has been
suspended and five men laid
off. Shipping ore from tihs
tunnel has been hauled over
the hill and then down to the
road.
The Virginia-Alaska Mines
Company, formed recently to
take over the Virginia and Tau
rus groups of claims near the
international boundary, has a
capitalization of 81,500.000
and Andrew G. Larson, E. M.,
is general manager.
G. T. Jackson, who is con
nected with the Tha'ne-Jack
ling interests and was formerly
manager of the Alaska Gastin
eau mine, left for San Francis
co this week, after making an
examination of the Fish Creek
group, which he said is un
doubtedly a mine, needing on
ly sufficient capital to become
a large producer.
—
The Hyder-Jumbo Mining
Company has been organized
in Seattle with Chas. E. Her
ron as president to take over
the Jumbo group of seven
claims, adjacent to the Titan
group on Fish Creek, and the
Star group of three claims at
I Nine-mile, owned respectively
! by Jack Sutherland and associ
j ates, and by Dan Anderson and
: partner. Associated with Mr.
| Herron are a number cf Seat
j tie, Anchorage and Juneau
| business men.
—
Fifty thousand feet of lumber
for the construction of addit
: icnal living quarters has ar
j rived for the B. C. Silver; a
new compressor said to be of
500 feet capacity has been or
dered and will soon be on the
ground, and additional equip
ment and Supplies to the
amount of at least 30 tons are
now on the way. An assay of
fice has also been established
at the mine with J. C. Comrie
in charge.
The Crawford Transfer has
taken a contract for hauling
lumber and supplies to the B.
.C. Silver.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL ft MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
Hyder *
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* Evening Service at 7:30 p. m. *
* Everyone is cordially invited to •
* the services. «
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