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VOL. 2. NO. 19.
HYDER, Alaska, April 13. 1921
FIVE DOLLARS A YKAK
Road Work
And Bridge
Program
C. W. Cheatham, superintendent
for the Bureau of Public Roads in
Alaska, arrived fFom Ketchikan on
the Taku and is acquainting him
self with conditions here which af
fect his department. In company
with Road Foreman T. H. Evans he
made a tsip to the site of the bridge
across Salmon river near the mouth
of Texas creek and was pleasurably
surprised by the small amount of
snow on the ground as compared
with a corresponding date last year.
No road appropriations were
made by the last session of Con
gress, said Mr. Cheatham, but suf
ficient funds remain from the old
appropriation to complete the work
here already laid out and give the
Salmon valley the transportation
facilities so urgently needed. The
bridge at Texas creek will be rush
ed to completion, a full crew being
employed at present putting in the
center pier, which must be placed
before the river rises. A prema
ture break-up delayed operations
for a day or two, but the present
frosty nights have checked the
thaw and good progress is being
made. With ail the bridge mater
ial on the ground, the structure
should be completed within 30 days
and the task of finishing the road
started last summer will then be
undertaken.
It is proposed to give the surface
a good coating of gfuvel, keeping
up with the grader as it forma the
Roadbed. Experience last fall dem
onstrated the futility of grading
any fastef than the graveling can
be done, a* tfo* hea*y hauling to
and from t he premier cuts the road
foundation to pieces as fast as it
can b« made.
Whether teams or light trucks
will be used for hauling the gravel
hag not tyet been determined, nor
has the question of bringing in an
automatic loader or a steam shovel.
There is a quantity of government
road material in Portland and the
machines necessai y for this woFk
can be delivered here within a week
after beinp ordered sent north.
Mr. Cheatham hopes to hove a
trail constructed over the Texas
creek flats, and als i ne up Fish
creek, he having taken this matter
up with E H.Flory. superintendent
of Alaska National Forests, under
whose department this work would
have to be done.
SPOIL GOVERNMENT ROAD
Unless a change is made in hauling
the Premier ore there will soon be no
road left throurh tov, > and in the wharf.
Two hundred sacks on a narrow-tired
truck is proving too heavy for th» road
bed, and even now the road is practically
im passable except for the tractor and
its trailer.
Mrs. Cascaden and Mrs. Earl have pur
chased the Caldwell building on Interna
tional Avenue and Intend converting it
into a mode n bath house, with steam
and Turkish baths as well as the com
mon or domestic variety.
Word has been received that Dick
Woods, who left here some time ago for
his old home in England, has fallen heir
to *90,000. He is also part owner of an
automobile factory. Incidentally, I rick
has taken uuto hihiself a wife.
Get Union-made Silver Springs Beer
at Tooth'S;
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Meet me at the Mecca.
Send this paper to your friend.
Ketchikan Chronicle at the Mecca.
Bluebirds and butterflies have arrived
in Hyder.
A. Lincke is down the canal on a pros
liecting trip.
Jas. McTntosh has returned from a
trip to Ketchikan.
Alex Gogoft, a miner from Kennecot, is
a recent arrival.
Wm, Papke has quit the Premier and
came down Saturday.
1 f it isn't to be found elsewhere, try
The Midget Emporium.
L. P. Hanna, of the Premier auditing
staff, is going to Portland.
Geo. L. Keid, of the Premier office staff
is down for a visit In town.
Pierre Le Blanc, an insurance man of
Ketchikan, is a visitor in camp,
Jim McDonald, a hard rock miner, came
down from the Premier Saturday.
Oscar Sutherland and Gus Hedlund
have gone to work at the Premier.
Patsey Crogan and family came up on
a launch this week from Swamp point,
Angus Kennedy, who has been at the
Premier for five months, is down for a
rest.
Wm. Fraser, leading building contrac
tor of Stew irt, paid Hyder a visit this
week.
L. .lessen, diamond drill expert at the
Premier, 's going to Vancouver for a fev
w ckf..
Mrs. Cliff Cleniertson n:.d little son are
going to Seattle for a visit of several
weeks.
Arthur Hall and Lome Jamieson am
now going to school in Stew art on their
bicycles.
The launch Inger, Tom Barrie master,
is in from Ketchikan with eight passen
gers.
Jas Conway, an oldtimor of the north
who has been working at the Premier, is
going to Rupert.
Geo. Pike, who has bden driving team
for the Premier, has joined the stampede
to Fort Norman.
Jerry Kincaid, caterpillar tractor ex
pert, is going to Edmonton and may join
the Fort Norman tush.
Mrs. Irwin, who has been running the
Nine-mile boarding house, is going to
Portland to visit relatives.
\
Illackie Knox and Mart Corrigan who
have been driving for the Premier, left
on the Taku for Ket chikan.
Reggie Maefarlane, agent for the Dom.
Inion Express Company in Stewart, is go
ing south on a short business trip.
Charlie Johnson, who has traveled most
of the trails in the northern count-y. is
swinging an axe for G.D.MattuIet on the
right of way.
The Hyder Auto Service hive had
their big Dodge passenger car In opera
tion during the past week making regular
trips to Stewart.
H. H. Howard mushed three miles In
the snow and climbed a steep mountain
in order to secure a photo of Jack Mullen
wielding a two-faced axe.
Among the stainpeders to Fort Norman
are Tom Powers, Foreman at Hyder for
the Premier, Dan Chisholm, foreman at
Nine-mile, Fred Joyce and Ed Snider,
teamsters.
Deputy U. S. Marshal J. K. Green and
Mrs. Green returned on the last trip of
the Taku from Ketchikan. The former
has since been confined to his home by a
severe cold contracted on the boat com
ing up from Seattle.
FINISHING RIGHT OF WAY
Contractors for clearing the tight
of way for the tramline to the Pre
mier are doing g: eat work and
there is now little doubt that the
e tracts will all be finished with
n the tone limit of 30 days from
the start. The two miles, 7 and 8,
which h. d not been let last week,
h.ve been taken by Homer Ficklin,
who has Washed his contract of
about two miles beyond Nine-mile
and his crew are busy at the new
w >rk. Scoville and Jancowski are
; !sj unished, and all the other con
tractors are ahead of schedule.
P.R. Backus, the engineer in charge,
is awaiting the arrival of a repre
sentative of the Riblet tram com
pany, who have the contract for
building the tram, his next work
being to lay eut the foundations
for the numerous towers necessary
to carry the heavy cable*.
6RAND I6L00 OFFICERS
The Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Al
aska, whieh met recently in Seward,
selected Ketchikan for the sessioh
next year which will be held March
22. Officers for the current year
were elected as follows:
Grand president—Alvah Eames
of Cordova.
First vice-president—Joseph Ul
mer, Ketchikan.
Second vice-president—George J.
Love, Valdez.
Grand seoretary—George Dobley,
Cordova.
Grand historian—Judge Chas. E.
Bunnell, Fairbanks,
Grand chaplain—Rev. Father
Markham, Anchorage.
Grand sergeant at arms —Chas.
Eklund, Cordova.
Grand trustees—Dr. W.H. Chase,
E. V. Boyle, Dan Greenig, Cordova;
E.C. Oustin, Ketchikan; Dan Linde
tfori, Hydef.
Locating Mining Claims
* 1 . v " , *
Down Portland Canal
NATIVE TELLS OF
BEAR AND OTHER
FLYING ANIMALS
One of the most interesting criti
cisms of brown bears received by
Governor Riggs comes from Charles
Klontech, the Indian game warden
at Sitka. In his title, by "other fly
ing animals" he refers to feagle6
gullsand fur seals. It may be nec
essary to explain that there is a bag
limit of three brown bears. His let
ter is reproduced as written, as
fellows:
Things the Bear and Other Flying
Animals Doe
1. (Bear) will tell what the Al
aska Brown Bear doe. Bear was all
right to men. Bear is pretty near
ly like human bean he puts up fish
for his winter use, this is why he
stays in his den for 4 1-2 months
with all his put up, also deer meat
with fish. And when they come out
of their den, then the bear is harm
ful and dangerous he looks for
some birds to catch and also deer
or men, anything comes in his way
that will be his game. And this is
why I dont want this 3 Bear to be
killed, the Bear is plentiful.
Now suppose there are 4 bear
walking, what will the man doe
shall he let the 4th Bear go? Or the
4th one to eat him up? It is im
possible to do that because if you
give him a chance that animal is
going to get you if you do not hill
him, therefor you cannot tet the 4th
one go.
Well Gentlemen I have under
stood how the law is written about
the game, as it says every hunter
should kill 3 bear in a season. I
will ask you whether you value a
human's life o> the bear's, I do not
value a dangerous animal’s life like
I do a human’s life, I am talking
about this bear, because the law is
written that person should net be
killed, and see, how much nurve
this bear hase to disobey the law
of the United States, I look at it
this way, that the bear is disobey
ing the law so the only salvation
will bs for the people is to kill off
all the Beas in a country, that will
be a great releaf for every hunter
and also will be good for the pros
pectors.
I do not understand that bear
could kill a person, there is a boy
got torn up by the bear, this fall,
you just ask him, and how he got
hurt, he will tell you all ef it, so
there is a witness here in Sitka
when the boy was in dangerous his
name is Mr. H.P.Bailey, so Gentle
men there is mors bad about bear
than good so I wish that the law
will strongly look into this matter
of bear, so this will be all about
the bear a while.
Send • dollar for a set of twelve Alas
kan scenes—real photographs. The Midget
Emporium.
Torger Peterson ofTocoma, said
to be a millionaire mining man, ac
companied by W. A. Wessenling,
also of Tacoma, have started on
their way toward home after spend
ing several days down the canal on
a mission wjiich may have an im
portant bearing on mining activi
ties in this district. They came
from Ketchikan in a chartered beat
and proceeded almost immediately
down the canal, accompanied by
W.L.Duff, who is thoroughly famil
iar with the section which they
wished to investigate.
In the neighborhood of Davis
river, which enters the canal from
the western, or Alaska side, they
located ten claims, and also a water
right which Mr. Peterson says in
his application he intends utilising
for mining and milling purposes.
Davis river is about 14 miles
south of Hyder and is named after
Emil Davis who, with W.L.Duff and
J. W. Marr, located the Common
wealth group of claims which was
incorporated this winter at Puyal
lup, Washington, and upon which
it is stated considerable develop
ment work will be done during the
coming summer.
Just what connection there is be
tween the floating of the Common
wealth and Mr. Peterson's activi
ties, if any, is a matter of conjec
tuie. Erail Davis is expected to
return early next month and start
the work on the Commonwealth.
ORE OUT, COMPRESSOR IN
The Foad up the Salmon valley
is breaking Up fast, sleighs from
the mine being now able to come
only a; far as the Hyder sawmill on
the o.est reserve, where the ore
is transferred to wheeled trucks and
taken from there to the wharf. The
next shipment by the Grand Trunk
boat to Tacoma smelter is expected
to be about 300 tolls, On the same
boat a 100-foot compressor, a dup
licate of the one already installed
at the mine, is expected to arrive,
Temperatures
As recorded by official registered
thermometer of Oren F. Hill at the
Hyder Drug Company,
Date Max Min
Apl. 6.52. 88
7 ..54..34
8 .46;...... ;&£
9..;.40;26
10 ..;46.;.;.. 38
11 .48..;;.. 36
12 ...46.;;;;; 34
Eiig reduction in all kinds of hardware
alio staple groceries. Jack Nelson!
Cow ides for rawhiding, at Carolyn’g
Jlutchar anoj>, gtavait!