The Salmon River District is
Marvelously' Rich in Minerals
and Hydet is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
HYDER
MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 4. NO. 7.
HYDER, Alaaka, Jan. 24. 1923
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Mobile Mine
Breaking Into
Shipping Class
The Mobile mine, situated on
the south fork of Glacier creek, a
few miles from Stewart, is about
to take its place among the ship
pers of the district. Ore is being
fawhided down the hill and stored
at the Portland Canal concentra
tor, and will be brought to the
wharf and sent to the smelter
when a sufficient tonnage has ac
cumulated.
The tunnel, work on which
was started December 15, has
been driven over 100 feet, and
has entered upon a shoot of high
grade silver ore that has been ex
posed for a considerable distance
on the surface by open cuts. The
vein averages three feet in width
and the tunnel now shows from
eight to ten inches of ore that car
ries from 300 to 1000 ounces of
silver to the ton. By extending
this tunnel along tne vein a dis
tance of 300 feet a large cross
vein will be encountered v\ hich
shows on the surface a good qual
ity of milling ore and has great
possibilities from a producing stand
point. At the intersection inter
esting developments may be ex
pected.
Considering the fact that oper
ations on the Mobile were not
commenced until the winter had
set in and there was three feet of
snow on the ground, the accom
plishments there are out of the or
dinary, and reflect great credit on
the management, as well as upon
the loyalty and energy of the crew
who moved the supplies up the
Kill and established the camp. A
bnnkhouse 16x40 feet in size,
ore shed, blacksmith shop and
stable have been bu;!i, and the
tunnel d.iven in record time and
undti' unusual Difficulties.
The ore is being raw hided
d >wn the hill one arc! one-half
miles. Nego nations are under way
with the owners of the Portland
Canal pioperty to put their tram
into operation, which will greatly
facilitate the movement of ore
d iwsi to the wagon road, and it is
anticipated that the Granby Com
p my, who are developing the Sun
s' line properly in the vicinity, will
join in the project. It is also pos
sible that, should any considerable
tonnage of milling ore be devel
oped, the Portland Cana! concen
trator will again be put into oper
ation. The Mobile mine is only
2000 feet distant from the upper
tram terminal.
PREMIER MINE
CANADA'S LARGEST
SILVER PRODUCER
According to H. A. Guess the
Premier Gold mine, of the Portland
Canal district, British Columbia,
prodnced approximately 4,500,000
ounces of silver and 137,000 ounces
of gold during 1922, says Engineer
ing and Mining Journal-Press. This
large output seems almost unfair
in view of the large number of de
serving prospectors who are draw
ing blanks with every round of
shots. The mine is the largest sil
ver producer in Canada.
SECOND WHARF
WILL BE BUILT
NEXT SUMMER
Talbot &. Spaulding of Ketchikan
i v»ill build a second wharf in Hyder
next summer, starting work about
May 1. They have secured a per
mit from the War Department for
the project, and also for an ap
proach to connect with the gov-1
j ernment approach about 300 feet
I from the present wharf. The new
stiucture will be located 100 feet
south of the Hyder Dock Compa-^
Tty’s wharf and will be 100x300
feet in size. Talbot &. Spaulding
! are the largest coal dealers in Ket
i chihan and v ill ( pet a branch here
| •
TRiTES MAKES GOOD
ON DIG MIS:
A dispatch from Vancouver says
that A. B. Trites and associates
have made the second payment on
the bond taken last year on the
Big Missouri and Unicorn groupe.
It is understood that active devel
opment will be resumed as soon as j
the trail is passfible. !
H. A. Ives and his rjiothe**, Mrs.
M. A. Ives, have arrived from Cor-:
dova. Mr. Ives is known all along j
the Alaskan coast as a commercial.
photographer of great ability. He j
intends opening a studio here.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn’t to be
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
J 0. Stenbraten “Stampede John"
is in Kingman, Arizona.
H. Halstrom has returned frpp>
a visit of several months Outside.
W. F. MeAuley has returned
from a visit of several months in ;
Mayo.
Oren F. Hill returned on the Car
men from a business trip to Ket
ohikan.
Alphonse LeClair, “The New York
Kid," left on the Jefierson for Ket-;
chikan.
The Anyox cleared this week for j
Tacoma with 1200 tons of Premier j
high-grade ore.
J. P. Hawkinson, proprietor of j
the Exchage Grill in Stewart, has ,
I been on a short business visit to i
Rupert.
C. S. Craddock, northwest man
ager of the Giant Powder Co., was
in port during the stay of the
Prince George.
It is reported that Dan Chisholm, j
outside foreman at Camp 4, has J
j been appointed provincial consta- j
| ble at Premier. * j
■f . j
Louis Watkins returned on the
| Carmen from a visit with Jack
Lambert on Sitlm island, at the
foot of Portland Canal.
It is reported that Ole Olson, one
t
of the founders of the Hydi r saw- j
mill, is under treatment in Seattle
for cancer of the stomach.
i
Albert Johnson and Morris Ped-1
erson, who have been working all;
winter driving the Virginia tunnel, J
are down for a week’s rest.
Wm. Gray, president of the Hy- j
der Lumber Co., left on the Prince
George for Seattle on a combined 1
business and pleasure trip.
Hngh B. McGuire, after spending ;
a week here on business in connec
tion with his mining interests, has
left on his return to New York.
Motley Shier, district represen
tative of the Giant Powder Co., i
left on the Anyox for Anvox after j
rounding up the mine operators of |
the camp.
Curley Evans, one of the best
known skinners of the Cariboo
road, where they used to do real
freighting, has arrived to help keep j
the mines uu the Salmon moving.
Dr. C. C. Carter, well known Al
askan dentist and a pioneer of Hy
der, with various mining interests
in the camp, passed through Ket
chikan last week on his way from
the Kuskokwim to Seattle. He in
tends to arrive in Hvder Feb. 15
and open a dental office here, i
The Chilcoot was in this week
with 100 tons of coal for the Craw
ford Transfer Co., and took out a
cargo of Premier high-grade ore.
F. H. Bold, proprietor of the El
ectric Laundry in Ketchikan, pass
ed through Hyder on his way to
Orting, Wash , where he will spend
a month's vacation. Mr. Bold has
been steadily on the job for five
years and feels that he is entitled
to a rest.
L. S. Whittaker, former manager
of the Bank of Montreal in Stewart,
has opened a general merdhandise
store in that town. “Whit’s” pleas
ing personality and well-earned
reputation as a "square-shooter”
have won him many friends on
both sides of the line.
EVERYBODY
WELCOME
AT THE
Green
Theatre
Saturday and
Sunday
Turn
to the
The REX INGRAM production 1
of WINCHELL SMITH’S and JOHN !
HAZZARD’S WORLD FAMOUS j
PLAY. Adapted by
JUNE MATHIS
and
MARY O.HARA
LAWRENCE KUBLEY, |
Proprietor of the Dream T heatre
In Ketchikan, says:
“This is the best
show that ever hit
the North.”
TURN TO THE RIGHT i
is tiie record Broadway success—
443 times in New York when John
I
Golden presented it on the stage.
Writun. by Winchell Smith and
Johr. E. Hazzard. Produced in
pictures for the Metro by Rex
Ingram, who made “The Four
Horgetpen of the Apocalypse.”
INDEPENDENCE
STANDS UP TO
EXPECTATIONS
i That the tunnel on the Indepen
i (lence is, and has been for some
| considerable distance, in a solid
i body of high grade milling ore,
with a large proportion that can
be sorted and shipped without
milling, is the word brougt down
by Jack Fitzgerald, who went up
this week to see how Owney Mc
Fadden and Eli Watland, who are
driving the tunnel, are getting
along- The tunnel shows ore of
two characters, one a solid chalco
pyrite and the other a mixture of
steel galena and iron sulphides.
McFadden and Watland have done
great work since they started the
contract, having the incentive of
better ore to drill into as they gain
depth on the zone. Present indi
cations are that the Independence
will soon take its place as one of
the heavy producers of the camp.
The citizens’ mass meeting which
was to have been held last Friday
night did not materialize. Antag
onism to the plan on the part cf i
some citizens, together with the
failure of the moving pictures,
which were to have been a feature
of the meeting, to tirrive, caused
the meeting to "die a’bornin.”
Godfrey Anderson, who was re
cently brought down from the Sun
shine suffering with stomach trou
ble, left on the Prince George for i
Seattle to consult specialists, but]
on account of his weakened con- j
dition was forced to leave the ship j
at Anyox. Mrs Fred Younir is
with him as nurse.
E. J. Conway, field engineer for '
the Granby company, visited the
camp this week, coming over from
Anyox on the Azurite with Capt.
Murray Gerrard. While here Mr.
Conway inspected the Sunshine,
which is being worked under bond
by the Granby eompany. He also
interviewed a number of Pioneers,
obtaining data for use in a carni
val which will open the Anyox
Athletic Hall.
Federal Power Commission
In compliance with the Federal l’ower
Act (.41 stat. 1063) and the laws of the
Territory of Alaska notice is hereby
given that Ernest Blue and Noel M. Tra
versy of Ilyder Alaska have applied for
a preliminary permit covering the water
power project of so called Glacier River,
a tributary of Portland Canal, about
nine miles south of Hyder Alaska. Any
objections thereto or requests for hearing
thereon, together with briefs, reports or
other data for which donsideration is de
sired, should be submitted to the Federal
Power Commission, Washington, I>. C.
Large coal heater, now in Salmon
River Store, for sale. Ernest Blue.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker.
NOTED ENGINEER
GIVES FISH CREEK
TINE SEND-OFF
G. T. Jackson, former manager
of the Alaska Gastineau mine
when that property was being op
erated by the Thane-Jackling in
terests, has made an examination
of the Fish Creek mine, in com
pany with W. R. Tonkin, presi
dent and general manager of the
Fish Creek Mining Company and
vice president of the American
Mining and Milling Company, who
are now developing the mine.
Following the precedent estab
lished by the mining engineering
proession, Mr. Jackson was some
what reticent about talking for
publication. He went so far how
ever as to say without equivoca
tion that Fisn Creek is undoubted
ly a mine, and that business-like
and deep development will result
in making of it a large producer.
The whole vein system, he said,
should be crosscut by one tunnel,
for economical mining, and the ore
trammed down to the wagon road.
Good results have been obtain
ed in development, Mr. Jackson
said, with the money available,
and every opening shows that the
work was done to the best advan
tage. What is needed is sufficient
capital to carry out a deep devel
opment program, the results of
which are in no doubt.
Mr. Jackson was especially in
terested in the upper vein, where
the work is now concentrated, and
which shows on the surface a
high-grade ore shoot of exception
al strength and length. If this ore
shoot extends to any great depth
which it shows every indication of
doing, said Mr. Jackson, this vein
alone will make a mine, without
taking into consideration the series
of veins that have been opened up
by tunnels lower down the hill.
Approximately 100 tons of
high-grade have been delivered in
Hyder and will be shipped on the
next trip of the Jefferson. 1 his
ore was rawhided down the hill,
ft was taken from thd west tunnel
on the upper vein, in the course of
development. The face of this
tunnel is still following the ore
shoot, which is holding its size in
accord with the surface exposures.
Work is also being pushed in the
east tunnel, starting on the Skoo
kum creek side, where a com
pressor was recently installed. This
tunnel will give a depth of 150
feet below the No. 1, and 300
feet below the surface.
Russian steam baths $1. II. J. Scott.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Charlton,
Don't go home hungry. Get a lumjh a
the Ocean View,