HYPER ALASKA MINER
W. R. Hull r - - - Editor
A newspaper whose purpose is to tell
the world about the newest and bus
• test town in the northland, and the
native resources which are responsible
for its existence.
Application made Octobet 25, 1919, to
have the Hyder Alaska Miner enter
ed as second-class matter at the post
office at Hyder, Alaska, under the
act of March 3, 1879.
Sent anywhere for $5 a year.
Advertising rates on application.
HYDER, ALASKA, December 5, 1919
BRIDGE WANTED
For several weeks reports have been
multiplying to the effect that the gov
ernment, as represented by the Alaska
Road Commission and the Forestry De
partment intend spending a substantial
sum on roads in this district during the
coming season. Let us liope that these
reports are true. Let us fnrther hope
that the money will be spent with in
telligence, so that it will accomplish the
greatest good to the greatest number.
The Premier road keeps on the east
side of Salmon river and gets back into i
Canadian territory as quickly as pos
sible. It is a private enterprise, and
no one could expect that it was butii
for the benefit of Aiaskan prospectors.
Such properties as have been staked
on the Alaskan side are aimost without
exception on the west side of the river.
All the unexplored Alaskan territory
of the district is on the west side. 'I his
is territory which should be opened up.
The way to open it up is to build a
bridge across Salmon river somewhere
just below the mouth of Texas creek
and build roads and trails north and
northwest from that point.
The time to build the bridge is in the
winter. In the summer the river is a
raging torrent, and puttiug in a pier
then would be almost impossible.
If the authorities wish to show that
they are.alive, let them get busy on
this project in the logical time, which
is before the spring thaw.
What's this? The Indians of South
eastern Alaska are asking the govern
ment for an amendment to the law so
that it would allow only full citizens of j
the United States to fish in Alaskan
waters Have the noble Red Men a
corner on that bait which enables the
fisherman to get full?
The editor of this paper has been j
censured more or less for recording
memb rships in the High Dive club as
they occur and saying nothing about
himself being a member. For the ben
efit of these publicity shunners it may
be stated that it is unethical for a
newspaperman to say anything in print
about himself. But ethics ean go to
hell long enough for us to rise up upon
our hind legs and remark that one of
the first acts connected vith our glad
existence in Hyder was to dive, with
such grace as our physical conforma
tion would permit, into the gooey for
mation which underlies the business
section of onr young but interesting
city. So there.
The Oil and Mining Record is being
published in Vancouver by L.D.Taylor,
three times mayor of the city, and the
legitimate ownorof the Vancouver Daily
World. L.D. has finally found himself
and can now do more good to humanity
than he ever conld by running a hide
bound daily. He never was out for the
money for himself, otherwise he wou!d
not have to be working for a living to
day. But L.D. has drunk deep of the
cup of aqversity, and the experience
has broadened him, and mellowed, if
the term may be properly used, a dis
position naturally sensitive to the nec
essities of his fellow man. Heart and
oul he is a constructionist, and if some
of the more mercenary souls be inclined
to call him visionary they should look
back over the economic and industrial
history of the past century and see how
great a part Imagination has played in
the world’s progression.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY OF US.
Number one, volume one, of Alaska’s
newest newspaper, published - in Alas
ka’s newest mining town, is to hand.
It Is the Hyder Alaska Miner, which is
being edited and published by W. R.
[Rube] Hull formerly a member of the
Sun staff, but who is now one of the
boosters for tha new town.—Vancouver
Daily Sun.
The Hyder Alaska Miner is a news
sheet published at the littie Alaskan
camp at the head of Portland Canal
alongside the Canadian camp of Stew
art. It is a bright weekly and prom
ises to be useful to the camp by adver
tising it abroad. It is enlivened by
pictures and maps. It also carries a
lot of advertising, considering the size
of the place.—Prince Rupert Daily
News.
Our exchanges today brought us the
first number of the Hyder Alaska Min
err, edited by our old friend, W. R.,
[Rube[ Hull. Needless to say that this
paper is well and interesting y written.
We all know and appreciate Rube’s
style, and no man is more competent to
write upon mining in Alaska or British
Columbia than he. The Miner is a four
page, four column pap^ r, the initial
number is well illustrated by pictures
of Hyder, the prosperous little town,
soon to be a city, that is the gateway
to one of the richest mining districts in
British Columbia- the home of the cel
ebrated Premier mine. Succe.-s to the
Miner and its versatile editor. Rube—
Vancouver Oil and Mining Record.
Under the caption: Hyder Has News
paper, the Cordova Times quotes the
whole of the Miner’s opening editorial
with this introduction; “The initial
isstie of the Hyder Alaska Miner has
been received, and it is a newsy week
ly containing much reading matter
from that new mining camp. Under
the heading :|‘Klosh Kla-how-ya,’ which
is Chinook for; ‘Good; How do you do?’
the Miner heralds itself in this wise:”
Send the Miner
to Your Friends
ALASKAN CIGAR STORE
Cigars, Tobacco, Soft Drinks
Mrs. M. HARRIS, Prop.
HYDER CIGAR STORE
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies and Refreshing Drinks
»
BLONDY CHARLTON, Prop.
WINTER IS COMING
Get your wood now. Nelson and Foy have plenty on hand
and will trade it to you for cnrrency.
F. L. LAKE
Launch SILVER HEELS and RED SCOWS
Speed - SERVICE
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The Stewart Trading Company an
nounces the opening of their new gen
eral store in Hyder and invites you to
come in and get acquainted. After
saying “how -do?” and absorbing some
of the heat from the big stove, if you
care to look around and maybe find
something that you like, it will give us
great pleasure to serve you, and at the
right prices.
We expect to make a living by giving you the
right kind of goods and the right kind of service. Al
though every boat will briug fresh supplies, we already
have a very complete assortment of everything that a
good general store should carry. Come in and get
acquainted.
STEWART TRADING COMPANY
G. E. AUSTIN.