• HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Ruilding,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
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Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Thanksgiving Then and Now
Some 300 years ago a feu
strong men in England said:
“Let us cross the wide Atlantic,
Let us go far, very far away
from England and risk life in
a new land. Let us there find
a way to worship God aftei
the dictates of our consciences
and tolerate no more the into'*
ference of men in this old
homeland that is no longei
home-like.”
And they did even as they
said they would do. Familial
faces and long loved sctyies
were behind as this little band
of men and women ventured
forth into uncertain danger-s
and unspeakable hardships.
Finally they set their feet up
on a rock and with iron resolut
ion went about the shaping ol
a new order of society. They
had come neither for gold/Oi
conquest, but to build homes
and live in peace with God and
man. So a day finally dawned
when they feasted well and
felt the thrill of that first flush
of success. The Indians looked
on, and came to partake of the
feast.
That was the first Thanksgiv
ing of the whites in the history
of our land and has been per
petuated in all our later hist
ory.
Next Thursday the feast of
Thanksgiving comes around
again. But life is not so simple
as in the days of that first
far-away Thanksgiving feast.
Not only the Indian, but the
Asiatic and the European and
all the world have come to look
on. For Thanksgiving is a truly
American custom. No other
people under the sun has any
celebration exactly like it.
And what those onlookers
see is a land of peace, inde
pendence, security and bount
eous wealth; a land literally
flowing with milk and honey,
wherein its people have and
enjoy more of the good things
I
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of the world than have ever
been had by any people eince
the dawn of human existence.
Despite the present disturbed
conditions; regardles of the so
called hard times, we as a peo
ple are unquestionably far bet
ter off than those of anv other
nation.
Wars and revolutions such
as now exist in so many other
lands threaten us not at all;
dire poverty and starvation
such as confront millions upon
millions of other peoples at this
moment are unknown to us.
Although the nation, like all
others, is suffering from the
unpiecedented World tnde
stagnation, we still are the
lichest and most prosperous
under the sun and none of our
people need or will starve or
go without many of the vit
al things as a result. Some may
be forfced to undergo a tempo
rary curtailment of the great
prosperity and plenty of earli
er years; some may have to
stiuggle against severe adver
sities for a time, but even they
will be immeasurably better
1 off than the starving and senii
starving millions of China and
India and the grievously im
poverished masses of Europe.
Mexico and South America.
However hard their lot. the
people of our land will still
have more of the essentials of
iift*. more comforts, anti more
advantages than those millions
j of less fortunate ones in other
lands.
Truly we as a people have
much to be thankful for. And
■
i each of us, as we sit down to
our Thanksgiving feasting
-should find it in our hearts to
i offer up grateful thanks that
we are so really well off as j
compared to the great mass of:
the world’s peoples and that'
the soul of the Pilgrim Fathers
still lives in America.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder Alaska Miner
of November 28. 1919
Angus.Kennedy, a prospector
and miner, is a recent arrival
from Seward.
Robert Andrews, who has
been 21 years in Alaska, and
who has prospected as far
north as anyone, is down from
Seward. He will get into the
hills in the spring.
This time of the year the:
mines of the district are down
to a strictly business basis, and
as a source of news are of
somewhaHnegligible quantity.
An even half dozen proper
ties on the Salmon and Bear
River slopes are forging ahead
with all the men who can be
i conveniently employed under
ground. Of these the Premier
takes precedence, though the
crew employed there is fat
short of what it will be later in
the season. It is General Mana
ger Neill’s expressed determi’i
ation to ship from 2,500 to ?>,
000 tons of ore this winter and
the extraction of this amount
! means the employment of fifty
|or sixty men, though this fig
I ure is not named as being
authoritative.
If the snow tractor does what
its makers claim for it, break
! ing the road and hauling 12
i tons of ore at a trip as well, the
shipping problem will be great
ly simplified. The Premier has
constructed a warehouse on
one of their large scows for
j housing the ore, and a number
Uf large, flat wagon beds are
being constructed for the ore
sleighs. Assistant general man
ager D. L. Pitt, appointed since
the Guggenheim and Keith in
terests bought into the proper
ty, has taken hold with a vim
w^iich assures a vigorous and
capable management.
At the Forty-Nine, Superin
tendent Harry Howson has 15
men working in two tunnels,
known as the Forty-Nine and
Occidental. The full face of the
latter is highgrade, and ship
ments could be made right now
if there was a road to the prop
erty. The ore from the Occi
dental adit, or such samples as
have been brought down, look;
more like jewelry than ore
native silver predominating
with a generous sprinkling ot
ruby and brittle silver. In the
Forty-Nine tunnel the drift if
in good concentrating ore
which will be saved for treat
ment on the property.
No recent reports have been
received from the Bush Mines.
L t d.. Superintendent Harry
Tanner being holed up with his
:rew at the property. The Iasi
report, from a n unofficial
source, was to the effect thai
the high grade ore typical ol
the camp had been encount
ered in the tunnel.
William Noble is crosscutting
on the E Pluribus claim of the
Big Missouri for the highgrade
ore which appears above Every
one acquainted with the dist
rict knows what kind of a m:ne
the Big Missouri is destined tc
become. .
At the Mineral Hill a full
crew is employed under the
superintendency of A1 Harris.
A1 is also in charge of the Lake
View mine up Bear River. Bill
Fillier is foreman here. The
only property working on the
Alaska side of the line is the
New Alaska, which is under
bond to Chas. F. Caldwell. A
crosscut tunnel is being driven, j
Just for Fun
--o
“Ahoy! I guess we’ll make
port,” said the sailor as he
| threw in another handful of
rasins.
| So far as we can see there is
, but one time when you should
! not start at the bottom to attam
j success; and that is when you
! try to sweep a stairway.
You may be a fine, upstand
i ing, respectable citizen, but a
I banana skin doesn’t care.
No, No, Maudie— John Bun
yan was not a specialist on foot
troubles. People in Iceland
j are not called Equinoxes and
the Hunchback of Notre Dame
was not a football player.
Pete Wilson says the victrola
needle is the only kind some
j modern wives know.
| According to the Village Cyn
ic there is always a calm before
; the storm; it is sometimes
| called a honeymoon.
I __
j Teacher: “Give the principal
| parts of the verb ‘swim.”
Johnny: “Swim, S w a m,
! Swum.”
j Teacher: “Good. Now give
the principal parts of the verb
j ‘dim’. ”
Johnny: “Dim, da—. Aw,
! quit yer kidding.”
—
Our idea of a real optimist is
a man who buys a car on time
to go looking for a job.
Sweet Young Thing: “Hasn't
Henry ever married?”
Second Ditto: “I don’t think
he intends to, because he is
| studying for a bachelor de
! gree.”
Fisherman’s Prayer
Lord, suffer me to catch a fish
So large that even I
When talking of it afterwards,
May have no need to lie.
We often wonder how the
( Bible continues to be the best
seller when so few persons ev
er wear one out.
The buyer of worthless
stocks may be consoled by the
thought that his investment is
it least permanent.
INTERESTING NOTES
Havanna, once a hotbed of
yellow fever and other tropical
liseases, is now one of the most
healthy and beautiful cities in
the world.
Governor Endicott brought a
pear tree from England in 16
30 and it is still bearing near
Davenport, Mass.
Charles Blazier, of Brooks,
Alberta, Canada, owns what is
’aid to be the only anjtelope
farm in the world.
After an investigation, a com
mitte of sociologists declared
Glasgow to be the worst city in
the world.
J. Martin, an English watch
maker, has made the world’s
tiniest train, which is construct
j
ed entirely of gold and silver,
is only eight inches long and i3
run by clock work.
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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Waltham 17 and 23 Jewell
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and IS Jewels
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
THE NUGGET SHOP
We have temporarily discon
tinued the local manufacture
of rubber stamps, but will re
ceive orders for outside deliv
ery. Phone 82.
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^Ernest ^81ue
^ttorncg at ^fiatu
Pgi»cr, JKIneka
C. H. SUNDMACHER
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