LOCAL MININ6 COMPANIES
Alphabetically arranged lUt
of active and semi-active min*
ing organizations operating in
the Portland Canal Mining Dis*
trict.
Note: In compiling the following In-,
dex of local mining concerns the
publishers have been unable in tome
Instances to secure much desired In
formation; owing principally to In
ability to locate the office address
es of various companies. As a result,
the list fails to include titles or
other data relative to a smalt num
ber of companies.
These will be added to the list as fast
as the necessary information can be
secured.
Companies not represented in the
listing are requested to advise this of
fice.
Adanac Mines Company of Alaska:
t'ap. $750,000, Par $1.00; properties
Fish Creek, Hyder district. Ameri
can registry.
Albany Mining Co., Ltd: properties
Bear R. district. Canadian registry. I
American Mining A Milling Co: Cap.
$3,000,000, Par $1.00; properties Fish
Cr. Hyder district. American reg.
Amalgamated Mines, Incorporated:
Cap. $5,000,000, no par; subsidiary
Amalgamated Mines, Ltd., controlling
Hyder Lead Mines, Inc., properties
Texas Cr. Hyder district. Amer.
Amalgamated Mines Ltd: Cap. $5,000
000, par $1.00 (see above) Canadian.
Alaska-Canadian Consolidated Mining
Co. Ltd: prop. Salmon R. dist. Can.
Atlas Gbid-Copper Company, Inc.:
Cap. and reserves $1,200,000, par $1;
prop. Bear River dist: Can.
Bayview Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap. $3,
OOU.000, par .25; prop. Bear River
district. Can.
British-Canadian Silver Mines Ltd.:
Cap. $1,500,000, par $1; prop. Salmon
district. Controlled by Seiukwe Gold
Mining & Finance Co., Ltd., London.
Can.
B. C. Bonanza Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Salmon dist. Can.
Beaver Development Syndicate: Cap.
500.000 units, par $10; prop. Bear
H. dist. Can.
Bear Valley Mines, Ltd: prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Bifnetallic Syndicate: Cap. 15,000
units par $10; prop. Marmot R. dis
trict. Can.
Big Missouri Mining Co.: Cap. $5,000,-1
000. par $1; prop. Salmon R. dist. i
Amer. (Controlled by Buena .Vista i
Mining Co. )
Bitter Creek Minee, Ltd.: Cap. $1,- <
500.000, par .50; prop. Bear R. dis
trict. Can. (Controlled by Marmot I
Metals Mining Co. Ltd.)
Black Hill Mining Co., Ltd: Prop.
Bear R. dist. Can. (Controlled by 1
Marmot Metals Mining Co., Ltd.
Bridgeport Syndicate: Cap. 20,000 un- j
its, par $10; prop. Salmon R. Hyder |
district. American.
British Dominion Mining Co., Ltd.; i
Prop. Salmon R. Dist. Can. (Controll- ■
ed by National Silver Mines, Ltd. ) !
Buena Vista Mining Co.: Cap. $500,- j
000, par $1; prop. Salmon R. district;
Can. (Controlling Big Missouri Co.)
Bush Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd.:
Cap. $6,000,000, par .50; prop. Salmon
R. dist. Can.
Butte-Hyder Mining Co., Inc. Cap. $1,
000,000, par $1; American.
Cassiar Gold Mines, Ltd.: Properties
Salmon R. district. Canadian.
Century Mines, Incorporated: Cap. j
85.000. 000, no par vaL, prop. Salmon 1
It., Hyder dist. American.
Chief Metals Mining Co.: Property
Salmon R. dist. Amer.
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Co: Controlling George Gold-Copper
Co., Bear R. dist.; Buena Vista Min
ing Co., Salmon R. dist. Can.
Commonwealth Mining Co.: Prop.
Cascade River. American.
Crest Consolidated Gold Mining Co.,
Ltd.: Cap. $2,000,000, par .50; prop.
Salmon R., Hyder dist. Can.
Dalhousie Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop.
Bear R. dist. Can.
Dandy-Star Mines, Ltd.: Prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Daty- Alaska Mines Co.: Cap. $2,000,
000, par $1; prop. Salmon R., Hyder
district. Amer.
Dunwell Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1,000,000
par $1; prop. Bear R. dist.
Emperor Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1,500,000,
par $1; prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
Extenuate Gold Mines, Ltd.: Prop.
Salmon R. dist. Can.
Forty-Nine Mining Co. Prop. Salmon
R. district. Can.
George-Enterprise Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
George Gold-Copper Mining Co., Ltd.:
Cap. $1,500,000, par $1. prop. Bear R.
dist. Can.
Georgia River Gold Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
$3,000,000, par $1; prop. Georgia R.
Can.
Glacier Girl Mining Co., Ltd.: prop.
Bear R. dist. Can. (Controlled by Mar
mot Metals Co.)
Gold Standard Mining Co., Ltd: Cap.
$3,0000,000, par .25; prop. Texas
Creek, Hyder dist. Amer.
Hyder Lead Mines. Inc.: Cap. $2.
500.000 par $1; prop. Texas Creek,
Hyder dist. Can. (Controlled by
Amalgamated Mines, Inc.)
Independence Gold Mining Co., Ltd.:
Cap. $3,500,000, par $1; prop. Bear R.
dist. Can. (Controlled by Revenue
Consolidated Mines, Ltd.)
Indian Mines, Ltd-: Cop. $3,000,000,.
par $1; prop. Salmon R. diet. Can,
International Metal* Exploration Co.,
Ltd.: Prop. Marmot R. diet. Can.
L. and L. Consolidated Mlnea, Ltd.:
Cap. $500,000, par .25; prop. Bear R.
(list. Can.
Lakeview Mlnea Ltd.: Cap. $1,000,000,
par ..25; prop. Bear R. dlst. Can.
Last Chance Mining Co.: Prop. Sal
mon R. dlst. Can.
Marmot MetaJa Mining Co., Ltd.:
Cap. $1,500,000, par .60; prop. Marmot
R. dist. Can. (Controlling Melvin Syn
dicate, Glacier Girl Mining Co., Black
Hill Mining Co., Bitter Creek Mines
Co.)
Marmot River Gold Mlnea, Ltd.: Cap.
$1,000,000, par .25; prop. Marmot R.
dist. Can.
Marmot Engineer Mine Syndicate:
Cap. 15,000 units, par $10; prop. Mar
mot R. dist. Amer.
Marmot Consolidated Mines, Ltd.:
Cap. $5,000, 000, par $1; Marmot R.
dist. Can.
Marmot River Development Co. Ltd.:
Prep. Marmot dist. Can.
Marlund Mines, Ltd.: Prop. Marmot
FI. dist. Can.
Mayflower Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap. $1,
)00,000, par .50; prop. Bear R. dlst.
Can. v
M-ayou Gold-Copper Mining Co., Ltd.:
Prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
M. C. Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Bear
it. dist. Can.
Melvin Mining Syndicate: Cap. 25,000
jnits. par $6.00; prop. Marmot R. dist.
Can. (Controlled by Marmot Metals
Mining Co.)
Mountainview Gold Mining Co.: Cap.
$500,000, no par; prop. Pish Cr. Hy
ler dist. Amer.
Mational Silver Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $1,
>00,000 par .50; prop. Salmon R. dist.
Georgia R. dist. Can.
Mlnety-Six Mining Co.: Cap. $2,000,
)00, par $1; American.
Month Country Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
52,000,000 par $1; prop. Bulldog Creek,
Marmot dist. Can.
Northern Light Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $5,
)00,000 par $1; prop. Salmon R. dist.
Can.
Northern Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Sal
mon R. dlst. Can.
3re Mountain Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop.
Bear R. dist. Canadian.
Jutland Silver Bar Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
(1,500,000, par $1; prop. Salmon R.
list. Can.
Oversight Mines Syndicate: Cap. 20,
>00 units, par $10; prop. Marmot R.
list. Amer.
Pat. Daly Mining and Development
Co., Ltd.; Prop. American Creek, Bear
it. dist. Can. %
Pedro-Georgia River Syndicate: Cap.
15,000 units par $10; prop. Georgia R.
list. Can.
Porter-ldaho Mining Co., Ltd. Cap.
12.000. 000, par .50; prop. Marmot R.
list. Can. (Controlled by Premier
Cold Mining Co., Ltd.:)
Portland Canal Gold Mines, Ltd.: Cap.
11.000. 000, par .25; prop. Georgia R.
list. Can.—
Premier Border Gold Mining Co., Ltd.
Cap. $2,500,000, no par value; prop.
Salmon R., Hyder dist. Can. (Also is
registered under laws of Alaska.)
Premier Gold Mining-Co., Ltd.: Cap.
15.000. 000, par $1; prop. Salmon R.
Red Hill Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap. $600,
)00, par .20; prop. Barney's Gulch.
Bear R. dist. Can.
Red Reef Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Mt.
Rainey, Bear R. dist. Can.
Red Top Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop. Bear
R. dist. Can.
Revenue Consolidated Mine*, Ltd.:
Cap. S2.000.00, par $1; prop. Bear R.
list. Can. (Controlling Independence
Mining Co.)
Ruby Silver Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
5350.000, par $1; prop. Bear R. dist.
Can.
Rufue-Argenta Mines, Ltd.:Cap. 13,000.
900, par $1; prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
Sebakwe and District Mines, Ltd.:
Cap. £200,000, par 2s 6d, prop. Sal
mon R. dist. British.
Silverado Mines, Ltd.: Cap. $500,000,
par *1; prop. Mt Rainey, Rear R. dist.
(Controlled by Premier Gold Mining
Co.) Can.
Silver Crest Mining Co, Ltd.: Cap.
1500.000, par .25; prop. Salmon R. dist,
Can.
Silver Bell Mining Co., Ltd.: Prop,
Mt. Rainey, Bear R. dist. Can.
Silver Ledge Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap.
*250,000, par .25; prop. Glacier Creek,
Bear R. dist. Can.
Silver Range Consolidated Mines,
Ltd.: Prop. Marmot R. dist. Can.
Silver Slipper Mining Co., Ltd.: Cap
$500,000, par .25; prop. Mt Rainey,
Bear R. dist. Can.
Stewart Central Mines, Ltd.: Cap,
5250.000, par .25; prop. Bitter Cr.
Bear R. dist. Can.
Sunshine-Morning Star Mining Co.,
Ltd.: Cap. $1,000,000, par .25; prop.
Glacier Cr., Bear R. dist. Can.
Terminus Mines, Ltd.: Cap $1,000,000
par $1; prop. American Cr., Bear R
dist. Can.
Titan Gold Mining Co.: Cap. $1,500,
000, par $1; prop. Kish Cr., Hyder dist
Amer.
United Empire Gold & Silver Mining
Co., Ltd.: Prop. Bear R. dist. Can.
Vancouver Mines, Ltd.: Prop. Ameri
can Cr. Bear R. dist. Can.
White River Placer Syndicate: Cap
20,000 uni ts, par $5; prop. Nass R
dist. Can.
Wvodbine Gold Mining Co., Ltd
Cap. $6,000,000, no par value; prop
$almpo R. di$L Can.
T
Geology of Hyder and Vicinity
By Prof. A. F. Buddington
Department of Geology, Princeton University
FROM U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO. 807
(Fourth Installment)
Glaciation (Continued)
Hidden Glacier occupies a
hanging valley whose edge is
700 feet above the bottom of
the valley of the West Fork.
The glacier is fed by two great
ice cascades, which descend at
a gradient of about 2,000 feet
to the mile. The glacier is
readily traversed to an altitude
of about 4,200 feet, at the foot
of the ice cascades. Hidden
Creek has cut a gorge 20 to 50
feet deep in the morainal ma
terial and the bedrock at the
foot of the glacier.
Casey Glacier, like Hidden
Glacier, occupies a hanging
valley which, at the foot of the
glacier, is about 500 feet above
the bottom of the valley of the
West Fork. Casey Glacier is
easily traversed up to the foot
of the ice cascades at its head,
at about 4,000 feet. The peaks
above may be reached with
difficulty by way of the south
east arm, which affords access
also to Thumb Creek by way
of Gray Glacier.
Ferguson Glacier is about
4 miles long. The head of
Thumb Creek may be reached
by going up Ferguson Glacier
to the divide at about 4,600
feet and over the snow field
and down a steep snow-filled
gulch which opens on the low
er slope of Thumb Glacier.
From this point it is possible to
travel up Thumb Glacier and
over the divide at its head to
Greenpoint Glacier, a tributary
■of Chickamin Glacier.
I
The northern tributaries of
Chickamin Glacier he'ad
against those of Salmon Glac
ier. Ohickamin Glacier is
about 17 miles long, and about
10 miles of it lies in Alaska.
The upper part flows south
and the lower part in a general
westerly direction.
At the heads of the valley
glaciers and in the high mount
ain ridges and peaks there are
great basins and ampitheatres,
which have been excavated by
processes connected with the
presence or activities of the
glaciers that have occupied
them in the past or are now oc
cupying them and with the
snow fields that partly cover
their steep back walls and side
slopes. These basins, known
as cirques, are found as low as
4,100 feet and are still locally
in process of formation at alti
tudes of 4,500 feet or higher.
The area south of the West
Fork and west of Salmon River
is a “fretted upland” whose;
I rib-like ridges have been pro-!
duced by the headward and
sideward erosion of the cir
ques. The lateral ridges be
tween adjoining glacier basins
have been worn away near;
their heads until many of them
are not more than 100 feet
wide. Locally they are covered
with snow and are in process
of being reduced to cols or low
divides. A few isolated mount
ain peaks have been left with
one or more radiating short,
narrow ridges. Narrow as are
the ridges between the glac
iers, some of them afford good
traveling. Unusually fine ex
amples are the ridges at the
head of Hummel Glacier, the
ridge between the glacier
above the Keno group of
claims and the first small glac
ier west of Ferguson Glacier,
and the higher part of the
ridge on the east side of Ferg
uson Glacier on which the Sun
set claims are located, These
ridges are, to a considerable
extent, coated with rock spalls.
There is relatively little evi
dence of the formation of cir
ques either in the past or in
the present in the Bear River
or in the ridges north of the
West Fork.
Most of the valley glaciers
can be easily traveled up to al
titudes of 3,900 to 4.200 feet,
where crevasses usually make
further progress difficult or
impossible.
The well rounded form of the
mountain ridges up to and lo
cally above 6,000 feet and the
glacially grooved and striated
walls of the valleys indicate
that the whole district has in
the past been flooded with ice
as high as 6,000 feet. The ice
must have flooded the valleys
to a height of about 4,100 feet
until a relatively recent time
and then melted away very
rapidly to a condition approx
imately like that of the present
time. This conclusion is based
upon the fact that below 4,100
feet there is little or no evi-1
dence of the cirques that must
ceitainly have been formed to
some extent had the Valleys
not been filled with ice, which
later withdrew too quickly to
permit the excavation of cir
ques at the lower altitudes. It
is probable that in the Salmon
River district cirques were
formed at low levels during
the first part of the last glacial
epoch, while the snow line was |
descending and before the val-1
ir
leys were completely filled,
but such cirques must have
been obliterated by the valley
glaciers during the time o£
maximum ice flooding.
In the West Fork valley op
posite Ferguson Glacier steep
bluff faces below and a
marked smoothing of slope
and rounding of shoulders
above indicate that the ice
here filled the valley to an al
titude of 4,400 feet for a con
siderable time. On the north
side of the West Fork glacial
striae parallel to the valley
were, noted up to altitudes of
4,000 feet, and this altitude
corresponds to a line above
which there is a marked de
crease in the steepness of the
slope.
Continued Next Week
NEW DISTRICT MAP
NOW AVAILABLE
The new map of the Hyder
mineral district compiled by
Frank A. Metcalf, U. S. Miner
al Surveyor, is now on sale in
the local stores.
The map is by far the most
complete and servicable that
has ever appeared, being based
on the splendid contour map
of the lower Salmon and Texas
Creek sections prepared sever
al years ago by the U. S. Geo
logical Survey, to which Mr.
Metcalf has added the location
and boundaries of all surveyed
mineral lands, as well as the
general location of numerous
others as yet unsurveyed. In
addition the map also displays
the location of practically all
the more prominent mining
properties on the Canadian
side of the boundary line be
tween the Bayview and the Sil
ver Tip. The location and boun
daries of the Canadian proper
ties are based on official sur
veys made by Dalby B. Mork
ill, B. C. Land Surveyor. The
map is about as complete as
can be achieved at the pres
ent time and will meet pract
ically all ordinary require
ments and Mr. Metcalf is en
titled to the utmost praise for
his effort to supply the long
felt need for a really servicable
map of the Hyder district.
Location Notice Forms and
Proof of Annual Labor Blanks
for sale at the Herald office.
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
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