HYDER WEEKLY MINER
Formerly The Hyder Alaska Miner
Published every Monday by the Hyder Miner Publish
ing oj., nyder, Alaska.
Entered as second-classmatter at the postoffice at
Hyder, Alaska, November 4,1919, under tne Act of March
3 1879.
f AS. F. SANDFORD JEditor.
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ADVERTISING RATES.
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must be presented not later than Wednesday noon or
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Subscribers will confer a favor by reporting any fail
ure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PROGRESS AHEAD
Ur.lass all present evidences
miscarry, the coming summer
vv' i witness the greatest vol
ume of mining activity that the
Hyder district has yet seen.
From reliable sources it is
learned that at least one and
poisillthree mining aggregat
ion all with ample means to
conduct their activities on any
scale desired, will enter.the lo
crl field. In addition there is
everv reason to believe that all
of the concerns that worked
last summer will renew their
a tivities. From reliable sources
it is ! larned that one of thest
i3 even now preparing to open
its property on a shipping bas
is and is planning the install
at!on of a mill, the most desir
able character of which is now
under investigation. In addit
ion it is apparently well under
stood by those in dose touch
with mining that the Indian
mine will be placed on the ship
ping list next summer. Accord
ing to recent announcements
the owners of the latter prop
erty are making preparations
to install a mill during the
early spring.
All this means progress for
the district and increased bus
iness and labor and resultant
prosperity for Hyder. And the
Lest of it is that these contem
plations are being carried for
ward without noise or bom
bast, without stock floatations
cr red fire promotions. In fact
it is hard to induce the men
behind the projects in question
to say anything about their
I Ians. Quite a reaction indeed
from the booming and horn
Llowing of earlier days but it
shows that they mean business
and have the resources to carry
on their contemplations to any
desired conclusion.
A BARREN FIELD
Towns can be built without
publicity but they cannot exist.
During the past year several
newspapers have fallen out of
the march of progress. More
i
|are yet to fall. Alaska, today,
offers no inducements to a
'newspaper man worth his sal
ary It is a field barren and
stony for the plow, owing to
lack of population and prog
ressive advancement. With but
few exceptions there is no
paper making interest on. the
investment, if total overhead
, cost is included. Publishers
have been holding on, hoping
for better times “next year,”
but next year, like tomorrow,
never comes.— Seward Gate
way.
—
HOME TOWN PAPER BEST
ADVERTISING MEDIUM
Chas. E. Blackwell, the most
successful merchant in the en
tire state of Washington, has
\ no faith in calendar advertis
ing. He says: “There are
many" lines of publicity that the
i country store can use to advan
age but the one he can uie
to the be3t advantage is his
home-town paper. I venture
.o say that if the money spent
each year for fancy calendars
and other knick-knack give
aways were invested-I say in
vested, not spent or donated—
in carefully planned newspap
! ?r advertising, the actual net
returns to the advertiser would
| be ten times as great, to say
jnothing of the advantage the
small-town paper would derive
from the additional and much
needed revenue. And we know
that as a business builder it is
without an equal in any town.
—Exchange.
A movement has been launch
ed at Anchorage to have a tax
placed on foreign coal shipped
to Alaska, according to an ex
change, which comments as
follows:
At that, it might not be a bad |
idea— provided the transport
ation companies would give lib
eral freight rates on coal ship
ed from Alaskan collieries
that could be sold for what it
is worth instead of what can
be obtained for it.
At present too much money :
is being paid for coal in Alas
ka and anything that will make
it cheaper is a good move.
GOVT MAKES MONEY
ON ALASKA TOWN
SITE SALES
The Department of the Inter
ior recently announced that the
government made a profit of
nearly $40,000 on the sale of
seven townsites in Alaska, on
l ly one going at a loss.
The largest profit was $13,
172, made from the sale of lots
at Seward. Anchorage sites
brought a profit of $12,510
and Zenana $11,150.
NATIVE TOWN COUNCIL
SHOWS PROGRESSIVENESS
The town council of the native
settlement of Metlakatla ' has
displayed considerable enter
prise by deciding to install an
electric light plant, to be oper
ated by water power.
R. F. Davis, a member of the
council left recently for the
states to secure the plant. It is
said that the required water
power can be developed at
little cost.
NEW KODIAK
CANNERY PLANNED
The firm of W. J. Erskine, op
erating a merchantile store at
Kodiak, is planning to ex*ect a
modern ralmon cannery at Old
Harbor, on Kodiak Island, in
the early spring, according to
Mr. Erskine, who recently left
for the states to arrange for
the1 necessary equipment.
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A SPECIALTY
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MINCE MEAT
SALT AND SMOKED FISH
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J. O. LYON :::::::::: PROPRIETOR
HYDER FUEL CO.
HOLGER JOHNSON, MANAGER
COAL WOOD
HAULING STORAGE
PREMIER AVENUE NEAR FIRST
KETCHIKAN, WRANGEL
AND WEST COAST
MOTOR BOATS "PRINCE of WALES" & "CARMEN”
Leave Hyder Every Thursday
PASSENGER AND FREI UIT ACCOMODATIONS;
CONNECTING WITH ALL NORTH AND SOUTH BOATS
AT KETCHIKAN
Agents SALMON RIVER DOCK COMPANY Hyder
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