, T'.m lilww Ht« Dlatriat la
MarvaUvalr Rich <• Minora la
and Hyder ia tic &atjaw*y in
, Consequence of Whitih fljrdcr {a
> tie Faeteat Growing Town in
the North.
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
- This Paper is Oat to Publish el*
ths Mining News. Keep Your
Friends Posted by Sending them
the Paper after You Have Read
it. Boost for vHyder all the
Time.
VOL. 3. NO. 0.
HYDER, Alaska, Feb. 8. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Eminent Geologist
Writes of District
. The Miner is In receipt of a pam
phlet from the Department of the
Interior, Washington, entitled “Ore
, Deposit Qf the Salmon River Dis
trict, Portland Canal Region, Alas
ka,” and written by Lewia G. West
gate, who made a geological exam
ination in the snmmer of 1920,
The various rook formations and
methqds of ore occurrance are de
scribed, but at too great length and
■ in too highly technical language
for reproduction in this paper.
.. We reprint the introduction how
ever, because it i6 the only descrip
tion of Hyder and vicinity given
publicity in au official document
that h is come to our notice, and
will be of general interest, partic
ularly to Outside readers. Profes
* sor Westgate says:
Portland Canal, a steep-walled
' Surd, penetrates the Coast Range
tor sodfte miles from Dixon En
trance the.southern boundary of
Alaska, cutting obliquely across the
trend 0/ the mountains. This great
trench through the mountains is
extended n,or thward by the allu
„ viuin-floored valley of Bear River,
which, reaches far back into the up
land beyond the Coart Range At
2 mifes fronj its head Portland
Canal is joined on the west by Sal
mon River, the mineral deposits of
■ whose basin are here described. The
Valievs ai Salmon and Bear rivers
are separated by the Reverdy Moun
• tains, a southward-trending spur
of the main range. At the seaward
end qf this spur is the settlement i
0 : 'yder, which has a population !
01 a few hundred people md is tiie
ocean port, supply point and post
oilice of the Salmon River district.
Its location is on the international
boundary, and the steep slope im
mediately to the north has crowded
the settlement onto the tidal flats,
where it is in part built on piles.!
_ 1
lne newer part of the town, how- ]
ever, is in a batter locution to the
northwest, on the gravel-floored Sal-,
. mon river valley. Two miles to the j
northeast is the town of Stewart,:
on ihe British Columbia side of the ’
boundary. Though older than* Ly
der, it has about the same popula
tion. The Salmon River region
forms the southeastern part of the
Ketchikan district.
Metal-bearing lodes,, chiefly of
gold and siver, were found in the
Canadian portion of this region
about 1898, and similar discoveries ,
had been made on the Alaska side j
of the boundary by 1901. Thesel
deposits received relatively little!
attention till 1909, when a small j
boom was started in the Canadian j
dfrttictr This boom Wfceidtd in a
few years, but meantime the town
of Stewart and some 12 miles of
railroad were built. Interest was
revived in 1917 by the discovery
of some rich silver ores on the Can
adian side of the line, and in 191b
a commercial ore body was found
at the Premier mine which, though
in the Salmon River basin, is nisi
in Canada. As a result, in my claims
were staked on both sides of th<
boundary, and tne town o' Hyd<
sprahg up. The upper part of tin
Salmon River basin lies in Canad:
but its only practical modi- i f ac
cess is through Alaska. This lact
of adjustment of the intematiom..
boundary to the topography give
Hyder a much greater importance
than it would have it it served only
the Alaska portion of ihe distiici.
Though no mines have been devel
(Continued ou Page 3)
Saturday Night
Benjamin B. Hgmptdn
presents'?^
EWART EDWARD
"The Westerners” is fairly aliv
with action, every thrill in th
story being faitiifullv repr.iducu
on the screen. Powerfully producer
is this thrilling narrative of th<
pioneers who blazed the trail int<
the wildest section of the West —
the Black Hills of Dakota in the
days of the wild stampede for gold
And equally powerful is the cast of
players portraying the death-defy
ing characters so graphically de
scribed in the Stewart Edward
White uovofc
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to be
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
Meet me at the North Star.
Send this paper to your friend
Ketphikan Chronicle at the North Star
Sidney Clark of Ketchikan i? a recent
arrival,
Dan Klnelley is back from a short visit
in Ketchikan.
Gilbert Milloy from the Premier is on a
trip to Rupert.
J. II. Peterson arrived on the Taku
from Ketchikan Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mahood left Sunday
or a trip to Vancouver.
Geo. Powers, the pianist, left on the
V hn for a trip Outside.
Archie Patterson has gone to Ttupert
>n a short business trip.
Bill Mcfirew left Sunday on the John
r a trip to Vancouver.
Alex McPhee and Charlie Bibeau are
t upping down the canal.
John Hovland left on the Taku on a
isiness trip to Ketchikan.
Mrs. Harry Tanner left Sunday for a
sit with relatives in Seattle.
The John arrived from Rupert Sunday
■orning, leaving In the afternoon.
The Chilliwack was in this week with
cargo of coal for the Crawford Transfer.
G. W. (Dynamite) Davis is talking ex
losives to mine manage!* of the camp
t lis week.
Gus Elstrom left Sundsy morning for
Ketchikan. He had been working in the
Premier mine.
A letter from J. F„ Kellerman mentions
having seen John Ronan and John T.
Peed together in Seattle,
Deputy Marsha! Stanley Oaksmith re
turned Friday night from Ketchikan where
he was on court business.
•lack Williams, a well known Aiaskan
and recently a resident of Ketchikan, ar
r ved on the John from Rupert.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Newell of Stewart
left Sunday for a trip Outside. They ex
pect to return in about a month.
ER. driver- • i or>s and immigration
officer for Ryder, returned Friday night
'r im an officio! trip to Ketehikan.
A. Eckley and R. C. McCombs arrived
from Ketchikan on the Tabu r.nd inpio'1
i *ely went to w<t. for 'he Premier.
Art Halleribeck, of the Premier assay
d tpartment, has returned from a vaca
tion of three weeks spent in Vancouver.
C. P. Sjolander. in charge for Hoyles
Bros, of the diamond drilling contracts at j
the Premier, was down during the week.
J. Gravrozk, who has been mining at |
| the Premier for a number of months, i
j spent the latter part of the week in town.!
(. A. McNichol and It, Beaumont of
>upert. Grand Trunk Pacific officials,
'ere in camp during the stay of the John
The Taku was in from Ketchikan Fri
lay night with nine passengers and got
a vay on the return trip at 6 a.m. Sun
day.
'In;, EiYa: : McGrath, in charge of
t le Style Shop since Helen Bell estab- \
Iished tins store here, left on the John for
Seattle.
Dr. W. C. Muiholtan, dentist, of Jundem
will arrive in Hyder in the near future
with a view to locating here. He is now
on a visit to Se attle.
Maurice Ohmnn of Juneau arrived Sun
day and intends Sending for his wife and
ocating here. lie was formerly mine
foreman at Latouche.
Leonard Waide came down from the |
Premier and started work this week cn
contract of constructing an addition i
fo UKr Canadian
Art Marlette, an oldtlmer who arrived
. a few werka ago from Anchorage, left
Sunday for the Outside. He has the Si
beria gold fever and intends stampeding
to that country in the spring,
Norman Evans, who left here a little
over a week ago for A nyox, received word
on arrival that his mother'was very sick
in Vancouver, and proceeded there, but
reached home too late to see her alive,
Little Beatrice Horstnian was painfully
injured while coasting in Stewart last
Friday, a broken board tearing a large
gash in her right upper arm. Dr. Chace
closed the wound with twelve stitches.
Harry Zefft rt, a merchant of Stewart,
returned Friday night from Ketchikan
where he was called to answer a charge
of smuggling. He plead guilty and was
fined $200. He was represented by Chas.
II. Cosgrove.
Mickey Graham, the veteran packer,
has returned fuom a tilt with Dr. Kergin
in the Rupert hospital. He says that the
report of his death, circulated by the ir- i
repressible camp gossips, was a gross |
exaggeration.
F. W. Downing, superintendent of the
Dominion teiegraph system, was in Sun
day duiing the stay of the John, with
two wireless experts, looking over the sit
uation in Stewart with a view to install
ing a wireless plant there. 1
Jim Mowatt has read 47 novels, 216 1
magaeineg, 4 almanacs and takled one
Congressional Record unsuccessfully since
he finished building No. 1 angle station.
He is training for a position as proof
reader on the Portland Canal News.
John Haahti (John the Finn) lost the
tip of one finger and had another badly
crushed last Sunday by having the hand
caught between the shieve wheel and
cable on the Siiverado train. I>r. Ohace
of Iiyder dressed the injured members,
j Misses Irene ahd Helen Hall returned
Snr.day from a three months' visit in Se
attle where they experienced the worst
weather ever witnessed on the Pacific
coast. They are glad to get back to the
sunshine and biacing atmosphere t.i (
section.
Jim .i iiisjn, proprietor of the Johnson
aunciiy and bath house, returned on the
lasu i.oi, Ketchikan alter a orief so-.
jouru with the governmental iiuld-ein
tight department. Until the time of his
term“expires he will have such freedom j
as the supervising eye of Deputy Oak
smith allows.
E. (. Morse, superintendent of the Pre
mier mill, who had been tnere constantly
since construction started last May, came
down the latter part of the. week and
went Outside for a vacation of perhaps
two months. Mr. Morse was once a car
toonist and newspaperman and in the
earlv ’*JOs w rked on two papers in Sno- j
hoiuish fi r John W. Frame, nowCommis
sioner in Hycier.
COME HOME, YOU WRENCHES
Will the person who borrowed j
three Stilson wrenches from the j
Hotel Hyder kindly return them? !
They are urgently neeiisd.
For Sale—Knitting Machine, with all
accessories Price $25. Apply Stewart
News Company.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch :;t
the Ocean View.
Laundry work done right and promptly
delivered. Tub and shower baths, new,
modern, strictly up to date. Jim Johnson.
Slice thine stand, Alaskan'Hotel, Rube
Miller. Leave orders for laundry.
Mrs. Johnson, Sanitary laundry, A street
tajttial B*th». Hutiiln iMftt bath* U
MIST GROUP
IS SOLD II
VANCOUVER
The Mist group of seven claims,
owned by Dalby B. Morkiil, provin
cial land surveyor, Wm. Fillier and
Win. Hobill, has been sold in Van
couver, but no authentic informa
tion as to the purchasers or price
is available at this writing. The
property adjoins the Bush group on
the east and carries fencouraging
surface showings, but only super
ficial development has been done.
PAT BENSON EXPECTS
TO HAVE BUSY SEASON
S. G. (Pat) Benson, one of the
real live wires in the mining busi
ness here and locator of some of
the most important properties on
Fish creek, is in camp for a few
Jays, having come from Vancouver
to AnyoK and from there to Hyder
jn the Granby tug that brought an
ne barge over. He has outlined an
amoitious development program
for next season, and with his Van
couver and Victoria associates has
organized a development and hold
ing company to carry out the work.
Pat says his new son, Shaw Charles, I
wno arrived last November, want
ed to come up and look the country
over, but couldn’t leave school. He
is taking a course in dairying.
CULLiVAN—ARMSTRONG
Albert B. A?.- trong of Stewart
and Miss Agnes Cullivan of Boston
were united in marriage h t Sr t
urday afternoon by U. S. Cominis
snmer John W. Frame, Mr. and Mrs.
William Reid Tooth “standing up”
with the couple. The wedding was
what is termed in society columns
a “quiet affair," but the events im
mediately following were anything
but that, the many friends of the
bride and groom -dezing upon ti e
occasion as an opportunity fo»
making merry until away into the
early hours of the next day, the
celebration taking the form of a
congratulatory party at the Ocean
View Hotel, where dancing and
dining intermingled with toasts to
the happy couple, chunk in steam
ing cups of Walter Blanton's fa
mous coffee.
me groom is a wei; known pioneer
resideni of Stewart and Alice Arm,
where he has various mining inter
ests, as well as conducting a black
smith shop in the former town.
The bride is a neiee of Mrs. Harry
l’hoiney, and came out from Boston
last fall for a visit. Her charming
personality and graceful adapts-:
bility to the ways of the west made ;
any idea of her return to her east
ern home unthinkable to residents
of this section, and especially to
Ernie’, who is now being pro
claimed the luckiest mortal on
earth, as well as praised for his
public spirit in persuading her to
remain.
For sale, three-roomed house, with lot
Enquire of Hujh ^aeDougall,
ANOTHER
TREASURE
SHIP SAILS
The freighter Anyo* cleured Sat
urday morning with 1250 tons of
Premier ore and concentrates, the
latter predominating, and the cargo
being worth more than a quarter
million dollars.
Double shifts have been put on
the tram, which is delivering 200
or more tons of ore to the bunkers
daily, at a cost said to be about 50
cents a ton,
Tuesday morning one of the
Granby Company’s tugs came over
from the Anyox smelter with a
barge and took out 500 tons of sil
icious ore that is reported to assay
between $40 and $50 a ton, and
will he mixed for flux with the
Granby ores. The Premier com
pany have contracted to supply
2000 tons a month|qf this character
of ore to the Granby.
QUARTER INTEREST
IH MOBILE GROUP
——
Captain Jas. Anderson of the
! Silverado and Captain John Irving
jof Victoria, who pul in all last
! summer exam! ; ng properties here
1 have purchased from Ai i. ,;-ris a
quarter :. tr rt t in the Mobile group
of four claims, located north of
Stewart and within an hour’s walk
of the town. The otiier owners of
: the group are H. P. Gibson of Stew
art and Louis Legge of Hyder. The
Mobile is one of the old locations
of Bear river and some remarkably
fine ore has been en from it
without much dev pment being
don'. Next season will probably
witness some systematic mining.
At* . J i
Pr> : rcti • tor the no. ■ pieiffde
l>all ni Pioneer Hall next Tuesday
;n -ht (St. V dentin s) art practi
cally c'> ■’ ie ana an t ception
aiiy fin-- time ;s . . GcipaU-i. The
pines have bren sr!■ ted . aid ore
weii worth/ tin e< : i,.. tition they
will arouse. Last year the Pioneers
gave $55 in gold as prizes, and the
same amount is expended this
year, but the prizes will not be cash.
f-^
HYDER TRANSFEH STAGE
FOH 13-MILE
Leaves Salmon River Store
Monday Wednesday Saturday
AT 10 A. M,
J