0 — ■' .
AN ALU
ALASKA
NEWSPAPER
-
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALASKA AND THE PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
*
SUBSCRIPTIONS
$8.00 PER YF.A
IN ADVANCf
v,
VOL 2, NO. 40
HYDER, ALASKA, WCDNESDAY.JUNE 2,1926
. - -- — -i -" —i ■. r-- ■■
FIFTY CENTS A KCNTH
ENGINEER MAPPING
PORTER-IDAHO MINE
A survey of the mine work
ings ami ore structures of the
Porter-Idaho piine is now in
progress in connection with
the summer development pro
gram.
The work of surveying and
platting the mine is being done
by J. D. Shannon, mining en
gineer, who has been at the
task for a month or more.
Company representatives inti
mate that the data prepared
by Mr. Shannon will be used in
the formulation of plans for
operations to be undertaken
during the coming summer, as
the mine has now reached a
stage of development, where
an accurate survey is essential
to successful progress in the
future.
Mr. Shannon who is on the
threshold of his career as a
mine engineer, enjoys the dis
tinction of having recently
won the Dunsmuir scholarship
in Vancouver for the student
having the highest standing in
mining engineering, and also
won a prize offered by the
Association of Professional En
gineers of British Columbia for
the best thesis on mining.
-o
A splendid entertainment and
a bumper crowd marked the
performance of the three-act
farce-comedy, -“Poor Married
Married Man” by the Enter
tainment Committee of the M.
E. Church at Pioneer Hall Fri
day evening.
Probably never before has
the camp witnessed a more
diverting entertainment than
was presented in the unfolding
of the mirth provoking tale of
the trials and tribulations of
the poor married man, imper
sonated by Rev. C. T. Hatten,
whose faithful and painstak
ing interpretation of the diffi
cult character of Prof. Wise,
constituted a splendid per
formance. J. O. Lyon was also
happily cast in the character
of Dr. Graham, while Miss
Anne Martin displayed mark
ed histrionic ability in the part
of Mrs. Iona Ford. Mrs. Har
old Johnson, as Rozlyn Wilson,
gave an excellent characteri
zation of a wide-awake news
paper reporter, whose obser
vations on the news of the day
constituted one of the hits of
the show. Mrs. Mahood, as
June Graham, Dr. Graham’s
daughter; Mrs. Louis Legge as
Zoie Ford, the sprightly
daughter of Mrs. Ford, Hubert
Thomas as Jupiter Jackson, a
colored butler, who was onto
his job, and E. W. Hinckley
as Billy Blake, a college stu
dent, all acquitted themselves
splendidly in their various
roles.
Additional entertainment was
provided bdtween acts by a
calisthenics drill by the school
children and violin solos by
eight year old Anthony Sobier
alski, who displayed remark
able skill in handling that
difficult musical instrument.
Splendid orchestral music was
provided by Mrs. Wm. Gray,
piano, E. M. Reynolds, violin
and Roy Newton, saxophone.
Tl}e proceeds of the enter
tainment will go to defray the
cost of the new M. E. parson
age.
•o
4th COMMITTEE
HEADS NAMED
Committees were named and
the broad outlines of a cele
bration program for Independ
ence Day were discussed at a
meeting of citizens held Tues
day evening in Chamber of
Commerce Hall under the aus
pices of the Chamber of Com
merce. Merl F. Thomas was
elected head of the general
1 committee and E. D. Haddori,
secretary.
The following were named as
I chairmen of the various com
j mittees which will have charge
of the celebration, each com
mittee head to personally se
lect the members of his com
mittee :
Finance-Holger Johnson.
Decorations—Merl F.Thomas.
Entertainment—Clyde Hager.
Sports -W. C. Blanton.
Publicity-E. W. Hinckley.
Parade-T. W. McDonald.
Marshal McDonald was also
ohosen for the role of Marshal
of the Day.
The attitude of the meeting
was that the national birthday
should be celebrated in the
most appropriate manner poss
ible under local conditions,
vith all elements of the com
munity participating as far as
jossible. It was also decided
o make an attempt to secure
! he services of the Kincolinth
>and of 25 pieces, which is
cheduled to play for the July
1st celebration in Stewart, and
nay be induced to participate
n the festivities on this side
>f the boundary line.
The committee will meet next
Tuesday by which time it is
toped to have the celebration
plans perfected and ready foi
publication.
-o
DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAL
MCDONALD NOTIFIED
OF REAPPOINTMENT
T. W. McDonald, represent
itive of the United States
Marshal’s office in this pre
1 linct during the past four
/ears, has been reappointed
"o the same position by Albert
White, newly appointed Unit
id States Marshal for the First
Division. A wire to this effect
was received by Deputy Mc
Donald from Marshal White
early today.
Mr. McDonald has made a
splendid record as an officer
during the period of his in
.umbency and his reappoint
ment is a popular one with all
classes.
-o
An Ingersoll-Rand portable
compressor arrived on the Nor
co for the Premier Gold Min
ing Co. and will be employed
n the development of the Can
u and Frances groups.
-o
The Northland Transportat
ion Company motorship Norco
arrived from Seattle direct
early Saturday morning, bring
ing about 100 tons of general
cargo, the bulk of which was
consigned to local mer<^iants,
and a horse for the Hyder Fuel
,Co.
-o
W. Forester, geologist at the
Premier, left Sunday for New
Westminster.
-o
Twenty-seven tons of concen
trates from the Riverside mine
MMMhmUI
DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS
. ON SILVER BAR
Despite the presence of an
unusually large amount of
snow, work on the Outland
Silver Bar properties on Sal
mon Glacier is making good
progress, according to Mr. F.
C. Outland, who returned to
town last week to secure addit
ional help, preparatory to an
increase of activities.
Mr. Outland stated that snow
conditions this year were the
worst in his- experience. On ar
rival on the ground three
weeks ago, the camp was
found all but covered and it
was necessary to dig through
15 feet of snow to reach the
tunnel driven last year. During
the interval since work was re
sumed, a new bunk house lOx
14 feet; and a cook house lOx
12 feet have been added to
| camp equipment, which i& now
of ample size to comfortably
house a crew of six or eight
men.
With the camp accommodat
ions completed, Mr. Outland is
preparing to undertake a vig
orous development program,
which will include the exten
sin of the main tunnel, driven
on ore, in addition to surface
operations on the various
promising surface exposures.
Before returning to the prop
erty Tuesday, Mr. Outland’
sent up a crew of five men.
The mail boat Taku is sched
uled to leave Ketchikan for
Hyder at 1 p. m. Wednesday,
according to advices received
by Postmaster Hill from mail
contractor Williams. The ves
sel will leave on the return
trip to Ketchikan at 7 p. m.
Thursday evening.
The motorship Fairbanks,
owned and operated by the
Saltchuck mine, arrived last
week from Ketchikan with
the weekly mail and a large
cargo of artificial ice for local
! consumption.
The Fairbanks replaced the
Taku for the trip under chart
er, owing to the latter vessel
being too small to acommodate
the cargo of ice,
-o
i The annual election of offi
cers of the Riverview Ceme
tery Association was held Fri
day evening in the Chamber of
Commerce Hall and resulted
I as follows
I President: Oren F. Hill; sec
| l-etary, E. R. Stivers; treasurer,.
, John Hovland; trustees, T. H.
Evans,, Merl Thomas,
i The Association is laying
I plans for holding a cleanup
day on Flag Day, June 14th,
'to clean up the cemetery, ei}d
plots and lots. Considerable
work must be done to place
the burial ground in proper
shape and it is hoped to have
a big turnout on the appoint
ed day.
A campaign to sell member
ship tickets will also be inaug
urated to supplement the $54
now in the treasury to meet
future expenses.
-o
The Territorial Board of
' Medical Examiners has grant
ed permission to Dr. J. H. Car
son, of Pi’emier,-to practice in
Alaska. As a result his pro
fessional services will hence
RECORD STORM
STRIKES CAMP
A thunder storm of almost
cyclonic violence swept over
the camp from the south about
4. a. m.Thursday, leaving in
its wake a trail of damage of
much greater extent than has
been sustained in this locality
since the town was started.
During the height of the
storm, the wind reached a ve
locity estimated at fully GO
miles per hour and was ac
companied by a terrific down
pour of rain. Lashed by the
gale, trees snapped like pipe
stems, shingles were torn from
roofs, and everything loose
went whirling away to an ac
companiment of crashes, rat
tles, bangs and roars which
aroused all but the soundest
sleepers. Within a half hour
after the storm broke falling
trees disrupted the light sys
tem and put the Premier ore
tram out of commission for a
matter of five hours or so. A
span or two of the Mountain
view Gold Mining Co. tram on
Pish Creek was also damaged
by falling trees. In passing into
the Salmon valley the gale
created havoc among the trees
ip the forest townsite, leaving
a wide swath through the
timber which suggested the
passage of a tornado.
So far as could be learned,
the most serious damage oc
curring wr town was inflicted
on the Hyder Lumber Com
pany's tug New Alice, which
had its pilot house knocked off,
as a result of the vessel being
battered against the piles of
the dock approach.
HEALTH BOARD
IS ORGANIZED
Organization of a local board
of health for the Hyder school
district was completed at a
meeting of tht School Board
held in Chamb* r of Commerce
Hall Monday evening. John
Hovland, by virtue of his office
as president of the School
Board became automatically
the head of the health board;
Deputy Marshal T. W. Mc
Donald was selected as the citi
zen representative and Drug
gist Oren F. Hill, was named
as the third member of the
board in the absence of a li
censed practicioner. Mr. Hill
was also elected secretary of
the health board.
Immediately after organizing
the board decided to enter in
to communication with the
Fisheries Bureau and the Ter
ritorial Board of Health re
garding measures to prevent
the salmon from spawning ev
ery fall in the small stream
running through town, with
resultant discomfort to olofact
ory nerves and posible danger
to the communal health. The
Territorial Health Board will
also be requested to delegate
full authority to the local
board to fully enforce its reg
ulations respecting sanitation
and protection of the health of
the community.
It is the intention of the
| board to strictly enforce sani
tary and health conditions
alsb divide the grounds into
-o
J. D. Littlepage, president
and manager of the Riverside
Mining and Milling Company,
will leave on the mail boat
ititfeAtiititttMdilfe
LEAD PRICE
TREND UPWARD
The following interesting data
on lead prices and the future
price outlook for that metal is
reprinted from an article pub
lished in the Bond and Share
holder, of New York, a new fi
nancial weekly which is ap
parently published in the in
terest of the North American
Lead Corporation.
“Lead has been the strongest
! of the metals during the past
three or four years, it price
trend having been consistently
upward. In fact, since 1913
lead has been the star per
; former among the major met
| als, as is shown by the follow
j ing table giving their average
I price per pound in cents in
1913 and their price at the
j present time:
1913 Now
1 Copper .... 15.26c 13.85c
i Lead .4.37c 8.00c
Zinc . 5.50c 7.47c
Tin. 44.25c 64.12c
• “The above table shows that
1 zinc has advanced since 1913
over 35 per cent, tin over 45
per cent, lead over 83 per cent
I while copper has declined over
9 per cent.
“At its recent high lead show
ed an advance of over 100 per
j cent above 1913 average price.
The greater .part of the ad
vance in lead, prices has come
within the past four years. In
1921 lead fetched an average
price in New York of 4. 54c pei
pound, 5.73c in 1922, 7.26c in
1923, 8.09c in 1924 and 9.02c
in 1925. Since 1921 all the
major metals have gained
somewhat. For example, cop
I per has improved from an av
erage of 12 Vsc and zinc from
i an average of about 5:|4c, but
! lead has been aggressively and
| progressively strong.
“It is a fact that except for
the Sullivan Mine in British
Columbia, the Park Utah Mine
in Utah and the Ahumada j
! Mine in Mexico, no large or |
very important lead mines
I have been found or developed
| in North America since 1910.
! It can be said without fear of
refutation that the fact that
lead production has been able
to keep up with consumption
during the years since 1913 ,
has been due to two things.
1. “Much ‘high cost’ lead has
i been brought into the market
j because the increased and in
creasing market price of the
metal has brought many lead
deposits out of the class of
unprofitable and into the class
of profitable material.
2. “Improved metallurgy has
i made possible the separation
of zinc from many complex
ores, giving a value to the zinc
and bringing such ores into the
class of profitable material.
“It seems to be the opinion of
the best authorities that no
factors, either industrial (man
ufacturing and trade) or phys
ical (touching supply and pro
duction) can unfavorably af
Ifect lead to any marked de
| grec.”
-o----—
Hugh McGuire, well known
Old timer and owner of valu
able properties in the district,
arrived on the Cardena to look
NEW HUNTING AND
TRAPPING REGULATIONS
FOR ALASKA
Revised game regulations
for Alaska were adopted by
the Secretary of Agriculture
on May 15, after consultation
with the Alaska Game Com
mission's recommendations by
the Eio-ogical Survey. Th«
new regulations become effect
ive 90 days after publication
Changes from existing regu
lations include changes in tnc
boundaries of fur districts, es
tablishment of an open season
on beaver from May 1 to 31
in certain portions of western
Alaska, effective in the spring
of 1927, a seasonal bag limit
of 29 beavers per person, and
a system of sealing beavei
and marten skins legally pos
sessed or taken.
A maximum possession limit
is provided for game animals,
the same as the maximum
seasonal limit.
A close season is placed on
brown and grizzly bears from
Tune 21 to the end of August,
,vith a provision that pe m.i.s
killing bears when endang r
ing persons or property.
The daily bag limit on ducks
s increased from 20 to 25 and
un brant and geese from 6 'o 8.
The maximum possession lim't
on waterfowl is raised from
50 to 75. Black-bellied and
golden plovers are removed
from the list for which th"r«
is an open season and bag
limits on jacksnipe are reduc
ed from 25 to 20, to con-c
ipond to the regulations un
der the migratory-bird treaty
act.
The caribou season is chang
id in the northern district and
•^rtain trapping seasons are
lightly altered with a view iu
ibtaining a higher average
luality of furs.
Special protection of gant,
*ur animals, and birds in the
lower Taku River region has
been removed, and on the Fn
iiak-Afognak Islands group
introduced beavers and musk
rate are given absolute pro
tection.
The Alaska Game Commis/ion
at its annual meeting in Feb
ruary adopted revised regu
lations, relating to guide'',
poisons, and resident trapping
licenses, essentially the same
as the old, with the exception
that guides are not .now re
quired to devote the principal
part of their time during the
hunting season to guiding
hunting parties.
-o
Emil Davis, representing the
leading stockholders of the
Chief Metals Mines Co., is pre
paring to send out a small
crew of men in a day or two,
to renew development activi
ty ,
Work will be directed prin
cipally tp extending the. main
tunnel until the arrival of se,
eral prominent members of ih_
company, who are expo e
in the near future.
-o
The next meeting of the
Moose lodge will be held in
Hyder Thursday, May 10. The
lodge is planning to make a
trip to Premier on a date to
be decided upon at the next "
meeting.
-o
Additional Local News on