HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
r'Tvis. F. Sandford. Owner and Publisher
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'Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Tnis newspaper is not connect ed in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm or other establishment, associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
rormation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Silver Must Be Remonetized
(From Mining Truth)
Some suggest the use of plat
inum as money at the ratio of
"5 to 1 of gold . But it would
probably take a century to se
cure a billion of stabilized plat
inum as bank reserve, while
tens of billions of metallic mon
vy are needed at once to butt
ress up the hundreds of billions
of credit currency with which
the world is flooded.
There is absolutely no poss
ibility of securing any suffic
ient supply of new gold. In a
,de or at most two, gold ,
production will not equal the
industrial demand, and as a
consequence its price level will
go to $50 or $100 an ounce.
Cynide, flotation and electro
chemical metallurgy have ex
ploited all the known gold de
posits so rapidly that only low
grade ores are left to meet the
industrial demand which is
now 11,000,000 ozs. a year. In
the current thirty years over
580,000,000 ounces of gold
have been produced, while less
than 440,000,000 ozs. were1
produced in the previous 500
years.
Not until 1897, or 33 years j
ago, did the world ever pro
duce 11,000,000 ozs. in a year
and gold production is now re-,
ceding just as fast as it rose in
the past thirty years. Silver is
the only metal that can be ef
ficiently used with gold as a I
stabilized money.
Utilities Give Aid
Whatever one may think of
public utility methods general
ly, it can not be denied that
during the depression of recent
months the utilities have done
much toward preventing a
worse unemployment situation
than has been experienced.
The Business Week, a lead
ing business periodical, de
dares that “more than rail
roads or any other major
group, utilities have proved
themselves the real stabilizing
factor in a bad year.” Noting
that a billion dollars of new
capital has gone into utility ex
pansion this year, it adds that
“these great sums, spent in
many ways and places, have
helped to steady business.”
It is well for the country that,
in spite of all the demagogic
attacks made on them of late,
the utilities have maintained
their courage and faith in
America, and have been will
ing to back that faith by go
ing forward at a time when
more timid enterprises stood
still or did a back-step.
-O-—
Seme Puritan Cut-ups
Those who depend on the
regular historical works of the
school-book type no doubt have
formed the idea that the Puri
tan forefathers (and foremoth
ers) of New England were
about as perfect as folks could
be.
The iconoclasts have been at
vvork again, however, and have
dug up some old records which
appear to show that human
nature was about the same in
the old days as it is at present.
A recent writer quotes at
length from a Massachusetts
^ourt docket of 1646, of which
a few sample cases are given
as follows: * .
Henry Walton fined for say
ing he would as leave hear a
dog bark as to hear Reverend
Cobell preach.
John Studley fined for steal
ing his master’s ox and selling
it to him.
Phillip Crumwell fined for
not living with his wife.
Thomas Gray of Marblehead
whipped for being overseen in
drink.
William Claus whipped for
spying upon the chamber of
his master and-telling what ha
saw.
Charles Phillips fined for be
ing in drink three times in two
days.
Mrs. Griffiths fined for
swearing.
Sarah Parrig fined for rail
ing at her husband and calling
him a “pot-gutted divel.”
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
(From the Hyder Alaska Min
er of November 21, 1919.) \
Pete Lowe is crippling around
with an attack of rheumatism.
The big new heater in the ro
tunda of the Bungalow is prov
ing a popular attraction.
Scotty Patterson has finished
his fine living quarters beside
I the building that will house the
j Alaskan Hotel lighting plant.
Scotty will ride herd on the
machinery and wants to be
close to his job.
Messrs McLehman, Grey and
Olson, the Hyder sawmill men.
received a wire this week that
the machinery for their new
mill was shipped from Seattle
last Saturday. It should arrive
j next week, and shortly after
j will be buzzing away just a
j short distance above town.
| Pat Daly is authority for the
! surprising satement that the
| first shipment of ore to be
j made from the Premier mine is
; Aill in Hyder. Pat. took out
; this lot of ore under a lease
he had with O. B. Bush in 1915
on a royalty basis, and sledded
it down to Hyder, or Portland
; City, as the place was then
! called, and has never done any
| thing more with it. The lot con
sists of about 8 tons and assays
around $200 a ton.
Teams are employed on the
j Premier ore road keeping the
| snow packed down so that
there will be a perfect roadbed
when ore shipments commence
next month. The mine is in
j such shape that when the man \
agement decides to commence
shipping, the high grade ore
can be stopecl out as fast as it
can be taken away.
Harry Gould, the Dawson
and Fairbanks dairyman, went
out to Seattle this week and
will return with a herd of milk
cows to supply the demands of
Hyder and Stewart. He staid
here long enough to become
imbued with the idea that this
is to be the most prosperous
minng district in the northwest
for years to come.
That Hyder will have a deep
water wharf by the first ol
next February is the statement
made by Jack Sutherland on
Thursday. He will not divulge
the names of the men behind
the enterprise but said that
they are Juneau capitalists
and that they had authorized
him to stake a, dock site. The j
builders will incorporate under |
the laws of Alaska as the Hy- i
der Dock Company. The dock
site embraces an extension of
Main Street out to deep water,
where the outer edge of the
structure will give a minimum
depth at extreme low tide of
30 feet.
By virtue of his having made
the longest and most graceful
dive from the streets of Hyder
to the mudflats below that was
ever accomplished, Shorty Ern
st is now ( claiming the presi
dency of the High Dive Club.
Hyder is probably the only
town of its size in the world
where all the residents are old
: enough to vote. There isn’t a
: kid in town—yet.
Only by the narawest mar
gin did the pile driver on the
ore highway escape a plunge
into the deep, wpt salt chuck
Thursday morning when two
of the bents of the bridge up
on which it was resting slid in
to the canal.
Practical road builders have
all along claimed that this
bridge is a piece of folly, as
the road could have been built
along the rocks at a cheaper
price and made a permanent
job. . . .Only by a miracle
were the lives of three or four
workmen employed on and un
der the pile driver saved.
Just for Fun
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Where do the jelly fish get
their jelly?
We don’t know unless it is
from the ocean currents.
Hard times makes more con
versation than good times.
In England an ounce of wo
men’s clothing* costs about a
pound.
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Some give according to their
means; others according to
their meanness.
i Flyers who make it are he
! roes, those who don’t ought to
have known better.
Aimee’s “four-square gospel”
would appeal to more people
if it guaranteed four square
meals a day.
Real spirits were discovered
in a South Carolina cemetery.
A moonshiner had established
his still there.
We read of a singer whose
voice filled the hall so com
pletely that the audience
walked out to give it room.
In some cases the father givts
the bride away; in other cases
the bridegroom has to find out
for hirnself.
Considerable unemployment
is being relieved by appointing
commissions and boards to
.study unemployment.
A new machine can exert a
pressure of 300 tons to the
square inch. Still we doubt if
it could squeeze money out of
some people.
Youre wron'g, Horace! A
house of correction is not
where proof readers work.
Neither is “dogma” a mama
dog.
Saddest Story of the Month
A man’s wife had been away
for a month. He wrote her
every week telling her how he
was spending the evenings at
home. When the wife came
back the light bill came in—for
50 cents.
INTERESTING NOTES
Diphtheria antitoxin was
first made in 1894, but it has
been greatly perfected since
that time.
One family in France has
cultivated the same farm for
1,000 years.
Delegates from 26 nations,
including the United States,
will be sent to the internation
al conference at Geneva next
year to discuss the new 13
month calendar.
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewel*
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 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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Jlg&cr, Alaska
X H. SUNDMACHER
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JUNEAU ALASKA
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