The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter
at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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An Independent Newspaper
Some Tax Figures
Last year the expense of fed
eral, state ond localgovernment
in the United States amounted
to about 14 billion dollars,
while the entire national in
come was less than 50 billion
dollars. In other words, con
siderably more than one-fcurth
of the money earned by the
American people goes for taxes
of one kind or another.
An illustration of how this
affects certain industries is giv
en in a recent issue of the In
dustrial News Review. Tak
ing the electric utilities as an
example, it is shown that they
pay a tax bill of more than 200
million dollars a year. In the
In the case of most compan
ies this tax bill amounts to
from 10 to 12 per cent of their
gross income.
Even with this handicap, it
may be added that privately
owned electric companies ren
der service at rates generally
below those charged by tax
free municipallly owned plants
with but few exceptions. In
fact, the cost of electricity is
albout one-third less than in
1913, in spite of the ever in
creasing burden of taxation.
As the Review truly says,
“had the government been as
efficient and economical as the
utility industry we would have
no tax problem today.
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Judging Others
It is trite to say that in judg
ing the character and motives
of another person we should
try to imagine ourselves in his
place. But how many of us
do it? How many of us make
a conscious and determined ef
fort to be fair in our estimate
of the other fellow?
An unknown author has set
forth some thoughts in this con
nection which are worth re
peating, as follows:
“When the other fellow acts
that way, he is ugly; when you
cmi, it is nerves.
“When the other fellow is
set in his way, he is obstinate;
when you are it is firmness.
“When the other fellow
treats someone especially well,
he is toadying; when you do,
it’s tact.
“When the other fellow takes
his time, he is dead slow;
when you do, you are deliber
ate.
“When the other fellow picks
a flaw, he’s cranky; when you
do, you are discriminating.
“When the other fellow says
what he thinks, he is spiteful;
when you do, you are frank,”
and so on.
It is really hard to apply to
our-elves the same yardstick
which we use in measuring our
neighbor. But we ought to
try to do it.
Just for Fun
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Excessive tidiness is said to
indicate a peculiar kind of in
sanity—from which most -of us
are happily immune.
Some girls use dumb-bells to
get color on their faces, but it
also seems that some of them
use color on their faces to get
dumb-bells.
Judging by the way some of
these so-called self-made men
talk about starting life as bare
| foot boys, they seem to think
the rest of us were born with a
pair of shoes on.
Ah, friends, Love is that
wonderful emotion that makes
a young fellow want to pay
some girl’s board bill when he
can’t pay his own.
Diner: “Waiter, have you
any wild duck?”
Waiter: “No sir, But we can
take a tame one and irritate it
for you.”
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We contend that no man re
alizes his wife’s superiority un
til he attempts to put a crying
baby to sleep.
Teacher: “I’m surprised at
your ignorance. When I was
your age I knew every prob
lem in arithmetic.”
Small Boy Pupil: “Well, may
be you had a better teacher
than what I got.”
In these Depressed Days
“Good morning, sir, I'm a
bond salesman.”
“That’s all right, my good
fellow. Here’s a quarter—go
buy yourself a square meal.”
The first thing all these new j
government boards should do is j
to begin preparing for their in- j
vestigation by the Senate next
winter.
Before the Battle— A rookii
received a severe lecture from
one day from his sergeant.
The next day he passed the ser
geant without saluting. “Hey,
youse, why don’t you salute
me?” yelled the sergeant.
“Aw,” said the rookie, “I
thought you was still mad at
me.”
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
December 28, 1923.
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Owing to snow slides in the
upper end of the Salmon val
ley, the Crawford Transfer Co.
‘ tage was held up for several
days at the Premier mine this
week.
Pat Daly and Dr. C. D. Car
ter arrived from Seattle, ac
companied by A. R. Whorms,
Seattle attorney, who is here in
connection with the financing
of a Texas Creek property in
which Messrs. Daly and Carter
are interested.
G. D. B. Turner, vice presi
dent of the Indian MiningCo.,
in a press statement said his
company is preparing to pur
chase the necessary machine
ry and equipment for a 200
ton mill, which is intended to
be built early next spring. The
machinery and materials for
construction will be taken in
over the snow this fall.
Frank Bowler narrowly es
caped serious injury by being
caught in a snow slide on the
Hyder-Stewart road while re
turning to Stewart during the
big snow storm this week. The
slide completely buried his
stage outfit near the end of the
old Stewart wharf. Three men
were compelled to shovel five
hours to extricate the horses
and get them back to Hyder.
Reports from Stewart say
a good grade of milling ore has
been struck in the No. 3 tun
nel at the Dunwell mine at a
distance of 334 feet from the
portal. This was the exacti
distance at which the north- i
south vein was expected to be j
cut and indicates the perma-1
nence of that ore body. Samp- j
les taken from the face show j
the ore to be apparently of
good milling grade.
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INTERESTING NOTES
The city of Santos, in Brazil,
is the most important coffee
shipping center in the world.
The proposed Grand Coulee
dam in Washington will create
a lake 150 miles long.
A total of 4,694,493 Bibles,
New Testaments and portions
of the Scriptures were distrib
uted in China during 1930.
The world’s tallest structure,
the Empire State building, in
New York, rises to a height of
1,248 feet above the surface of
the street.
The Dutch and British Gui- j
anas provide the world with j
one-fifth of its supply of baux
ite, the valuable ore of which
contains a high percentage of
aluminum.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL ft MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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* Hyder
Methodist Episcopal
* Church
* Rev. F. Bushfield, Pastor.
* Hyder Methodist Episcopal Church
Sunday School at 10:30 a. ni.
Evening Service at 7:30 p. m.
Everyone is cordially invited to
the services.
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