The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
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at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
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The Railroad Problem
Among the numerous com
missions, boards, committees
and other advisory bodies cre
ated during the present de
pression with a view to devis
ing means for economic better
ment, none has a more disting
uished personnel than the com
mittee recently selected to
study and make recommend
ations respecting the plight of
the country’s railroads.
The committee is an unoffic
ial body, formed on the initiat
ive of important savings banks
and insurance companies,
whose holdings of railroad se
curities makes the soundness
of these securities vital to the
interests of their depositors
and policyholders. The com
mittee is composed of former
President Calvin Cooli d g e,
chairman; Alfred E. Smith,
former governor of New York;
Bernard M. Baruch, eminent
financier; Alexander Legge,
former chairman of the Feder
al Farm Board, and Clark
Howell, publisher of the At
lanta Constitution.
In a letter requesting these
notable citizens to undertake
the difficult task assigned to
them, the bankers and insure
ance companies said in part:
“The present position of the
railroads is a ihatter of grave
concern. This situation touch
es every citizen. We beg that
you examne all phases of the
problem and recommend a sol
ution which, with due regard
for the public interest, will in
sure an opportunity for the
railroads of this country to op
erate on a business basis.”
Every thoughtful citizen
must realize that the preser
vation of our incomparable
railroad facilities is a matter of
vital importance, not only to
the many thousands of small
railway stockholders, but to
the other thousands of railway
employees, and the millions of
bank depositors and insurance
policyholders whose welfare is
dependent upon the stability of
our rail system.
The findings and recommend
ations of the Coolidge commit
tee will therefore be awaited
with unusual interst on the
part of Hie public.
Just for Fun
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“Bugs” Bear says it’s time we
all got together and put our
shoulders to the buzz saw.
A tip to stock-dabblers
The fellow who really has in
side information usually keeps
it inside.
Few are so deaf as to be un
able to hear whispers of scan
dal.
California has the world’s
largest windmill, but Washing
ton still holds the record for
windbags.
In line with other low com
modity prices we imagine seats
in the Senate will come cheap
er this year.
Most statesmen’s idea of
farm relief is to give the farm
er a chance to plaster another
mortgage on the old home
place.
It is said that deaf mutes can
“feel” music. So do we, but
we couldn’t prinlt how we feel
about most of the alleged mus- j
ic heard over the radio.
It is reported that govern-!
ment experts are investigating
the chemical composition and
nutrative value of sausages.
Thus science may solve another
age-old problem.
Our campaign managers
might learn a trick or two from
a town in Chile, where in a re
cent election 291 per cent of
the qualified electors voted.
INTERESTING NOTES
The area of Alaska i3 nearly
equal to that of Texas, Califor
nia, Montana, Maryland and
Delaware.
Iodine, commonly used as an
antiseptic, is now being used as
the active material in a storage
battery.
The lake to be formed by the i
Hoover dam in the Colorado
river will be the largest artific
ial body of water in the world, j
The Enlish language has;
probably a larger vocabulary>
than any of the other spoken j
languages.
The United States flag is the
third oldest of the world’s nat
ional standards. The Union
Jack of Great Britain is the
oldest and the Tri-Colors of
France is the second.
The public payroll in Indiana
amounts to $100 a second, Dr.
Charles Kettleborough, direct- <
or of the legislative reference
bureau ,has figured.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
October 18, 1922
Traversy Bros, are making
extensive improvements and
redecorating the interior of the
Miners Home hotel.
Deputy Marshal T. W. Mc
Donald has selected a court
house site in the Forest reserve,
being the two lots at the cor
ner of Main and Third streets,
chosen at one time by the Pion
eers as a site for their hall.
Mrs. J. K. Green left Sunday
for a visit in Seattle. Mrs.
Green came to Alaska in 1896
when a tot of a girl and is mak
ing her first trip Outside in 18
years.
Portland Canal Lodge, Loyal
Order of Moose, got away to a
flying staid at a meeting held
in the Ocean View Hotel Fri
day evening. Thirty members,
the number required to secure
a charter, were signed up.
The Premier company have
strung an aerial cable from the
wharf to the foundation built
for the Premier oil tanks, for
the purpose of conveying
building material to the site of
the proposed construction.
Dan Woodmore, who has
been doing assessment work
on the Idaho group of four
claims for Arthur Noble, the
Silver Lake group of five
claims for himself, and Frank
Reichenbach’s four claims on
on Slate mountain, says he
found ore on every claim but
two and did not prospect them.
Oldtimers say that never
since the white man landed
here have the snow and ice on
the high ranges disappeared
with such rapidity as during
the summer just drawn to a
close, and that they are not
drawing on their imaginations
can be proven by a look around
from Hyder at the various
peaks. Everywhere rocks are
exposed that never before were
touched by the sun’s rays, and
some large snowfields, pre
sumably everlasting, have dis
appeared entirely. On the
headwaters of the south fork
of Marmot river, where R. E.
Lundvall has a mining proper
ty, his ice road, upon which
formerly it would have been
possible to work a four-horse
team, has melted away until he
cannot go over it on foot, and
all property owners and pros
pectors operating in the upper
reaches of the mountains have
similar stories to tell. If such
summers as this become the
rule, in a few years we will be
able to see nothing on the
mountain peaks in the latter
part of the summer but bare
rocks.
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JN ut a r u |) it b 1 i c
Pgbcr, .Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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CHAS ,F.a«DF0R8
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Howard Camphell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
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Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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