The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Herald
Building, Second Ave., Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Sole Owner and Publisher
Entered us second-class matter at the
pustoffice at Hyder, Alaska, under the
act of March 3, 1879.
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This Is Not Inflation
Under the above caption.
Mining Truth comments on the
government’s present financial
policy as follows:
‘‘Believe it or not, the gov
ernment is not embarked on
what is ordinarily termed “in
flation.” The decision to take
the seniorage on gold and sil
ver and to issue money against
it, merely restore; to the peo
ple of the United States some
of the purchasing power which
was wiped out in the cataclysm
of 1929.
“The government is on the
way toward remonetization of
silver. In fact Washington dis
patches indicate that silver
will ultimately be revalued at
$2.18, which will reestablish
the ancient ratio oif 16 to 1
with gold.
“Thi; is not inflation. It may
properly be termed “reflat
ion.” It is equivalent to letting
the air into a vacuum, which is
not at all the same as pump
ing air into a balloon till it ex
pands to the bursting point.”
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B. C. Legislator Criticises
International Highway
Proposals for the construction
of a highway through British
Columbia to Alaska were criti
cized by Clive Planta, a mem
ber of the British Columbia
legislature in an address to the
Service Club at Prince Rupert
a few days ago. Mr. Planta
declared that the highway is
required by the United States
as a strategic road and part of
a plan to develop commercial
and military facilities, adding:
“For he United States tc
build the Alaska highway with
the full knowledge that it is re
quired for strategic purposes
by the United States and to
build it with American money
is to commit an act in this day
of peace between countries
thait will in the future inevi
tably embroil us in internation
al difficulties.”
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Clover leaves are the favorite
design in Japanese decoration.
Negro Colony For Alaska
Proposed By Cleveland Man
To establish a Negro' colony
of one million persons on 400,
000 Alaska farms of 160 acres
is the proposal oif Dr. Joseph
T. Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio,
according to press reports of
recent days.
Dr. Thomas is the self-ap
pointed head of the Alaska
colonization branch of the
United Congo. Improvement
Association, Inc., and the aims
of the association, as expressed
by Dr. Thomas in literature on
the subject, are “To prevent
Japanse invasion of the United
States by colonizing 1,000,000
Negroes in Alaska; to set up a
state under federal jurisdiction
where the Negro can enjoy po
litical freedom and be a Demo
crat or Republican, whichever
he likes.”
Under his plan the farms
would be allotted to members
of the association, who are re
quired to pay a fee of $1 to be
come memutsia, i-jgtuici wan
monthly dues of 25 cents.
Thomas was said to have
some 300 members on the roll
at the time the scheme was
made known through he news
papers, so.he has a long way
to go to secure the proposed
million colonizer-', even if the
government permits him to go
on with his plan, which was
being investigated to deter
mine if the association was le
gitimately organized from the
viewpoint of postal regula
tions. The government does
not want Dr. Thomas collect
ing a lot of money in fees and
dues through the mails.
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Transplanted Animals Doing
Well On Alaska Islands
Food and fur bearing ani
mals planted on Kodiak and
Afognak Islands by the Alas
ka Game Commission are
thriving and have increased
greatly in numbers, according
to Game Warden Hcmer Jew
ell, who recently visited the
two island groups.
Returning to his headquarters
in Ketchikan, Warden Jewell
reported that a herd of nine
elk placed on Afognak island
in 1927 has increased to be
tween 50 and 60 animals, ac
cording 'to estimates. Deer
planted on Kodiak island in
1923 have increased in num
ber, as have also plantings of
muskrat and beaver.
Rabbits planted under the
CWA program last winter have
done exceptionally well and
can be found in great numbers
throughout the Kodiak and
Afognak groups, Mr. Jewell
said. The islands were form
erly the habitat of only one an
imal, the Kodiak bear.
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The Moose lodge has estab
lished new lodge quarters in
the Empress building in Stew
1 art.
First Gold and Silver Are
Recovered From Sea Water
0[f interest to miners and
others associated with the min
ing industry is an announce
nent from New York that the
Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company
lias made 'the first actual re
covery of gold and silver from
«ea water. The announcement
was made by Dr. Willard H.
Dow, head of the company.
The first recovery consisted
of one-tenth of a milligram.
The nugget is half gold and
half silver and was taken from
12 tons of sea water running
through a bromide plant in
Wilmington, Del., by means of
a treatment of collodial sul
phur, which dissolved and
when settled cut like sediment,
carried gold and silver with it,
according to the reports.
Dr. Dow said the metal re
covered was about one three
hundredth of that existing in
the same 12 tons of water.
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Pilot Drops Half Ton
Of Dynamite Safely
Capping a recently widely
heralded feat of delivering a
large portion of a 16-ton ore
milling plant for the Big Four
Mine near Valdez by dropping
the parts attached to para
chute-, Pilot Bob Reeve recent
ly delivered 'to the same mine
a half-ton of dynamite by 'the
same me'thod and without mis
hap.
The explosive, wrapped care
fully in large mattresses, was
dropped onto a glacier near
the mine, which is located at a
point in the mountains diffi
cult of access by ordinary
means cf transportation.
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Juneau Miners Vote
Against Closed Shop Strike
Members of the Alaska Mine
Workers union of Juneau,num
bering around 800 members,
voted 3 to 1 last week against
a proposal to call a strike at
the Alaska Juneau mine, ow
ing to a decision of the mine
officials 'to employ workers
without regard to 'their affili
ation with the local union, ac
cording to reports.
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Alaskan Has Big Potato Crop
James McGrath, “potato
king” of the Tanana valley ir
central Alaska, still reigns su
preme as the leading potato
farmer in that district, accord
ing to the Fairbanks News
Miner. Between 13 and 15
ton? of potatoes were grown on
each acre of the McGrath
ranch on Engineer Hill this
season. McGrath has turned
over to the Elks lodge of Fair
banks all seconds and over
size potatoes to be used for
charity purposes.
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