HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Eiery Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
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
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
formation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
America Can Insist
Oo Restoration of Silver
( From Mining Truth)
Half the world’s population
knows no money but silver.
Sixty years ago the internation
al bankers of London and Ber
lin, thinking to bring Asia and
America permanently under
the yoke of Europe, decided to
abolish silver as money, and to
make gold the only world-wide
measure of value.
America permitted the deg
redation of silver in 1873, and
again in the ’90’s, because her
juvenile statesmen didn’t know
what it was all about. Today
America is in a different posit
ion, a position which permits
her to insist that silver be re
stored to its rightful parity
with gold in the world’s coin
age, and that belated justice be
done the people of the Orient
and Latin America.
Only by the restoration of
silver will the purchasing pow
er of more than half the
world’s population be restored.
Only when this power is re
stored can the Western nations
resume their exports of food
stuffs, lumber, minerals and
manufactured goods.
And incidentally, only by re
storing silver can the spread of
bolshevism from Red Russia
be prevented from sweeping
over all Asia and Central Eu
rope. Unless India and China
are rescued from their present
misery, the day is coming when
the masses of Asia, spurred on
by Soviet propaganda, will re
solve to wipe the white man off
the earth.
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Gains and Losses
While the approximate gains
and losses of the various states
in the number of their repre
sentatives in Congress as a re
sult of the new apportionment
law have been known for some I
time, the official figures based j
on the 1930 census were made
public only a few days ago.
The Constitution provides
■ that an adjustment of repre
sentation shall be made every
10 years, but Congress failed
to perform that duty in 1920,
as a result of the refusal of!
; representatives of the slower i
growing states to support a re-I
apportionment bill. - . j
The law passed last year pro. I
vided that a reapportionment j.
I should be made, but that the I
present number of 435 repre- \
sentatives should not be in
creased. The new census re
veals that under this plan there
must be only one representat-1
ive for each 280,000 populat
ion, whereas the former basis
was one for each 211,000. On
the new basis those states af
fected by the change will gain
or lose as follows:,
Gains in representatives: Cal
ifornia. 9, Michigan 4, Texas 3,
New Jergey, New, York and
Ohio 2 each, Connecticut, Flor
ida, North Carolina, Oklaho
1 ma, and Washington 1 each.
Losses in representatives:
Missouri 3, Georgia Ipw.a,;
Kentucky and Pennsylvania 2
each ;Alabama, Indiana, Kan
s a s, Maine,' Massachusetts,
Minnesota, ? : Mississippi, Ne-1
i bi aka, North Dakota, Rhode ;
I Island, South Carolina, South j
i Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont,*
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Virginia and Wisconsin 1 each.;
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Thus 32 states are affected ;
by the new deal, 11 states gain
j ing and 21 losing in the nunii-?
, ber of Congressmen. The leg- i
islatures concerned must now;
i redistrict the affected states to '
, conform with the new arrange
ment.
And there will be plenty of
legislative wrangling before
this adjustment is accomp
lished.
Meaning of SOS
Many arguments have been
indulged in as to the words for
which the distress signal SOS
stand. Some have thought they
stood for “Save Our Ship,”
“Save Our Souls,” “ or other
similar sentences. According
to the Navy Department the
letters are not abbreviations at
all, being merely an arbitrary
signal selected because of the
simplicity of making and un
derstanding it in dot-and-dash
code.
In this code S is made by 3
dots, O by 3 dashes, so the sig
nal is expressed by three dots,
three dashes and another three
dots.
Prior to 1912 the radio dis
tress signal was CQI), which
some said stood for “Come
Quick; Distress.*’ Whether this
supposition is correct or not,
that’s the idea it sought to con
vey.
Just for Fun
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“Money talks and in a
universal language.
! Anyway the radio is cause
I ing some people to listen
more and talk less.
Most fathers believe in high
er education-at any rate they
believe it comes higher,
i _
| Why not give a few prizes
I to the people who refrain
from writing poems and such.
So live that when your sum
mons comes you will have a
good alibi.
A popular song remains
popular only until someone
writes a sillier one.
One thing may be said for
our enemies. They don’t pest
er us with advice.
Let us hope that South
America has gotten caught up
with its revoluting.
WHAT’S NEW?
By use of a strong electric !
current undesirable fish are ;
removed from the streams in
Germany, so that suckers and ;
carp can be netted.
If'is estimated that American
tourists abroad spend about
twice the amount Europe is
paying our government on the
debt" settlement.
A rose tree in Calistoga,
Calif., which measures three
feet in circumference and
bears a load of 40,000 roser
every yeai-' is said to be the
largest rose bush in the world.
The chemical warfare branch
of the army has designed a
gas mask which will not pre
vent the wearer from talking
and using field glasses.
A shock recording device
has been invented to register
gear and other parts of an air
plane in taking off or landing.
Transparent slippers are a
new type of shoe form, which
enables the salesman to see
how a given size fits or fails
to fit.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Ryder Alaska Miner, j
January 5, 1920
Angus McKenzie and Oscar;
Nelson, who have the contract i
for driving the New Alaska j
tunnel, reported 12 feet more j
to go to complete the 100 foot |
contract. They said they were
still croscutting ore, giving the
width of the orebody at that
time as well over 40 feet.
Bill McGrew reported that
high grade ore had been en
countered in the Forty-Nine
tunnel, the report being later
confirmed by Harry Howson,
superintendent. The Occi
dental tunnel had a full fa <■
of highgrade for some time j
but the ore in the Forty-Nine ;
drift was a concentrating pro-1
duet. “Now however, there is
close to 3 feet of as fine ruby
brittle and native silver as has
ever been produced in the
camp.” The highgrade was
encountered in a cross cut
which shows the width of the
orebody to be 30 feet
Under the caption of New
I Canadian Townsite Rounding
Into Shape, the Miner reports
that one of the principal topics
of conversation in Ryder was
the proposed new townsite
(Hyder B.C.) on the Canadian
j tideflats ad joining Ryder’s
i piled area. The streets had
been surveyed and lots mark
ed off and preparations were
being made for placing the lots
on the market.
That an agent cannot col
lect two commissions on the
sale of a mining property, was
the gist of a decision handed ,
down by the B. C. courts in a
case between Dan Lindeborg
and O. B. Bush, arising over
a difference of opinion as to j
the amount of commission j
Bush should have for making !
a deal for the Forty-Nine prop
erty for Lindeborg. It appears j
that Bush sold the property
for $75,000 on a 10 per cent
commission basis, but retained
a 1-16th interest for himself,
afterward selling the interest
for $6,000.
Later the purchasers wanted j
an extension of time on their
payments but eventually set- j
tied with Lindeborg for $15,
000. But Bush was reported to
have demanded the full com
mission on $75,000. The court
is said to have held that be
cause of holding out the
l-l6th interest Bush was en
titled to no commission, other
than the amount already re
ceived on payments actually
made on the property.
The first financial report of
the new Salmon River Bank
ing Company revealed total
resources of $33,439.96. Indi
vidual and savings deposits
totaled $15,207.05.
A dissolution of copartner- j
ship notice made known to the
world that John A. Nelson and
Yael Rozenstein, doing busi
ness under the firm name of
Hyder Commercial Co. had
dissolved by mutual consent.
Lawrence and Workman of
Stewart, had a scheme to sup
ply electric light, power, water
and telephone service to Stew
art and light and power to
Hyder, from their saw-mill (
water power on Silverado
gulch.
A. A. Frazer purchased Kate
Ryan’s cabin on main street.
The Pioneers of Alaska i
were preparing to hold a Jit- i
ney dance January 14. .
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