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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
THEY HAVE FAITH.
(From The Alaska Weekly)
The people of the Portland
Canal mining district, partly in
British Columbia and partly in
Alaska, show commendable
faith in their district by the lo
cal financing of a mining prop
erty there. Reference is made
to the Marmot Engineer Mine
Syndicate, which owns a group
of claims in the Marmot River
section of the camp.
It appears that a prospector
named George Bunn located
what he called the Engineer
group and immediately began
the development of the prop
erty. The showing on the prop
erty was good and the limited
development work done by
Bunn added to the possibilities
of the prospect. Bunn needed
funds beyond his ability to per
sonally supply, so as to “carry
on,” and aided by friends or
ganized the Marmot Mini
Syndicate on the unit basis
The directors decided to sell
2,100 units at $10 per unit. Ev
ery unit of the allottment was
sold in the Portland Canal
camp within twenty-one days
from the time the units were
thrown on the market and the
treasury of the Syndicate now
has the tidy sum of $21,000
with which to carry on further
development work. Not a unit
was offered for sale outside ol
the district. It was not neces
sary. The people know Bunn
and had confidence in his in
tegrity and his judgment. At
on of the unit holders stated
to The Alaska Weekly, “We
expect to make a nice piece ol
money out of our investment.’
The Porter-Idaho Mines Syn
dicate, in the same district
was, at the inception, almos
entirely financed among thi
people of Hyder and Stewart
and all those who took t
chance on this property havi
had no reason to regret their
action, for this property is now
a mine. It is a mine big enough
and rich enough to interest the
Premier Gold Mining Com
pany, which now controls the
Porter-Idaho Company.
The people of the Portland
Canal mining district had con
fidence in the integrity and
the judgement of Clay Porter,
locator of the Porter-Idaho
group, and George Bunn, lo
cator of the Engineer group,
hence, these two experienced
prospectors had no difficulty
in financing preliminary devel
opment work on their proper
ties among the people who
knew them.
It is an asset for a prospector
to gain the confidence of the
people of the district in which
he operates. It means that if
he locates a good prospect, he
■s able to get financial assist
ance in his home district and
is spared the trouble and ex
Dense of hunting funds on the
outside
—-o
WORM TURNS.
An Iowa editor, weary of giv
ng free puffs of undeserved
publicity, adorned with flatti
ng references, to a lot of in
lividuals and organizations in
lis town, published the follow
ng editorial:
“Here you will find a sched
ile of prices from which no
ieviation will be made, but we
lope to devote a certain per
■entage of our earnings to
wards founding an asylum for
hose feeble-minded people
vho believe we are running
his paper as a philanthropic
mterprise.
“For referring to some drug
tore sheik as a talented young
nan with a promising future,
vhen everybody knows he nev
r earned a dollar in his life
md will wind up in the peni
entiary, $10.18.
“Referring to one as a hero
md a man of courage who will
tand by his convictions, when
t is common knowledge that
ie is a moral coward and
vould sell out for a dime,
>4.13.
"Referring to some gossipy
emale as a charming lady
whom it is a pleasure to meet
and know, when any man in
town would rather see Satan
coming, $8.10.
“Calling an ordinary preach
er an ‘eminent divine,' 64 cents.
“Lambasting the daylights
out of John Barleycorn, at the
behest of the local dry forces,
$6.77.
“Whooping ’em up for the re
peal of the Volstead Act in the
interest of the local White
Mule Club, $6.77.
“Referring to the local pier
chant who never advertises
and who is too stingy to con
tribute a cent toward needed
public improvements, as a pro
gressive business man and
leading citizen, $344.99.”—Ex.
Just for Fun
First Flapper: “Is your boy
friend a lady killer.”
Second Ditto: “I’ll say he is.
He starves ’em to death!”
Revenge may be sweet but it
doesn’t keep sweet long after
you get it.
Home runs are again listed
among the items for which the
demand is greater than the
supply.
Sweety: “What is the cure for
seasickness?’
Salty: “Give it up.’
Obsolete saying: “Howdy,
stranger; want a ride?’’
Heads may be some thicker
out in the sticks; but the milk
is also.
The World war was not the
longest on record, but the
hangover seems to be.
The burglar finding the lady
in her bath, covered her with
his revolver.
Sheik: Mr. Smith, I love youi
laughter passionately.
Mr. Smith (very suspicious
!y): Which daughter did you
jay you love?
No, Oswald, you are mistak
en. The lady you speak of was
parked before the store win
dow to put on a spare complex
ion and was not merely crystal
gazing.
“Can’t you wait on me?’’ ask
ed the impatient customer.
“Two pounds of liver. I’m in a
hurry.”
“Sorry, madam,” said the
butcher, “ but two or three are
ahead of you. You surely don’t
want your liver out of order.”
Doctor—I’ll have to charge
you $50 for improving your
hearing.
Patient—“What?”
Doctor—I say, your bill is $50.
Patient—Can’t hear you, sir.
Doctor—Then I won’t charge
you a cent.
Patient—Thanks, doctor!
Police Judge—What instru
ment did your wife use to in
flict these wounds on your
head?
O’Halloran—She hit me wid
a motter yer honor.
Police Judge—A motter? And
what is a motter, may I ask?
O’Halloran—A motter is a
frame, yer honor, like a pitch
er, only inside it says, “God
Bless Our Home.’ '
Money talks, but not as much
as man talks money.
Here is one way to test your
loyalty to your job. Suppose
your boss was out of town and
the team was playing at home
would you work?
“Will you let me off this aft
ernoon, sir?’’ asked the clerk.
“My wife would like for me to
clean our wall paper.’’
“Couldn’t possibly do it,’’ ans
wered the boss.
The clerk turned joyfully to
his work, saying: “Thank you,
nr. Thank you a thousand
times.”
He had been trying all even
ing to summon the courage to
-ell her. It was a thing that
really required a great deal of
intrepidity. She was his ideal.
Slim, brown-eyed, beautiful
golden hair. As he gazed at
her he finally made up his
mind.
“Darling,” he said, “I love you.
If I asked you to be my wife
what would be the outcome?”
“It depends,” came the reply,
‘very much on the income.”
However, occasionally there
are more brains in the back
seat than at the wheel, notes
Noel M.
A “slow pay” customer sent
the following note to his gro
cer: “Please send me 6 dozen
eggs; if good will send check.”
The grocer, however, was not
doing business on such risky
terms, so he wrote back:
“Send check; if good, will send
6 dozen eggs.”
One wonders what goes with
all the second hand cars that
won’t go.
M—
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Originality: Doing what some
other man did so long ago that
people have forgotten.
Dogs don’t seem so smart
when you observe the kind of
people they take up with.
He isn’t a born politician un
less he thinks the first person
ingular is unanimous.
When a spinster at last gives
up hope, she has one consolat
ion. She is free to eat onions.
You can’t make yourself hap
py; but any fool can avoid the
things that make him unhappy.
There are South American
Indians that destroy their
young, but they don’t do it in
the name of speed.
Mrs. Baggs: ‘I hear your son
is going to get married; I do
hope he will be lucky.”
Mrs. Jaggs: “Bless yer kind
’eart, he’ll be all right, he came
through the Great War with
out a scratch.”
“What could be more sad,”
said the schoolmistress, “than
a man without a country.?”
“A country without a man,”
answered the pretty girl.
She (naively) : “A little bird
told me what kind of a lawyer
your father was:
He: “What did he say?”
“Cheep, cheep.”
“Well a duck told me what
kind of a doctor your father
is: Quack, quack.”
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
GHAS. F. SANDFORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
John Hovland
MINING
Hyder, Alasita
ALASKA-JUNEAU’S
PROFITS INCREASE
Operating profit of $126,750
for April, which compares
with $113,600 in March and
$148,000 in February, is re
ported by Alaska-Juneau Gold
Mining company in its monthly
summary of operations. In Jan
uary the company reported an
operating profit of $105,900.
In that month the company
mined and trammed to mill
290,770 tons of ore against
281,400 tons the previous
month.
In tabulating the guesses on
the Nenana ice pool, the com
mitte found it necessary to re
ject a number of guesses for
various reasons. Ninety-eight
tickets bore no signatures, and
41 guessers failed to indicate
whether the ice was going out
before or afternoon. On 17
tickets the hour was not mark
ed and 20 were guiltless of
dates. Fifty-two guessers had
the breakup occurring before
the pool closed at midnight
April 14, and their tickets
were rejected. One optimist
marked his ticket March 3.
; Eighty-eight tickets were illeg
ible, and eight persons would
have found, had they consult
ed a calendar, that April 31
just doesn’t exist. Another
eight tickets were totally
blank.
PROFESSIONAL
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FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
GE0R6E R. GRIGSRY
Attorney - at - Law
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