Marr Building
Will enntraet for anything In the building line
^othtog too bid for u* to handle
Absolutely export work gusrttiUs* on oil Jobs
J. W. Mass, Ma*aoe*> Omct, Horn Hvt>n
HYDER LUMBER CO.
LUMBER
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Rough
Dressed
Flooring
Ceiling
Rtfstic
Wainscotting
Prom a sliver to a cargo
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
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Four new dredges will be operat
ed in the Iditarod section next
summer.
Dr. E. M. Spaulding has been ap
pointed health officer for the town
of Anchorage.
Eleven hundred boxes ol frozen
fish were reoently sent south from
Ketchikan on the Princess Mary.
Many prospectors are working at
the head of White river this Win
ter according to P.E. Barbee, who
recently arrived in Fairbanks.
The labor trouble at Mayo Y.T.,
has been settled and the miners
have returned to wosk for $5 a day
eight houttr, with two Sundays off
each month.
Considerable activity is predict
ed for the coming summer in the
Cache creek mining ditsrict. Geo.
Anderson, who has been operating
a 10-stamp mill in the Willow creek
district! Statee that several operat
ing companies have already start
ed to haul in supplies for the sum
mer’s work.
The Culross Island Mining and
Milling Company Is rushing the
completion of a 175-foot raise to
connect with a 30-foot shaft pre
viously sunk and which taps one
of the richest ore shoots on the
property,’* The connecting tunnel
will make this ore available imme
diately for milling purposes. A com
modious bunk house and cook house
hae beeVrbnilt to accommodate the
enlarged Working force.
The mercury hit 63 below at
Carmacks on the Yukon Jan. 6.
Steady winds and extreme cold
have characterized the winter in
the Brooks section.
David Jackson, a Whitehorse na
tive, was recently fined $5 and
costs for beating his dog.
A monster light and bell buoy
has been established to mark the
northern entrance of Wrangell Nar
rows by the Lighthouse Dep’t.
Capt. S. Pederson, well known
Alaskan, has purchased an apart
ment house in Seattle at Eastlake
Avenue and Fuhrman street, cost
ing $15,000.
A new hydraulic outfit is being
installed at Valdez creek which
will supply labor for ten men dur
ing the season. The McKinley com
pany in the same district will work
about 30 men on Valdez eioek.
With 1,200 feet of tunnel finished
Wm. Egan, contractor for driving
a 2,000-foot tunnel for the Valdez
Gold Mining Company, will resume
work on the project about April.
As planned, the tunnel will tap
nine different veins.
Shipments of gold dust and bull*
ion from Nome for the year 1920
amounted to $1,235,943.30 accord
ing to a report of the oolleotor o|
customs for Alaska. Nome expor
ted $293,105 in merchandise to Si
beria and bought furs and ivory
from Siberia to the value of $420*
666 during the same period.
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO.
OF HYDSI '
Incorporated under the (ewe if Aleak* 4
Capital Paid Op 9ll.0M.OT
Commercial and Saving* Depaitteants
Domeatic and Foreign Exchange
Money Telegraphed to aD Part* of; the
United State*
HYDER PAINT SHOP P.i»tu#,P.p.rl»Mhw
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Travbray Bros.
SIGNS
Paints, Oils, Stains, Varnishes, Shellac. Wallpaper, l eadening Felt,
Cheese Cloth, Kalsomihe.
Temporary quarters Portland Cafe Bldg
i/r
" The Matt-Es Bot
Co toon after you light your fir*.
*“* it will give you the emprise of
your life—and in unlimited quantity
—and you dont have to put io an
expensive water-works system.
YLfitk Harry Hanson's patented
hot water coil in your cook
stove you can have real home com
fort. All the principal homes of
Rupert are so equipped and Stewart
forks are installing the system as
fast as Hanson can do the work.
£ome on over to Stewairt and. see,
how it is done. Anyone* there
can tell you where to find
Darm Mit
f
HYDER,
Gateway to the Great Salmon River Mineral Area
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine
You Have to Come to Hyder to
Reach the Mines
FASTEST GROWING TOWN IN THE NORTH