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VOL 5, NO. 35
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8.1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BIG VEIN SHIPPING
ORE LOCATED ON
RIVERSIDE GROUP
Discovery of an unusually
rich vein of ore on the River
side group during recent days
promises possible restoration of
that property to a shipping
basis ,for a time at least, and
may also lead to a resumption
of general mining activities in
the near future.
Samples taken along the vein
have given returns running
well over $100 per ton. The
ore is a close grained galena
and very heavily metalized,
t and is noticable for absence
of rock elements. A small sam
ple now on display in the win
dow of the Ideal Cafe weighs
ISO pounds and is apparently
nearly all metal.
Assays made during the past
three or four days gave returns
ranging from $43.59 to $125.
The first mentioned assay in
cluded a copper content of 1V$
per cent in addition to the gold
silver and lead values.
E. D. Haddon, local represent
ative of the Hall interests, own
ers of the property, states that
the vein is an extension of the
tvell known Lindeborg vein,
and is located near the upper
end of the group some distance
above the Premier tramway.
So far as revealed by stripping
the vein is two feet wide and
has been exposed for approxi
mately 200 feet. The strike is
northwest-southeast. The vein
was uncovered by Gus. Erick
son, well known miner, while
performing the annual assess
ment work on a portion of the
group.
Outcrops of the rich ore were
discovered when the property
was active two years or so ago,
but as the vein was largely cov
ered by overburden it was giv
en no more than cursory exam
ination at that time. According
to Mr. Haddon the vein is eas- j
ily accessible and the ore can
be extracted by surface work
ings and landed on the Premier
road by means of go-devils at
relatively low cost. Several
tons have been mined and
sacked with the use of no more
than three or four sticks of
powder a day and should yield
an excellent profit after smelt
er treatment, judging by the
assays. Mr. Haddon states that
it is planned to continue the
ing the high grade for ship
exploration of the vein and the
ore will be shipped as soon as
a sufficient quantity is assem
bled.
The most important feature
of the discovery appears to
rest on the prospect that it may
result in the reopening of the
Riverside mine. Judging from
the surface aspects, the down
ward efxtensions of the v>ein
should be located within 350
feet or so of the innermost end
of the upper tunnel in the old
. mine workings., hence an ex
’ tension of the tunnel for that
J distance might open the new
vein at considerable depth and
prove a large ore reserve. The
prospect is further enhanced
by the presence of large quan
tities of lower grade ores in the
old mine workings which could
probably be handled in con
nection with the high grade
operations.
PLANE FLIGHT PAVES
WAY FOR LOCAL AIR
TRANSPORTSERVICE
Completing the first direct
airplane flight from Seattle to
Hyder, the Lockheed-Vega sea
plane Juneau, of the Washing
to-Alaska Airways, piloted by
Anscel Eckmann and bearing
as passengers Oren. F. Hill,
local postmaster and propri
etor of the Hyder Drug Comp
any, and C. T. McKenny, Seat
tle attorney and friend of the
pilot, arrived here at the end
of a ten-hour trip from Puget
Sound at 10 p. m. Wednesday
evening.
The airplane picked Mr. Hill
up at Vancouver and headed
north at 3 p. m. Wednesday
afternoon. Two hours later It
landed at Smith’s Inlet, near
the upper end of Vancouver
Island, where fuel was taken
on and those on board had din
ner. Owing to poor facilities,
the task of refueling required
1 Yi hours and it was 7 p. m.
before the flight was resumed.
The remainder of the approx
imately 690 mile air voyage
was negotiated through in
creasing darkness in exactly
three hours; making the actual
flying time from the British
Columbia metropolis an even
five hours and approximately
I six hours from Seattle.
The flight along the coast is
said by Mr. Hill to have been
as enjoyable as possible. No
rough weather was encount
ered and sunshiny skies greet
ed the plane practically thru
out the trip. Fogs developed
in the vicinity of Prince Rup
ert, which could not be seen,
and also near the mouths 01
several rivers, but was easily
surmounted by the p6*werful
plane, which is of the en
closed cabin type, with a high
speed of 170 miles per hour;
a cruising speed of 135 miles,
and can travel 700 miles on one
load of 100 gallons of gasoline,
all of which is carried in the
wings. The plane can seat five
passengers, in addition to the
pilot and mechanician, and 19
powered with an engine of 425
horsepower.
Mr. Hill says the trip was far
easier and more comfortable
; than riding the same distance
by automobile and provided an
unsurpassable view of the scen
ic beauties of the famous In
side Passage and Portland
Canal. Flying close to the
mountain slopes, the plant*
surprised numerous bear, deer
! and mountain goats along the
j way and provided the passen
gers with novel views of .wild
life. The deer and goats boltea
at sight of the plane but the
more phlegmatic Bruin’s mere
ly sniffed at the strange invad
er of their domain and gave no
sign of fear.
The trip of the Juneau was
undertaken at the instance of
Mr. Hill, who had the dual ob
ject of paving the way for the
establishment of an air mail
route between Seattle and Hy
der. and also the possible in
auguration of passenger air
service in connection with the
service maintained by the air
plane company between Seat
tle and Juneau. Owing to Hy
Continued on Page 3.
BUDDINGTON REPORT
ON HYDER DISTRICT
IS NOW AVAILABLE
The long delayed and much
anticipated U. S. Geological
Survey report by Professor A.
F. Buddington, of Princeton
University, on the geology anfl
mineralogy of the Hyder min
ing district is now ready for
distribution and several copies
of the publication reached Hy
der on the last mail.
Lack of space prevents de
tailed description of the many
interesting and informative
features of Prof. Buddington’s
work in the present issue and
a more complete delineation
must be reserved until next
week.
For the present it may be said
that local mining and business
men will be surprised and grat
ified at the scope and charac
ter of the report which this
eminent authority has present
ed. Covering almost every as*
pect of local geological and
mining conditions, the report
provides one of the most com
plete and authoritative stud
ies of the Hyder district's min
eral resources that has ever
appeared and should be read
and studied by all who are in
terested in this section.
Copies of the report may bw
secured from the Superintend
ent of Public Documents, U. S.
Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C., for the
small sum of 35 cents. Ask foi?
Bulletin No. 807, “Geology of
Hyder and Vicinity.’’
S.S. ALEUTIAN SINKING
CHARGED TO QUAKE
Blame for the wreck of the
palatial Alaska liner Aleutian
in Uyak Bay on the Kodiak Is
land coast was charged to a
submarine upheaval which
raised the ocean floor, by offi
cers of the vessel at the gov
ernment inquiry held in Seat
tle.
Testimony given by Capt. J.
Nord and other officers of the
ill-fated vessel showed that the
Aleutian struck a rock where
the charts showed a depth of
168 to 294 feet of water. Any
rock at the spot heretofore has
been unknown to navigators
and an earthquake is thought
to have thrown up the pinnacle
on which the steamer crashed.
One of the greatest shots of
black powder in the history of
Alaska was touched off recent
ly near Mile 65 on the Copper
River and Northwestern Rail
way. The blast contained 30,
000 pounds of powder and lit
erally blew up the side of a
mountain to obtain rock for
use on an embankment on the
railroad line. The blast is said
to have hurled 150,000,000
pounds of tock into the air and
was one of the most successful
of years,, breaking the mater
ial in such a way that practic
ally all of it can be handled by
steam-shovels without rebreak
breaking.
A number of mines in the
Kantishna will begin shipping
ore this fall over the Alaska
Railroad. The ore will be
stored in bins during the sum
mer and hauling will be done
over winter roads, which were
cut out this spring. One outfit
will load their ore at Lignite.
VOICES PROTEST QF
COMPENSATION LAW
Failure of the last legislature
to enact a less inhibitive and
more equitable workmen’s
compensation law for Alaska,
resulted Tuesday evening in
the adoption by the Hyder
Chamber of Commerce of a
resolution strongly condemn
ing the present compensation
act and pledging the organizat- j
ion to work for its repeal; de
claring that such action
is “vital to the future prosper
ity of the Hyder Mining dist
rict, as well as to the entire
Territory.”
After pointing out that em
ployers of five or more employ
ees in any business or industry
in Alaska, except domestic ser
vice, agriculture, dairying and
the operation of railroads as
common carriers, as well as his
employees, are directly and ad
versely affected by the present
law, the resolution calls attent
ion to the fact that the act pro
vides that the familyof a mar
ried employee, in the event of
his death from injuries re
ceived in the course of employ
ment, can receive compensat
ion up to a possible sum of
$9,000; that relatives of un
married employees can receive
up to an equal amount; that
families of married alien em
ployees can obtain up to 60 per
cent of the sum obtainable by
a married citizen of the United
States, and that relatives of un
married aliens may obtain up
to 60 per cent of any amount
obtainable by relatives of an
unmarried U. S. citizen; all of
such amounts being payable
by the employer. The resolut
ion further recites that for tot
al disability a married employ
ee can receive up to $9,000 and
that an unmarried employee,
whether citizen or alien, can
receive the same sum as a mar
ried employee; the employer
being chargeable for the
amount in either case.
Attention is also directed
to the fact that the pres
ent schedules for partial disa
bility, and particularly injur
ies, are chargeable directly
against the employer and that
for a payment of $2.50 per
month by each employee the
employer is also chargeable
for all medical and hospital
costs of an injured employee
for a possible period of one
year, the resolution declares
that “ a discrimination against
married and unmarried em
ployees, who are citizens of the
United States, in favor of alien
employees, is an actual and
necessary result of the sched
ules in said Compensation act,”
and that “employees and
workmen of all kinds, as well
as corporations and business
men of both large and small
capital are adversely affected
thereby,” for the reason that
the law takes no note of the
prosperity or lack of prosper
ity of the employing interests.
The declaration further as
serts that “no industrial insur
ance is now available in Alas
ka, whereby an employer can
protect himself against such
losses,” which are declared to
be in the majority of cases
SELUKWE CO, STILL
DESIRESR.C, SILVER
The annual general meeting
of the Selukwe Gold Mining
and Finance Company, Ltd.,
held in London May 6, dis
closed little of interest regard
ing the local operations of
the B. C. Silver or the Sebakwe
companies that has not already
appeared in these columns.
Save in a few minor instances
the report of Mr. Cromwell
Hockley, chairman and manag
ing director, confirmed in ev
ery respect the reports of de
velopment progress published
by this paper during the past
year.
The most interesting feature
of Mr. Hockley’s statement to
the directors is an intimation
that Selukwe is still hopeful of
effecting some form of combin
ation with the Premier looking
to the operation of B. C. Silver
property by that company. Re
specting this phase of the B. C.
Silver situation, Mr. Hockley
said:
“A combination to embrace
the Premier mill, railway, and
remaining ore reserves and to
concede a fair valuation for in
dicated and proved B. C. ore
reserves, with adequate recog
niaion of past expenditure, to
gether with an agreed percent
age of of capital for future
prospects and the prorata right
to subscribe adequate working
capital, would seem a solution
of the situation. Arrangements
might also extend to include
territory and ore bodies of
neighboring properties.”
>
“absolutely destructive and re
sulting at times in no protect
ion to the employee and ruin
to the employer,” and that as
a result of the subsersive con
I ditions created by this and
previous legislation of the
same type “there has been an
actual withdrawal of capital
from Alaska, or a refusal of
capital to engage in gainful en
terprises therein - particularly
in the business of mining, upon
which the Territory so largely 1
depends.”
The Chamber next enters a i
vigorous and forceful protestj
against “this state of affairs;”
demands an immediate change
in the law and urges upon “the
proper Territorial officials “a
careful study” of the compen
sation laws of British Colum
bia, Oregon and Washington
with a view to the immediate
preparation of a compensation
act that “will invite rather
than hinder the- entrance of
capital;” that “will enable bus
iness men and large and small
corporations to engage in pro
ductive enterprises,” and de
clares further that “the Hyder
mining district, as a particular
instance, has been held back by
bad laws, inimical alike to cap
ital and proper exploitation”
and asserts that our Canadian
neighbors “are prosperous, aid
ed as they are in every way by
wise and stable laws, benefic
ial to the workers and fair in
their treatment of capital”
In conclusion the resolution
discloses in no uncertain man
ner that the Chamber of Com
NEWSY JOTTINGS
BEARING ON LOCAL
Although it is not officially
announced, it is a matter of
general knowledge that the
Premier Gold Mining Company
has purchased the Cascade
Falls No. 5 claim, adjoining
the northern boundary of the
Premier group and abutting
upon the Oakville Fraction of
the B. C. Silver and claim No 1
of the Northern Light group.
"The acquisition of the new
ground suggests that Premier's
present underground develop
ment in that direction has re
vealed possibilities of consider
able promise, as well as a po^
sible substantial extension ot
the life of the famous mine.
John Hovland, president and
managing director of Unicorn
Mines, Ltd., returned to town
last evening and reported that
good progress is being maae
on preparations for the sum
mer’s activities on the Unicorn
group, adjoining the Big Miss
ouri. Considerable snow still
remains in that locality but
a part of the supplies have
been landed on the ground ana
the camp is being fixed up in
readiness to start development
as soon as conditions permit.
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NEW U. S. CURRENCY
OUT JULY TENTH
If someone hands you a small
drab looking black and green
strip of paper as change or in
payment of a debt shortly af
ter July 10th, don’t be alarmed
that he is trying to put some
thing over on you, for it will
probably be real money—the
new form of U. S. currency.
The new type of bills are to
be placed in circulation on
that date and will soon replace
the older and considerably
larger variety of bills with
which we are familiar.
The first issue will include all
kinds of the new size currency,
except national bank notes,
and all denominations from $1
to $20. The national bank
notes in the new size will be is
sued about July 15 and federal
reserve notes above $20 at a
later date.
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CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
MEETING
A meeting of the Riverview
Cemetery Association will be
held in Chamber of Commerce
Hall Tuesday evening at 8 p.
m. for the purpose of electing
officers and making preparat
ions for cleaning up and im
proving the appearance of the
cemetery grounds.
..Members of the association
and others interested are re
quested to attend.
merce intends ta employ every
effort to secure the repeal of
the undesirable law by further
resolving “that the Secretary
be instructed to transmit cop
ies of this resolution to the
Chambers of Commerce in
Alaska, to the labor unions the
newspapers of the Territory,
Territorial officials and to the
Alaska delegate to Congress.”