ANNOUNCING
The Completion and Opening
Of The New
t
TEXAS CREEK
HIGHWAY
Built by the U. S. Government at a cost
of nearly a half million dollars, with the
express object of opening this new and
remarkably mineralized portion of the
Hyder, Alaska section of the Portland
Canal Mining District to development
and exploitation.
Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead Ores
abound in this wonderful mineral region and
offer excellent oppotunities for profitable mining
investment under the economical transportation
conditions provided by the splendid, new 12
mile highway traversing the Texas creek valley
from end to end.
In addition to opening this rich mineral region
to mining endeavor, the Texas Creek Highway
offers a scenic excursion of matchless mountain
scenery, and the most remarkable glacier vistas
in the world.
For information relative to the mineral resources of the
Hyder District and other data, address the
Hyder Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
Hyder, Alaska
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ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Nicholas Brake, 74, mining
operator in the Willow Creek
district, north of Anchorage
died of a stroke of apoplexy
Six mountain sheep are to be
captured in the Alaska Rail
road belt and sent to the Zoo
logical Park maintained by
William Randolph Hearst, the
publisher, at San Simeon, Cal
The animals, will include twe
males and four females.
Monday, November 17, the
Alaska Airways, which main
tains its principal base at Fair,
banks, was scheduled to star)
its regular airplane service
between Fairbanks and Nome
Plans call for a round trip
every two weeks.
Dawson’s historic Orpheum
Theater, a landmark of earl>
Klondike days, has been re
opened as a motion pictu'tr
theater. Clara Bow, the Brook
lyn bonfire, in “Wings” wa<
! the opening cinema attraction
Major George D. Beaumont
' who was United States Mar
s shall for the first Division oi
J Alaska, with headquarters in
t Juneau several years ago, is s
‘ watchman at one of the large
i motion picture studios ii
| Hollywood, Cal.
The Fairbanks Commercia
. Club has changed its name tc
I the Fairbanks Chamber ol
( Commerce and has electee
Paul J. Ricket president, anc
J. G. Rivers, secretary.
One million, one hundred
thousand spruce logs in a raft
were successfully towed 800
miles in seven weeks, fmm
Loring, Alaska, to AnacorteS,
Washington.
A marble thrown by one boy
at another missed its mark anu
broke the $260 plate glass
window of the Miners’ and
Merchants’ Bank of Ketchikan
recently.
One of the oldest canneries
in the Wrangell district passed
out of existence recently when
the Point Ward cannery was
dismantled and its machinery
shipped to Seattle.
In the Ketchikan halibut
fleet the-high boat for the sea
son which closed November
15, was the Superior. She t
turned $2,600 to each of the
six men of her crew. The Clip
per was second with $2,400 to
the man.
“Alaska Products Week’'
will be featured early next fall
by the Herbert Restaurant in
Los Angeles. It is one of,tli
largest business enterprises of
its kind in that city. For the
furnishing of the products to
Colonel Hebert, a special com
mittee has been named by t'r t
Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce.
Pilot Matt Niemenan recently
brought from Illamna village
to the Anchorage hospital
Thomas Schultz, government
school teacher there, who was
badly injured by a fall. This
was Niemenen’s tenth flight
with injured or -sick persons
within six months. Schultz has
a good chance of recovery.
MAP OF
PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
IIYftER. ALASKA
RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
FISHERS BLENp STATION, INC.
Metropolitan Center, Seattle Wn.
(Owing to poor reception during the
earlier part of the day In Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
only such broadcasts as occur after
5 p. m. daily.)
Program for week ending Saturday,
J Saturday, December 20, 1930.
-O
P. M.
Sunday, December 14
! 5:00 Enna Jettick Melodies, NBC-NY.
5:15 Collier's Radio Hour, NBC-NY.
6:16 Atwater Kent Program, NBC-NY.
7:15 Studebaker Champions, NBC-Chl.
7:45 Garden Patch Program.
8:00 First Church of Christ Scientist.
9:00 Borden Milk Program, NBC-SF.
9:30 Enna Jettick Melodies, NBC-NY.
9:45 Asso. Oil Co., Vocal Recital.
10:00 Kaffee Hag Slumber Hour.
10:30 P. S. P. & L. Co., Concert Orch
estra and Vocalists.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, December 15
5:00 Totem Broadcasters, How's Bus
iness?, NBC-NY.
5:15 One-Quarter Hour in the Nation’s
Capital, NBC-Wn., D. C.
5:30 Garden Patch Program.
6:00 Maytag Orchestra, NBC-Chi.
6:30 Genl. Motors Program, NBC-NY.
7:00 Stromberg Carlson Concert, NB
C-Rochestef.
7:30 Great Northern Railway, Empire
Builder, NBC-NY.
8:00 Shell Symphonists, NBC-SF.
i 6:30 Pepsodent Co., Amos 'n' Andy,
NBC-LA.
j <:45 Shell Symphonists, NBC-SF.
i 9:00 Schwabacher’s Mozart Concert
Hour.
j 10:00 Chrysler Motors Program,
i 10:30 University of Washington Edu
cational Hour.
! 11:00 News Flashes,
ill: 15 Varsity Vagabonds.
! 12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital
Tuesday, December 16
5:0% Brazilian American Coffee Pro
gram. NBC-NY.
5:30 Garden Patch Program.
G:00 Everready Hour, NBC-NY.
6:30-Happy Wonder Bakers, NBC-NY.
7:00 Westinghouse Salute,, NBC-NY.
7:30 Am. Tobacci Co., Lucky Strike
Orchestra, NBC-NY.
8:00 Violet Ray Music Box, NBC-LA.
I 8:30 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-LA.
8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
I 1:00 Florsheim Frolic, NBC-SF.
I i:30 Fisher’s Blend Hour,
i 10:30 News Flashes.
10:45 Uncle Hank From Cidervllle
Center.
11:00 Olympic Hotel, Varsity Vaga
bonds.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Wednesday, December 17
i-ci Fisher Mills, Concert Trro.
5:15 R. C. A. Radlotron Co., NBC-NY.
j:3o Garden Patch Program.
6:00 Halsey Stuart Progarm, NBC-NY.
j 6:30 Palmolive Hour, NBC-NY.
; 7:30 Coca Cola Program, NBC-NY.
j 8:00 Asso. Oil Co., Program, NBC-SF.
| 8:30 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-LA.
! 8:45 Am. Popcorn Co., Jolly Time
Popcorn Review, NBC-SF.
9:00 P. S. Nav. Co., The Navigators.
9:30 Camel Pleasure Hour, NBC-SF.
10:30 Pacific Fruit & Produce Co.,
Tuneful Two.
; 10:45 News Flashes,
j 11:00 Olympic Hotel Varsity Vaga
bonds. directed by J. Robinson,
ies, NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Thursday, December 18
5:00 Fleisclimann's Sunshine Hour,
NBC-NY.
6:00 Am. Radiator Co. Program, NBC
NY.
i 6:30 Maxwell House Melodies, NBC
NY.
7:00 Lucky Strike Orchestra and Voc
alists. NBC-NY.
| 7:30 Standard Symphony Hour, NBC
SF.
8:30 Pepsodent Co., Amos 'n' Andy,
NBC-LA.
I 8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
I 9:00 Hotel New Yorker Orchestra, N
BC-NY.
(10:00 Equi-Fractionators Dance Hour.
11:00 News Flashes.
11:15 St. Francis Hotel Orch.. NBC-SF
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Friday, December 19
5:00 Cities Service Concert Orceslra
and the Cavaliers, NBC-NY.
5:00 Interwoven Pair, NBC-NY.
6:30 Armour Hour, NBC-NY.
7:00 Armstrong Quakers, NBC-NY.
7:30 R. K. O. Program, NBC-NY.
S:00 Fisher Mills Co.. Violin Recital.
8:15 Brown Shoe Co. Program, NBC
NY.
8:30 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-LA.
8:45 Union Oil Co., Tone Pictures,
NBC-LA.
9:15 P. S Nav Co., Song Recital.
9:30 Schwabacher’s Little Symphony
Hour.
10:30 Friedlander’s, the Watch Mak
ers.
10:45 News Flashes.
11:00 Olympic Hotel Varsity Vaga
bonds, directed by J. Robinson.
12:00 Fox 5th Avenue Theatre. Organ
Recital.
Saturday, December 19
5:15 R. C. A. Radiotron Co., NBC-NY.
5:30 Fuller Brush Co., The Fuller
Man, NBC-NY.
6:00 Genl. Electric Program, NBC-NY.
7:00 Lucky Strike Program, NBC-NY.
8:00 Gilmore Circus, NBC-LA.
8:30 Pepsodent Co., Amos ’n’ Andy,
NBC-LA.
8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Consolidated Cigar Co., El Sidela
Minstrels, NBC-SF.
9:30 Chevrolet Chronicles.
10:00 P. S. Nav. Co., Tuneful Two.
10:15 News Flashes.
10:30 Snotlieht Revue.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.