T ■ Salmon River District Is
M el msly Rich in Minerals
i ntl Kyder is the G iteway in
t ■ quence of M hich Hydcr is
th fastest Growing: Town in
the North.
HYDER ALASKA MINER
Publishe r: at <hc Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 1. NO. 29.
HYDER, Alaska, May 19. 1920
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR 4
Court Officials
On a Visit
Hyder has entertained some dis
tinguished visitors this week, Rob
ert W. Jennings, judge for the first
division, Robert Summers, surveyor
general and James A. Smizer, Unit
ed States attorney, coming ever on
the lighthouse tender Cedar and re
maining for several days in confer
ence with Commissioner Reed, Mar
shall Ronan and leading business
and mining men of the camp on
matters pertaining to the public
welfare.
It is nnderstood that Judge Jen
nings intends modifying his recent
order concerning the Hyder record
ing precinct so as to allow this pre
cinct to retain the headwaters of
the Chickamin river.
UNJUST AND UNFAIR
The apparently successful attempt
on the part of a certain clique in
Ketchikan to rob the Hyder record
ing precinct of a mineral area which
by ail natural boundaries- is tribu
tary to this camp, betrays a spirit
of narrow-riiinded jealousy which is
out of keeping with the spirit of
broadmindedness and fairness gen
erally recognized as an attribute of
the north.
Ketchikan’s attitude in this ca3e
is that of Hrsop’s dog in the muh
_,r-r. who Could cot eat the hay him
j self, but would not allow the ox to
have it.
v For years the Chickamin and
Uf'uk river sections have been a
parf J be Ketchikan recording
precinct. What has Ketchikan ever
done to develop) these sections or
bring them to the attend <•> of peo
ple who would develop them's V, h.t
inducement has the fishing tow a or.
th ’ i; . ■! with an unpronounceable
it. oe over he’d out to prospectors
to go into these sections and show
tap their mineral wealth?
Ketchikan has been faith’tss to
its trust: Hyder stands ready to
assume that trust and vigorously
undertake the task of intbueing
With life these now dormant sections
The fact is that prospectors and
trappers hare for the past two
decades known that the Chickainin
and Unuk head in a mineralized
zone. But they would not go there
to prospect because the mineral
area was so difficult of access from
the recording office as to mal>e the
cost of prospecting prohibitive.
The prospector es a rule cannot
afford to own a gas boat and leave
it tied up on some part of the coast
at the mercy of the elements and
stray prowlers while he spends his
summer in the hills, and this is
what he would have to do if start
ing from Ketchikan, or else hire a
special launch to make the trip
around from the west coast o( Rev
etc. island and land him and his
supplies on a desolate coast twenty
or thirty miles from where he could i
start prospecting with any hopes
of success. Coming out would be
even worse, because then he would
not have any boat to get to the re
cording office with, and while he *
waited on the beach for one, his
time limit for recording would in
all probability expire.
The only feasible way to prospect
these sections is to go in on foot
from Hyder. Dozens of prospectors
have done so and when these sec
tions were included in the new Hy
c«ft recording ; iscir.ct they laid
tiu.r pi i s t ? ,o n t'lis spring and
stake, and have written to their
friends in other camps to come and
do likewise.
Now that Judge Jennings has
thrown these sections back into the
Ketchikan district he has also
thrown a wet blanket over the hopes
oT these prospectors.
If this order stands, the Chicka
inin and llutik w;!i no? be prospec
ted, an j an e.< of Alaska’s poten
tial wen.iti producing districts will
lie d s mant lor >ea. s to come.
Ficaf,era!-i end Toanny :'crr ng
ton came down tins week from the Silver
Basin where they have been running u
crosscut tunliel The face is in nice-look
ing silver-lead ore.
PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS \T
THE HYPER DRUG CO.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
A.W.Robinson has gone to Hazelton.
Mrs. F.L. Lake is visiting in Ketchikan.
Charlie Bergman has arrived from An
t-borage.
A.F.Robinson went out to Vancouver
Sunday.
Kenny McLeod is down from the Big
Vlissouri.
A.W.Balzimer made a trip this week
to the Mother Lode,
Mr. and Mrs. C.G.Burke arrived from
Anchorage Sunday.
A.S.Knowles, a chemical engineer o f
5t Louis, is in crmp.
F.L.Lake has built a new home and
iffice near his wharf.
J.E.Kenny, an oldtimer of Anchorage,
las come here to live.
C.B.Murry has returned from Texas
vhere he spent the winter.
J.M. Miller, a hotel man of Portland, is
lere looking for a location.
Dalby B.Morkill the land surveyor re
urned Sunday from Rupert,
The Prince of Wales brought ten pas
;engers from Ketchikan Sunday.
Lon Doggett, F. W. P.-trie and Oscar
gelson are down from the Unicorn.
Howard Campbell, a pioneer of Haz
:lton, will open a bakery in Stewart.
Gus Sundberg and Gas llodlund, old
timers of Anohorage, are recent arrivals.
Silas P. Silverman, secretary of the
Forty Nine raining company, is in camp.
Five and one-half acres of the town
site are being cleared by Lee Balch under
jontract.
Mrs. ();en F. H i and Mrs llenrickson
and daughter of Ketchikan spent the week
snd here.
E.E.Campbell, Pert Wing and M. Mc
Innes of the Granby staff arrived in camp
Sunday.
J.W.Marr is constructing buildings on
A street for Mrs. Ora Bradley and Miss
Vincent.
Jim Mooney has built a sidewalk in
front of Dan l>avis' propertj on Interna
tional Ave.
Miss Balzimer, a sister of A. W. Balzi
mer. and Mrs, Barrett have arrived from
Vancouver and opened an ice cream par
lor in F.L.Lake's building on International
Avenue.
Norman McLeod and Fred Joyce have
been grading in front of the bank with
their tractor.
Hoy Moseley, proprietor of the King
Ldward Hotel in Stewart, has gone out
side on business.
E.J. Conway, field engineer for the
Granby Co., passed through here Sunday
on his way to Rupert.
Pete Hanley, dist'ict manager for Boyle
Bros., the Spokane diamond drilling firm,
was in camp this week.
Bill irwin is going to Forry-rnile on the
Yukon on a scouting trip lor the Ameri
can Smelting and Refining Co.
M.R.Jamieson of the Hotel Hyder is
trying to find Clarence Johnson in order
to give him an express package.
S. V. Arnold, a B.C. land surveyor, has
arrived from Vancouver and will work
this summer with Dalby RMorkdk *
Geo, J. Frizzell returned from Rupert
Sunday and is busy putting th ' amsnia
tonches on his new market buildu g.
Dan McDonald, who was blacksmith
for the B.C. government in Stewart in
1910, has returned from the outside.
i’at McBride, an owner of property up
the Salmon, has returned from Vancou
ver and Seattle where he spent the win
ter.
Boy C.l’rice. who is going to establish
an air plane service between Stewart and
Bong lake, returned Sunday from a trip
outside.
Pat Hogan, one of the best known pros
pectors in Alaska, is in camp and will
hit the hills soon. He has been in Alas
ka 27 years.
J. William Johnstone, representing the
Walworth Manuiacturing Co, who make
plumbers' supplies, has been calling on
the local trade this week.
II.C.Reed who put in a couple of weeks
here early in the spring, is back again.
He has some valuable mining property in
the Kashwhilna country.
The Portland Canal News of Stewart
has moved into larger and more conven
ient quarters which were p cpared for it
by Ed McLaren and J. McIntosh.
aiic umu iiictiitfgei iui mt* Ddim ui
Montreal in Stewart since the bank was
opened last summer has arrived, Mr. J.H.
Gauld succeeding Mr. Marantette,
Dixon Williams who has been machin
ist at the l-’remier has gone to Seattle
where he received an appointment as in
structor at the University of Washington.
Percy Fdodenrath, who had the Port
land Caual Miner during the first boom in
Stewart, came up Sunday for a look ar
ound. He has been living in Kentucky
since the war.
Moose Baxter who at one time led
the Northwestern league in batting when
he was with Butte, nod who played with
the St Louis Nationals for two seasons, is
in camp and will be a tower of strength
to the local ball team if he can be per
pcrsuaded to play.
PHONOGlf APiiS AND RECORDS A
THE HYDoili DRuu CO;
PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS AT
THE HYDSR DRUG CO;
Will Work
The Hercules
HILLY GOAT CLAIM SOLD
Jack Schwenter of Stewart has
sold the Billy Goat claim which
lies east of the Forty Nine and one
claim distant. New York people
are the purchasers. The claim was
staked last summor and no work
has been done upon it, but it is said
to be in the mineral zone. Jack is
also one of the original owners of
the President group, adjoining the
New Alaska, which was incorpor
ated into a company last winter by
Vancouver capitalists.
CH.'v.Nt. ; .ri AT PilKMIMR
'i he j esition of master mechanic
has l>een created at the Premier
mine, and is filled by Mr. Ber ard,
who comes here from the mines of
the Cceur d’ Alenes. The mine also
has a new foreman, I! c or McDon
ald of Cresde, Colorado, succeeding
Wm. Irwin who occupied the posi
tion for the past year.
liONAN liESIGNl n
Senator John Ronan h< s resign
ed as deputy United States mar
shal! in order to devote his atten
tion to his mining interests; The
resignition becomes effective June 1
SOME IHNi E, TIIE SPOT
Saturday night the Ocean View
Cabaret will introduce an innova
tion in the dancing line in this dis
trict, putting On what is known as
the spot dance. Numbers are paint
ed on the door and corresponding
numbers placed in a hat. The dan
cers go about their business as us
ual, but when the music stops they
all stop also. A number is drawn
from the hat and the couple who
happen to be standing on the cor
responding number at the time win
a prize.
NOTICK OK DISSOLUTION OF COPART
NERSHIP.
Notice is hereby given that the copart
nership heretoloie existing at Hyder,
Alaska, between the undersigned. John
A. Nelson, and Jack Heath, under the
firm name and style of Neisonand Heath,
is this day dissolved by reason of the de
parture of the said Jack Heath for parts
unknown to the undersigned, John A.
Nelson, and without his knowledge or
consent.
All debts due by the said firm of Nelson
and Heath will be paid bj the undersign
ed, John A. Nelson, to whom all persons
indebted to the said firm are requested
to make immediate payment.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska, April 27, 1920.
John A. Nelson.
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEET
ING
Meeting of the stockholders of the Ily
der Dock Co. will be held at the said
Company's office in Hyder, Aleska, on
Monday, May 24, 1920, at the hour of 7
p. m. Jack Sutherland, l’res.
Harry T. Fox, vice Pres.
D. C. Young, Sec. Treas.
A.J,Carlson, a business man of Anch
orage. is i.ere looking for a location. He
is accompanied by his son Grant who is a
partner of the Battholfs in the Banner
group of claims. W.E.Bartholf is expect
ed to arrive about the first of June.
Brigadier General R. G. Edwards
Leckie of Vancouver came in Sun
day for the purpose of starting de
velopment work on the Hercules
group, adjoining the Big Missouri
on the north. General Leckie and
associates acquired she Hercules in
1910 and did considerable surface
work, exposing a strong lead which
has all the earmarks of becoming
a dividend producer. The property
has fifteen feet of $40 ore, of which
$10 n va ue is in gold. Joe Fall
is to be superintendent of the prop
erty.
R. H. Robertson
Crosses Divide
R. H. Robertson, a pioneer of the
camp and one of the most popular
members of the community, died
in Prince Rupert at 5:30 p. m. May
13th, and the sad news cast a blan
ket of gloom over the camp. There
was no more gen>al perserality in
the camp. Everyone was Rob’s
friend, and that he will be seen here
no more seems impossible to be
lieve. >
Bob was born in Ontario 39 years
ago, and spent his boyhood in Port
age la Prairie, where his father now
lives. In 1910 he came to Stewart
and secured some of the best min
ing property in the district, being a
partner with Louis Watkins and
John Hovland in the Unicorn group
which i^now under bond to J. R.
McDonald. He is survived by his
father and a brother who lives in
Edmonton.
RUSSIANS ATTENTION
Anyone knowing the address or
whereabouts of Georgy Kubusoff of
Galita, Province of Terek, kindly
address his brother, Nalek Kubusoff
care American Siberian Trading
Co., 201 Lyon Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
AVERAGE YEARLY PRICES
SILVER, COPPER, LEAD AND ZINC
1910 to 1919 Inclusive
Silver Copper Lead Zinc
Year Oz. Lb. Lb. Lb.
1910 .54 .127 .044 .054
1911 .53 .125 .045 .057
1912 .615 .165 .045 .069
1913 .604 .155 .044 .056
1914 .553 .133 .039 .051
1915 .507 .175 .047 .124
1916 .658 .272 .068 .134
1917 .814 .271 .087 .0S9
1918 .967 .247 .074 .083
1919 . 1.110 .189 .057 .073
\verage Prices Silver, Copper, Lead
and Zinc During 1919
Silver Copper Lead Zine
Month Oz. Lb. Lb. Lb.
January 101.12 .204 .056 .074
February ....101.12 .173 .051 .06?
March ....101.12 .150 .052 .065
April ...•....-..,..101.12 .152 .050 .064
May .......107.23 .159 .050 .064
June ..110.50 .175 .053 .069
J\ily . 106.36 .208 .055 .077
August .111.35 .225 .057 .078
Septelnber ..113.92 .221 .060 .075
October .119.10 .216 .064 ,07s
November .127.57 .204 .067 .081
December .-,131.92 -.185 .071 .080