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HYDER ALASKA MINER
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VOL. a, NO, 47.
HYDER, Alaska, Nov. 1. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
VIRGINIA GROUP
IS BONDED BY
k G. LARSON
The Virginia group of four
claims, and the Duff claim, adjoin
ing, have been bonded by A. G.
.arson, who took options on them
) st before leaving for the south]
about three weeks ago. The bond
is for $75,000 and calls for a five
per cent cash payment, which Was
made Friday. The balance of
the payments are spread over a
period of three years.
Active development of the pro
perty is to be prosecuted through
out the winter under the direct
supervision of Mr. Larson, who is
expected to arrive next Sunday to
start the work. Wm. Bunting,
who negotiated the deal, went up
to the property Saturday to make
preliminary arrangements for open
ing up tiie camp. 1 he Salmon
valley wagon road runs across the
eastern part of the Virginia and
past the camp, and there is no
transportation problem to solve.
The property is 1 1 miles from the
ocean port of Hyder.
i he claims are near the interna
tional boundary line on the Alas
kan side, and adjoin the Daly Al
aska and Stoner groups on the
northwest and west. They were
located by Wm. Bunting, one of
discoverers of the Premier, for his
wife, Margaret Duff Bearing. In
1921 B. M. Stone acquired a half
interest, and last winter sold a
quarter to Chas. E. Finzel, now
of Ketchikan, and J. Benson,
of the firm of Bigham & Benson,
Hyder. I he remain ng quarter
he sold to J. A. Hail, president of
the Salmon River Bank.
Three parallel mineial zones
have been definitely established on
the Virginia by open cutting and
stripping, and this summer a tunnel
was driven in over J,0 feet on one
of them, showing a good grade of
ore thioughoi t.
Mr. Larson, who :s one oi Ihe.
leading mining engineers of the
Northwest, and is consulting engi
neer of the Daly Alaska, made a
thorough examination of the Vir
ginia on his last visit here, result
ing in his taking a bond on this,
and the Taurus group adjoining.
Vr. Larson also bonded the
Taurus property, consisting of one
claim and a fraction, at the same
time tnat he took over tne Virgin
ia. The Taurus adjoins the lat
ter, and altohugh not enough work
Has been done on it to demon
strate its value as a mining pros
pect, it is well within the mineral
belt, and its position commends it
as possibly a valuable addition to
the adjoining ground. It was
through Win. Bunting that Mr.
Larson secured the Tai .us.
I
BIG MISSOURI WORK
SUDDENLY SUSPENDS
NO REASON IS GIVEN
The Big Missouri appears to be
out of the running for the winter,
having been closed down by R. R.
Wilson, who came in, it is under
stood, under instructions from his
father, W. R. Wilson, and A. B.
Trites, who have been financing the
development. Harry Howson, the
manager, was in Stewart laid up
with an injured back and chest, the
result of a fall a week before.
The reason for the shut-down
cannot be learned, but other things
about the property can be. For
instance; the shaft is down about
90 feet, with a full bottom of ore ;
that assays 215 oz. silver and $90
gold; the shaft was making 30 bar
rels of water a day when the work
stopped, but could be drained by a
crosscut from the Mann tunnel;
gold assays from the surface on an
other part of the property are high.,
Two that can be authenticated are
$1723 and $1493 in gold alone.
WORK CRIPPLE GREEK
THROUGHOUT WINTER
Harry Hummel, and Harold Johnson
who name here from Valdez two weeks
ag> to work with him, came down from
the Cripple Creek Monday and report
that everythir.it at the property is in
ship-shape condition for winter, and that
they intend plugging away in the tunnel
ell through the snowy season. A com
fortable cabin has been built and false
sets framed from the tunnel mouth to the
dump as a shelter from snow. In the
f,.ce the persistent stringer of high-grade
galena that has been with them from the
start is holding its own, and the quartz
filling of tue vein is becoming more heav
ily mineralized as depth is attained The
tunnel is now in about 25 feet. The pro
perty is at Nine-mile and the Salmon
j valley wagon ror.d passes through it. |
GOV'T. TRAIL WORK DONE
i
Government trail work in this section
is finished for the ie son, the crew work
ing up Texas creek toward the Chicka
inin having come down Sunday. Part of
t'’e gang came into town, the balance ;
remaining at Nine-mile for a short time 1
to do some bridge repairing. The Chick- i
a nin trail was finished ns iar as the i
glacier, ant will hr of considerable bene j
fit to pro n etors wishii g to look over the |
Chickumn district n \t season. The
Kish creek trail work was suspended
some time ago. trail was built up the
main creek to within one and one-holf
mijes af the l itan. and a branch up
S' jokum creek to the Kish Creek mine.
SUES FOR COMMISSION
The following is taken from th
Vancouver Province: “Suit has i
been entered in the Supreme Court i
by William Bunting against John
Hovlatid and Louis Watkins claim
ing $12,000 commission on the sale
August 14 last of the Unicorp group
of mineral claims for $120,000. The
parties are residents of Hyder, Al
aska.”
What more suggestive of Alaska than
a pair of moccasins? Send them to your
friends. Get them at The Midget Em
porium.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn’t to be
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
Mrs. H. J. Thomey returned Sun
day from a trip Outside.
Hyder Commercial Association
meeting Thursday night.
Hugh Gillis, who spent the sum
mer at Juneau and Chichagof, re
turned on the Prince of Wales.
A. W. Fox has built an attract
ive bungalow on the forest reserve
addition at the foot of Nevada st.
W. G. Strench, territorial immi
gration inspector, was in camp dur
ing the stay of the Prince Rupert.
Frank Soott, who has been visit
ing here for a number of weeks,
left Friday morning for Ketchikan
Pat Daly, managing director of
the Daly Alaska, returned Sunday
from a business trip to Vancouver.
Goodrich Hi-press Shupaks at
The Midget Emporium. Don’t let
them all walk out before you get
yours.
Three lines in the Miner sold all
of the Lang heaters at The Midget
Emporium, forcing a renewal order
by wire.
C. A. Banks, manager of the B.C.
Silver, returned Sunday from Van
couver. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Banks.
J.O.Stenbraten, “Stampede John”
left Friday morning for Ketchikan,
and from there will go to Californi l
and Arizona.
Jock Scott, formerly with the
Lyon meat market, and lately on
the Premier mechanical staff, left
Sunday for Vancouver.
John Salt, an oldtimer of Hazel
ton who was here last winter, is
hack again, having1 come in on the
Prince Rupert Sunday.
Deputy Marshal McDonald, who
took his family to Ketchikan last
week, was sent south from there
with an insane patient.
Ho, Hum! Next Tuesday will be
election day. The interest being
taken here makes it worth four
lines as an item of news.
George Turner, son of G. D. B.
Turner, who is working the Indian
and has the Mobile bonded, return
ed Sunday from Victoria.
Jack McNeill, who put in the
summer working on his Bear river
properties, left Sunday on his an
nua! migration to Seattle.
The steamer Griffoo cleared Sun
day morning for the Tacoma smel
ter with 1200 tons of Premier high
grade ore an! concentrates.
Mrs. W R. Reid and children,
and her mother, M*s. Brown, left
Sunday for Victoria, wh re they
expect to spend the winter.
Miss Moss, who lias spent the
summer visiting her brother, Rev.
Edwin Moss, of Stewart, left Sun
day for her home in England.
K. It. Wi son, M. E., son of W. R.
Wilson, one of the heaviest owners
in the Premier eornpany, left Sun
day for his home in Eerme, B. G.
W. E. Diinkle, mining ensineer
for the Guggenheim interests, left
Sunday for Seattle after examin
ing several properties in this camp.
Chas. F. Caldwell, pioneer mine
operator, who three years ago had
a bond on the New Alaska, now the
Daly Alaska, arrived from the east
Sunday.
Harry Howson, manager of the
Big Missouri, left Sunday for Ru
pert to have an X-ray examination
of the injuries he sustained recent
ly in a fall.
Sorry those Lang heaters we told
you about last week are all gone.
Better luck next time. Another
shipment due this week at The
Midget Emporium.
A. L. Irwin, mill chemist at the
Premier, who went south two weeks
j ago, returned Sunday with his bride
1 who came out from Toronto to
meet him in Vancouver.
Morris Pederson and Aibert John
son went up to the Virginia Mon
day to clear off the overburden
from a spot selected by A.G. Larson
as a tentative tunnel site.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hodgkinson,
who resided here and in Stewart
for about a year and left in the
summer of 1921, returned Friday
morning from Ketchikan.
Frea Coram, wireless operator
on the Prince Rupert, was forced
by an attack of appendicitis to go
to the hospital when the ship reach
ed Vancouver on last week’s trip.
Ed McLaren and A) Elliott, for
mer residents of Hyder, and now
ranching near Skeena Crossing,
B. C., have taken a contract for
getting out cedar poles this winter.
H. L. Batten, who has bgen sup
erintendent of the B. C. Silver, left
Sunday with his wife and baby for
Britannia, B. C., where he has taken
the position of assistant mine man
ager.
An Allis Chalmers Blake crusher
No. 18 has been received by the
Premier and will be installed at the
upper tram terminal. The base
weighs 12 tons and the jaw 5280
pounds.
Alladin lamps at The Midget
Emporium. Turn night into day.
Save their cost in oil conserved.
Take one home. Try it. If you
are not pleased with it return it.
That’s fair enough, isn't it?
The Premier steel frame belt cou
j veyor extension has been placed in
position at the wharf and was first
used in loading the Griffco. Whei
| not in use it is tilted back against
the end of the bunker building.
On the invitation of Rev. F. F.
Reddick, minister of the Methodist
church, serve cs there last Sunday :
night were conducted by Chas. F.
Caldwell, General Overseer of the!
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church ;
in Zion.
i I
The Prince of Wales was delayed
on tin last trip from Ketchikan by
storms in Dixon Entrance, and did
not r Jve until after midnight
Thur ,.<y. She brought nine pas
senge s and took out fourteen Fri
day morning.
Hugh Li McGuire, principal own
er ol ;ae Vancouver and Anaconda I
grou; i m the Salmon basin, and,
partner of Louis Watkins in the
B. C. V'erde group, six miles down !
the canal, left Sunday on a business
trip to New York;
WILL 60 AHEAD
! OH FIRST STREET
IMPROVEMENT
—
| Work was supposed to start Mon
day on the construction of the
planked roadway on First street,
but Gus Erickson and Alex Mc
Phee, who are to set the piles, are
not quite through with their Mala
mute contract. The committee
went around once and secured a
cash guarantee of $675 for a start
from eight, business men who have
no lots on first street. The lot own
ers will pay according to their hold
ings. There are a number of others
yet to be seen who will directly
benefit by this improvement.
C. W. Cheatham, head of the road
department in Alaska, wired T. H.
Evans, road foreman here, to allow
the proposed planking to connect
with the government dock approach.
Several transfers of property on
First street during the week. H.H.
Howard and Walter Blanton bought
100 feet at First and A from Kate
Ryan and Harry Coiner; P. Than
um and Fred Dobzinski of Ketchi
kan bought Jim Mooney’s lot and
intend building a machine shop;
W. R. Reid bought a lot from Jim
Hewitt.
PIONEERS MARK GRAVES
IN HYOER'S CEMETERY
Hyder Igloo No. 20, Pioneers of
Alaska, have marked all the graves
in the Hyder cemetery with sub
stantial white crosses, and also
sent a cross up to Magnus Meising
seth to place at the grave of C. T.
Lindsey, who died August 11,1920,
at Eleven-mile, and was buried
there. Ten interrments have been
made in the cemetery, the follow
ing having been buried there:
Name Date of Death
James Holioron June 5, 1920.
Mrs. Carrie Stoner, Sept. 11, 1920.
William Hamilton, Jan. 14, 1921.
Fred Card,
Ira Evans,
John Anderson,
James Madden,
Ralph Nelson,
July 23, 1921.
Aug. 8, 1921.
Aug. 22, 1921.
Jan. 21, 1922.
Jan. 21, 1922.
Baby Thelma Scott, Jan. 25, 1922.
John Prosser, May 6, 1922.
H. Pattinson, formerly in the
electrical business in Rupert, and
now sales agent for the Bruce Rob
inson electrical firm of Vancouver,
arrived Sunday to install the Deleo
lighting system in Bob Keith’s new
hotel in Hyder, B. C. Mr. Pattin
son was here for a visit in 1919.
E. J. Conway, field engineer for
the Granby company, arrived from
Anyox on the Azurite Saturday
night, and went up to the Daly Al
aska Sunday. Mr. Conway has
just returned from a trip on the
Azurite around the west coast of
Baranoff island, and reports having
encountered extremely rough wea
ther.
A splendid assortment of Christmas
cards in hand-colored work—appropriate
subjects on display at The Midget Em
porium.
OKING OVER *
SALMON VALLEY
FOR RAILROAD
G. A. Carlson, of the contract
ing firm of Siems & Carlson, \\ ho
have been building railroads in the
United States and Canada for the
past quarter of a century, arrived
Sunday morning, and yesterday
made a trip with Chas. F. Cald
well up the Salmon valley as far
as Thirteen-mile, to look into the
feasibility of building a railroad in
this section. Mr. Caldwell and
Mr. Carlson have been friends
since pioneer days of the Slocan
country, and it was thiough Mr.
Caldwell’s influence that the rail
road builder came here. The for
mer, as is w'ell known, has had a
permit for two years or rr.ore for
building a railioad up the Salmon
river, and has steadily worked on
the promotion of the project, with
the confidence that if tonnage to
support a railroad is not actually
in sight, developments to date gsve
almost practical assurance that it
will be forthcoming by the time
the track can be laid.
In conversation with the Miner
Mr. Carlson said that according to
information he had secured, build
ing a rai’road up the Salmon val
ley would be a very simple mat
ter compared wiih most of the
roads in mining territoiy. There
are no difficult engineering prob
lems to solve.
Mr. Carbon intends leaving on
the Prince of Wales for Juneau to
confer with ten itorial c fficials as
to the projects undertaken by his
firm in Alaska. These include the
construction of four miles of wagon
road on Kenai peninsula, five miles
at Eyak lake near Cortova and ten
miles from Juneap to Tees harbor.
All told, the firm of Seims & Carl
son have under way at the present
time contracls for the Federal gov
ernment amounting to one and one
quarter million dollars.
Mr. Caldwell said Monday night
that construction of tl e Salmon
valley railroad in the near future is
close to being a certainty. This
i week's issue of the Miner was made
| up before he and Mr. Carlson re
i turned from their trip up the val
; ley. The next issue will probably
j contain definite information as to
i the project.
Klearflax Ilugs at The Midget Empor
ium. The only rug for your floor in this
ncok-of-the-woods. Absolutely refuse to
wear out. On display every day. Call
and see them.
Don’t go home hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
For sale, eight spring cots and mat
tresses. Enquire Miner office.
One-half interest in a lot on Fremier
| avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for
! one-half the original cost Ask Joe Green
Russian steam baths $1. FI. J. Scott.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Charlton.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker.