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VOL. 4
NO. 9.
HYDER, Alaska, Feb. 7. 1923
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Mean Business
On B. C. Silver
The B. C. Silver management
are preparing to develop the prop
erty on a scale commensurate with
the importance of the ore body re
cently disclosed in the long cross
cut tunnel that they have been
many months driving. Fifty thou
sand feet of lumber for the con
struction of additional living quar
ters has arrived; a new compressor
said to be of 500 feet capacity,
has been ordered and will soon be
on the ground; additional equip
ment and supplies to the amount
of at least 30 tons are now on the
way, and more coming as required.
Meanwhile, drifting on the big
vein, which is undoubtedly a con
tinuation of the Premier main ore
body, is in progress, There is no
means of ascertaining for publica
tion the assay value of the ore be
ing extracted, but at least a por
tion of it is extremely high grade,
as a considerable amount of native
silver and argentite is visible. An
assay office has been established
at the mine with J. C. Comrie, for
mer assayer at the Dolly Varden,
and for the past two years instruc
tor in assaying at the B. C. Uni
versity, Vancouver, in charge.
When the fact is considered
that both Stewart and Hyder have
been built largely through the de
velopment and operation of the
Premier mine, the importance to
these towns of the B. C. Silver’s
program may be partially realized;
for beyond the peradventure of a
a >ubt the B. C. Silver is another
Premier in the making. And, for
tunately for the camp, the owners
are real mining men, of the kind
who operate on a large scale and
sp ire no expense necessary lor
a'.complishing results.
Where erosscut the vein is 43
feet in width. The high-grade is
coming from a vertical depth cf
about 360 feet.
The Virginia-Alaska Mines Co.,
organized to take over the Virginia
and Taurus groups of claims, on
the American side of the line near
the international boundary, which
ware held under bond by Andrew
’ G. Larson, has a capitalization of
1.500,000 shares, par value $1 per
. share. J. P. McGoldrick is presi
dent; Andrew G. Larson. E. M., gen
eral manager and secretary-treas
urer. Directors are Judge John
Twohy. W. Clayton Miller, A. Pag®.
Snokane, and Maurice D. Leehey,
juttk
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NEW COMPANY
TO OPERATE
ON FISH CREEK
The Hyder Jumbo Mining Com
pany has been organized in Seat
tle with Chas, E. Herron as presi
dent, to take over the Jumbo group
of seven claims adjacent to the
Titan group, on Fish creek, form
erly owned by Jack Sutherland
and associates, and the Star group
of three cliams at Nine-mile, own
ed by Dan Anderson and partner.
Associated with Mr. Herron are a
number of Seattle, Anchorage and
Juneau business men.
Details of the company’s inten
tions have not been ^received, but
it is known that they propose do
ing a considerable amount of de
velopment work and will install a
compressor.
WILL DEVELQP ORE
FROM SKOOKUM GREEK
;
Work in the upper tunnel of the
Fish Creek mine has been susped
ded and five men laid off. Ship
ping ore from this tunnel has been
hauled up over the hill and then
down to the road. The shoot from
l
which this ore is taken can be tap
ped from the Skookum creek side
of the divide, and at so little cost
compared with the expense of
| the past, that the management has
decided to confine their work to the
Skookum creek side. Besides, the
upper tunnel hue accomplished its
I object, that of sufficiently prospect
ing the big ore shoot that was dis
covered la,-t summer. The No. 2,!
or Skookum creek tunnel, is row
in over 2H0 feet and making raj id
progress sine* the compressor was
installed. An additional depth on
the vein of 150 feet below the No. 1
tunnel will be gained.
DEAL ON MONTANA
H. C. Magee has made a deal in
Vancouver on the Montana group,
south fork of Marmot river, details
of which are not available. Angus j
McLeod, foreman of the Fish Creek
mine, is h>8 partner in the owner
ship pf tire property, which Is one
of the old locations in the Marmot
Mc'.ioR, and Uss near the Patricia.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to be
j Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
How'd you like to be the coal
man?
"Red” McFarland was down this
week from the Prince John.
M. R. Jamieson is expected tw
leave New York Feb. 10 on his re
turn to Hyder.
The Crawford Transfer Co. has
the contract for hauling lumber
and supplies to the B. C. Silver.
W. J. McDonald, a merchant of
Juneau and Douglass, is a visitor
and is figuring an locating here.
Fred Hetu, president of the Hetu>
Mining Contractors Ltd., left on
a business trip to Rupert Thursday.
Billy Frame has put double
wheels on In's ear so that he ean
run out on the snow crust to pass
teams.
C. A. Banks, manager of the B.1
C. Silver, returned Thursday from
Vancouver, accompanied by Mrs,
Banks,
Gus Johnson has purchased from :
Miss Kitty Mack the planked lot;
on First street opposite the Hotel
Hyder.
Mike Wasyleuk has taken overi
the City Messenger Service from
John Pfiffer, who had it leased
from Sam Potts.
R. L. Clothier, superintendent of
the Indian aud Mobile mines, re
turned Thursday from a business
trip to Alice Arm.
R. M. Stewart, president of the|
Stewart Land Company, retumod '
on the Prince George to Victoria!
after spending a week in the dis
trict.
A son was born at 5 a. in. Feb. 8
to Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Bigham, with
Dr. W. D’Arcy Chate and Nurse;
Lillian Miller in attendance. Mo-j
tner and child are reporttd to be|
doing fine.
Gs>. F. Sh :|;jn, secretary-treas-:
urer o£ the Hetu Mining Contrac
■
tors Ltd., was down this week frotnj
the Indian, where he is in charge|
of the work being done by the com- j
pany on a tunnel contract.
L.Je8sen, of Boyle Bros. (Fan-j
ada) Ltd., was in port during the
stay of the Prince George and prc-j
needed to Anyox. He has been atj
Britannia, where his company arej
doing a large amount of diamond
drilling.
The Anyox brought in a quantity
of explosives this week for the
Premier and B. C. Silver, as well j
as 50,000 feet of lumber for the
dock extension, and took out about
1200 tons of Premier high-grade
ore lo the Tacoma smelter,
i
The north wind blew a lot of ice
[ onto the flat* in front of the Miner
office. Anyone can have this who
wants it. Quick aotion is necessary
however, as most of it is on the re
served strip, and District Attorney
Shoup will probably order its re
moval.
Jack McLeod has leased the
building in Stewart formerly occu
pied by the Stewart Trading Com-1
pany, and is fitting up the second !
floor as a rooming house, there be
ing six large rooms and a bath, j
The ground floor will be eon verted
into two business locations.
Godfrey Anderson, who started
for Seattle several weeks ago to
consult specialists concerning his
stomach trouble and was taken off j
the ship at Anyox, proceeded on
his journey on the last trip of the
Prince George. His condition did
not improve while he was in Anyox.
Traversy Brothers have started
the construction of a two-story
building on their lot next to the
Salmon River Store building. The
lower floor will house the Ilyder
Paint Shop, while the upper will be !
fitted up for living quarters and an
office. The building will be 23x40 j
feet in size.
W. S “Duke" Harris, the well
known mining man of Hazelton.
arrived on the Prince George from
Vancouver for a week’s visit. He
is working !he Sunrise silver mine
on Nine-mile mountain near Has
elton, and says the property is
showiii; tip Rue and that he ex
pects to ship a considerable ton
nage of ore next summer.
Joe Green has started the con-'.
structicn of a pole line along Main ;
street and Volunteer Drive, and
will put in nn independent electric 1
system for the Green Theatre and
hi3 other building -. The location
occupied by the Alaska Hotel light
plant, which has been out of com- j
mission for some time, will be
utilized.
GROWING DARKER
A number of slope contractors;
came down from the Premier this
week, oring dissatisfied, they say,
with tii ■ settlement accorded them
for the r work. Among them are
Harry Anderson, W. McCuish, E.
Mowhis, Jack McDonald, Dan
Mathi> son, II. Banwell, J. Elliott,
.1. Murphy, J. Miller and Dick Sul
livan. Very few of the English
speaking race are now employed
at the Premier, the crew beingcom
posed of southern Europeans, al
most exclusively.
Large coal heater, now in Salmon
ftWcr&wt, for solo. Stuck Him.
Cash Deal Made
For Prince John
MARTIN WIRES
WILL DEVELOP
TIDE LAKE GROUP
R. W. Martin has wired from
Binghampton, N. Y., to Dr. C. C.
Carter, his partner in various min
ing enterprizes, that active devel
opment work will begin very soon
on a large scale on the Tide Lake
group, which he consolidated last
year. It will be remembered that
last fall Mr. Martin brought a min
ing engineer, F. K. Derby, from
Scranton, Pa., to make a report on
the property, and that Mr. Derby
expressed himself at that time at
being very favorably impressed by
the opportunities there provided
for the development of a produc
tive mine A number of Hyc’er
business men are interested with
Mr. Martin in the property and
will benefit by its activity.
OB. CARTER WEDS
AND LOCATES HERE
Dr. G. C. Carter arrived on the
Prinee George accompanied by his
bride, and will open dental parkas
here, with all modern electriccl
equipment as soon as the supplies
arrive, which should be on the La
touche. He has purchased A. A.
Frazer's cosy cottage on Interna
tional Avenue.
Dr. Carter, who is a pioneer of
the camp and heavily interested
in mining here as well as in other
sections of Alaska, was married
January 25 in Seattle to Miss
Katherine Gillies of New York City
whom he wooed and won during
his numerous business trips to the
Metropolis. He has been very busy
this week greeting old friends and
receiving theii congratulations on
iiis good fortune, and Mrs. Carter
has already adapted herself to the
customs of this frontier community
as though to the manner born.
CALL FOR BIDS
Plans and specifications will be in Hy
der, Alaska, at our office Feb. 20 for Bid
ders on Painting and Decorating for a
forty room concrete and frame construc
tion hotel to be built at Ilyder, Alaska.
Also for hauling Sand and Gravel to the
Bunkers for Concrete work at the Build
ing. John Si Sutherland & Co.
Cabins to reBt. Blondy Charlton.
Don't go homo hungry. Get a lunch a
the Ocean View.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker,
Under the terms of a new agree
ment made between the owners
of the Prince John and Red Bluff
groups of claims and C. A. Mac
kenzie the former will receive all
cash for the property on or before
the 31st of March. Captain Mac
kenzie bonded the property last
summer, and this winter has made
a deal for them with The Explor
ition Company of New York, as
set forth in the following telegram,
eceived Feb. 3 by Wm. Irwin:
“Your telegram of February 2nd
received, and accepted and agreed
to, this becoming a closed, and
valid and binding contract between
yourselves and my assigns, The
Ecploration Company of New
Yo k, incorporated, namety:
$40,000 will be paid to you on
or before March 31, 1923, for the
P ince John and Red Bluff group?
thereby satisfying in full the bond
on these properties. This definite
ly closes the deal between us.
C. A. Mackenzie and The Ex
ploration Company of New York."
The Prince John group con
sists of nine claims and is owned
by Andy Archie and Jas, Nesbitt.
Wm. Irwin owns a one-third in
terest in the adjoining Red Bluff
group of two claims. They are
situated on the west side of Bear
river, about six miles from Stewart.
Surface work has demonstrated
the occurrance of a series of par
a el veins, soma of great size, and
exceptionally encouraging assays
have been secured from average
samples, $4 3 being considered a
fair ave age for all openings. Last
Septemb r a contract was let to
Wm. Irwin, under which he drove
a crosscut tunnel 330 feet, cutting
64 feet of milling ore without
reaching the dyke that forms the
further wall. On the opposite side
of this dyke there is a large vein
of comparatively high grade ore,
and instructions have been received
from New York to continue the
tunnel until the dyke and this vein
| are also c osscut. Beyond this the
plans of the purchasing company
have not been disclosed, but it is
probable that Captain Mackenzie,
who has spent a long lifetime min
ing, and is one of the most highly
trained technical mining engineers
of the country, having graduated
j in the same class as John Hays
Hammond, will be here early in
the spring to direct an energetic
campaign for ore development and
treatment.
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