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VOL. 3. NO. 42.
HYDEB, Alaska, Sep. 27. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
DULY HUM CO,
HOW HI STflONG
FINANCIAL SHAPE
That Wier Bros., & Co. of
New York City have guaranteed
ta finance the Daly Alaska prop
erty to the fullest extent, assuring
continuous development and com
plete equipment for the making of
a productive mine is the word
brought back by Pat Daly, man
aging director of the Daly Alaska
company, and Director Eddie j
Hambleton, who returned Sunday!
from Vancouver, where they went!
three weeks ago with J. C. Wier1
and R. I. Claus of New York,
who had put in two weeks exam
ining the property. The last two
named have gone on to New
York and stock in the company j
has been withdrawn from the;
market.
Accompanying Messrs. Daly
and Hambleton is Frank Stariha
of Duluth, Minn., who early be
came identified with the Daly Al
aska through his friendship with
Eddie Hambleton, with whom he
became acquainted in Fresno, Cal.
a number of years ago. Mr. Star
iha is widely known in mining cir
cles of the United States, devot
ing his entire time to the mining
bjsiness. He is largely interested
in Butte, Montana, and the iron
mines of northern Michigan, espec
ially, and his entry into this camp
may be considered a good omen,
if the old adage that “success
breeds success" is a true saying.
Mr. Daly left for the mine shortly
after the Prince George arrived,
and Mr. Hambleton and Mr.
Stariha went up Monday afternoon.
The contractors, John Carlson,
Charlie Lund, J. M. Ritchie, John
and Eric Johnson, who las* month
took the job of driving a crosscut
tunnel 100 feet, came down Sat
urday, having driven 1 12 feet in
35 shifts. Though there was no
stipulation in the contract, they
took part payment for their work
in stock in the company, and are
congratulating themselves and each
olh^r that they were able to se
cure it.
VANCOUVER VISITORS
IRE EUTED OVER
FISH CREEK MIRE
Grant Mahood, president and
managing director of the Ameri
can Mining and Milling Company,
owning the Divide and Daly-Sulli
van groups on the B. C. side and
cantrolling the Fish Creek Mining
Company’s property in Alaska,
returned Sunday from a business
trip to Vancouver, accompanied
by a number of stockholders in the
company, among them Dr.Watson,
Dr. McMullen, George Stuart,
H. J. Bush, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Sears, F. M. Christie, G. A. Laid
law, P. F. Fleming, J. G. McDon
ald and Dr. Agnew. The party
left for the Fish creek mine im
mediately after their arrival, going
as far as the creek by auto, and
from the wagon road up the trail
to the mine on horses.
They returned at 4 p. m., with
the exception of Messrs. Christie
and Stuart, and in spite of being
in a pouring rain throughout the
'entire trip, were elated over the
■experience and by the exposures
of high-grade ore that were shown
| them. Mr. Mahood and W. R.
j Tonkin, president of the Eish
j Creek Company and vice presi
i dent of the American Mining and
| Milling, accompanied them over
the property, an J the former receiv
i ed an eye-opener himself by the in
! crease in volumn of ore in the new
i upper tunnel since he went outside. |
; The Prince George awaited the
' leaving on the return trip four
hours and ten minutes behind the
! regular schedule.
Work at Fish creek is being
! pushed in the new tunnel from the
Skookum creek end of the upper
i ore shoot opened along the surface
last summer, and there is now
; three and one-half feet of ore in
the face that assays better than
$200 per ton. A crew is also driv
1 ing on ore in the long Olympia
tunnel at the lower camp, where
I the vein has been picked up across
Green Theatre
Saturday Night
ROBERT WARWICK and
ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN
IN
“The Accidental honeymoon”
AND
Comedy
WILD AND WESTERN
WITH
Pay tincher, earl rodney, neal burns
and EDDIE BARRY
Produced By Christie
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isnt to he
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium,
Saturday, September 23. is the
Jewish New Year,
Old Reliable says the rainy sea
son has "done sot in.”'
Jack Sargent was down Sunday
from the Premier mill.
S. P. Fitagerald went out to
Rupert Sunday on mining business.
Pikes Peak has an elevation ef
14,100 feet, That’s higher than
Mt. Dolly.
George Tolin left Sunday for a
visit with Mrs. Tolin’s sister in Ed
munds Wash.
The Marmion took 300 tons of
Premier silicious ore to the Granby
smeltes last Friday.
Bob Keith, propriator of the
Alaska Cafe, left Sunday for Van
couver on business.
Pete O’Neill came down from the
Daly Alaska Saturday, his first
visit to town in several months.
C. W. Homer, provincial assessor
for British Columbia, arrived on
the Prince Rupert from Victoria.
Harry Zeffert, the Stewart cloth
ing merchant, returned Sunday
from his annual buying trip Outside.
Notice to all dogs. Better let
Bob Jamieson's blind dog alone
i Last ond that jumped him got a
'good licking.
W. B. George has gone to Van
!couves in connection with the
transfer of the George group to the i
Granby Company
The Grifco cleared Saturday
night for the Tacoma smelter with
aboHt 1000 tons of Premier high
grade ore and concentrates.
Mp. and Mrs. S. G. “Pat" Benson
"Pat Junior” and Henry Benson
left Sunday for Vancouver. Pat
expects to return in about a month.
Mrs. Ernest Blue and son, who
arrived here a week ago with Ern
est Blue on his return from the
East, left Sunday for their home in
Seattle.
E. B. Fugier, of Windham, Mont.
! arrived on the Prince of Wales, and
: went out to Rupert Sunday, but
! intends to return. Mr. Fugier is a
company organizer, and has put
some big deals across. He may
| repeat here.
Gus Stanfeld, whe came here
from Nome last spring left Sunday
for San Francisco to meet Magnus
Linderberg, formerly of Nome,
with whom he is associated in a
mine in Nevada which is now lying
idle, and which they figure on re
opening.
the dyke that faults it. and appears
to be bigger and richer than ever.
Another crew is stripping the sur
face from two new showings re
cently encountered at the lower
camp, and which give great prom
ise, though not sufficient work has
yet been done to determine their
j real worth.
Judge James Wickersham left
Wednesday night for his hotane in
Ketohikan after spending ten days
here on legal business and looking
over a number ef mining properties.
W. R. Wilson of Fernie, B, C.,
who, with Messrs. Wood, Tritesand
Neill furnished the original capital
necessary to make a mine out of
the Premier, arrived Sunday and is
now up at the mine.
After being closed down for near
ly three weeks on account of a
shortage of piling, work was resum
ed Saturday on the approach to the
Hyder wharf, and the driving
should be completed in forty days.
While on his properties last week
at the head of the south fork of the
Marmot, R. D. Lundvall slipped
down a small ice field and twisted
his ankle, necessitating his hobbl
ing to town with the aid of two
sticks.
"Tramp miners” who have work
ed all over the district say that the
Titan has all the earmarks of a big
mine. Edward Lawrence Casey
mushed up there Saturday evening
and hack Sunday and confirms the
report.
W. V. Smitheringale, nephew of
Mrs. W. B. George, who spent the
summer in camp, left Sunday to
resume his studies at the B. C. Uni
versity in Vancouver. He pitched
some good ball this summer for the
! Stewart team.
The Carmen arrived Monday
afternoon from Seattle where she
was taken several weeks ago to be
equipped with a Dierel engine sim
ilar to that installed in the Prince
of Wales this spring. Captain Ed.
J. Williams, the former owner, and
Captain W. J. Neill who recently
purchased the ship, came up with
her, and brought a cargo of powder
and oil for the Riverside property.
Bill Murphy was down over Sun
day, leaving Monday afternoon for
the Payroll group, where he will do
his annual assessments. He has
put in the summer principally on
the War Eagle group at Summit
lake and the Yellowstone group, ad
joining the Forty Nine. Both the
War Eagle and the Yellowstone are
showing up well, and on the latter
he has made surface exposures on
five veins, by stripping and trench
ing. Some of the ore is identical
with the high-grades of the Forty
j Nins with the exception that he
has no native silver showing, and
this year he found much more gal
ena than he had anticipated. He
built a comfortable camp on the
property, and tpay possibly do
some underground work there this
winter The Payroll, which is ad
jacent to the Indian mine, has a
fine showing of good ore, and con
! siderab'e work has been done upon
: it in past years. Several offers for
| the property have been made re
cently, out Bill believes that he can
J add materially to its value by do
| ing a little more work
OUTSIDER MI
AT MAPLE BAT
TO BE REOPENED
Vince Lade, James Lade and
Monte Howe have taken a contract
to re-open the Outsider mine at
Maple Bay which has been lying
dormant for a number of years, and
left with three miners Sunday
morning to start the work, the Gran
by Company’s launch Azurite hav
ing come up for them. The con
tract is let by the Granby Company
but the property, according to the
last report of George Clothier, resid
ent engineer for the B. C. govern
ment, is owned by Martin Woldson
and associates of Spokane. What
hind of a deal the Granby Company
has made with them is not known.
The Outsider group consists of
eight claims and is situated about
35 miles down the canal on the B.
C. side. It was formerly owned by
the Brown-Alaska Company, and in
1905 and '6 shipped several thou
sand tons of ore to the Hadley smelt
er that averaged 2.8 per cent copper
and carried a small gold and silver
content. A great amount of work
has been done on the property, a
series of tunnels being run in on
the lead, giving several hundred
feet depth. The lower tunnel, from
which no ore has been stoped, shows
ore for about 500 feet of its length,
and it is said that the contract just
let calls for an upraise from this
tunnel to the one above, a distance
of about 200 feet, to block the ore
out,
lhe vem is frqm eight to siuteen
feet in width, and will average
about 2 per cent copper, though on
the foot and hanging walls the
values are more highly concentrat
ed, and there is about three feet of
the vein which will average about
5 per cent. The gangue matter is
highly silicious, malting the ore an
attractive one for the Granby
smelter, which needs a large amount
of silica to flux the ores from the
Granby mine.
Camp 1 won the horseshoe-pitching
tournament at the Premier, over which
Camps 1 and 4 and the mill crews have
been all worked up for months. General
Manager Dale L. Pitt took a keen inter
est in the sport and spurred the contest
ants on to supreme efforts by dangling
mackinaw coats and boxes of cigars in
front of their eyes as prizes. In the fi
nals D. R. McDougal and E. Mowlds af
Camp 1 defeated J. C. Murray and B. A.
Schofield of Camp 4 in straight sets, by a
score of 21-14 and 21-16 and carried home
the makinaw coats. The champions of
eacu camp, Schofield and MoWlds, are
now smoking good cigars. The shoes
used were not the common ordinary ver
iety. Not hardly. They were furnished
by Johnny Walker &. Co,
P. F. Fleming, who came from Van
couver with the Mahood party to look
over the Fish Creek mine, met numerous
old-time friends here and is staying over
for a visit. Mr. Fleming is somewhat of
an oldtimer himself, having pitched the
first tent on the site of Prince Ruptrt
and assisting in setting the bronze monu
ment No. 1, at Hyder, which marks the
commencement of the boundary line be
tween Alaska and British Columbia.
That was in 1900 or 1901, and Mr. Flem
ing was then purser of the old steamship
i Danube of tils C. P. It. flett.
NEW DISCOVERY
RICH ORE FOUND
ALASKA PREMIER
Bill McGrew, foreman at the
Alaska Premier, brought down
word the middle of the week that
a large body of high-grade ore had
been found on the property some
distance from the tunnels where
development has been carried on
this summer, and the report was
verified Saturday night by Super
intendent Harry Tanner, who said
that the new strike is about 1500
feet from the other workings, this
side of the big slide, and consider
ably nearer to the wagon road
than the original camp. The oie
body at that time had been strip
ped across a distance of 40 ft et,
without exposing either wall, and
consists of silver and iron sulphide
typical of the belt in which the
Alaska Premier and a number f
other leading properties are locatt •
The body is banded with para;. I
shoots of “shipping ore,” ten < f
which are thus far exposed, and
samples from these gave assay re
turns of 4.48 ounces in gold a.>d
26.9 ounces in silver, a gold ai.J
silver content of $1 10.50 per ton.
The vein filling between these high
grade shoots is of lower grade
but an excellent milling product,
assaying about $30 per ton.
A crew of men has been put
to work continuing the surface
stripping and preparations are being
made to put on an extra crew to
work there all winter, a start hav
ing been made on the construction
of winter quarters near the work*
ings. A tunnel driven on this c>e
body will gain a foot in depth for
every foot driven, for a consider
able distance. The find is at ah
elevation of 1000 feet and about
2000 feet from the Salmon vali< y
road.
It cannot be told for a certiantv
whether this is a continuation of
one of the ore zones previously
opened up, but from present indi
cations as to its strike, it is entirely
distinct from the three other known
zones on the property, though the
high gold content is similar to that
found in one of the tunnels driven
this summer.
Experienced Northern woman wants
job cooking. Enquire at Miner office.
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Lot for sale in Hyder, B. O.
Best location. Alexander Gallaghev■.
Ocean View
Russian steam baths $1. H. J. Scott.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Chariton.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
One-half interest in a let on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for
one-half the original cost Ask Joe Greed
Lawrence, the Watchmaker.