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VOL. 3. NO. 43.
HYDJ5R, Alaska, Oct. 4. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
WASHINGTON TUNNEL
AT INTERESTING STAGE
Of ITS DEVELOPMENT
The best part of the summer
season was destroyed for R. E'
f .undvail so far as developing his
mining claims was concerned,
when he was badly burned by a
fire that destroyed his home and
assay office last July, but never
theless he has managed to have
the crosscut tunnel on the Wash
ington group driven ahead to a lat
eral distance of 115 feet before
suspending operations for the win
ter.
The group consists of seven
claims and is located near the
head of the south fork of the Mar
mot. It is owned by Mr. Lund
vall, Captain Donald of the Grand
1 runk system, and Malcolm J.
Wood-, formerly with the Grand
1 runk, but now in New Jersey.
Die work this season was suspen
ded at an interesting stage of de
velopment, as indications in the
face of the tunnel show that it is
very close to the vein for which it
is being driven, the rock showing
considerable mineralization, espec
ially near the seams. The vein is
exceptionally strong on the sur
face and carries good values, and
tha owners are confident that next
summer it will develop into a pro
ducer.
RUSH 3IG MISSOURI TRAIL
About 30 men are employed at
present in the construction of the
13 4 Missouri trail in an endeavor
to complete :t through to the mine
h fo e snow forces a suspension of
t i • work. The trad is being built
o wagon road grade and will be
W Je enough to permit the use of
d ible-ender sleds this win'er. A
[rack trad has also been made in
to the Tide lake district,
Green
Theatre
Satni~day Night
8 Reels!
E.YLV1A DUNN
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“Old Lady 31”
A Paramount
Magazine and
SELZNIC NEWS
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The Hyder Commercial As
sociation meets Thursday night
of this week. Important com
mittee reports to hear and an
nual election of officers to con
sider. A full attendance is
desired.
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FEDERAL MINING CO.
RELINQUISHES STONER
The Federal Mining and Smelt
ing Company, a ;Guggenheim cor
poration who bonded the Stoner
group this summer, has relinquish
ed the bond after having the 16
claims surveyed, but without doing
any development work. The prop
erty is owned principally by H. B.
Stoner, though Paddy O’Rourke
and J. V. Clegg are interested in
some of the elaims. Mr. Stoner
professes to be highly pleased with
the turn of events, and with two
men has started development.
The group is located on the
American side of the line and lies
between the Alaska Premier and
the international boundary line.
Mr. Stoner has six additional
claims, two adjoining the group on
the west, and four on the north sur
rounded on three sides by the
claims that were bonded. The
ground is said ta carry excellent
surface showings, similar to those
found on the Alaska Premier and
Daly Alaska, both of which are
in the same mineral belt.
SILVER CREST IS RONDED
According to authentic infor
mation the Silver Crest group of
eleven claims near the north end
of the Salmon basin, has been
bonded to Seattle parties. The
property is owned by a Vancou
ver company, of which P. W.
Racey is the head. But little de
velopment has been done upon it
although the surface showings are
said to give exceptional promise.
PORTLAND CANAL MOOSE
Steps fo ti e organization of a
local lo l e of the Loyal Order of
Moose were taken Friday night, a
meeting being he'd in the Alaskan
Hotel which about ten members
of the order attended. . Thirty
members are required to obtain a
charter, and Ernest Blue, who is
in charge of the organization, is
confident that there will be no dif
in securing this number. The
next meeting will be held in the j
Ocean View Hotel next Friday!
night. The lodge will be called
the Portland Canal Lodge and
will be composed of residents of
both sides of the line.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker.
Pur», clear, spring-water ICE!!
Order from Potts or Traversy.
ficulty
Fourth Dividend
Paid by Premier
Word was received Sunday that the Premier Gold Mining Compai y
whose thine, the Premier, 14 miles up the Salmon river valley from
Hyder has caused the whole mining world to sit up and take notice, on j
the 30th of September distributed another dividend of $750,000, making
the total dividends to date $2,400,000.
This is the fourth dividend declared by the Premier, the first being
on December 30, 1921, and the total amount to date is within $100,000
of being one-half of the total capitalisation, the $750,000 amounting to:
15 per cent, or on a ratio of 60 per cent annually.
In view of the fact that the mine has also paid for more than a!
million dollar’s worth of equipment, including a tramway 11 1-2 miles j
long, concentrating mill, ore bunkers, etc., as well as the development
work necessary to an undertaking of such magnitude, is believed to es
tablish a precedent in mining annals.
And the most gratifying feature of the whole situatian is that the
mine is known to have ore reserves capable of supplying this output for
many years to come—- how many is beyond any means of determination
at this stage of development. The values now in sight to say nothing of
those that may be conjectured to exist, are sufficient to stagger the
imagination.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn’t to be
Found elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
P. C. Beaudreau has built a snug
cottage on the forest reserve.
R. J. McDonel! returned Sunday
from a business trip to Rupert.
Mrs. Mildred Harris has purchas
ed the Comer property in Hyder,
B. C.
The Hyder public school is being
held this winter in the new Method
ist church.
Mrs. Wm. Gray left on the Prince
of Wales for a visit with friends in
Ketchikan.
S. P. Fitzgerald returned Sunday
from Rupert where he spent a week
on mining business.
Andy and Dan Lindeborg left
Sunday on their annual winter mi
gration to the south.
Bert Smith, superintendent at
the Premier, returned Sunday from
a vacation trip Outside.
Nels Fogerlie came down the lat
ter part of last week from the Pre
mier for a visit in town,
Mrs. W. R. Reid and two children
arrived Sunday from Queen Char
lotte islands to join Mr. Reid.
Albert Mayer and J. A. Hall have
built a walk on Nevada street from
Premier to the blacksmith shop.
A. W. Fox, former U. S. commis
sioner in Ketchikan, arrived Sunday
and will probably make his home
here.
Andrew G. Larson consulting eng
ineer of the Daly Alaska, returned
Sunday after being Outside for a
month.
F P. Fleming, who has been
visiting friends here for the past
week, left Sunday for his home in
Victoria.
The wanderlust again has Bob
Cameron in its grip, and Sunday he
hopped the boat for the Outside
We will probably hear soon that he
is again hobnobbing with his old
tillicumi Villa in Maxicoi
T. J. Shenton, mine inspector for
northern British Columbia, arrived
on the Prince Rupert and has gone
up to the Premier.
Mrs. Helen Howard of New York
arrived Sunday for a visit with her
son, H. H. Howard, propriator of
the Midget Emporium.
A. B. Trites. who has the Big
Missouri bonded and has spent the
past week on the property, left
Sunday for Vancouver.
Jesse J. Kahn, president of the
Daly Alaska Mining Company and
owner of the Castle Hotel in Van
couver. arrived Sunday.
Andy Anderson is now helping
Dan Davis with his shoe shop work.
Andy is a veteran at the business,
having learned it in the Old Country.
The Marmion cleared Friday
night for Anyox with 300 tons of
Premier silicious ore in her hold
and towing a scowload of 500 tons.
W. R. Wilson of Feruie, B. C.,
one of the heaviest owners in the
Premier, left for his home Sundey,
after spending a week on the prop
erty.
M. A. Durback left Sunday for
his home in Los Angeles after
spending the summer prospecting;
and looking over properties in this 1
district.
Ernes; Blue is transforming the
old building at the head of the
walk le ding from the commission
ers ofiiee to International into a \
law office.
Mrs Elmer Kavanaugh and baby
left on the Prince Rupert for Van
couvei to visit relatives. Mr.
Kavai. nigh is outside foreman at
the Premier.
Mr. md Mrs. B. 0. Erickson left
Sunday for Seattle after spending
the summer on their mining prop
erties up Bear river. Mr. Erickson
has b ' ided the Rufus group, one of1
the first loeations in the district,
but h i < other holdings and expects
to return iu the spring and contin
ue development upon them; 1
E, H. BARTHOLF TAKES
ORE OUT TO SMELTER
E. H. Bartholf and wife have
gone to Seattle for the winter after
spending the summer at the Out
land Silver Bar property near the
head of Salmon glacier, where Mr.
Bartholf had charge of the devel
opment work. He took along 38
sacks of ore from this property and
his Bromide Silver group, located
across the glacier that leads from
Sallmon glacier to the Chickamin
river. The ore m both properties
is similar in appearance, carrying
grey copper and galena in quartz
gangue, and the shipment, which
is made for a trial smelter run,
will assay about $250 per ton.
Red Wilds, who gets hi3 mail
under the alias of A. Wilds, has re
turned from Cumshew Inlet on
Vancouver island where he has
been logging for several months.
Lockie McKinnon, propriator of
the Zynda hotel in Juneau, and
well known to all the old sour
doughs from the north, is paying
the camp a visit.
; Mr. and Mrs. C.A.Banks returned
j Sunday from a trip to Vancouver
j and have gone up to the B. C» Sil
! ver where Mr. Banks is in charge
! of development work.
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The Coastwise Steamship Comp
any’s freighter Anyox cleared Mon
day for the Tacoma smelter with
1000 tons of Premier high-grade
ore and 100 tons of concentrates.
F. C. Winkler, part owndr of the
Daly-Sullivan and other mining
properties of the Salmon basin,
who has been here all summer,
left Sunday for his home in Vic
toria.
W. R. Tooth has straightened up
the walk on the reserved strip on
the B. C. side and made the place
look presentable. If the B. C.
government were as mean as that
of Alaska, he could not have made
this improvement.
Jas. Weeks, an oldtimer of the
north who is now logging on the
west coast of Prince of Wales is
land, came up from Seattle with
Captains Neill and Williams on the
Carmen and left with them for
Ketchikan Thursday night.
Bob Martin, an oldtimer of the
district and still interested in var
ious mining properties here, return
ed Sunday from a business trip
dawn east. He is accompanied by
F. K. Derby of Scranton, Pennsyl
vania. They have gone up to look
over a group of claims in the vicin
itp of Tide lake.
F. M. Christie, office manager in
Vancouver foe the American Min-1
ing and Milling Company, and Geo.
Stuart, one of their salesmen, who
came up with a party of other I
stockholders August 22, left Sunday j
on the Prince Rupert after wearing
out sundry and divers trails in the
district and soaking up more than
their quota ef rainwater and scene
ry. They mushed in to the Divide,
(now called the Betty,) besides1
climbing to all the summits on the
Alaska side at the head of Fish
areek'.
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HIGH VALUES OBTAINED
FROM MUNRO TUNNELS
Owners of the Munro group,
J. E. Munro, Pat McBride and
Alex McDonald, are well pleased
with the result of the development
done this summer on the property
and are planning for more exten
sive work and some shipments next
season. Two leads were opened
up by means of adit tunnels, 25
feet being driven on one and 20
on the other. Both leads stand
practically perpendicular and crop
boldly on the cliffs for some dis
tance above the tunnels. Each
carries from eight to fourteen in
ches of high-grade ore, principally
grey copper and galena, and the
last assay taken gives 1.16 07. in
gold, 625 oz. in silver and 14.5
per cent copper, a total value of
$501 per ton. The group is sit
uated on the west side of Salmon
glacier and about six miles from
its foot, and since the completion
of the Texas creek trail there are
no obstacles in the way of mak
ing shipments.
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J. C. Barber arrived Thursday
fsom Ketehikan and returned Sun
day. With Carl Strong of that
city he has the Riverside group
bonded and development is pro
ceeding under the direction of Jack
Littlspage, M. E. A compressor
has recently been installed and is
. now in operation driving a cross
cut tunnel.
W11EI5E UlE YOU, CARL?
The Governor’s office has been appeal
ed to for assistance in the search for
Carl A. Peterson, a native of Wisconsin,
aged about 44 and believed to be in Al
j aska. His mother is very anxious to
hear from him, and any information in
regard to him should be sent to his sis
ter, Mrs Carrie Boblette. 1180 13th St..
I)es Moines, Iowa.
30 II.P. UNION HOIST AND ENGINE
Two-cylinder Union gas engine, hoist
with extended crank shaft lilted with
10x30 clutch pulley engine i roper and
driver mounted on segment base.
Size of drum body 24 in. x 24 in., flan
ges of drum 6 in. deep making outside of
drum about 36 in., bull gear of drum 4 in.
face, 4 in. diameter.
Also one Ludlow Dun and C >rdow lOx
10 air compressor which has been driven
by the clutch pulley and engine crank
shaft.
Also one 36 in. x 9 in. air tank with
guages, pipeing, safety valves and all
necessary fittings for immediate instal
lation.
Single drum, simple geared and one
way drive.
Equipment in fair condition and ready
for immediate delivery.
The above is at Ketchikan and can be
bought very cheaply by applying to J. R.
Heckman, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Lot for sale in Hyder, B. C.
Best location. Alexander Gallagher,
Ocean View Hotel.
Russian steam baths $1. II. J. Scott.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Charlton.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
One-half interest in a lot on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg aduition, for sale for
one-half the original cost Ask Joe Green