The Salmon River District U
Vlsrvelously Rich In Minerals
**nd Hyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
ehe Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
HYDER ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska • British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 1. NO. 22.
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HYDER, Alaska, Mar.'26. 1920
F lVE DOLLARS A YFAR
Forest Service
Plans New
Home Lots
That the government is keenly
‘alive to the needs of Hyde* and the
district is apparent from the prepar
ations already being made for im
provements here although actual
Work, cannot commence fo» a met
ier 0/ several weeks.
Chae- H Flurry. Superintendent
bf Alaska National Forests, has
spent most of the week here, to^itr -
tr with his assistant, R. A. Zeller
• and told the Miner yesterday that
the iiythoritiesare very much int'r
estei^n ihe growth of this camp,
• and that steps are being taken .or
plotting into town lots another por
tion of the forest reserve i.i order
that there may be no scarcity of
homesites here. Mr. Florry is going
to Washington next month, but be
fore leaving '♦ill have plans for the
new addition completed) and will
notify Mr. Zhl'er when to commence
the work of Purveying
Mr. Florry stated that the gov
- ernment is opposed to forest reserve
iots being heir for specula ive pur
poses, and that if hji.ses are not
built on the lotswiih'/i a reasonable
time the rights of the present hold
ers may be cancelled and the lots
given to those who Will utilize them
for home building pug oat lhe
demand for these iots is .ar in ex
cess of the number available, and
it is certain that the reserve will
become one of the most important"
residential sections of Hyder.
Mr. Fioivy also gave authentic
information as to the road building
program for this year. The Alaska
Forest Service has appropriated
$35,000 for this purpose and the
Territory an additional $15,000.
This is to be spent on the euutruc
tion and improveme t o. roads in
the Hyder district as soon as the
work can be undertaken and there
is a poesibility that additional .'unds
may be secured tor this purpose if
required. Mr. Florry was a visitor
here last summer, exammiog a num
ber of mining properties, and be
lieves that this section has a great
future from a mining standpoint.
As to the bridge across Salmon
river, for whicn every mining and
business man here is boosting, he
said that he is in iavo» of its con
struction, realizing as he does the
importance oi this bridge as a fac
tor in opening up the portion of the
mineral beft lying in Alaska.
T. H. Evans, who is to be foreman
of the road construction work, went
up to the proposed site of the bfidge
Thursday to report on the feasibil
ity of an immediate start being
made upon it.
Eli Watia d, an experienced miner who
arrived recently from L. a l Point, Wash.,
;ias go..e to work at tue Bus i. He says
mat C. (i. Skv.ni..g, who l^st fall bonded
rile Nabob group on Glacier creek, will be
In early in April to begin operations. lid
is bringing machinery.
Opening Up
Properties
On Salmon
Supplies for the esablbh ent of
oamp? a toe commencement of
development wo on .1 i umbel' of
Salmon *i\ t p, aueviiu : are r_e 'g
taken j. A. 'McDonald, tuner
Cobalt rr ': » ir.ni, but buw of
Van <n ! * who t' gt\ Mc
Pv s • >eei4 act . ■ < a; ye .
Boah IV es rs. N ;Guitr and McDoe
ald are now on the iiound. and
Pat K ,3, V.; n bonded r jire o t( e
claims to theuii is also up t..e five.’
assisting with ,h wo. t.
The luima to be developed i.t
clude the Salmon Rietr Sliver grc up
which adjo ns the Big Missouri on
the soUth, tic Montana fraction, ly
ing between the B g M.stiUri aud
Montana groups, Silver Tip bacnou,
b C. Suvtr group, adjoining the
Fu'ly Ni>.‘ on t‘ • ror.h, e d idnito,
wnich Mi. McDonald re totl> pur
ua.e ‘rom Dae. Woodmens. A.l
of these p'opertir t are considered
as being amo;-; u:t best prospec.s
of the St ImoD river belt aud t.i-Tr
devel »,in‘nt will be watched with
interest by mining n eu.
Working
Last Chance
Sam and Jack Fi'z^ald h ve
started development work on their
Silver Basin group "which adjoins
the big Ms-on*; on the west and
consists of h concoli >ation of the
Silver Basin, Last Chanc. and Sun
shine groups. Considerable surface
work has already been done i ; the
property and lour parallel leads ex
pose ■ w ich carry c similar in
character to '.hat found on the piov
en properties of ihe district, a., a the
owners have faith that with addi*
tiooal development the Silver Basin
will become the peer o.. any prcp
erty in the district. They ere back
ing this belief u.i^the expenditure
of their own time «nd money.
ri here is an apparently well founded
rumor that the C. P. R. steamer Princess
Lieatrice will be placed on the run tie
tween Seattle and Hyder.
STEWART • HYDER
STAGE
LEAVES
Stewart
Hyder
12:30 p. m.
3:30 p. m.
11 a. m.
2:30 p. m.
Special trips arranged.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.,.
Bob Taylor has returned from a trip to
Juneau.
Ernie Billing went out on the Takii to
Ketchikan.
JackHeathisdov.i) Toe B'i n ca”3l
tal-'ug cans n kiaun’es.
F :'.y Tir-ck of Va cou.-i; is EYi
K th’s c? ef at ... i A'a ka Grill.
Budd'e Wad, r is back Yc i Kat ■ : .art
where s.ent t'.ia past two month-).
A. A. Humphrey of JuneaU, thu Hi .’a
coffee salesm.-.ih wad i.i camp t. is we—.
Miss bel ' <’» o'r e i . rg 1 w )■ k
returned from a i isiness tr'p to 1 etci l
kan.
Sam Estes has boa:.' it the float liousiS
on Main strtet forme ov neri by Kate
RyAn.
Dick Hell, a wall k w"■ business inn
of Spok ne, is put. . ... a.. a UtH.i g in
Stewa.t.
S. B Gray, an o'dtim r of Pu jet Sou id,
British Columb j and Alaska, is a recent
arrival.
Parry Hogan arrived this week from
Seattle. lie is will known in the inter
ior of AlaSkA.
Bob And -ws, to-' known sonrd ugh
is hea'd saV yer for t : j Hyd fctlmber c
in their new mi I.
Mrs. Backus, Mrs. Marks and Mrs.
Green are going to Var.couve. on the
Grand Tr k boat.
Ed Jone? totoed in A big rafi oi piling
Wednesday, it Was cut by J m ' none
and He b And. rson.
Mf.'i n formerly of he T s’l crew
as gone I ..an ,o hok a'.cr n 3
mining inte eSts t e e.
fe F. Shaw, editor of the Alaska Dis
patch of Seattle, has purchased a busi
ness lot on Premier avenue.
Chas. F. Caldwel of the New Alaska
mine and Sal non river rn'lwa has w;ii
ten tl t he v 11 arrive here April 1.
Bob n.'o .8 .1 is crick on s .’ft at :he
Hotel Hyder after being "cut of busi
ness for s .-total wee^s 1/ ne flu.
Jo'u Bar.ett rf KetcliDa ■, rep-es -
iog me i>a f-r.ne-v 0f geatje, call
ed on Hyder i ii ess men this wi -n
Eeachnit Pendr , ' mer hank r"ch‘'er
in Atlin and wh. also operated in Paw
son. has oi.en.d aa office in S ewert.
Glen Carrington tr Juneau, \ io i3 in
the glass, wr ar a d t a , ry b
ness in the pltf-i city, Was a i s .a.
this wee!..
The I rince cf Wa'r is opcating be
tween Fetch km a i Hyde' in a f ar
day schedule. .he w« . in f .- Jay nig .,
and again Ti.c..'. .,y night'.
kirs. Buliock, who hnS He .• conduct
ing a count ' hot.! near (res cut Lake,
a sd rimer r jo. t irl nd m Pc:. Any.its
is liere and expe; s to put up a rooming
f .use.
Or. C *\ Carder, the we known Sal
mon liiver mining man, will be here
about the first of April and will ok>en a
dental office for sixty days b*f re hitting
the hills.
By combining filer Views taken from a
point on hirst stfDet, H. II. Howard has
produced a panoramic picture of Hyder,
the Salmon and Bear . ver t.li :,s. a |K>r
H«n of Stewart and me general scenery
here, that is a real woik of art.
Piled Area
Is Booming
Impr.vment chs th e flat a^a
of Hy let is pr ceeding at a rapid
r>"ce f _nd.>c.oxis r re springing up
ia every direction an< with .nelum
b. { Jurat on relieved, that section
is on * e v ;ige of a ouLiiag i.„oin
orprecc >enied in the north.
S m Fj.es ’ a I>J the .he •.fling
in, ps a id strain s laid and rar
ing Ct ; plet ; • for be sidew Jh
along the 60uth siuo o First street
for a week or more, and the plants
should be laid within the next few
days. This walk is 900 ieet in
length* and wiil be extended at once
to the t of the sir. et on th bank
<j Sa. .n >u ri ver, a c;6:a. :J o' 1.0C0
feet or more andi..onad. This wJk
opens up a large building area, and
cross ' uiks <-.* connect with it ate
o ing star *»d on set seal streets.
At the foot o. Mam street piling
is now oeing set for the ex elision
of the street tow ird deep water and
this will have the effect of stimu
lating the bunding o. business hous
es in hat oireot.on.
Sam has also torn out the old
walk down the (one be.ween First
and Second which cotmeets Mom
with A st ter, and is replacing it
whn a &.x-f.>.it permanent walk. In
ajiditu to this he has finished a
walk on t..e nouh side of First
from the Hotel riyder to Main.
Bill Tooth’s
“Ice Mine”
Speaking of mines—over hear ox
an ice mine? Neither did the writ
er of this masterpiece, that is until
Bill Tooth .old him the yam. B:ll
runs the Smoke Shop in Stewart
and when Ryder citizens wander
ever into His Majesty’s ccraain
they a!wavs drop in to gc. wi.h
Bii end
Anyw v- remember the t;g iolcles
that hung abov e .he road aoout a
hundred yards this sice of the
Stewart wharf? Wt'i, i . y dkm’t
fall off and kill ary bo.iy s evtty
one thought trey would. Ius.e I,
they wit br. .g x< eeding great j »y
to Bs.’s eusti.il ers next summer,
CcCiuee they tfj now in theSnoke
Shop ice bouse nd wiil fc^ep the
two-per-cent ai o, sody- ater co o
v.nen fly time roi s ’round.
Bill an • another o' Srerar.’s
stalwvr.s too* a ladder, < russc^t
flaw, are and boosieu down to the
roost oi the ice stelaeti't3, suwe„ a
couple of them u rough at tue
grouru, went up the la. dec and
ohoppeo them ioo e a. the top and
had a couple o» tonb o real i.e on
the ground in a jiffy. Then they
bucked the columns up into chunks
and hauled mem home lil a so much
wood. When siiiia ed, the blocks
were 18 inenes across, which gi\es
some idea as to the size a " the
icides. About the ice m,-e? There
isn’t a.y. Just an cx-cac u.r a
story.
Wiiiard
Sells Interest
Mis. L. A. Willard has sold her
one-third interest iu the M.ners’
Home and has gone to join her [■un
bend who has a togging contract at
Totem bay, which wilt be completed
in two months, when both will re
turn to Hyder. Mrs. Wiiiard haa
had a residence built on E street
near Second, anu intends putting
up a uuniber of buildings in that
locality.
Ii »>sii be recalled that nil cmov
ng here a.iu getting setaeu one cf
Mrs. Wi .aid's canards laid six eggs.
Two of these, one laid on the Taku
and one in Hyder, hatched. Now
BUILT A BIG CAQ
McMillan have finished buiidirg a big
cache across the b. idary cne for the
Big V .skitii' , and retii.ned to town early
in the week. T e each ? is 18 fe t syuard
g ring accommoda ions for the s jrage of
a Iurg»i amou .t o. sn es, including a
diamond dr: !' lg outfit which is o he em
ployed c.i i he B g M s3ou 1 as soon as the
surface is clear of snow.
John T. R'.' i oommissic \e , jus
ti e of the ear.? and m.nin:;record
er foe the ;.?v. Hycer recording dis
tr ;t, arrived from Juo au Thursday
nd ' Htrke u • a official duties
April 1. Wh‘i- the mining records
at Ketch ken Lavs n>t all be o
trausec ed, the work is progressing
in a satisfactory manner, and the
hooks t ould be here aL.at as
soon as .hey will be needed.
Land Surveyor
Coining Soon
W ing "r m V ctoria, Dai by B.
Moik ,, the B. C. Lnd surveyor
whose m ps of the Salmon i'. --t
d str v,. in y be seen inn' ariy ; vc j
place of prom nehce l.i both Hyd.r
andSewart, says that he will be :o
t tne firs of Ap: > end open an
onLe Stewart i at wi l be fully
equipped and up to date, with blue
print outfit, draughtsman etc., and
th« he wih be in a position to sup
pi> a 1 kinds Of distncc m .ps.
Commissioner
•Jonn "I*
Has Arrived
Name Wanted
$5.00 Reward
''i2 Up Date Star a, formerJy
ov’i..ed ami u i by Eo .ar Hrr is,
has been boughr By H.H. H w vd
V. » cc ..muethebas ss unc* r
p o hvv liable ra' yet chosen. In ;he
hope th so i eoiie may sii, mit an
a tprciriaie tame a 't- .tJi is o.fer
ed u<ioond;ti r.Jly and a pri.- of
$5.C0 ora sugg islkm. ll.e > t-me
must convey somewhat c an idea
as to the nature of *.be business,
oo,d should i jo be c tractive from
an advertising standpoint. Mr.
Howard re.ervss the ri^ht .a reject
a i names presented i.' none is ap
propriate, bat he earnestly hopes
tha. .he r»Jh. name will be found
by someone. Quick action is nec
essary, and the contes closes Wed
ne&d .y night, March 31.
A NEW AtANKA. UHtti
"SfifCe Bo6 T- th TettMStffrom the
south he has to:, the inside out of the
Alaska Gr.ll and recor.v.r j.cted it with a
view to taking rare of the i..creased pat
ronage the 8. ing re h will bring. The
Heating capacity has been more than
trippled, a horse-shoe counter having
been installed, the whole interior has
been panelled and redecorated, the range
is .-ved to .ae -car c! ...e building and a
handy service bar put in, in fact the whole
scheme of alteration- has been made
with AH eve to convenience and quick
service ' _ ..
W. A. Hodsson, who recently arrived
from Vancouver and whose skid with the"
paint brush is witnessed by numerous
modern signs displayed here, has done
the decorative work, including a transpar
ent illuminated sign.
the fledglings bear the names Taku
Casey and Hyde?,
Clothier’s
Report On
Marmot
Up the Marmot River there are sdv:
iral properties that have been heia-foi
’Ome years and from which small ship
ments of high-grade ore have been
tent out from time to time. This sec
tion is very accessible by way of d
Is nbou?'iWWrfBW®BB&e ./VfSYii J><
beach to the forks of the river and d
further three mllBs to the foot of thd
glacier, which has an elevation of 1373
feet. The hills on either side of thd
river dre very high and break ofT ab
ruptly in straight cliffs. At certain
times of the year, when the snow is
running in the Spring, there would be
some danger from snowslides in
places, but in the summer it is one o{
the most accessible areas in the dis'
trict.
The Montana group consists of nine?
claims owned by Bruggy & Magee;
and is one of the first locations on thd
river. The showing is a quartz vein
up to 2 feet wide contained in a solid
granite formation, which is a spur
thrust up through the surrounding
igneous rocks. The vein, carrying
high silver values in grey-copper with
considerable galena, has been traced
for about 800 feet on the surface. Ifc
has been opened up ill several place?
and several shipments of high-grade
bre made by hand-sorting the ore
taken from these cuts. The vein
strikes north-west and south-east and
dips at a tiat angle or aDout zo degrees
to th@ north-west. There is a cross
cut tunnel about 60 feet long tapping
the vein, and drifts running both
ways, from which some fine ore has
been extracted. At the point wlierd
the crosscut hit the vein a winze was
sunk some 30 feet on the vein. It was
full of water, but I ani informed by
one of the owners that there is a
good showing of ore all the wav down,
The tuhnel is about 1,000 feet abovd
thd l§v£l of tiie valley, and at present
it is rather hard to reach owing td
high water having washed out thd
trail, which followed up a small creek'
Nd difficulty would be found in getting
a traii ul> from the river, and a short
tramway fiould Sasilv be erected td
bring Ore UoVfn and supplies up.
The Horseshoe claim, one of tlid
Montana group, is reached by good
going around over tiie glacier: there
are several croppings of ord, but they
are not opened up sufficiently to per;
mit of any opinion being formed as to
their importance.
A number of claims have beeil
staked in this section this year. The
North fork of the Marmot river run-i
into the main river about two milei
and a half from the beach. There 1J
a Very fair trail from Fraser’s cabifi
at the forks Up lo the North Fork
basin.
The Fraser group has seven claims
in it and is owned by W. Fraser of
Stewart, ft is situated on the east
side of thfe North fork of Marmot,
about three miles up. The rock for
mation on this group appears to he. s
big msii of igneous rock, altered and
pyritized througft'Mrt, With veins of
solid pyrhotit® and small quartz veins
traversing it ill all directions. These
quartz veins carry gold and silver
values, but it would be almost impos
sible to find them, as the whole area,
for a width of probably 1,000 feet, is
heavy oxidized to a red ar.d yellow
color. About the only feasible way to
prospect it would be by diamond
drilling. It is an immense area of
oxidization and worth investigating.
The North Fork Basin claim is situ
ated beyond the Fraser group. It anc|
Fraser group along the glacier, anf^“#
owned by Fraser, Woods & Magee.
The formation here is schistose, as it
is below the Fraser group. A tunnel
has been driven for 200 feet along a
well-defined slip to get under a shaft
that was sunk above it from the sur
face and in which was some high
grade ore. No ore has been fount} 111
tt}e tunnel,
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