f.i; Uivcr District is
• ?' ■ cluualy Rich in Minerals
• *ili Hyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
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VOL. 2. NO. 23.
HYDKR. Alaska, May 18. 1921
FIVE DOLLAKS A YEAH
Electric i ight and Phone
Planned for This Camp
T.tfuis Johnson, who installed the
firt electric lights and telephones
in Valdez, and was superintendent
for the company foF a number of
years, is planning to provide Hy
der with these necessities and in
this he has the indorsement of the
Hyder Townsite and Improvement
Co., who have the power of grant
ing franchises on the townsite. Mr.
Johnson has been busy this week
rounding up the business houses
and residents of of the three sec
tions of the town, ascertaining
their requirements in order that he
may report to his principals on the
Outside as to the volumn of busi
ness which may be expected at
start. If the outlook is promising
capital will be forthcoming: and the
installation should be completed
by November
Mr. Johnson has been here for
several weeks and has examined
all the available streams from
which power might be developed
and has decided on the creek from
which the Lawrence & Workman
sawmill now'derives its power as
being thfe mo9t feasible. By secur
ing a head of 4^0 feet at least f>00
horsepower can be developed at
the lowest stage of water, which is
in the winter.
Cowhides for rawhiding, at Carolyn's
Butcher Shop, Stewart.
Big reduction in all kinds of hardware
klso staple groceries. Jack Nelson,
(let Union-made Silver Springs Beer
at Tooth's.
CAPS EXPLODE AND
INJURE TWO MEN
WORKING ON JAM
Last Monday evening as he was
preparing to put the last shot ef
dynamite for the day into the log:
jam op the Salmon which he was
helping to clear away, Bill McGrew
left a box of caps open on a stamp
while he was fixing a "primer” and
a spark from a near-by fire fell into
the box and exploded the caps,
painfully wounding him and also
Alex McPhee who was working
eight or ten feet away. McGrew
was taken down the rives in« boat
and landed near the foot .of Nevada
street where Fred Dorey njet him
with his auto and rushed him to
the Stewart hospital in record time.
One of his arms is badly lacerated
and his side sh >t full of copper
fragments. It is not believed the
hurts will prove serious, though he
will be confined to the hospital for
some time before Dr. Davis can
remove all of the copper.
Alex McPhee was stooping over
when the explosion pccurred and
received a number of copper pieces
in his arms, as well us several in
his feet, the pieces fiyit-g with such
velocity that they penem ted his
heavy s i >38 an 1 t irough the flesh
to the bone, tie g treated
by Dr. Chace who is here from
Ketchikan on a visit.
Residence for rent. Enquire
Hyder Alaska Miner.
KODAKS
Enlargements *• Post • Cards • Films
Developing and Printing
HYDER DRUG CO;
Oren F. Hill, Prop.
Hyder, Alaska.
VOUR EASTMAN KODAK AGENTS
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Meet me at the Mecca.
Send this paper to your friend.
Ketchikan Chronicle at the Mecca.
Tommy Carpenter has gone to Rupert.
Joe Shipley. Premier blrcksmith, has
(lone to Rupert.
Mrs Wm. Newell of Stewu t was visit
ing in llyder Monday.
If it isn't to be found elsewhere, try
The Midget Emporium.
The Taku was in from Ketchikan Sun
day with ten passengers.
Fred Kincaid, formerly a machinist at
the Premier.'has gone Outside,
'j'0m Hanson, foreman for a year or so
at Nine-mile, has gone Outside.
Buildings last twice as long when they
are painted, and they look better.
The Wake was in Sunday with a num
ber of passengers from Alice Arm
L.Jessen. the diamond drill man, has
returned from a visit to Vancouver,
Wm. Lawley, "llilo Hill'’ has returned
from Rupert where he spent the ^vinter.
Andy Anderson, veteran ore sorter at
the Premier, left on the Albert for Rupert
Gus Anderson, One of the late Premier
foremen, has gone to Rupert for a short
tisit. . ' "
Joe Dempsey left on-the Albert with
the intention of taking in the Fort Nor
man district.
Dan Davis has moved his shoe-making
shop back into his old quarters in the
stone hoqse.
Inspector Ackland of the Mounted Po
lice has been in Stqwart this week. He
i.- stationed in Rupert.
I on't foil to visit the new Dry Goods,
Ladies' and Men's Ready to Wear store
at the Jack Nelson place.
.Jas. Mowatt, pioneer building contrac
tor of the camp, has returned after spen
ding the winter in Vancouver.
Jas. Anderson of -Victoria was in dur
ing the stay of the Albert and paid a
visit to the Lucky boy on Fish creek.
Dan McDonald, veteran blacksmith of
the Grand Trunk and C.P.K., who has
been Outside for several months, has re
| turned.
Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Johnson of Rupert
arrived Monday and Mr Johnson, who is
a cook, has taken one of the shifts at the
Baldwin hotel in Stewart.
Magnus Mcisingsethrame down from
the Texas ere k bridge Tuesday. The
Howe truss, 100 feet in length, was then
in place, but ilia tension rods were not
yet in.
S.P. and Jack Fitzgerald have gone to
the Indepencence group up Bear fiver to
start some additional development work.
They expect to be gone from a month to
six weeks.
Engineer Tom Hums left on the Albert
for Rupert, intending to go to Whitehorse
and then to N'enana, where he wiil get
his dogs and mush again into the Mac
kenzie river district
Captain Clary stated befofe the depar
ture of the Taku last Mbftdey that the
ship would go on the ways at Ketchikan
for painting and <vhhld tint return before
Saturday evening at the feariie-it.
Ross Patton returned Sunday After be
ing away all wiftter. He c*me from
Alice Arm where he had the misfdrtdne
to lose all carpenter tm is and clothes in
a Are which destroyed four buildings.
C.A Banks, of tits British North Ameri
can corporation, who own considerable
property in the Salmou basin and also
control the B.<Silver, was in camp dur
ing the stay of tin Albeit. lie Stated
that there would he some work dohe this
summer on the latter property, olit just ;
bow extensive this wotild ue He is Viol yet 1
in a position to
G. A Young, road superintendent on the
B.C. side fur the district of which Stew
art is u part, came over from Anyox Sun
day and is laying out the summer's pro
gram of road and bridge work for the lo
cality.
Sam Guyot of Juneau, represeotuu
Fischer Bros, of Seattle, was in camp
during the stay of the Taku.
The Albert brought in about 30 passen
gers and a full cargo of freisht Monday
morning.
Lance Crane and i’aul Meger have
opened the Exchange Grill in Stewart
and are doing a rushing business. They
are well known in both H.vder and Stew
art and are experts in every branch of
the restaurant business.
Max Lipovatz has opened a cigar store
and card room in the building built by
himself and Nick Helyin on his Interna
tional avenue lot. He intends cutting an
archway through into the rooms now
occupied by Commissioner Iteed and
putting in pool tables.
Miss Esther Traversy, sister of Noel
and Charlie Traversy, surprised the boys
by paying them a visit while the Albert
was in port. M iss Traversy is a stenog
rapher with the Copper lliver railroad
at Cordova and is on her way to Portland
to take in the rose show.
DALBY MORKILL RETURNS
Dalby B. Morkill, provincial land
surveyor far the B.C. government,
returned Monday from Vancouver
where he spent the winter, and will
put in the summer in this district
surveying claims of the Salmon
and Bear river basins. This will
be the third season in which he has
■pent his entiae time in this sec
tion, ann having thoroughly inspec
ted moSe claims in the district than
any other one man, he does not
hesitate to predict that there will
be several properties opened up
that will rival the Premier. Mr.
Morkill looks for a busy develop
ment season on the so-called small
er properties, especially up the
Bear river.
REMOVED DANGEROUS JAM
Last year a log jam which had
formed on a river Oar opposite tbe
forest resorve addition diverted the
current during high water to such
an extent that a portion of the
bank and a couple of houses on the
reserve were washed away. To
prevent a recurrence of this, prop
erty owners of the townsite and re
serve have removed the jam, or at
least fixed it so that the high water
will take it away. This was done
by the use of dynamite and fire
and the employment of plenty of
axes and crosscut saws.
DA.iJE SATURDAY NIGHT
J.V.Hassler, a violinist formerly
with the Pantages theatre of San
Franciscos and G.A.Powers, also of
Frisco, and ah artist on the pjano,
have consented to play for a dance
in Pioneer hall Saturday bight, and
prs.miSe that the danees will run
the entire gamut from the old-fash
ioned country barh quadrilfetothte
jazziest cumber of a modern ball
r./dnV. Their music, cotiph d with
"the perfect cOnditioh of the floor,
should form a combinat.cn that
dev . r es of the Terprichbreau art
may nunily resist.
Strikers Stand Pat But
Figure On Compromise
PAT DALY PLAYS WITH
REPORTERS AND FLUTE
IN NEW YORK CITY
Down in Little Old New York Pat
Daly is having the swiftest time of
a none too monotonous career He
went there in connection with his
suit for $1,960,000 against R. K.
Neill and associates, but the musty^
tomes of law offices and the bone
dry business af conferring with the
legal fraternity neld not the sup
reme attraction f r Pat, as witness
the following, whioh is part of an
Associated Press dispatch, , .sent<
from the Metropolis,
When not busy conferring with
Judge Robertson, Mr. Daly has been
very bu3y seeing New York. This,
he told an interviewer recently, is
his first trip east of’l he Rockies in
36 years—since he started pros
pecting in the Canadian northwest
and he is much impressed with
New York and New Yorkers. Many
PAT DALY
New Yorkers have also been much
impressed with Mr. Daly, for he
is credited with having succeeded
in demonstrating several things
which were hitherto unknown to
them.
One of these, according to the lo
cal newspapers, is that jazz music
really originated in Ireland. An
other is that a visitor can j o about
viewing New York’s sky-scrapers
without experiencing a 6ore neck.
Daly visited a cabaret the other
evening and carried with him a tin
flute which he loves "because it has
been good company in lonely spots.”
He played this flute at the cabaret
and the orchestra had to stop. The
instrument cost him tfen cents in
Nome. Later he played it for New
York newspaper men who went to
inteiview him. He vowed that jazz
music originated in Ireland and
demonstrated it by playing an Irish
air. "I proved to them at the cab
aret," he said, according to the in
terviewers.
One newspaper man reports that
Daly told him in all seriousness
that whcri he first arrived he hired
a cart and lying in the bottom of it-,
was driven through the sky-scraper
districts. “A man oouldn’t be ex
ited to iet dp and stretch his
At the time of going to p»£ss
there is practically nj change in
the strike situation. The men
have established a mess house in
Stewart and are living there with
the exception of seme who have
rented houses in the two towns
The Albert took upwards of fifty
away, some of whom had worked
for upwards of a year, o» more, and
were figuring nn going out even if
the trouble had not occurred. The
strike is marked by absolute order
liness, there having been no dis
turbance of any kind.
A movement is on foot trend it*
toward a compromise and it is un
derstood that the first overtures
are to come 5rom the men, placing
the mine management in a positjoir
to either accept or refuse the olive
branch. General Manager 'Pin
met the general strike committee
and outlined his position more
fully than he had done at the mine
following which a meeting of the
strikers was held in Stewart and
a decision made, by vote, to stand
pat. After the meeting, however,
the committee, consisting 01 ivl y,
McManus, P. McBride, A. McDon
ald and H". Thomey, authorised
the posting of notices calling an
other meeting at whioh a secret
ballot is to be taken on the ques
tion of proposing a compromise.
MOVIES SUNDAY NIGHT
E. E. Coffyn has completed ar'
rangements for the opening of the
Hyder moving picture show and
the first prodnctions will be given
Sunday night, the leading feature
being Cecil B. deMill’s ‘‘Male and
Female,” an enthralling drama foun
ded on J.M. Barrie’s famous play
"The Admirable Crichton." Ar
rangemements have been made
with all taxi drivers for half-fare
rates for all Stewart residents who
desire to attend, and the balcony
of the Pioneer hall, where the pic
tures will be shown untii a theatre
building is erected, is especially re
rerved for families. The pictures
are the same as those seen in all
the cities of Alaska, coming from
the Alaska Film Exchange. The
shows will be open to everyone and
the admittance price will be very
moderate.
neck all over New York," he ex*
plained.
Another reporter secured Daly's
views on Prohibition, The Nelson
miner had made a friend In the
lobby of the Pennsylvania hotel
where he is staying, and the friend
being in a rather helpless condition
on account of prohibition went te
sleep tnat night in tht centre of the
only bed. So Daly got a couple of
blankets and went to sleep on the
floor ih true prospector fashion.
“Prohibition, he phitosophiztd to
the rep jr ter, “is much better as
have it in British Coltithbra. & Vnah
cant b.iy more than ft Mteta day
there,”