HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sandford. Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March u, 1879.
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Tnis newspaper is not connect ed in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm or other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
rormation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Lew Silver and World Trade
( Skilling’s Mining Review)
Hardly a month passes with
out bringing fresh evidence
from foreign countries, partic
ularly from China, India, Mex
ico and Latin America, of the
rapid progress in these coun
tries of the home manufact
ure of many articles former
ly purchased from the United
States. The newspapers and
the authorities in these coun-j
tries constantly point out to'
their people that the low price
of silver in which wages are
paid really confers a bonus on
the home manufacture in the
Orient and in some Latin
American countries because
their American and English
competitors must still produce
goods on a relatively high
price level with high wages,
whereas the low relative price
level of these silver using)
countries is now so far below
what it was two years ago
that it confers a bonus on the
Far Eastern manufacturer of
50 per cent, to 100 per cent,
in some cases.
Thus, due to the unfortunate
experiment of atempting to put
Oriental and some Latin Amer
ican countries on a gold basis;
before at least 80 per cent, of
their domestic business is on
an adequate banking basis in
which gold could be used in
the usual way as a basis of
central bank credit, the gold
has now been forced into their
curtencies, the confidence in!
silver weakened, its use threat
ened, and the price of silver
driven down. As the price of i
silver has declined the purchas
ing power of these countries
from abroad has proportion-1
ately declined. However, as re-,
gaids their purchases from
each other at home, these
people have been but little af
fected for prices of home pro
ducts have not as yet risen in !
China and Latin America and
a small amount of gold buys;
a large amount of silver and
therefore a large amount of ‘
labor. As regards home manu
facture, the tables are largely!
turned in their favor due to j
this great advantage that now
a little gold buys a large !
amount of silver and therefore j
wages, which are paid in sil-;
vet. And the gold is also
steadily advancing in price as
its monetary use increases in
the face of its probable de- !
dine in production. In chang
ing world trade channels this
low price of silver is more im
portant than our high tariff
which, however, angers all nat
ions.
We are probably witnessing
the growth of a natural trade I
alliance between these conn
tries which may in the end
result in a consortium of sil- !
ver-using countries which Rus-!
sia may naturally join. After j
these low cost countries have ;
captured their own markets
through cheap labor, there re
mains the threat to our own
higher priced markets. It is
true that the American import
ers will welcome a chance to
buy all manner of goods very
cheaply from foreign countries,
but this will be at the expense
>f the American producers and
■vage earners. To be fully em
ployed and reasonably pros
perous, America must sell, i
.hits, the western gold basis
countries which have not yet
leveloped a banking system,
hoping thus, by a short cut, to '
prevent the wide fluctuations
>f exchange, have permanent
y injured not only the foreign
rade of the United tSates and ;
England, thus increasing un
-mployment here, but still
.vorse, they have also laid the
jasis for further competition
here from the cheap labor of;
.he Orient. i -
Just for Fun
-o
“He swore he would shoot
himself if I did not accept,
him.”
“What did you do?”
“Saved his life.”
“Well my wife has divorced
me.”
“ And I remember the time
she used to wave her hand to
you every morning when you
left the house.”
“Well, you see, it wasn’t a |
permanent wave.”
- |
Witness: Mr. Blank would j
not take advantage of anyone.
He’s a perfect gent.”
Judge: “I suppose you mean
by ‘gent’ something short of a
gentleman?”
Fiiend: “But you don’t
mean to tell me you bought
that new limousine just to
satisfy a whim of your wife’s?”
The Other: “Ah, you don’t1
know her, old man. She’s got !
a whim of iron.”
Budding Young Poet: “But!
I beg you—I’ve put my whole !
mind into this poem.”
Editor: “And I tell you we’re 1
not buying blank verse.”
Piison Chaplain: “Why are j
you here again Perkins?”
Convict: “Because of my be- j
lief, sir.”
“Your belief? What do you
mean?”
“I believed the policeman
had gone by, sir.”
Wife: “John, is it true that
money talks?”
Husband: “That’s what they!
say, my dear.”
“Well, I wish you’d leave a}
little here during the day. I get j
so lonely.”
“I am a woman of few words,”
announced the haughty mis
tress to the new maid. If I
beckon with my finger, that I
means come.”
“Suits me, mum,” replied the
girl, “I’m a woman of few
words myself. If I shake my
head, that means I ain’t com-I
n.”
INTERESTING NOTES
A legless folding table for |
use in automobiles has been in
rented to be suspended by!
hooks from the robe rail.
For aviation students a Los
Angeles man has developed I
an airplane that can be used i
as a glider by removing its
motor and fuselage.
An automatic camera has
been devised to make photo
glyphs of chimneys at one
minute intervals to register the
amount of smoke they emit.
Unsinkable and fireproof
boats made from steel have
been invented in France thai
can be readily taken apart for
carrying on a trailer behind an
automobile.
A scraper to be hinged to
a running board, under which
it can be pushed when not in
use, has been invented to re
move mud from persons’ shoes
before they enter automobiles.
Tiny electric lamps mount
ed on the backs of seats have
been installed in a Condon
theater to enable patrons to
read the programs when the
house is dark.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder Alaska Miner
July 6, 1921
Whoever makes the weather
certainly handed Hyder a
lemon for the 4th of July cel
ebration and a good one. But
there was a celebration and a i
good one. Bert Kergin and Har- i
ry Fowler brought over in the
Wake about 25 of the liveliest
boys that Anyox could pro
duce, a big contigent came
down from the Premier; the
[smaller properties were de-i
serted; the whole of Stewart
| moved over, and all defied the
weather man to dampen their
ardor. Two rattling good ball
games were played, but the
j home boys became so com-;
; pletely rattled that the Anyox
[ players got away with both of
j them. The score stood 7 to 3
jin the first game and 21-0 in
! the second game. The third i
! event was a shooting contest
j with splattering guns between
Stewart and Hyder, which was
| won by the Stewart team. The
| celebration ended with a dance
j in Pioneer Hall.
; Alex MePhee has covered the
t Hotel Hyder roof with a new
I coat of tar. I
Louis Legge has built a sum
mer residence near the Hyder ■
Transfer Co. barn.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Big- j
ham have moved into their
new home in the forest re
serve near W. L. Balch’s house, j
The Premier company has
replaced the old corduroy on
the International avenue
bridge with four inch planking, j
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Evans
of Topeka, Kansas are visit- j
ing J. A. Hall and family. Mrs.
Evans is Mrs. Hall’s sister.
Mrs. Oren F. Hill came over
on the Carmen from Ketchikan j
to visit her husband, who is |
Postmaster General of Hyder
and proprietor of the Hyder
Drug Store.
Hyder is fortunately situ-:
ated for drinking water. By j
driving about 18 feet any
where in the valley an inex
haustible supply of absolutely
pure, ice-cold water is struck
which cannot be excelled in
any part of the globe.
George Flawn’s bungalow on
Main St. in the Forest Reserve
is practically completed.
H. C. Shough and his crew
are down from the Salmon
River bridge at Texas Creek,
having finished the contract
for grading the approaches,
filling the main pier with rock
and grading about 250 feet of
road from the west end of the !
bridge. It is now possible for
wagons to go for some distance
up the Texas bar.
Historical Dates Next Week
July 5 Admiral Farra
gut Born. 1801 .
6 John Paul Jones
Born. 1747'
7 Hawaii annexed
to U. S. 1898
8 John D. Rocke
efeller Born. 1838
Revolution in
Ecuador. 1925
10 Deutchland Ar
rives 1916
11 Hamilton-Burr
Duel.
1804
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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^Hgber, ^laeka
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CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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