The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter j
at the postoffice at Hyder, j
Alaska, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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An Independent Newspaper
The Investigators
Waste of public funds, in
convenience and expense to
legitimate enterprises, and no j
benefits to the public—these
are the net results of most of I
the “investigations” instigated j
by radical members o-f Cong-1
ress, principally for political!
purposes.
A case in point is tne reuerai
Trade Commission’s investigat
ion of public utilities, begun j
early in 1928, and still unfin-[
ished after more than four and
a half years. The testimony
taken at the hearings and par
tial reports of the Commission!
fill more than thirty volumes j
which few will ever see and
fewer still will ever read. The 1
general public has long since
lost interest in the proceeding,
if it ever had any, and nothing
of the slightest benefit to any
body has been accomplished.
In the meantime rates for
electrical and other utility
services have been steadily re
duced, not because of the in
vestigation, but in spite of it.
Greater reductions might have
been possible if these indust
ries had been free from the
harassment and expense caused
by the investigation.
The expense incurred by the
Commission has also been very
great, and must be paid by the
taxpayers.
In view of the insistent de
mand being made on all sides
for economy in government, it
seems that such expensive and
futile investigations, as well as
many other bureaucratic ac
tivities for which there is no
apparent necessity, might well
be eliminated.
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Ads That Scare Us
Clever advertising of antisep
tics and other preparations re
puted to save us from all the
ills that flesh is heir to has done
a lot of harm, according to Dr.
Shaw, professor of philosophy
at the New York University.
While science is relieving the
human mind of many former
bugaboos, modern “fear fact
ories” are manufacturing new
horrors to alarm the gullible
and shorten their lives through
sheer fright. Just as we have
been reassured by the scientif
ic control of yellow fever,
small-pox, malaria and a host
of old-time dangers, along
comes the kill-joy tribe, warn
ing us of the menace of dand
ruff, pyorrhea and halitosis.
Quoting the good doctor:
“Man is tormented by an ar
ray of drug-filled remedies
which are supposed to act as
antiseptics. The bath room be
comes a clinic, and every man
a doctor in spite of himself.
Now, dread in the heart is
worse than dandruff in the
hair, and fear in the soul is
more unsightly than film on
Lhe teeth.”
Just for Fun
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Many college graduates
could go through life without
being suspected of being^ col
lege graduates.
Some of our one-time infant
ndustries appear to be in their
econd childhood.
This startling advertisement
appeared in a town newspap
er: “The ladies of the Plum
St. Church have discarded
clothes of all kinds. Call at 44
Plum St. and inspect them.
It strikes us that the life in
curance companies should rec
ognize banditry as one of the
ieast hazardous occupations.
Anyone who has to pay in
come tax next year ought to be
a fine subject for a success
dory.
A Scotchman who spent $40
for accident insurance com
plains that he hasn’t been in a
single wreck.
If either party can collect
enough campaign funds this
/ear to warrant an investigat
ion it will be lucky.
We notice that the politic
ians are indulging in lots of
talk about prohibition but are
raying nothing about bread
baskets.
Anyway, prohibition has
stamped out the inelegant
phrase “rot-gut whiskey.” Be
cause there is no other kind
any more.
INTERESTING NOTES
A building material that re
-embles marble is being made
at New Orleans from river
"and and mud.
It is said that hees produce
honey from material that other
wise would be of no use, and
thereby add $25,000,000 to
America’s income.
Chilie is said to have more
beautiful women, in proportion
to its population, than any
other country in the world.
Radio receivers in operation
in American homes on the first
of the year were figured at 15,
! 000,000 by the magazine, Rad
j io Retailing.
The United States is todaj
the largest consumer of plati
1 num in the world, importing
annually more than $10,000,
000 worth of the super-prec
ious metal.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
September 27, 1922
H. C. Magee, owner of the
Patricia group on the south
fork of the Marmot, reports
that an average sample taken
across an eight-foot cut on the
Black Canyon lead recently,
assays $169.88
While on his properties at
the head of the south fork of
the Marmot this week, R. E. i
Lundvall slipped down a small
ice field and twisted his ankle
so badly that he had to hobble
to town on a pair of crutches.
After being closed down for
nearly three weeks on account
of a shortage of piling, work
was resumed on the approach
to the Hyder dock and the
driving should be completed in
forty days.
“Tramp miners” who have
worked all over the district
say the Titan has all the ear
marks of a big mine. Edward
Lawrence Casey mushed up
there Saturday and confirms
the reports.
Work at Fish Creek is being
pushed in the new tunnel from j
the Skookum creek end of the ,
upper ore shoot, opened along !
the surface last summer, and i
there is now three and one-half j
! feet of ore in the face that as
says better than $200 per ton,
according to Grant Mahood,
J president and managing direct
or of the American Mining and
Milling Company. A crew is
also driving on ore in the long
Olympia tunnel at the lower
camp, where the vein appears
bigger and richer than ever.
Wier Brothers and Company
of New York City have guar
anteed to finance the Da]y
Alaska property, according to
word brought back this week
by Pat Daly and Eddie Hum
bleton, managing directors >f
11he company. Contractors J.
M. Ritchie, John Carlson, C.
Lund and John and Eric John
son, who last month took the
job of driving a crosscut tun
nel 100 feet on the property,
came down Saturday, having
driven 112 feet in 35 shifts.
Camp 1 won the horseshoe
pitching contest at the Premier
over which camps 1 and 4 and
the mill crew have been all
worked up for months. Gene
ral manager D. L. Pitt took a
keen interest in the sport and
spurred the contestants on to
| supreme efforts by dangling
! mackinaw coats and boxes of
cigars in front of their eyes as
prizes.
Bill McGrew, foreman at the
Alaska Premier, brought down
word this week that a large
body of high-grade ore has
been found on the property
some distance away from the
tunnels. The ore body has
been stripped across a distance
of 40 feet without exposing
either wall and consists of sil
ver and iron sulphide typical of
the belt in which the Alaska
Premier is located.
^rm&t
Jy ot a r n public
JTgi»cr, JUnoLn
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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