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U. S. Deputy and Mineral
SURVEYORS
Juneau, Alaska.
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Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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PORTLAND CANAL NEWS BUILDING
STEWART, B. C.
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Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
at 8 p. m.
Sunday School at 11 a. m.
Everyone Welcome
Rev. C. T. Hatten, Pastor
“More Heat With Less Fuel."
Install a Sinhold Superheater.
Ask those who have them: Hy
der Mercantile Co. Agents.
Cards, invititions, billheads^
statements, letter-heads, envel
opes, business cards, hand-bills
and advertising cards at the
: Herald office.
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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY;
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
The recent decision of the cir
cuit court of appeal?, uphold
ing the Territorial graduated
salmon tax, will be carrier* to
the United States Supreme
Court by the cannerymen, who
claim that the tax is an illegal
one.
By executive order President
Coolidge has withdrawn two
tracts of public lands in the
Cold Bay district to provide
roads and trails in the district
where the drilling for oil is
now in progress. The with
drawal was made at the re
quest of the War Department.
Joe Schulte, Heine Berger
and a man by the name of
Clarke arrived in Seward re
cently from Cordova, on the
gas boat Octurous, en route to
the westward on a trapping
trip. While at Seward the boat
had a narrow escape from de
struction and Schulte received
| severe burns as the result of a
I fire caused by a light too close
to the gasoline tank.
The old cableship Burnside,
which laid many of the cables
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The Alaska Cannery
Investment
yNMHE year 1922 ia the most recent season for which authentic figures are
/l[ available on the investment represented in Alaska’s fisheries industry. Since
that date the figures have been materially augmented.
In 1922 it was conservatively estimated that the investment in plants for salmon
canning was $15,000,000, that the working capital invested in the season’s pack
amounted to $15,000,000 and that $10,000,000 was expended in wages.
There were 369 power boats of over 5 tons, 39 sailing vessels representing over ai
million and a half dollars invested, 3 barges, 2752 row and small sail boats, 674
lighters and scows and 106 pile drivers and pullers actively engaged in fishing,
transporting supplies, constructing traps and docks and otherwise serving tho industry.
The total investment in vessels and fishing apparatus, used exclusively in the
industry is estimated at $10,000,000.
Three hundred sixty four thousand fathoms, or 2,184,000 feet of gill nets and
69,000 fathoms, or 414,000 feet of purse and beach seines were employed in the
season’s operations. The nets would stretch from Seward the full length of the
Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks and 27 miles beyond.
The salmon in Alaska’s waters are valueless without this capital. Tho gold in her
hills, the forests on their slopes, all the gigantic resources of an empire of wealth'
are worthless without the capital which makes them available to man. The oil pool
lying 5000 feet under the ground will build no town till capital arrives. Tho fish
crowding in teeming millions up Alaska’s waterways to the spawning grounds are
valueless, except as a source of local food supply, without the millions of dollars
required to transform them into money.
The interests of Alaskans and Cannerymen are identical. Without tho investment,
the fish are valueless—without the fish the investment becomes a loss.
77i« common probltm u to safeguard both--to insure the future fith
sapply and to encourage capital to remain in a fie/d hazardous at boot.
The Canning Industry of Alaska
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now in use in Alaska, and fa
miliar to all the coast towns of
Alaska, is no more. She was
j recently destroyed at Oakland,
California, for the scrap metal
which might be recovered from
her hull.
The building occupied by the
Governor’s Office in Juneau
escaped destruction by fire by
a scant margin during the af
ternoon of January 5, accord
ling to the Juneau Empire of
'that date, arriving on the last
mail. Prompt work by the city ,
fire department is said to have
averted a disastrous fire. As it
was, 'only slight damage re-]
suited. The fire started in the
basement and crept between
jthe wall and chimney to the
top floor before being discov
ered.
The amount of gold mined in
British Columbia during the j
year 1924 has broken all pre
; vious records, according to a i
(statement published by Minis
| ter of Mines Sloan. He gave
the total as $45,116,285. This
is an increase over last year of
; $3,811,965.
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A recent press dispatch re
ports that the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan Mining Company will
commence shortly an exten
sive program of development
on the Treadwell Yukon comp
silver mine in the Mayo dist
rict, which shipped 3, 374 tons
of ore last year. According to
the report it is planned to raise
the necessary funds by increas
ing the company’s capital
stock by the issuance of an ad
ditional two million shares of
preferred stock. The proceeds
will be devoted to developing
the company’s property at Kel
log, Idaho, as well as the Mayo
mine.
Bell Island Hot Springs, lo
cated near Ketchikan, was sold
to Agnes Herring at an auc
tion sale held during the first
i days of the present month.
The price paid is said to have
been $24,000.
Jack Hosfeld, better known as
“Missouri John” who was one
of the pioneers of Valdez and
the Copper River country, ar
rived in Seattle recently and
stated he is on the track of
an old channel in the Yale dis
trict of British Columbia, and
proposes to do some develop
ment work there.
Word comes from Seldovia
that four members of the crew
of the gas boat Kanaka Boy,
were brought there recently
for medical treatment having
been gassed by the boat’s en
gine. The weather was ex
tremely cold and the boat was
shut up tight for protection,
causing the men to lose con
sciousness. They were treated
by Dr. Burgin and have all
practically recovered.
Lockie McKinnon has an
nounced that he will give up
his lease on the Zynda Hotel
at Juneau on Februaryl, when
the owner, S. Zynda will take
over the management. Mr. Me
Kinnon has been in charge of
the hotel for the last seven
years.
According to a notice pub
lished in the Anchorage Daily
Times, that publication was
sold recently at public auction,
at the instigation of the Trus
tee in Bankruptcy. The sale is
in connection with the bank
ruptcy proceedings against
Charles E. Herron, president
of the Alaska Publishing Com
pany.
Advices from Fairbanks state
that late returns have eliminat
ed Dan Callahan from the race
for the Territorial Legislature
Ross now being in the lead by
21 votes for the fourth place
on the ticket. Pratt was elected
to the Senate, and other mem
bers of the lower house are
Watson, Moody and Sheldon.
Mrs. Martha K. Noon, widow
of the late John Noon of
Wodstock and W. M. Faulkner .
of Corvallis, Washington, were
united ip mariage on Decem
berl, at Vancouver, Washing-j
ton.
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The Woman’s Club of Anch
orage, backed by the Par
ent-Teacher Association, has (
launched a plan for securing1 a
new school building for that
nty. They propose to sell the
present building to the govern
ment for the purpose of pro
viding quarters for all the gov
ernment activities, suc^i as
courtroom, jail, land office,
and local bureaus, and from
the funds so received con
struct a new and modern
school building.
M. J. Bugge and J. R. Heck
man of Ketchikan, recentfcr
made a visit to the Saltchuck
mine, the only palladium pro
ducing mine in the country. M \
Bugge was very enthused over
the promising conditions ha
found there. “The mill is run
ning 24 hours day without a
hitch, with a capacity of ap
proximately 150 tons a da/.’'
he said. They have a large
amount of ore already broken
that can be trammed to the
mill and the mine opened up in
such shape that it will furni.h
sufficient ore to keep the mill
rujnning for years. Judging
:rom the underground work
ngs and the surface showing,
there apparently does not
>eem to be any known limit to
.he extent of the ore body.
A Victoria dispatch states
:hat gold has been discovered
it Horsefly Falls, near the
'orks about three hundred
miles north of that city, by
eight prospectors. Those mak
ng the strike include John N.
Edwards, former Alaskan and
Klondike miner. According to
me of the party, the gravel
ran from ten to seventeen dol
lars to the yard in gold.
William Fortlock, a pioneer
resident of Dawson, aged 53
years, died there recently from
Bright’s disease, from which
he had suffered for several
years. He leaves a wife and
son who reside at Mayo.
The Fairview district is said
to be practically virgin ground
untouched by placer prospect
ors, and also contains farther
back in the main range of
mountains, a rich quartz belt.
Packing 150 pounds of sul
phate of arsenic ore on the
backs of reindeer, Frank Joa
quin, well known placer oper
ator of Ganes Creek. Ophir dis
trict, has opened the way for
what may become extensive
arsenic minin'' ">r>-rations on
the lower Kuskovw:m.. The
demand for arsenic has become
pressing in the United States,
due to the presence of the tv F
weevil Mr Joaquin says the
discover * appears to be im
portant due to the purity of
the sulphate, weich according
to an an?l ”’’s made by the
Bureau c M'nes at Was nr
ton, run: ab'Ut 80 per cent
pure arsenic.
Charles T) Garold. dive<**or
of the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Cb*>mb°r r'e Oommeree
and np cl'1''m' ‘1 w"
recently mended at Everett,
Washinortpn, to his private sec
retary. M’‘ss Viola Rundson.
Mr Garfield ccv’e to Al^Va
in the earlv 90’s. He was dep
uty collector of customs at
Nome and l^ter w^et to -T’’n
tau as ppedal deputy cel'ect
under John R. Wills, a posit
ion he resigned to take charge
)f the Alaska Bureau.
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