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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1.
HVDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 , 1934.
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WORK STARTS ON RAIL
WAY CONSTRUCTION
Andrew McCulloch, railway
construction engineer, arrived
fi'om Vancouver last Saturday
to inaugurate work on the Con
solidated Mining and Smelt'ng
Company’s seasonal construct
ion activities on the Canadian
Northeastern Railway. Mr. Mc
Culloch was accompanied by a
number of assistants.
The amount to be expended
this year will’ not exceed $30,
000, it was made known by Mr.
McCulloch, and the work will
extend over an approximate
period of three months. This
is in conformity to the terms of
the charter granted by the
Provincial government of Brit
ish Columbia.
It is understood that activities
will be directed to extending
the present grade along the
upper Bear river valley and tc
surveying for future extensions
toward Bear River Pass.
A construction camp capable
of accomodating from 60 to 70
men has been started at Amer
ican Creek, utilizing exi ting
buildings at that point, and
the engineers left Stewart yes
terday morning to launch their
operations.
It is stated that a 23-mile ex
tension of the present grade
will carry it through the Coast
b n ««n rt 4 a 4-U i v» 4- nrVun
extension will include a tunnel
of undetermined length at the
summit of the pass.
The projected line is expect
ed to ultimately connect with
railroad lines in the Peace Riv
er district and will thus link
up the Hyder and Stewart dist
ricts with the transcontinental
railway system. The charter
provides for the extension of
the line as far as Fort Grahame
on the Finlay River within five
years.
The charter is held by the
Consolidated Mining & Smelt
ing Co., one of Canada’s great
est corporations, with large
local mining interests, includ
ing the Big Missouri mine.
Engineer McCulloch, who
was chief engineer of the Ket
tle Valley railroad from 1925
to last year, is no stranger t'o
this district, having made the
railway survey in 1929 as far
as Meziadin Lake.
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Griffco Takes Large Ore
Shipment From Local Mines
The Coastwise Steamship Co.
steamer Griffco sailed for the
■south this week with close to
a thousand tons of Premier ore
concentrates, in addition to 25
tons of highgrade ore from the
Dunwell and approximately 20
tons olf concentrates from the
Dunwell mill.
Dunwell Working Ben
Ali Gold Vein
Preparations for working
the Ben Ali gold vein are in
progress at the Dunwell mine,
according to reports from
Stewart. Work was started
last week on an air line from
the compressor plant to the
claim and has probably been
concluded at this writing.
The Ben Ali vein is known
to contain good gold values
and is unofficially reported to
average around a half ounce a
ton in that metal alone.
Ore located recently in the
main workings is said to carry
aproximately an ounce of gold
and 200 ounces of silver to the
ton.
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Premier Declares Dividend
The Premier Gold Mining
Company has declared the usu
al three cent dividend for the
third quarter of the present
year, payable October 5 to
shareholders of record on Sep
tember 14.
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Mine Reports At Library
The following government
reports relative to British Col
umbia mines and minircr are
now available at the Hyder
B. Smith, librarian.
Bulletin No. 1: Summary and
Review of the Mineral Industry
of British Columbia,” covering
the six months ending June 80,
1984.
Minister of Mines reports for
1932 and 1933.
Placer Mining in B. C.
Reports No’s 1 and 5, Non
metallic Mineral Investigations
in B. C.
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LOCAL NOTES
Work on the Cantu was de
layed during the week by the
breaking of a drill shank in the
initial drill hole, according to
reports heard on the street.
It was said the broken piece
was in only a few feet and
could be easily dug out if othei
means of retrieving it failed.
H. D. Rochrort of Steward
has a small crew at work on
the Black Hill property north
of Stewart and will send out a
small shipment of high grade
ore from the property.
Dr. Mandy, B. C. government
mining engineer, spent five
days in the Unuk river section
this week, making the trip on
the airplane now stationed at
Stewart. i,
TREASURY TO LIMIT ISSUE
OF SILVER CERTIFICATES
There is no present plan for
the issuance of as much new
currency backed by silver as
the law allows, although certif
icates are being printed
against silver holdings on the
basis of $1.29, it was made
known a few days ago by of
ficials of the national treasury.
The announcement indicates
clearly that the administration
has no present intention of per
mitting the silver purchase pol
icy to become a means of ex
tensive currency expansion.
Officials stated that under the
law they can issue $129 worth
of certificates for each 100
ounces .off silver acquired but
for the present, since silver is
costing 50.01 cents an ounce,
only $50.01 worth of currency
will be issued against each 100
ounces of newly acquired met
al.
Certificates printed from sen
iorage on s„i 1 v e r, which
amounts to slightly over 61 per
cent, will be retained for the
present by the treasury as prof
it, but can be pq£ into circula
tion whenever the treasury de
sires, the officials said.
Says New Teacher Coming
A Juneau newspaper reports
tnat Mrs. Frank Feterson 01
Ketchikan will teach in the lo
cal public school during the
coming term,
Mrs. Holger Johnson, local
representative of the Territor
ial Department of Education,
has not been officially advised
on the subject.
Mrs. Peterson, whose hus
band, a well known Ketchikan
resident, passed away recently
a month after their marriage,
was a teacher in the Ketchikan
schools for several years.
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Mine Employee Break* Leg
Mike Kikusk, a Serbian em
ployee of the Consolidated M.
and S. Co. on the Day group
operations associated with the
projected low level tunnel into
the Big Missouri, suffered a
broken leg early in the week
and was taken to the Prince
Rupert hospital on the Catala
under the care of Mrs. H. D.
Rochfort, R. N.
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Wedding Announced
The wedding of Miss Anne
D. Shively of Stewart and Mr.
R. E. Gladding of Prince Rup
ert has been announced for
Monday evening in the United
Church in Stewart, with Rev.
G. L. Harvey officiating.
Deer and Bird Shooting
Seasons Now Open
Shooting o!f deer, mountain
sheep and mountain goat is
now legal, the season having
opened August 20. Animals
taken must be males with horns
not less than 3 inches above
the skull. Bag limit is 3. The
open season continues until
November 15.
Taking of mountain sheep
and goats will continue until
December 31. The bag limit in
this district is 2 during the
season.
The game bird hunting seas
on starts today, September 1,
and will continue for 10 weeks,
with hunting permitted tml’iy
during week-end days. Satur
days, Sundays, and Mondays,
The season will close Novem
ber 15. The daily bag limit of
ducks, with the exception of
redheads, scaufp and canvas
back is 12. Canvasback limit
has been reduced from 8 to 5.
The 8 to 5 limit also applies to
Wilson’s snipe, jacksnipe and
coots.
Hunting stamps are required
for taking all migratory birds
but so far none of the stamps,
which cost $1, have been re
ceived here.
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Asks Better Light Service
The Stewart Board of Trade
launched last week a campaign
to induce an improvement in
the present inadequate elec
tric service and instructed its
secretary, A. Russworm, to
take the subject up with A. M.
Little, district manager of the
power company,
company.
From what can be learned of
the situation it appears that
the current production capaci
ties of the local plant are taxed
tlmost to the limit by the pow
er demands of mining comp
anies and but little current is
left for town consumption in
Stewart and Hyder. The short
age has been so extreme of late
that the Herald has had con
siderable difficulty in main
taining publication owing to
lack of sufficient power to op
erate its Linotype type-making
machine, which requires con
siderable current for heating
the type metal and operation
of mechanism.
Manager Little visited the
district recently and indicated
that the company was consid
ering an increase of the local
power producing capacity.
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M. M. O’Brien and Dr. Jure
of the Consolidated staff, left
for the south last Saturday.
NEW BUREAU PLANS
TO ASSIST TERRITORY
Apprehesions of further bu
reaucratic inflictions raised in
the minds of many Alaskans
by the recent Washington an
nouncement that this and other
U. S. territories and insular po
sessiom would be placed under
the administrative control otf a
newly created department of
the interior bureau known as
'he Division of Territories and
Island Possessions, may be
somewhat relieved by a de
claration of Major Earl Land
reth, acting chief of the new
department, to the effect that
it is not designed to exercise
jurisdiction over the nation’s
territorial possessions but is
“solely for the purpose of facil
itating development of Alaska,
Hawaii and the insular lands
and of acting as a sort of en
larged * “clearing house’’ ’ for
their benefit.”
The (program formulated by
Major Landreth and presented
to the secretary of the interior
for his approval disavows any
desire on the part of the Divis
ion to exercise “jurisdiction”
within the sphere of its activi
ties, according to a s+atement
issued by the Washington of
fice of Delegate A. J. Dimond.
“Rather,” the latter state
ment continues, “it is designed
to develop cooperative action
between the territorial and in
suiar governments ana tne Di
vision. It is the thought of
Major Landreth that the new
agency can materially assist
Alaska in its relations with all
branches of the federal gov
ernment. While he has never
been north, the Major is con
vinced that the resources of
Alaska are more than suffic
ient to warrant the federal
government in paying even
more attention to the Territory
in the future than' it has in the
past.”
Earlier reports of the new
bureau setup have indicated
that it would function along
lines similar to those of Great
Britains famous Colonial Of
fice, which acts as a sort of of
ficial intermediary between
the colonies and the mother
country.
Major Landreth, whose ap
pointment is said to be tempo
rary, is an officer in the regu
lar army and has been for some
time past secretary of the
Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief
Commission.
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Mrs. Bert Lane and son of
Premier, left for the south
Monday.