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Warm, Comfortable Rooms
Rat*, $1.00 per day.
Full Line of Canadian Cigars and Tobaccos
Ball-room in connection
Catering to large and small parties
William Reid Tooth, Mgr.
TELEPHONE 1 Long Ring
AfAw Mwlptf, who loft here
iant spring or q small stampede to
the supposedly rich placer diggings
of Siberia, and was joined id Seattle
by Archie Myre, also a former
Hydar resident, has mperieneed
personal eitparianoe of the truth of
the old adage that “distance lends
enchantment," according te a letter
from him received in Ketchikan and
published in the Chronicle. A
number of other Hyder residents
were on the point of accompany
ing him, but backed out at the last
moment, and they will be particul
arly interested in the letter, which
is in part as follows:
As today affords me the time, I
thought I would write to let you
know my whereabouts. I arrived
here July 22, after having been on
the road from Seattle since April
15, From the states 1 went to
Japan, to Hakodate where I re
mained for some time until I caught
a fishing boat for Siberia. It was
a Japanese boat and took thirty
days to reach here. They landed us
160 miles from here and Olaf Swen
son, the Seattle trader, picked us
up and brought us to Okhotsh,
We celebrated the Fourth of July
in the ice about forty miles from
shore in tho Okhotsk sea.
As to tbe country, I don’t know
much about it yet, but I understand
they have some gold. However let
ters written from here about a year
or more ago by a man named Hoff
man were full of misinformation.
He is responsible for a bunch of
Americans being here now. He is
fishing himself and living with the
natives, so that he has not been out;
making any of tho easy money that!
He wrote about.
There is poor encouragement for j
I the prcspector to prospect. We have
an agreement with the the so-called i
qfl^ciale whep we go opt prospect*
ipg, and if we strife# p#y we give
then) 1§ pep cept, or ten dollars a
ipopth head tax. We must stake
the property in O Russians name!
and he will give us a leas# on it
for one year, They also demand 10
per cent duty on the outfit which
we brought into the country. So
you see what chance we have.
There are thirty Americans here.
Eighteen came this spring includ
ing Whalen of Ketchikan. Those
who arrived a year ago are up
against it, broke and without
clothes enough. Some of them
have nothing. I presume I will be
the same as soon as my clothes and
grub give out. Oldtimers here think
there will be a change of govern
ment this fall and hope that it will
be better than the present One.
The soviet here is raiher decent
to Americans so long as they don’t
mix in politics. The more I see
of them the better I like Old Glory,,
that little piece of cotton with the
stars and stripes.
The Japs are the limit. They are
looking for every opportunity to 1
throw the hook into the Americans.
They fed us for seventeen days
straight on rice, cooked in sea salt
water.
■I have been greatly disappointed
on the whole trip. There is nothing
here to justify anyone coming un
less he just wants to look over the
country and get out. You can tell
anyone that it will cost him at
least $1,500 to get here and get!
started, and then it is leading to
nothing.
We have an American vice con
sul with us. He joined us at Hak
odate, Japan. I was glad he was
along with us. He got a touch of
frontier life. He is leaving in a
few days for Vladivostock.
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO,
Of HYDER
Incorporate!} under the laws of 4i*afc*
Capital Paid Op ^ Ji 5,000.00
Commercial and Saving* Departments
Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Money Telegraphed to all Parts of tbd
United State?;
HYDER MACHINE SHOP
and
GARAGE
Blacksmithing and All Sorts of
Repair Work
A. J. Mayer.
The NORTHERN POOL HALL
Optimo and Chancellor Cigars
Some - Cigarettes
Sweet Cider, Sodas and Lemonade
SPECIALTIES—
Pool and Out-cards
Travs. Fives and Sevens of Spades
—COURTESY
Blanton &. Johnsqn, Proprietors.
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HYDER PAINT SHOP Painting, Papeahanging
--- Kalsominmg
Traversy Bros.
SIGNS
PakKs. OtU, Stains, Varnishes. Shellac. Wallpaper, Deadening Felt.
Cheese Cloth, Kalsomine.
Head of Main Street
Cigars
Tobaccos
LEAVE FROM NO MILE STOP THEREcSl
Jimmy Campbell’s HIGH-GRADE BARBER SHOP in connection
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