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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
A COWARDLY ATTACK
A recen t issue of the “North
Mining Service,” features
under a Stewart date line a
two column article in which
an anonymous writer who
hides a pusillanimous person
ality behind the title of “Our
Special Representative, makes
a wholly unjustifiable attack
on Mr. Dale L. Pitt, manager
cf the Premier mine. Accord
i .g to this writer Mr. Pitt
knows little or nothing about
mining and has so mismanaged
Premier operations that not
only have huge quantities of
ore been lost but the mine has
ben brought to a state where
its potentialities for future
production may be considered
almost negligible.
All of which, considered in
the light of the known facts,
is rather surprising. We have
it on the authority of no less
than a half dozen widely
known mining engineers that
the Premier is one of the
most efficiently conducted
and operated mines they have
ever seen. Moreover, the re
sults of Mr. Pitt’s operations
are in themselves a sufficient
refutation of the charges
against his managerial capaci
ties. The very fact that the
mine continues to pay the
sc '<to dividends year after year
despite wide reductions in the
value of its ore resources is an
argument so convincing that it
cannot be discounted by any
amount of knocking by venom
inspired blatherskites such as
the “special representative”
appears to be. His diatribe
against Mr. Pitt will neither
detract from the latter’s repu
tation as a mine manager nor
minimize the splendid record
he has established. In seeking
to belittle and disparage his
intended victim, he has foiled
all prospect of success by ov
ershooting his mark. His cow
ardly screed is so plainly an
outburst of malice and spite
that it will deceive no one in
to believing the misrepresent
ations of fact upon which it is
based. It fairly reeks with that
spirit of rancour and hatred
so often manifested by little
souls toward those who are
bigger and better than them
selves. So plainly is this spirit
displayed that one need not
read more than a few lines to
realize that the article was
not intended as "news”, but
as a despicable personal at
tack and was uttered in the
vain hope that it would result
in some material injury to the
one at whom it was directed.
Once before the same writer
attempted to discredit the
mine and its management by
an openly untruthful story de
claring that the Premier was
“mopping up” and would soon
join the ranks of worked out
mines. As in the present in
stance, the writer hid behind
the veil of anonymity and air
ed his lying prosgnostications
through the same medium, the
Northwest Mining Service bul
letin, a notoriously unreliable
“house organ,” issued by cert
ain Spokane interests who deal
in mining stocks.
Although the article will
do no harm to anyone, the
Herald is of the opinion that
both the anonymous writer
and the organ which dissemi
nates his vicious misrperesent- j
ations under the guise of truth
ful mining news are justly en
titled to receive the condem
nation of all who value truth
and honesty.
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ERRONEOUS REPORT
An article published in the
Alaska Weekly of October
Sth relative to the recent gold
■strike on the Magee properties
in the Marmot section states
that “Every horse available
in the camp is being pressea
into service transporting sack
ed ore from the property to
the dock at Stewart, B. C.”
The statement is attributed to
“a pioneer mining man ot
the camp.”
Whoever this papty may be,
his statement is woefully in
er or. Not only has the strike
created no particular excite
ment but it may also be stai
ed that the Porter Idaho ■ Is
the only property in the Mar
mot section that has shipped
more than a few pounds of
ore during the present season.
Furthermore it is the only
property likely to do so dur
ing the remainder of the sea
son.
Stringers of gold bearing
ore carrying extremely high
values have been known to
exist in the district for years.
Several were located two years
ago on the Salmon River road
about 6 miles north of Hydei
which yielded assays up to
$32,000 per ton. Free milling
gold ore was discovered on
the Hovland Group on Fish
Creek years ago. A number
of similar discoveries have al
so been made at other points.
Tn every case however, such
development work as was
done served only to show that
the veins were too small to
warran exploitation.
The Alaska Weekly’s “pio
neer mining man” should have
known all this, and had he
taken the trouble to determine
the extent of the Magee strike
would have found no occasion
to break into print with his
tale of vast excitement and
mythical pack trains.
Such stuff is bad advertising
for the district, which has al
ready suffered too long from
over charged stories of “high
vrade” discoveries.
The proof of it is found in
the fact that during the week
everal men arrived here from
other sections, drawn by the
misrepresentative tale; which
they had accepted on the
strength of its publication in
the Seattle journal, in whose
reliability they had sincerely
believed.
Just for Fun
The weigh of the transgres
sor is short.
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Naturally, the more truth is
stretched the worse it hurts.
Every village cut-up cherishes
the belief that he is a devil of a
fellow in his own home town.
A man is known by the com
pany he keeps; a company is
known by the men it keeps.
Nine times out of ten the nag
ging wife is married to a lag
ging husband.
Definition: Concentration is a
person’s ability to keep his
eyes on the cards in a strip
poker game.
Noel Traversy says that no
fish ever gets caught as iong
as he keeps his mouth shut.
Questionable places—Bureaus
of Information.
Your conscience was given
you to legulate your own, not
your neighbor’s conduct.
The man who wants little
here below generally has it.
Sound goes around the world,
it is announced, in the fract
ion of a second, but the record
still is held by scandal.
A local lady saw a picture
of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
the other, day.
“Well, the fellow was drunk
who built that silo,” said she.
If a woman thinks she’s
plump, Pete Wilson-says, that’s
a sign all the other women
think she’s a fat gob.
She: “Why* d’d you send me
that alarm clock for a birth
day present?”
He: “Well, you said you liked
rings.”
What we’d like to know ii
where the people who live be
yond their incomes get the
money with which to live be
| yond their incomes.
I’ve tried nuts as a food, but
they don’t agree with me.”
“What kind did you try?”
“Doughnuts.”
Fortune Teller—You will mar
ry a tall, dark man.
Girl—Can’t you be specific?
All four of them are tall and
dark.
Whether th e whiskey is pour
! ed out or down depends on
i whether it is captured by
' county or city officers.
—
! Some of the legs we see make
us sigh for the good old days
when our imagination didn't
have so much time for loafing.
ADVERTISING PAYS
| An Oklahoma girl advertised
; for a husband, and landed him
I in a short time. The ad cost
j $3, the wedding cost her $6,
! a total for advertising and
! the wedding of $9. The hus
| band lived less than a year and
left her a life insurance policy
for $11,000. And yet there are
a lot of fellows sitting around
on soap boxes who say it
doesn’t pay to advertise.
How times have changed!
Lock, stock, and barrel no
longer refer to a gun.
What’s become of the old
fashioned preacher who be
lieved that a sermon to be big
| had to be long?
i '
He:Let’s kiss and make up.
She. Well, do you expect me
to do all the work?
He: What do you mean,
She: I’m already made-up.
A Ketchikan lady advertises
for her cat which disappeareu
during fall-cleaning. We art
inclined to think that it didn’t
take a firm enough stance at
the approach of the vacuum
cleaner.
The woman who used to blush
i if seen wearing an evening hat
i before 3 p. m. has a daughter
who goes to business in less
| than her mother thought nec
essary for going to bed.
It is noticieable that we have
a few citizens whjb seem to
think that they can become
howling successes merely by
howling.
The Blueberry' Kid says
“man’s eyes are like birds in
a tree, and flit from limb to
limb.”
An innocent old lady, is one
who thinks.it is gallantry that
makes the men stand back
and let the girls get on the
street cars first.
A CONVERTED AXIOM
Love One- and Another.
“Do any of you boys use
naughty words?”
“Well, HI tell you, lady, I’m
not so good at it, but Frankie’s
got it down pretty well . He’ll
be back in a minute.”
Man is somewhat like the
sausage—
'Very smooth upon the skin;
But you can’t tell just exactly
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Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
How much hog there is within.
What has become of the old
fashioned butcher who gave
the children a big frankfurter
every Saturday night when
they paid the butcher bill?
Doctor Brown sent a bill for
ten dollars to the terrible tem
pered Mr. Bangs. Th bill read,
“To services—$10.00.”
Bangs lost his temper. He rush
ed to the doctor’s office.
“Youre a robber!” he shout
ed. “Think of it, five dollars
a visit! It isn’t worth it.”
Doc Brown rewrote the bill
To—getting out of bed at
2:00 a. m., answering phone;
distux'bing wife; dressing; go
ing to garage; cranking ’tin
Lizzie’; two mile drive in
cold, saving baby’s life; re
turn to garage; waking wife;
undressing; getting lack into
bed—$10.00.”
The bill was proi'jj.iJy paid *
with apologies.
Johji Hovland
Assay Office
H y d e r, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
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