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I HYDER ALASKA mtvER
W. R. Hull - - - - Editor
A newspaper whose purpose is to tell
the world about the newest and bus
iest town in the northland, and the
native resources which are responsible
for its existence.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered as second class matter Nov
ember 4, 1919, at the post 'office ’at
Hyder. Alaska, uuder the Act of
March 3, 1879.
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HYDER, ALASKA, Jan. 4 1<(52
WELCOME, THE NEW YE AR .
rlhe year Nineteen Hundred
Twenty-two brings with it a current
of optimism, of renewed faith, such
as the Hyder distiict has never be
fore experienced—optimism based
upon ihe solid foundation of past
achievement, and carrying with it
the unshakable belief that we have
here in this district the greatest
opportunities for attaining physical
and mental comfort ontingent
upon financial independence, that
are to be found anywhere on the
continent.
Those of us who have watched j
the devel pment of the district
from the start do not need to prac
tice the art of self-hypnotism to
! encourage our belief. The facts
are so apparent as to be visible to
the least observant. Comparisons
are said to be odious, but at times
they are ^very gratifying, and -a
comparison of conditions in this
district today with those existing
even a y :r ago, can arouse none
but.a feeang of the greatest satis
faction, Every blow of hammer
on drill, of pick on rock, has paid
dividends a thousand-fold in the
increase of mineral wealth disclos
ed. Mining properties too numer
ous to counter e, Tmt were ineie
prospects a year ago, have been
brought to the transition- point of
becoming mines, and with the res
turn to financial normalcy on the
Outside, a jTe-adjustrnent that is
now rapidly taking i lace, there will
be investment money available for
couverting these attractive pros
pects into mines in fact.
Hyder has never offered- and
does not offer-'now'—inducements
for get-rich-quick operators of any
i description. It takes time and
money( courage, faith, persistency,
and above all. hard work, to make
a successful hard rock camp. But!
'when the gold and silver lodes have
been developed to a point where
capital can take up their further
development as a non-speculative,
legitimate investment, the hard
rock camp repays in the superlative
degree the effort that has been ex
pended upon it, We have no hes‘
itation in predicting that within a
Very few years the wealth of pre*
Cious metals that will flow from
the veins of the hills surrounding
Hyder will stagger the imagination;
So in a steaming tin-cup of melt
ed snow we drink to the year 1922,
the year of increased progress—the
beginning of an dra of unstinted
prosperity for our thrifty little city,
SENSELESS CRITICISM
Can Alaska hope to gain benefi
jcial results front the frequent eina
| nations from the pen of Thomas
Drayton? We do not think so. His
criticisms are not constructive, but
are rather querulous and inconsist
ent, and in a great many instances
untrue. If a man tendered Mr.
| Drayton a large sum of money, as
la gift, would it be consistent to ac
| cept it and then standee and harass
[ the giver? This is the attitude
taken in reg rd to the government
railroad. Mistakes may have been
made by the builders; large sumsj
of money may have been wasted as i
! he charges; other irregularities may
- have occurred; but, the fact re
: mains that it has cost Alaska no
j tiling and is costing Mr, Dayton
] nothing, being in the nature of a
.gift from the government. Despite
his accusations against the builders
of the road, the fact is apparent
that the road has been constructed
in a workmanlike manner, ana the
time made on the recent excursion
demonstrates this.
It is this unwarranted, ceaseless
criticism ot the Drayton-Baiiaine!'
type which has caused capital to
hold back from investing in the
Territory. Criticism of this kind is
not helful, but causes great harm.
—Valdez Miner.
Wouldn’t it be terrible if Hyder
should ever become cursed with a
codfish aristocracy? That is some
thing that is supposed to be foreign
to Alaskan sail, but tl.cn, even the
copper cent may seme time make
its appearance on these hitherto
unharassed shores.
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C. H. SUNDMACHER
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HYDER. ALASKA
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