HYDER ALASKA MINER
W. R. Hull - - - - Editor
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the world about the newest and bus
iest town in the northland, and the
native resources which are responsible
for its existence.
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HYDER, ALASKA, November 14,1919
THE PREMIER DEAL
No deal of recent years has aroused
so much interest among the mining
fraternity as that wher«. by the Guggen
heim and other interests acquired a
forty per cent interest in the Premier
mine. The publicity which this prop
erty had received through the fact of
its having a high grade orebody of un
precedented size and continuity, plac
ing it in a class all by itself, had made
it famous in mining circles from the
Pacific to the Atlantic, and since it was
a prize worthy the attention of any
group of capitalists, no matter how
high their standing in the financial
world, it was a foregone conclusion that
• sooner or later some of the “big ones”
would buy into it.
That the formqt owners still retain a
majority interest is a tribute to their
farsightedness and sound business judg
ment. The forty per cent which they
turned over assures ample capital for
all practical purposes, and the sixty
per cent retained assures the old owners
of an unfailing and rapidly increasing
income.
The residents of this district are es
pecially pleased to see R. W. Wood»-re
tain his position as president of the
company, and are also glad that R. K.
Neill is to be general manager. Their
holding these positions will mean that
the mine will not, as too often happens
n mining history, be run from an east
tern office by someone who knows no
thing of local conditions and sometimes,
sad to relate, seems to care less. It
means that the mine will be developed
to the fullest extent and as rapidly as
possible. Mr. Neill is quoted in Van
couver a^ saying that the deve'opment
program already laid out was to be en
larged, and it is understood that ore
shipments will be made this winter as
contemplated before the deal was eon
sumated. This is of intimate interest
to the citizens of Hyder, as it is well
known that there is no camp so pros
perous as one where dre is moving, and
especially by teams,
It was feared by some that if the
Guggenheims became interested they
would obtain control and shut the mine
down until railroad transportation was
available. Waiting a year or two would
mean nothing to them if they could
thereby effect a saving of a few cents
a ton on freight, but the closing down
of the mine just at this time would be
little less than a calamity to the town
for the ex stence of which the Premier
is piimariy responsible. Fortunately
this fear has proved to be groundless.
Ail is serene—keep on smiling.
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HANDED A LEMON
Over in Stewart they are all fussed
up over the fact that their mail service
has been cut to a twice a month deliv
ery and that the same profiteering pi
rate who had the contract last year and
robbed them on freight rates when the
camp was up against it for grub, is to
get it again. Thev are passing resolu
tions for the delectation of their politi
cians in Ottawa, and hoping for the
best. What they should have done was
refuse to blow through with any coin
for the last Tietsag loan nntil they re
ceived a DMaaars of justice from the
postoifice hit the eastern
political sktffeka ahsw it would hurt the
most—in the gaskets.
Some easMaa government officials of
Alaskan
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both countries are queer propositions.
Drift through into the upper workings
of one of them and \ou will find an
abandoned stope filled with something
like what a dog vomited. Had they
any paystreak left in their formation
at all they might realize 1 hat here in
the northwest it doesn’t take a lifetime
for a thriving community to be mucked
out of the wilderness- They dont assay
the fraction of a trace in common sense
and less in common honesty. Most of
them could sleep comfortably on a
cork-screw.
However, if our good neighbors at
Stewart get hornswoggled out of their
mail they can come over and use our
wireless-whin we get it.
FARMING IN ALASKA
Farming in Alaska is a proven suc
cess acceding to Dr. C. C. Georgeson,
agronomist in charge of ths fivtwexper
imental agricultural stations in the Ter
ritory, who but recently returned from
his annual visit to the station at Ram
part which is in latitude G5:30, the most
northernly of all the stations. Dr.
Georgeson reasons that anything that
will grow and mature there wll do well
at all point’ in the Territory south of
there. All together 150 varieties of
Wheat, barley, rye and oats have been
developed many of them better pnd
more perfect than have ever been de
veloped in the States. In fact, in the
matter of hulltss and beardless barley,
Dr. Georgeson believes that he has de
veloped varieties that excel all previous
efforts resultant from cross breeding.
He not only gets a big yield, but the
Btraw is sufficiently stiff to defy storms
and the grain ripens perfectly within
100 days from the period of seeding
Several varieties of this type of barley
have become staple and will now be
grown in larger plats for the purpose
of seed production which will be dis
tributed in small quantities among the
farmers of Alaska. The elimination of
the barley beard is a triumph for the
fact that beardless barley is much more
valuable as a forage than the bearded
varieties. /
Fully a dozen varieties of spring
wheat have been developed as the re
suit of hybridization at the Rampart
station. The object sought has been to
develop a variety that will ripen and
mature in 100 days, and this object has
been attained in heavy, solid and fully
developed heads that will grow perfect
ly anywhere in Alaska south of the Arc
tic Circle. Dr. Gcorgeson ha3 been six
years developing these several varieties
of wheat by cross breeding but his eff
orts have at last been fully and gener
ously rewarded. The same process used
in developing barley and wheat has
been employed in developing oats, and
another 100 day product has been at
taiued.
Most people would ratner laugn tnan
think. Dont be surprised if this editor
ial column is not always too excruti
atingly educational.
A news dispatch states that Dickens’
old home is under the hammer. That’s
nothing. Lots of perfectly new homes
in Hyder under the hammer.
— There has never been a c-ime com
mitted in Hyder. No policemen or
lawyers in town yet.
Lome Campbell, veteran of the great
wsrtnd likewise veteran prospector of
the Klondike, said in an interview at
Dawson that he is preparing to put in
the winter developing claims which he
holds in the famous Indian river con
glomerates, lying 25 miles south .of
Dawson.
The Dawson News is urging that a
school of instruction in minerology be
instituted at Dawson. It declares that
prospectors waste a great deal of time
and energy and money unless they go
into the hills prepared for the work.
Capt. Olaf Olsen, who has been a suc
cessful mining man and hotel propriet
or in Dawson for 21 years, and who is
one of the leading city property owners
of that city, recently left there for a
tour of the t ot springs of the country
in a battle against rheumatism. He in
tended to visit the Sitka Hot Springs,
those at Harrison, B.C., Soap Lake,
Word from Atlin is that T. M. Daulton
the Ruby creek mining operator, has
experienced his best season in; that
country. He will operate as long as
the weather permits. Some of his crew
however, have already quit and left for
the outside.
There is a big hydro-electric
scheme in connection with mine
development and ore concentration"'
plants up the Salmon river valley
to be worked out in the near future
Fortunately, the potential water
power is practically unlimited, and
available the year ’round.
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WINTER IS COMING
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Get your wood now. Nelson and Foy have plenty on hand
and will trade it to you for currency.
Pressing, Cleaning, Repairing
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MISS LEATHA DAVIS