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VOL 1, NO. 21
HYDER, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28,1925
FIFTY CENTS A MONTH
' RIVERSIDE MILL IS
WORKING SMOOTHLY
Arrivals from the upper val
ley report that the new mill at
the Riverside mine is running
along in fine shape, with the
machinery working splendidly
despite the fact that everything
in the plant is new and scarce
broke in to the grind of every
day action and the smoothness
of operation that comes only
with use.
The homely phrase of a re
cent wayfarer aptly expresses
the sentiment of the commun
ity over the successful culmin
ation of the long and difficult
task of bringing the mine to a
profitable stage of develop
ment. “It looks mighty good,"
he said, “to see that mill grind
ing .away up there. It sure
looks like going ahead.”
Assuredly it does; and with
with the Daly Alaska, River
view and other properties fast
approaching the status of pro
ducers it requires no special
gifts of prescience to foresee
the day when the Salmon val
ley will resound to the rumble
of many mills. Two are here
now and the others will not
be long coming.
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SALE OF DUNWELL
BELIEVED CERTAIN
The work of sampling the
Dunwell ore bodies is proceed
ing energetically under the di
rection of H. G. White, assay
er, according to Stewart visit
ors.
The crew is working at pres
ent in the third level, where
the most extensive deposits
were uncovered during the
past year’s operations. The
sampling work is expected to
continue for several weeks be
for completion.
Rumors of an impending sale
of the property are still rife
but appear to be based on noth
ing tangible. Those who claim
to know are a unit in asserting
that the question of whether or
not the property will be sold
has not been decided and will
probably not be settled until
the next meeting of the dirct
ors. They say, however, that it
is practically certain that a
sale wil be decided upon for
various reasons.
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Charles H. Wells, leader oi
the Wrangell Island expedit
ion, which was removed frorr
the island last summer by tht
Soviet ship Red October, is
dead at Vladivostok, the State
Department has been inform
ed, Death is said to have re
— suited from an attack of pneu
monia. Wells was formerly s
resident of Nome.
PRES. COOLIDGE MAY
VISIT ALASKA SOON
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Washington announcements
Isay president Coolidge plans a
trip to the Pacific coast dur
ing the summer and will visit
Alaska if practicable.
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The Pioneei’3 of Alaska have
announced an entertainment
and dance for St. Valentine’s
Eve., Friday, February 13th.
; The plans of the committee
provide for a motion picture
■show, comprising eight reels
of especially imported films,
which will be followed by a
dance. There will be no lunch
eon served and the price of ad
mission to the entire entertain
ment will be the exceedingly
small sum of fifty cents.
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Messrs J. C. Barber and H. C.
Strong,, of Ketchikan, lead
ing figures in the group who
have brought the Riverside
jmina to the state of productiv
ity inaugurated with the com
mencement of milling operat
ions last "week, paid the mine
, a flying visit during the stay of
Lhe Prince of Wales Friday.
Both appeared much pleased
at the successful culmination
of the long period of endeavor
required to place the mine on
the present productive basis.
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; Maz. Behrmann, the popular
proprietor of the Ideal Cafe,
was given a birthday surprise
i party last Monday evening.
Freuds to the number of thirty
five attended and • enjoyed a
merry evening with dancing,
games and a delectable array
of good eats. The party took
| place at the Ideal Cafe and
the fun continued until the
Ismail hours of Tuesday morn
I ing.
Another of the fast vanishing
landmarks of pioneer days pas
jsed from earthly ken recently
when the old cableship Burn
side, which for years was a
familiar sight to the residents
| of most Alaska coast towns,
was destroyed at Oakland,
,Cal. by the Union Construction
Co. to which the historic ves
sel had been sold by the gov
ernment, following the com
missioning of the new Alaska
cableship DeUwood. The old
ship was burned, the purchas
ers desiring only the metal
1 parts.
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| The winning number for the
j handsome - rag rug rug made
by Mrs. T. H. Evans is announ
ced to be number 62 by the
Golden Gale management. The
| lucky holder was Oren. F. Hill.
COLD SPELL HITS THE
ENTIRE TERRITORY
Temperatures ranging as low
as ten degrees minus have
marked the cold snap which
has held the district in its i^y
clutch during the greater part
of the past week. Coupled with
the cold, winds bearing the
chill of the many glaciers
along the upper reaches of the
Bear and Salmon river vallevs
have kept the local coal barons
busy dealing out the black dia
monds at a-to them-most grat
ifying rate and made the lee
side of a hot stove seem about
the most desirable spot in the
uppr Portland Canal district.
The cold spell is apparently
the tail end of a great cold
wave that swept over the en
tire territory. Reports from the
interior since January 22 dis
close temperatures lower than
in many years at various places
in the Yukon valley and along
the lower Alaska coast. 68 be
low was registered in the Tana
na section during the past
week, and Juneau, ajid other
points in that locality have ex
perienced unusually loW tem
peratures.
Through an error in report
ing the name of Miss Mildred
Prout’s fiancee was curtailed
in last week’s issue of the Her
ald to “Samuel McIntyre,”
whereas, the right designat
ion of the prospective groom is
Samuel McIntyre Manning.
The Herald extends its sin
cere apoligies for the inadver
tant erroi\
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Sigurd Wallstedt, of Juneau,
District Deputy Supreme Dic
tator of the Loyal Order of
Moose, who has been in this
section for several weeks in
connection with the work of
the order, left Thursday to in
tsall a chapter of the Moose
heart Legion at Anyox.
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I. R. Snyder and J. R. Frank,
both of whom came over from
Stewart, were passengers to
Ketchikan on the Wales.
Mrs. Bessie Pugh, employed
for some time past at the Ideal
Cafe, left for Seattle Thursday
accompanied by her son.
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Otto Trojanowski, construct
or of the new Riverside mill,
left for the south on the the
Prince Rupert Thursday.
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,
According to Outside papers
flapper fashions decree that
clothes will be higher and
fewer, and ears will be out.
Another year or two and it is
anticipated that feminine ap
parel will approximate that
worn by Mother Eve.
B. C. STRIKE UPSETS
PREVIOUS THEORIES
ON ZONE LOCATION
Nothing of a definite charac
ter can be learned regarding
the strike made on the B. C.
Silver during the course of
diamond drilling operations
some weeks ago.. From such
meager facts as can be ascer
tained it appears that the re
ported strike was made in a
drill hole extending in a north
westerly direction from the
No. 2 tunnel, which extends in
a general easterly and westerly
direction close to the northern
border of the Premier proper
ties. The new ore body is said
to have been encountered at an
elevation of 2000 feet. The ore
zone on the level of contact is
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; approximately 200 feet in
| width and is said to carry high
: values over a considerable por
tion of its width. The format
ion is described as a mineral
ized porphrv of a hard, almost
quart-like character. The find
is said to have upset previous
views of the owners regarding
the northely extension of the
high grade ore zone found on
the Premier. Owing, it is said,
to the discovery of what ap
peared to be the Premier ore
zone in a cross cut close to the
Premier boundary early in
1923, it was the view that the
:■ ne ext > i e.; * derably to
the east w.tr* the recent
d.covery indie,...* Proceed
on this assum, • n the tunnel
known as 'l • 2 was run, but
nothing k .consequence was
encountered. The late discov
: ery indicates that the zone lies
in a direction exactly opposite
to that in which it was origin
| ally expected to run.
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| M. R. Jamieson received a
telegram Thursday conveying
the sad news that his brother,
Dr. Sidney Jamieson, died sud
denly at his home in Sidney,
New South Wales, following a
stroke of paralysis.
The deceased was aged 61
years and is survived by a wid
ow and two childreii, a son and
daughter. Dr Jamieson was a
noted figure in the medical
world and was in the forerank
of his profession in Australia^
During the late war he was
requested by the government
to take charge of a branch of
the medical service and was
stationed on the Island of Lem
nos, where he served during
the Gallipoli campaign. During
the last twenty years Dr. Jam
ieson had worked indefatigue
ably in an effort to find a cure
for cancer.
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CONTEST OF 1ST DIV.
ELECTION LOOMS
Contests for at least a port
ion of the seats from this divis
ion in the Alaska legislature
were foreshadowed at the op
ening of the biennial session of
i the Territorial Canvassing
'board at Juneau, when S. Hel
lenthal, of the law firm of Hel
lenthal & Hellenthal, appear
ed before the board before it
| formally began its work and
i requested on behalf of George
B. Grigsby, of Ketchikan,
former Attorney General and
Delegate to Congress, that the
board leave canvassing of the
votes of thi3 division until last
in order to allow him time to
get to Juneau, according to
the Juneau Empire, which'
proceeds in substance as fol
lows;
i ins request was granted, all
members of the Board, con
senting to the proceedure.
Since the final outcome of
| the election was definitely
I known, in fact before that
jiime, when reports were cur
rent of alleged irregularities
at certain precincts and of
widespread illegal voting, ru
mors have been prevalent
j that some of the seats won, on
jthe face of the returns, by the
Hunt-Paul combination which
.
captured the Republican nom
inations last April, would be
■contested. The fact that Mr.
Grigsby will appear before the
Board and be present during
jthe canvass of the vote of this
Division apparently makes it
certain that contests will be
staged.
How many seats will be con
gested has not been indicated,
j Three members of the House
and Senate receiving votes suf
ficient to elect if all of them
were legally cast were mem
bers of the so-called Hunt
Paul combination. Forest J.
j Hunt of Ketchikan, received
269 more votes than N. R.
Walker, Democrat, also of
Ketchikan. W.. D. Grant, of
Wrangell, on the Hunt-Paul
j ticket was high man in the
| House race receiving 2,384, or
1,040 more than James Me
jClosskey, low man on the
Democratic ticket.
It is vii’tually certain that a
contest will be made against
seating W. L. Paul, J. J. Con
nor, being the contestant. The
! latter was but 29 votes behind
Paul on the complete unoffic
ial returns. Chris Christensen,
| of Petersburg, who received
1,9.66 votes, was but 132 votes
behind Paul and 207 lower
than C. B. Ferguson, the other
member of the Paul combinat
ion. It is possible that the con
gests filed will include Fer
guson’s seat and that of Mr.
S. S. RUPERT AND GEORGE
FOR NEW ALASKA ROUTE
The Canadian National Rail
way officir! have announced
the inauguration on June 22
of a weekly £ hedula of the
Prince Rupert and Prince
George fr m Vancouver tou :h
ing at Prince Rupert, Ketch
ikan, Wranged, Juneau and
Skagway.
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The Moose enrolled thirty
one new members Thursday
as a result of the organizing
activities of Sigurd Wa 1 fcedt,
Deputy Supreme Dictator of
the Loyal Old r of M„ose, who
has been visiting this locality
during the past two weeks. All
the new members are residents
of Premier and 7 Mile. Mr.
Wallstedt, who is now in An
yox, is expected to return here
next week.
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EDITOR GOES AFTER
FIRST CITY RENT HOGS
The editor of the Ketchikan
Chronicle has taken up cud
gels against the rent hogs
which he asserts infest that
city. He alleges that some of
the landlords of the town are
charging outrageous ■ rentals
for shacks which in most
towns in Alaska would not be
considered fit for pig3ties, or
words to that effect. This, he
alleges, is driving many
would-be residents from the
first city.
Hunt in the Senate.
N. O. Hardy, the only suc
cessful Democratic candidate
on the returns prior to the can
vass, wen out over Hern, of
Skagway, by 41 votes. There
were some reports circulated
at one time that the latter
might also file a contest but
there was nothing to indicate
such action at the opening ses
sion of the Board.
Following the decision, the
board requested Attorney
General Rustgard to give an
opinion as to whether it had
power to examine and pass
upon the validity of individ
ual ballots. Six questions in all
bearing upon the board’s pow
ers to determine the legality
of election proceedings were
asked of Mr. Rustgard, who,
in a lengthy opinion returned
later, expressed the view that
the Territorial Canvassing
Board has no right or power to
canvass individual ballots, its
duty being confined to the
purely clerical function of tot
aling the vote cast at the vari
ous precincts, as certified to
by the judges of election.
Included among the charges
that will probably Le made by
Mr. Grigsby is one against the
Kaasan vo'e, that no provis
ions for privacy in voting were
made, no booths having been
prepared. Other precincts in
which irregularities are said
to have occurred are Kake,
Klawock, Hoonah, Killisnoo,
Angoon, Sitka, Chilkat, and
others. In practically all the
instances noted the native vote
formed cither a major portion
or a large part of the vote cast.