ANNOUNCING
The Completion and Opening
Of The New
TEXAS CREEK
HIGHWAY
Built by the U. S. Government at a cost
■ of nearly a half million dollars, with the
express object of opening this new and
remarkably mineralized portion of the
Hyder, Alaska section of the Portland
Canal Mining District to development
and exploitation.
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Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead Ores
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abound in this wonderful mineral region and
offer excellent oppotunities for profitable mining
investment under the economical transportation
conditions provided by the splendid, new 12
mile highway traversing the Texas creek valley
from end to end.
In addition to opening this rich mineral region
to mining endeavor, the Texas Creek Highway
offers a scenic excursion of matchless mountain
scenery, and the most remarkable glacier vistas
in the world.
For information relative to the mineral resources of the
Hyder District and other data, address the
Hyder Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
Hyder, Alaska
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ALASKA NOTES.
Culled From the Newspaper*
Of the Territory.
Cordova claims it was the
first town to complete the Red
Cross, Roll Call this year.
A ton of ore from the High
Grade mine in the Willow
Creek district netted the own
ers, Herman Kloss and Gerrit
Snider, $1,240, according to
the Anchorage Times.
Contract for the erection of
an airplane hanger on the new
aviation field at Anchorage
has been let by the Pacific
International Airways to Dahl
and Wahnstead.
Cordova’s Chamber of Comm
erce has indorsed Ketchikan’s
effort to have the Westerh Di
vision of the United States
Chamber of Commerce hold
its 1931 meeting in Ketchikan.
Curtis L. Platter, 57, who
had lived in Wrangell since
1924, died there recently. He
had been employed until late
ly in the Tokeen Quarry of the
Vermont Marble Company.
Coal from the field north
of Anchorage will be offered
for sale in all ports in south
east and southwest Alaska,
recently announced Bartley
Howard, head of the Mata
nuska Mines Company.
Ike Henniger, 67, Alaska
pioneer who stampeded to the
Klondike in 1898 and who
went to Fairbanks in 1907,
died there recently of an af
fliction of the heart.
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J. W. Kempf, aged resident
of Anchorage, was striken
with paralysis while alone in
his cabin recently. He died
soon after he was taken to the
hospital.
Consisting of 12 members,
the Cordova Symphony Or
chestra, under the leadership
of Louis Rudolph, gave its
first concert of the season re
cently. Two hundred attended.
Members of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce plan
another excursion to Alaska
next summer, according to
word received in Cordova. The
party is expected to total 200.
It will leave Seattle June 14:
if present arrangements are
carried out.
Fred Johnson, Alaska Rail
road employee, whose back
was said to have been broken
in a fall from a tree near
Seward, successfully under
went a surgical operation in
Seattle. His complete recovery
is expected.
E. R. Stivers, veteran deputy!
customs inspector in Alaska,;
is now stationed temporarily ai |
Juneau. Mr. Stivers has been
.••tationed at Nome during the
summer, his regular post, but
the office is closed during the
winter freezeup.
One hundred and thirty-five
carcasses of reindeer were un
loaded at Seward off the
Board of Education motorship
Boxer, which brought 600
carcasses from the Bering Sea ■
points. Of the 135 discharged '
at Seward, 35 were for Seward
and the rest for Anchorage
and Fairbanks, and towns on
the Alaska Railroad between;
those two places.
RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
FISHERS BLEND STATION, INC.
Metropolitan Center, Seattle Wn.
(Owing to poor reception (luring the
earlier part of the day in Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
only such broadcasts as occur after
5 p. m. daily.)
Program for week ending Saturday,
January 10, 1931.
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P. M.
Sunday, January 4.
5:00 Enna Jettiek Melodies, NBC-NY.
5:15 Collier's Radio Hour, NBC-NY.
8:15 Atwater Kent Program, NBC-NY.
7:15 Studebaker Champions, NBC-Chl.
7:45 Garden Patch Program.
8:00 First Church of Christ Scientist.
9:00 Standard Brands Program,NBC
SF.
9:30 Enna Jettiek Melodies, NBC-NY.
9:45 P. S. Navigation Co.; Readers
Guide, NBC-SF.
10:15 Puc. Fruit and Prod. Co.; Con
cert Jewels, JjBC-SF.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, January 5
5:00 Totem Broadcasters, How's Bus
iness?, NBC-NY.
5:15 One-Quarter Hour in the Nation’s
Capital, NBC-Wn., D. C.
5:30 Garden Patch Program.
5:00 Maytag Orchestra, NBC-Chi.
3:30 Genl. Motors Program, NBC-NY
j7:00 Stromberg Carlson Concert, NB
C-Rochester.
7:30 Great Northern Railway, Empire
Builder, NBC-NY.
1:00 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chi.
1:15 Shell Oil Co., Rudy Seiger’s
ihell Symplionists, NBC-SF.
1:00 Schwabacher’s Mozart Concert
Hour.
10:00 Chrysler Motors Program.
10:30 University of Washington Edu
cational Hour.
11:00 News Flashes.
11:15 Varsity Vagabonds.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital
Tuesday, January 6
5:00 Brazilian American Coffee Pro
gram, NBC-NY.
5:30 Garden Patch Program.
5:00 McKesson Musical Magazine,
NBC-NY.
6:30 Happy Wonder Bakers, NBC-NY.
7:00 Westinghouse Salute,, NBC-NY.
7:30 Am. Tohacci Co.. Lucky Strike
Orchestra, NBC-NY.
1:00 Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chi.
15 Violet Ray Music Box. NBC-LA.
1:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
):00 Florshelm Frolic, NBC-SF.
J:30 Fisher’s Blend Hour.
10:30 News Flashes.
10:45 Uncle Hank From Cidervilla
Center.
11:00 Olympic Hotel, Varsity Vaga
bond*.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Wednesday January 7
500 P. S. P. & L. Co., Concert Trio.
3:15 R. C. A. Radiotron Co.. NBC-NY.
5:30 Garden Patch Program.
5:00 Halsey Stuart Progarm, NBC-NY.
5:30 Palmolive Hour, XBC-XY.
7:30 Coca Cola Program, XBC-XY.
1:00 Amos n' Andy. NBC-Chl
<:15 Let’s Get Associated. XTBC-SP.
5:45 Am. Popcorn Co.. Jolty Timo
Popcorn Review, NBC-SF.
1:00 P. S. Xav. Co., The Navigators.
1:30 Camel Pleasure Hour, NBC-SP.
10:30 Pacific Fruit & Produce Co.,
Tuneful Two.
10:45 News Flashes.
11:00 Olympic Hotel Varsity Vaga
bonds, directed by J. Robiuson.
ies, NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Thursday, January 8
5:00 Fleischmann’s Sunshine Hour,
NBC-NY.
1:00 Am. Radiator Co. Program, NBC
NY.
5:30 Maxwell House Melodies, XBC
XY.
7:00 Lucky Strike Orchestra and Voc
alists, NBC-NY.
7:30 Standard Symphony Hour, NBC
SF.
>: 30 Pepsodent Co., Amos ’n' Andv,
NBC-LA.
1:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
1:00 Hotel New Yorker Orchestra, N
BC-NY.
10:00 Rqui-Fractionators Dance Hour.
1:00 News Flashes.
'1:15 St. Francis Hotel Orch., NBC-SF
2:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.
Friday, January 9
i:00 Cities Service Concert Orcestra
and the Cavaliers, NBC-NY.
1:00 Interwoven Pair, NBC-NY.
!:30 Armour Hour. NBC-NY.
7:00 Armstrong Quakers. NBC-NY.
:30 R. K. O. Program, NBC-NY.
COO Amos 'n' Andy, NBC-Chl.
5:15 Brownbilt Footlites, NBC-SF.
:30 P. S. Nav. Co., Concert Orch.
and Vocalists.
-: 00 Pae. Fruit and Produce Co.,
Varied Program.
:30 Schwabacher’s Little Symphony
Hour.
0:30 Friedlander’s, the Watch Mak
ers.
0:45 News Flashes.
1:00 Olympic Hotel Varsity Vaga
bonds, directed by J. Robinson.
12:00 Fox 5th Avenue Theatre, Organ
Recital.
Saturday, January 10
5:15 R. C. A. Radiotron Co., NBC-NY.
5:30 Fuller Brush Co., The Fuller
Man. NBC-NY.
6:00 Genl. Electric Program, NBC-Ny.
7:00 Lucky Strike Program, NBC-NY.
S:00 Amos ’n’ Andy, NBC-Chl.
8:15 Gilmore Circus, NBC-LA.
8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Consolidated Cigar Co., El Sidelo
Minstrels, NBC-SF.
9:30 Chevrolet Chronicles.
10:00 News Flashes.
10:10 Spotlight Revue. NBC-SF.
12:00 Fox Theatre, Organ Recital.