HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
. Chas. F. Sandford and Louise Sandford
Sole owners and publishers
Chas. F. Sandford,.Editor and Manager
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1879.
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THE PROSPECTOR
AND HIS ORE
It was Mark Twain who saic
that the prospector is a liai
with a dump. This definition
sad to say, holds sometime:
true even today, say Dr. Wal
ter Techow and II. C. Davi:
in Underground (San Francis
co).
The prospector has two prob
lems to overcome when h«
starts his lone pilgrimage intc
the hills—one is to find tht
ore, and the other, equally im
portant, is what to do with il
after he has found it.
If the ore is low grade or oi
such a nature as to require sub
stantial capital to handle it
the logical thing to do is foi
him to develop the prospec!
to the best of his limited abili
ties and then sell it to parties
who can properly finance it.
If the property has merit there
should be little difficulty in
finding a purchaser, providing
the price is held within reas
on. There are people continual
ly on the lookout to buy and
develop promising properties,
but who object, and rightly,
to be held up for a few stake
posts and a shallow hole in
the ground.
The prospector overlooks the
expense attached to bringing
a prospect, however good it
may seem, to a producing
basis.
The prospector should be will
ing to take his chances along
with the financiers. Very few
investors are willing to pay
cash for a property and should
the prospector hold out for
cash, the chances are that he
will go to his grave—still own
er of the property—undevel
oped. He should be willing to
take an interest in the devel
oping company for his share
or have the property developed
and if it is placed on a payinp
basis, he will be remunerated.
At the worst, he will have his
property developed to a state
where he can either work it
himself or lease it out to some
.one satisfied with less return.
One thing necessary to make
' a deal is absolute truthfulness.
All statements should be as ac
■ curate as possible. Distance.
assay returns, amount of devcl
11 opment work, condition of
roads, etc., can be given exaot
; ly. A map of some kind, to il
lustrate his descriptionss w'll
1 be of incalculable value in
making a sale. The map dpes
not have to be a work of art
as long as it is clear and intelli
| gible. Nothing impresses the
1 examining engineer more fav
orably than finding that the
i statements made to him are
! correct. On the other hand, if
he has to travel over twenty
1 miles of boulevard as he has
been led to believe, only to
! find a shallow hole in place of
a fifty-foot shaft showing six
inches of bull quartz where
foui feet of high grade was
promised, he naturally will be
considerably put out and not
! feel like continuing further
with his investigations. The
I chance may be, due to this
misunderstanding, a likely
! prospect will be overlooked.
| Reports of this kind travel fast,
and it would be exceedingly
difficult for the prospector to
engage the interest of any one
further.
If the prospector is fortunate
i enough to find ore of milling
! ?rade and of such character
is can be handled in an inex
>ensive plant, he will probably
| be tempted to operate the
! oroperty himself with a little
! inancial baoking. The classes
if ore which can be treated
nexpensively are free milling j
?old ores, sulphide gold ores!
whicfi can be treated by con-!
•entration, galena ores, either!
tree from zinc or containing
only a very little of it, and cop
per sulphide ores.
Oxidized lead and copper
ires are usually out of the
tuestion and other metals such
as tungsten, arsenic, molybde
lum, antimony and zinc de
fend so much on market fluct
uations that the wise prospect
or will leave them alone.
ON GETTING TRADE.
Have what the people want,
then let the people know you
have it by advertising. That’s
the secret of commercial suc
cess, according to Arthur Bris
bane, noted publicist.
In evidence of this view Mr.
Brisbane calls attention to the
fact that the big Wool worth
concern is planning an enor
mous advertising campaign
which will involve an expendit
ure of $3,000,000 the first
year.
Here is a significant hint for
some of our local tradesmen
who still cling to the fallacious
view that advertising doe3 not
help their business.
The great Woolworth con
i corn has been heretofore little
| addicted to large scale adver
tising. The policy has been to
depend upon the selection of
locations where large numbers
of people passed the doors,
rather than to attract patron
age by advertising and the se
lection of business sites was
made purely upon the number
i of people passing a given point
i hourly cr daily.
Commenting on the change in
the Woolworth attitude, Mr.
Brisbane says its abandonment
of tiie theory that selecting the
light location makes advertis
ing unnecssary proves the wis
dom of Woolworth’s president,
Mr. H. T. Parsons.
| “Get the best position for
your store by all means,” he
says, “but get also the best
' “position” and the best copy
i for your advertising in a news
j paper.”
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OPINIONS.
' The opinionated encounter
; many false opinions in the
world, but always among their
i fellowmen. To entertain an
! opinion demands disbelief in
the opinions of those who think
| otherwise. Perhaps the only
i reason there are two people
who think alike in the world
is because the production of
different opinions has not kept
pace with the growth in popu
lation.
This conflict of opinions is ev
er present. The more common
demonstrations are afforded
by politics, religion and the
League of Nations. Other ex
amples are the picking of
championship baseball and
football teams, designation of
screen actor and actress pref
erences, and deciding which
car is the “best buy for the
money.”
The hobby is a prolific source
of difference of opinion. The
physical culture crank ridi
cules the golf fiend, and the
golfer scorns the hobby of the
physical culture crank. Tennis
is child’s play, in the opinion j
of the football player, and the '
tennis player penalizes all j
of football for “unnecessary
roughness.” And everybody
generously concedes his own
opinion to be right.
Just for Fun
It might be worse. No maga
zine really i3 as naughty as
the cover design indicates.
Petting parties are tame af
fairs in summer. One hand
must be kept free for mos-!
quitoes.
Among those who bring unde
sirables into America are
smugglers and the stork.
Every man is capable of origi
nating the ideas he has the'
capacity to comprehend.
They say Mussolini talks to
himself, but doubtless h^’s just
addressing the cabinet.
If his mouth is grim and his
face flushed .the lady he is
teaching to swim is his wife.
Girls should make good North
Pole explorers-riding up and
walking back.
A good provider doesn’t al
ways make a good husband. "
What has become of the old
fashioned women who never
complained?
“The Song of the Bum” is one
of the newest classics in Ameri
can music .
| Slowly man’s inventiveness
will knock everybody out of a
job except the reformer.
The art is not so much in
making money as in keeping it.
—
i “Are you real sure the sun
won’t fade ’em?” asked the
1 flapper of the clerk, while
picking out some bloomers.
One of the reasons why co
operation doesn’t always work
out, is that there are too many
men in the movement who ex
pect to get more out of a buck
et than they put into it. It
can’t be done.
Sue: “I gave our little sick
pig some sugar.”
I Mother: “What did you do
| that for?”
Sue: “To make It well.
Haven’t you ever heard of
sugar-cured hams?”
SMALL BOY’S LAMENT
“Boo-hoo! I f-forgot what I
was crying about be-before the
fire engine went by!”
They cut a Ketchikan man
open the other day to remove
his appendix and he didn’t
have any—ain’t science won
derful?
“Mother objects to you, Lar
r
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MINING DISTRICT
ry, because you have to work
for a living.”
“Well; its all right now, dear,
I’ve lost my job.”
Dickie was sent to the groc
er’s for dog biscuits for the
new pet. But he returned half
an hour later without the bis
cuits and with a large bag of
chocolate creams instead.
“Great guns,” exclaimed the
father, “I told you to get dog
biscuits and you-”
“But, daddy,” broke in the
youngster, “wasn’t it better to
get something doggie and me
could both enjoy?”
A small town nowadays is one
where the civic leaders haven’t
started a campaign for an air
port.
Its getting so that pork sau
sage is everything else but.
__
Billy McDonnell says don’1
envy the other fellow’s suc
cess; study his methods.
Noel opines that silk stock
ings have a habit of running
! .
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewel)
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewel)
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewel)
Wriat watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.0C
Jewelry made to order, repah
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Comt
In And Look Them Over.
THE NUGGET SHOP
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
GEORGE B. GRIGSBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
when a girl walks.
Now wouldn’t that get you!
Marshal Martin asserts that
as a rule the fellow who is a
fool about women isn’t much
different when he’s not about
them.
Towards the end of dinner
little Tommy suddenly put
down his spoon and pushed
away his plate of uneaten pud
ding.
His mother glanced at her son
in great astonishment.
“Why, Tommy boy,” she cried,
“what’s the matter? You look
mournful-didn’t you want your
pudding?”
“Yes, was the small boy’s
answer, “that’s just it. I am
mor’n full!”
BEAUTY HINTS
Girls, you may not believe
this, but its a fact that you
can get a beautiful complexion
by steaming your face over a
wash tub; wringing out clothes
makes the arms pleasingly
' plump; hanging them out on
the line increases the bust line,
and carrying them to and from
' the yard makes the waist line
smaller and the limbs more
shapely Try it girls!
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