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WDER ALASKA MINER
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VOL. 2. NO. 35.
HYDER, Alaska, A.ug, 10. 1921
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
Next Big Mine Owned By
Fish Creek Mining: Co.
Great Interest has been aroused
in the camp by the recent uncov
ering of a phenomenal ore shoot on
the Fish Creek Mining Company's
property near the head of Skooknm
creek, which is the north fork of
Fish creek. Numbers have gone
up to look at the new find and the
old timers who have been ia the
camp since it first attracted the
attention of prospectors agree that
the Premier never had anywhere
near as good a surface showing
This, in view of the fact that the
Premier is today the largest pro
ducer of both gold and silver of any
mine in Canada, compels the most
conservative to admit that the Fish
Creek group will be the next big
producer, and it is wtohin the
bounds of reason to believe that
the American mine will be a
worthy rival of its Canadian neigh
bor, which is across thb line almost
within rifle shot.
The Fish Creek company have
been working in a small way for
years on a aeries of veins which are
cut by Skookum creek at an aver
age elevation of 1600 feet and up
on which seven tunnels, totaling
more than 1000 feet in length and
exposing various sheots of both
high grade and milling ore have
been run. A comfortable camp
was established here on a slight
break in the extremely steep hill
side, and operations were resumed
here this summer upon the entry on
to the property of Harry Tanner as
superintendent. Work is being
done in one of the tunnelB, drifting
in on a promising shoot of are
W.iich is widening out and from
tvnicii a considerable tonnage of
shipping ore is being sacked, 280
sacks averaging 125 pound* in
weight having besn taken down
the hill or stored at the mouth of
the tunnel lip to last Friday wh#n
the writer visited the camp. The
second gr. de ore here is being
saved for mill feed whfen a concen
trator is constructed, being shot
down a raise into another tunnel
which is not now being worked. A
trial shipment of five tons mad#
several years ago from another
tunnel gave returns of $520 per
ton, with silver at 50c per ounce.
But it was a strong outcropping
1000 feet higher than the old
workings which proved the great
est attraction to the superinten
dent. He established a tent camp
there and put a couple of men run
ning open cuts and stripping off the
overburden from the lead across
the rounded summit of the hill.
Early results were so encouraging
that a substantial trail was built to
the upper showing from the oamp
below, accommodations for more
men were provioed, and before fall
substantial log buildings will be
erected, as it is the intention to
work there all winter.
The open cutting and stripping
showed a continuous ore shoot for
a distanoe of 600 feet, with a width
of from one foot to over three feet
of ore, all of which will assay
around the $400 mark. The lead
in one place is 12 feet wide, and
here there is a second shoot of high
grade about a foot wide, lying on
the hanging wall. The lead in
which these shoots occur has been
traoed for a distance of about 2000
feet, starting from bkookum creek,
crossing up and ever the hiil and
down again toward the Salmon
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PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Meet me at the Mecca.
Send this paper to your friend
Ketchikan Chronicle at the Mecca.
Get your bread from Jimmy Carter.
If it isn't to be found elsewhere, try
The Midget Emporium.
Mrs. M.H.Jamieson and son Lome left
Sunday for a visit in Fort George.
river. If extended to the road it
would cross at abrnt seven-mile.
It is a contact vein, with granite on
the footwall, and quartz-porphyry
on the hanging, the strike being al
most east and west, and the dip to
the north.
A crosscut tunnel has been
started to tap the shoot near its
western extremity. By driving 70
feet tiie lead will be readied at n
depth of 52 feet, and it is the inten
tion to drift both ways oh the lend,
blocking out ore. The drift to the
east will gain fifty or sixty feet ad
ditional depth under the crown of
the hil), and if the ore shoot shows
the same length and width at that
depth us it does on the surface, a
very large tonnage of shipping ore
will he developed in a short time
and with a minimum of expense.
The ore is grey copper and galena,
with a sprinkling of silver sulphides
and chalcopyrite, and carrying val
ues in both gold and. silver.
From the west end of the shoot
a tram could be built down to the
wagon road, a distance of 3400 feet
from an elevation of 2600. It is
expected however to start the deep
er and permanent workings from
the east and, driving in from Skoo
kum creek, gaining 800 feet of
depth with an adit tunnel, and tak
ing the ore out down past the lower
workings, which will add their quo
ta to the product fFom obove. The
physical characteristics of the group
lend themselves to the working out
of an ideal development program to
benefit the whale of the property
I both in extractingand handling the
! ore. Skookum creek is of sufficient
Column during the Idwest stages to
furnish pdvfcf for botn minine and
milling pdrpose 2. Blit if ah uhusual
dmourit Of power should become
necessary, the Water of the niain
*-isii creek, to which the group of
I claims extends, would be available,
and practically unliniitetl in amount
The group consists of lb claims, Some
of Which are among the oldest locations
!n tile district. The property is owned
by the Fish Credit Mitnog Company, With
head office in Seattle. W. II. Tonkin, a
mining man of mdny years' experience,
!» president, and J. A. Hall, president of
the Salmon River Rank of Hyder. secre
tary, Mr. Tonkin has been on the prop
erty for several weeks and expects to
stay all summer and possibly intd the
winter, a3 the development ha# reached
its most interesting stage.
Twenty tons of ore Will he shipped to
the Tacoma srrtelter shortly after the
middle of the month and it is expected
that regular shipments will follow. Tran
sportation is none of the best, pack hors
es being used between thh mine and the
wagon road, a distance Of three miles,
over an indifferent trail. However, the
Alaska government is rushing construc
tion of a good trail which will enable the
ore to be transported much easier.
The difficulties to be overcome in this
respect however are infintisimal compar
ed with those already overcome', and are
giving the owners and management no
Worry. They are satisfied that they have
'a potentially great mine' and that it is
only a matter Of pushing development
work for a short timtf, when they will
commence to be bounteously recompens
ed for the money they have invested and
years of pioneer work they have at
lilt brought ft • mecessltll WucvAl6n',
Pat McDonald, electrician at the Pre
mier. spent the week end in camp
X.K.Brown, a mining man and ore buy
er from Idaho, is looking the camp over
Captain John Irving made a trip up to
the Lakeview the latter part of ihe week.
W.L.Duff and Frank Reichenbach have
returned from Georgia river with 100 lbs.
of trout.
There will he a dance next Saturday
night in Pioneer hall given by the Pio
p.’ers. Nuff sed.
Mrs. J.O.Lyon and baby have gone for
a visit with Mrs Lyon’s parents in the
Cariboo country.
W.L. lialch is building a home on the
forest reserve for H. J. Scott and one for
Frank Reichenbach.
Mrs. Anna Miller has moved into her
new store at the corner of Main street
and Volunteer Drive.
Jack Mullen is down from the Fish
( reek company camp, having been knock
ed out by rheumatism.
C.A.Banks of Vancouver, head of the
B.C.Silver company, is in camp. He is
accompanied bj Mrs. Banks.
The Albert came in Monday with 200
tons of mine equipment'anri supplies and
took out 300 tons of Premier ore.
Senator John Ibuian has returned from
the Skeena river where Be has been for
several weeks on mining business.
Mrs. W.H.Tolin and son George left
Monday evening for Seattle. Mrs.. Tolin
having received word that her father is
seriously ill.
W.H.Tonltin and Hill junior. Superin
tendent and Mrs. Tanner, came down
from the e’ish Creek company’s camp for
the week end.
Alex Lee, an oldtimer of the distsict
and former steel sharpener at the Big
Missouri, lias returnsd from an extended
visit to the outside.
Milt Allison camp down Sunday from
the Allison group near Bear lake where
he ha , an attractive showing. Charlie
Johnson is working with him.
Miss Donna Balch gave an exhibition
of fancy diving from the Nevada street
bridge last Monday fur the entertainment
of a small but select audience
Ct<dfrey Anderson and John Pullen will
trap again on tne high ranges back of the
Salmon valley. Harry Reid packed in
their supplies ak far as the Spider mine
A dance held last Saturday night in
the ‘'Lighthrhise’’ for the purpose of start
ing a fund to pidvide for a power pump
as a protection against fire, hotted about
$150.
Pat O'Roiirkte was dowh Monday front
Wleven-tnile Where he is doing assess
ment work on a group of seven claims
Kwned by himself; Jack Clegg and II. B.
Stoner.
The camp barbers have agreed on the
folldwing schedule; Open from 9 a. m.
till 8 p.;n.; Saturdays 9 a, in. till 10 p- m-,
Sundays, 9 a.m till t p.m.; special occas
ions, till 10 p.m.
Charlie Prank came down this week
from the Premier where he has been log
ging. Last Saturday he fell on an axe
and severely cut his back. Dr. Davis
made a trip to the mine and sewed up
the wound, which will keep Charlie out
of the woods for some time.
Pete Lowe and Bd Whalen are helping
John Hovland open up the high-grade ore
shoot recently discovered on his Pish,
creek property.
D. 0, Roberts has moved over from
Stewart Which seems eminently logical,
since he was in Hyder moat of thb time
■anyway.
Billy Butting Went up to t he Northern
Light yesterday to obtain specimens oi
ore to be sent to the Mining Cengreas in
Portland Canal Mining
Congress Is Organized
By organizing the “Portland Can
al Mining Congress” last Sunday
afternoon, the mining men of this
district have taken the first step
toward concerted effort in bring
ing the mineral resources of this
district to the attention of the min
ing world. Called primarily for
the purpose of arranging to send
an exhibit to the Mining Congress
in Chicago, the meeting was so well
attended and there was so much
enthusiasm displayed, that a per
manent organization resulted.
At their meeting a week ago the
Hyder Pioneers of Alaska appointed
a committee consisting of Bernard
M. Stone of Hyder and Wm. For
rest of Stewart, to take the pre
liminary steps for collecting an
exhibit of ore* from this district,
and they arranged the Sunday
meeting in Pioneer hall. Mr. Stone
called the meeting to order and
stated its object. Commissioner
John T. Reed was selected as per
manent chairman, and Mr. Stone
as secretary.
Judge Reed reviewed the meet
ing’s purposes and called for a gen
eral discussion in v. ! ich Dan Lin
deborg, S. P. Fitzgerald, Wm.
Bunting, Dr. Cliaee, John Hovland,
W. J. Crawford, W. R. Tonkin, M.
R. Jamieson, S. G. Benson, Dan
Davis, Oren F. Hill, E. R. Stivers,
Jas. Nesbitt, Wm. Forrest, M. f.iei
singseth, J. A. Ha!', Captain John
Irving and others participated.
It was decided to send to Chica
go an exhibit of ores from the
Portland Canal district including
samp'es from both sides of the
line, providing the Alaskan com
mittee appointed by Cx-Govesnor
Riggs and Governor Bone would
allow ores from the B. C. side to be
grouped with those from this side
of the line. It is believed that
there will be no question as to re
ceiving this permission, since the
interests on both sides ate identical,
the mineral zone paying no atten
tion to the Inteenational boundary,
and the operators working in uni
son for the advancement of the
distriot witheut regard to nation
al^
The thaitman was authorized to
select an executive committee of
five members, they to appoint sub
committees as requited. In the
evening Judge Reed announced
that he had selected Dan Linde
barg, John Hovland, S. P. Fitzger
ald, Wm, Bunting and J. A. Hall to
serve on this committee. Monday
they sent a long message to Juneau
outlining their plans and asking
for full instructions. Thu com
mittee consists entirely of pioneer
claim owners of the district, and
Mr. Hall being also president of
the Salmon River Bank, will be
cust dian of the finances.
W. J. Crawford offered the free
use of the Crawford Transfer Com
pany horses for packing samples
in from the hills, and Max Lipo
vatz, proprietor of the Golden Gate
on International Avenue has al
lowed his stoie to be used as an
assembly room for the ores. There
is a volumn of work conn'&ted with
tha ar.3tnbl)ng and shipping of tiro
tyttiwant, it \\ II tha ditamitnt
lion to send back as thoroughly a
representative exhibit of the entire
mineral showings of the district as
can be gotten together.
The Mining Congress will meet
in the Coliseum in Chicago in Oc
tober, and Alaska has been allo
cated space in the very cenff't: of
the immense hall, to which all
aisles will lead.
Ira Evans
Drowned
As we were about to go to press I >r
Rogers and Jack Lambert arrived in
port from a cruise down the canal bring
ing in the body of Ira Evans, which they
found about fifty miles from here. Evan
left here a day or two ago for a trip in
his launch, his only companion being a
fox terrier. When his body was found
one foot was entangled in tiie anchm
rope, the anchor having apparently been
thrown overboard, dragging him into tile
water, An inquest and probably a post
mortem will be held. Deceased had beet
running a donkey engine at the Hydi-r
gawmill until a few days ago.
MOVIES REOPEN TONIGHT
The moving picture show is to reopen
tonight in Pioneer Hal!, tins time under
the manag"menf of P. C. B'audre::, an
exyerienced operator who recently e ime
west from Wisconsin. It is his intention
to give two shows a week, on Wednesduv
and Satnrday evenings, but the second
show of this week will be held Sunda>
night on account of the Pioneers having
arranged for a dance on the previous
night.
Tonight’s feature will be a five-reel
drama, “Hawthorne of the U.S.A.” one o
Wallace Reed’s productions. There will
also be three extra reels, a comedy, news
magazine and International News reel
Prices are to be the same as in the Alas
kan cities, 50 cents for adults and 25 for
children. The doors open at 7:30 and the
show starts at 8.
l)r. i.S. Kirk wood, one of Los Angeles
successful dentists, and his son Bill ar
spending the week al the home of W. I*
George in Stewart, Mrs. George being 1 h
Kirkwood’s sister. The visitors are on a
three months’ vacation and motored from
Los Ai geles to Vancouver, covering the
1800 miles in Six days. I>r. Kirk weed
is an enthusiastic booster for his home
city, but learned a surprising lesson ^re
garding the growth of vegetation when
hd inspected Billy George’s garden.
Albert and Mrs Mayer have established
a camp at Fish creek where Mr. Mayer
has a group of claims upon which he has
started to do assessments.
For sale, house and lot, with large
building suitable for warehouse. Enquire
Miner office.
I >ry wood for sale. Blondy Charlton
Modern house and two lots for sale
very re rsonable. Enquire Hotfel Hydtir.
Ask T’ube Miller about house cleaning
suit pressing, shoe shining, wood for sale
Or leave orders at Frazer and Adkins.
Furnished cabin for rent. Blondy Chari
ton. __
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