Marr Building
Company
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J. W. Marr, Manager. OrncE, Hotel Hyder
HYDER LUMBER CO.
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LUMBER
Dressed
Flooring
Ceiling
Rustic
Wainscot t?rg
From a sliver to a cargo
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
“Ragtime" Kelly, vaudeville per
former, hab leased Jaok Robarts’
poolroom at Anchorage.
The Seward Gateway is boosting
for a high school for the town with
a full course of study.
William Aldcroft, a long time in
charge of the C.K.M. machine shops
at Bear creek, Klondike, will soon
open a public garage in Dawson.
Leo Povelik, proprietor of the
Cape Nome roadhouse, recently was
carried out to sea on an ice floe
and came near perishing before
being rescued by the Nome Coast
Guard.
February was the coldest month
experienced at Anchorage since the
weather records have been kept,
average being 11.6 below ner®. The
coldest day was on February 6 when
the thermometer went to 30 below.
W.F.Lewis, one of the best known
homesteaders on Kanai peninsula,
I with a ranoh at Cooper’s Landing,
| received a large quantity of glass
with which he will build a monster
greenhouse to taise early vegetables
Weather in Juneau for January
was warmer than is usually record
ed in Chicago for the same month
according to M.B.Summers, meteor
ologist in charge of the weathe* of
fice at Juneau. The month of Jan
uary averaged 2.2 degrees below
the mean temperature of previous
years, with an average of 24.5 de
grees and a normal temperature of
26.7 degrees.
A hunter of ptarmigan in west
ern Alaska says that there are none
of the birds there this winter.
Plumbing permits must now be
issued in Anchorage before any
work can be done, according to a
new ordinance.
A two line cannery is being con
structed at Kanatak on Portage
Bay, across Shelikof Strait from
Kodiak Island.
Some small thievery has been
taking place at Anchorage recently
including stealing of babies’ milk,
groceries from store rooms and
laundry from hallways.
The Katmai Packing Company
is the name of a new concern that
is building a salmon cannery and a
small sawmill on Kaimai bay. It
is intended to operate the cannery
this year.
A reindeer race, covering a course
of 54 miles, was held Dectmber 30
in the Shismareff section, Seward
Peninsula. Five single-deer teams'
entered and all finished, the aver- j
age time being four hours
P. Percy Snyder, an oldtime pros
pector of Dawson, who left the In
terior several years ago for his old
home ifi Gsaud Rapids, Michigan,
is now totally blind from cataracts
on his eyes. In writing to his Daw
son friends he says he expects that
three operations will result in the
recovery of his sight in at least one
eye.
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO.
OF HYDER
Incorporated under the laws of A lasha
Capital Paid Up $15,000.00
Commercial and Saving* Departments
Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Money Telegraphed to all Parts ofj the
United States
HYDER PAINT SHOP Palntinsr, Paperhanging
_- --Kalsomining
Traversy Bros.
SIGNS
Paints, Oils, Stains, Varnishes, Shellac, Wallpaper, Deadening Felt,
Cheese Cloth, Kalsomine.
Sutherland Building, Main Street
tyfyt ^Hater's |^ot
Co soon after you light your fire
it [will give you the surprise of
your life—and in unlimited quantity
—and you dont have to put in an
expensive water-works system.
Harry Hanson’s patented
hot water coil in your cook
stove you can have real hqme com
fort. All the principal homes of
Rupert are so equipped and Stewart
forks are installing the system as
fast as Hanson can do the work.
£ome on over to Stewart and see
how it is done. Anyone there
can tell you where to find
Harrg Hanson
Fir Lumber
Flooring
Ceiling
Sash—Doors
Store Fronts
Store Fixtures
W. L. BALCH
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
SERVICE
SPEED
SATISFACTION
HYDER, ALASKA
Gateway to the Great Salmon River Mineral Area
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine
You Have to Come to Hyder to
Reach the Mines
FASTEST GROWING TOWN IN THE NORTH