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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 40.
HYDEI1, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 23. 1934.
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PRESIDENT APPROVES
RIVER PROJECT BUT
NO FUNDS AVAILA3LE
President Roosevelt has giv
en final approval to the Salmon.
River flood control project, as
authorized in Delegate A. J.
Dimond’s. bill, but no fund - f or
construction are available a
present, according to a tele
gram from the Delegate re
ceived Thursday by the Hyder
Chamber of Commerce.
The failure to secure an ap
propriation was due to the late
passage of the bill in the last
congressional so ion. Mr. Di
mond stated.
He believes, however, there
is a chance to have the work
done by the Public Work.- Ad
ministration from public work.
funds and has suggested that
the Chamber of Commerce
wire Secretary Ickes requet llm
such action since Congress ha
specifically approved the pro
ject.
Acting on the sugge-tien, the
Chamber of Commerce ha-- tor
warded a telegram to Mr. Icke
urging him to authorize fund,
for the project.
Following is the full text of
the Alaska Delegate’s mc.>
sage:
Washing loti., D. C
June 20, 1934
Chas. F. Sandford, President .
Hyder Chamber of Comm met
Hyder, Alaska
President has approved Sal
mon River flood control bill bu
owing to lateness in se ion
passage of bill it was not pos
sible to secure appropriation
for work. Believe there h
chance have work done by Pub
lic Works Administration. Sug
gest you wire Secretary Ickes.
Public Works Adminiu :rr r,
requesting that this work be
done from public works funds
•in conformity with bill, since
Congress has specifically ap
proved project.
Aldo advise me what you do.
I shall give every possible sup
port here.
Dimond
Delegate
The Chamber of Commerce
wired Secretary Ickes as fol
lows:
Harold L. Ickes
Public Works Administrator
Washington, D. C.
Congress has specifically ap
proved by House Bill five six
six five control of floods on
Salmon River at Hyder but
late passage precluded approp
riation for work.
Citizens of Hyder respectful
ly urge that work be canned
out moon as possible with Pub
lic Works funds in conformity
I Many Alaskan ST, I'arsrd
Congress adjourned Monday
i after one of tho busiest ?e ions
| cf recent years, according to
radio report1',,
Alaska fared i: new: ally woli
dui inj? the se sion, s miethiiig
like 15.or 16 measures permin
ing directly to the Territory
having been passed.
Among the enactments apply
ing to the Tenitory as a whole
were the law advancing the
date of the general elec.i m and
tionver'ny, of the legislature;
iepeal of the Alaska bone dry
law; extension oi the general
mining laws if the Unbod
Stater to Alaska and repeal of
the old placer law; the law
'admitting purchase tf 5-aere
hottiesleads and repealing pre
lection to sea lions.
Other enactments included
bills.pr>tvid'in ; f ir 1 tc: 1 f!
cm,ivd; granting citizenship to
Metlakatla re-idenU; opening
the Yukon and Kurkdfcwim
. iveis to imited comm i .
fi hing; granting .ran fer rf
certain gr mnd:; and building"
at Sitka to the Territory; per
mitting Alaska railroad em
j ployeea t o purchre £ : anted g .v.
ernmen nouse.?, ana granting
to Juneau, Skagvay, Wrangell
D ; u g 1 aand F a i r! a n k a u t hor
itv to issue b oncls for public
public wierks.
T'ne indicated measures were
all inti duced by Alaska Dele
gate to Congress A. J. Dimond.
Alaska was al j included in
varying degrees in the bene
fits cf other enactments of
national scopt.
C.N.R. Sumrnci Schedule Start s
The summer schedule of the
(Canadian N:; ia!
from Vancouver v.. - i :uy:ur
ated with the arrival of the
Prince George tod a? (Satur
day) , in lead if on Thnr.-f av.
Vessels of the lb will < n
tinue t ; arrive and depart on
Saturdays until fall.
with bill. IV'.joct grenth
needed as protect i n i':: rn
floods and mu ; 1 - lasted this
year to secure seven thousand
dollar appropriation by Terri
tory iaf Ala-ka contingent upon
approval of pr ject by C .
gress, wliich will run out this
year. Also reque.c work be
done if possible in way to g’ve
employment to ample local
labor, relieving distressing un
employment dua l ion.
Hyder Chamber f Cimmorce
A message of similar tenor
was also forwarded j Dele
| gate Dimond with a request for
his cooperation toward secur
; ing an appropriation.
CANTU OPERATION
APPEARS CERTAIN
Although n.) official announce
ments have been forthcoming
regarding developments in con
nection w.'.h the proposed talc
ing over cf the local Cantu
piopev.y by the Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Co, all
indications point- to a ucce/s
fn 1 ciKcsme of the negotiations
new under way in the south.
Tlie Consolidated is said on
good audio by to have ob
tained satisfactory re ulfs from
the recent surface -ampling of
the property by their gcol igist
Dr. II. E. Jure, and Douglai
Campbell, resident engineer of
the company, apd is merely
awaiting ratification of the
proposal? by Can.u sharehold
ers to proceed w‘t h active de
velopment.
The '■ ig Cane iian mining
g mpany i>- apparently o cer
trin of the ou.oome that it has
.-dready started a preliminary
survey of the Cantu pr party.
The ; urvey was ed Monday
by W. id Selby| < mpany en
gineer .! m the Big Missouri.
This i- arparer ly a pre
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hide t a period .if active devel
opment work on the property.
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Ketchikan 3sat Schedule
To Change Next Month
Postal advices received by
Mrs. Oren F. Hill local post
mirties . this week announce
that after July ?’>, the weekly
mail boat from Ketchikan will
leave that port on Tuesday
evening.
As the time i • \ tired for it he
trip is usually 18 hour- ior ver
the boats' -should arrive at Hy
der between 1 and 2 p. m.
Wednesday afterneons.
Porks Gets Mew Gr.vt. Jcb
George A. Pa. - former g -v
ernor of Alaska, has landed a
new federal government job,
according to reports from Jun
eau.
Parks, who served many
years: in the United Stater, Land
Office in Alaska, ha- been ap
pointed by Secre ary of the Tti
ter i jT Hanold L. I ekes to fill the
!p -it: 11 of Di • Irict Cadastral
[Engineer tv A a ska. and will
be in chargers? the Public sur
vey office, with headquarters
,n Juneau.
Mr. Park - enjoyr :he distinc
tion of be'rsg the first District
|Cada:t:al Engineer to be ap
j pointed for the Territory, the
late E. C. Guerin and others,
having been acting in the capa
city of Chief of the Public Sur
( vey Service.
Silver Bill New a Law
The Die? silver bill, embody
ing the administration propos
als lor rehabilitation of sil
ver, became the law of the land
Tuesday when President Roose
velt affixed his signature io the
document.
A Trea-ury announcement
Tuesday indicated that the
pr-;vi ai imposing a 50 per
cent tax on silver, directed
again -1 speculators, was in
tended to apply only on the
margin between the price paid
at the time of purchase and at
the time of sale and would not
be enforced n silver sold to
t he mint at the fixed pi ice of
50 e. n.s per ounce.
Silver Bill in Operation
(1 ivernm i • purchases of sil
ver under the recently enacted
'fiver purchase bill are now
be‘ ig made, according to a
Treasury announcement Thurs
! clay.
Secretary I',I rrgenthau an
nounced that the government
wants . 3 see a healthy rise in
the price of silver but not a
-udden appreciation.
Three Perish in Fairbanks Fire
Three Alaskan residents lost
;heir lives in a fire which de
troyed he New California ho
| tel in Fairbanks late last week.
The victims were Edward
Me Every, an interior mining
man, Steve Luke and Hanson
David.
Mcilvery, 73 years of age,
v:r. a resident of Ruby,Alaska.
The other two victims of the
me; were natives.
It was believed the fire start
: ed in she r m occupied by one
of the natives, whose charred
, body was found upright in a
chair.
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Threo Mew Marshals Named
Three new Deputy United
bates Marshals for the First
Division have been named by
United States Marshal William
; T. Mahoney.
Th< new applintees are B.C.
■ Lichen, who is to fill the posi
tion in Sitka held by Frank
’-rice; James Nolan, who will
•airceed H. D. Campbell at
Wrangell, and Judson L.
Drown, secre .ary iaf the Alaska
I Native Br: lerhcod., who wilt
replace William Ferro at
i Douglas.
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Constable and Mrs. Potterton
j were passengers to Vancouvei
i this morning.
SIGNS INDICATE
LARGE PROGRAM ON
BIG MISSOURI GROUP
Recent activities of the Con
! olidated Mining and Smelting
Company, combined with sig
■ irificant statements emanating
jfrom official sources, indicate
almost beyond doubt that the
company is preparing .to inaug
urate a new program of large
scale development activities at
the Big Missouri property, con
trolled through its subsidiary,
the Buena Vista Mining Gom
! pany.
Although in the absence of
i direct official announcements
J definite information regarding
| the contemplation;; is unavail
able at present, summarization
of the numerous evidences in
dicate that the most important
feature of the new program
will probably be the driving of
a new low-level tunnel to ex
plore at greater depth ithe ex
tensive low-grade gold depos
it? opened on the present 800
focit level. This much of the
| orogram appears at present
I definitely assured.
Such a low-level entrance to
1 the Big Missouri may be ob
tained either through the Day
group, upon which the com
pany recently obtained a 60
day option, or from some other
nearby paint along the eastern
slope of the Salmon River ba
sin, although greater depth
can be /obtained from 'the Day
property than from any other
adjacent point on either side
of the Big Missouri group.
A tunnel from the lowest
depth obtainable on the latter
property would be approxi
mately 6000 feet in length and
would be in the neighborhood
of 500 feet below the present
working level, according to
competent estimators.
Other contemplations of the
company apparently include
the extension cf an approxi
i niatelv 800-foot raise from the
present working funnel to the
surface and further explora
tion lof the known /ore bodies
at higher elevations.
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Supplies Arrive From Seattle
The motorship Windsor ar
rived Tuesday from Ketchikan
with the weekly mail and also
a gciod sized consignment of
freight for local dealers which
had dribbled through the strike
| blockade.
Three steamers from the
south reached Ketchikan dur
ing the past week end, includ
ing the Norco, Yukon and Alas
ka. Only one vessel brought
mail.
Radio reports Friday evening
indicated that strike breakers
are now loading ships at Seat
tle under police protection.