HYDER ALASKA MINfSR
W. R. Hull --Editor
A newspaper whose (purpose is to tell
the world about the newest and bus
iest town in the northland, and the
native resources which are responsible
for its existence.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Entered as second class matter Nov
ember 4, 1919, at the post office at
Hyder, Alaska, uuder the Act of
March 3, 1879. I
Sent anywhere for $5 a year.
Advertising rates on application.
HYDER. ALASKA, January 16, 1919
The outside pnblie is request
ed not to send postoffice money
orders to this paper as there is
no money order branch in the
I-Iyder postoffice. Checks look
good when we open our mail but
greenbacks look better. Those
who have already sent -money
orders will receive the paperand
we will try to induce the post
office to establish a money order
branch here so that we can cash
in the orders on hand.
SOMETHING ABOUT BANKS
Brethern and sistern. Today we will
talk about bank-*.
Banks are of various kinds; sand
banks, from which contractors make
their fortunes, faro banks, where you
copper the queen on the last turn in
order to play even, cod and halibut
banks, which make the fisherman the
peer of the realm, private banks, such
as Mr. Hall hasn’t started yet though
the town has been ready for him for
some time, national banks and Canadian
banks.
Today let us consider Canadian banks.
The Canadian banking system is pat
terned after the Scottish banking sys
tem. In Scotland there are no natural
resources to develop, and in Canada the
banks will develop no natural resources.
There was a Canadian banker once in
Rossland who loaned money to mining
men for opening up their properties.
He soon got the hook. The bank never
lost a cent of the money he loaned.
What they di 1 lose was a good manag
er, a man with common horse sense and
with iniative enough to use his own
judgement at times.
“Iniative” however constitutes the
cardinal sin in Canadian banking circles.
Canadian banks in British Columbia
are all branches of eastern concerns,
for which they are simply collection
agencies. There was an independent
bank in Vancouver a short time ago,
but the down-easters broke it with
neatness and despatch.
Most of the men whom the eastern
bank magnates put in charge of their
western collection windows would be
capable of running real banks if they
had the chance, but the rules under
which they have to work prevent them
from being of any constructive benefit
tr the communities in which their em
ployers have placed them.
From Nome to New York the Miner j
is receiving enquiries about Hyder, and (
if the type which goes into these col- ■
umns would set itself, and if the days
were 36 hours long, we might find time
to answer fully and by personal letter
all the questions as »ed. But since we ■
have no time for letter writing the best
we can do is to shoot a copy or two of
the paper to the anxious ones and let
them draw their own conclusions.
GovernorxRiggs estimates Alaksa’s
white population at 32,000. Wonder!
what percentage of this population are
crazy. Reason for wondering is that
Congress is asked for $120,000 to care
for Alaska’s insane this year. Com
Alaskan
Hotel
McDonell
Jamieson
Reid
HEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN
Electric Lights ■ - Large Rooms
W. R. REID, Manager
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A SQUARE MEAL
A SQUARE DEAL
The MARKS
RESTAURANT and BAKERY
Mr. end Mrs. J. L. Campbell
ROWE’S COW BAY TANK SHOP AND
SECOND AVE. SHEET METAL WORKS
Manufacturers of All Kinds of Sheet Metal Goods
Galvanized Roofing Gas Tanks Sheet Copper and Brass
Chimney Tops Galley Pipes Stove Connections
Eave Troughing Ships’ Lamps Stove Pipes and Elbows -
Conductors Deck Plates Brass and Iron
Galvanized&Blaek Iron. Copper, Brass and Lead Pipes anil Fittings, all
sizes, i to 4 ” in stock. Sheet-iron, Black and Galvanized.
Sheet Copper, Brass and Zinc Carried in Stock, Sold by Sheet, Bun
dle or Ton Lots. Lead Pipes and Fittings.
We Specialize In Warm Air Furnaces — Repairs of All Kinds
Estimates Cheerfully Given 220 2nd Ave
We Aim to Please PRINCE RUPERT B.C.
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Pressing, Cleaning, Repairing
MISS LEATHA DAVIS
LAUNCH TAKU II
U.S. MAIL BOAT
LEAVES HYDER
EVERY TUESDAY
Freight and Passengers
Ed. J. Williams, Master
Alaska Trust & Investment Go.
Incorporated under Laws of Alaska Governing Banks & Trust Companies.
Paid up Capital $50,000
Surplus $5,000
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
Departments
BANKING Commercial & Savings
TRUSTS of every nature
BONDS
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES for Rent
INSURANCE Fire and Marine
CUSTOMS BROKERS
NOTARY PUBLIC
REAL ESTATE
Officers and Directors
F. E. Ryus
Dean C. Cannon
S. L. Cadwell •
James Dickson
F. J. Furnivall
Ed. J. Williams
T. J. Pennell
N. F, Zimmerman
A. C. Kreidler
President
Vice President
Secretary
T reasurer
Gen. Manager
We Solicit Your Business
pared with this, the request for §100,000
for roads seems wasteful extravagance
and $100,000 to investigate the mineral
resources presumptuous folly.
Since receiving the Hyder Alaska
Miner the Alaska Bureau of publicity
says in its bi-monthly bulletin: “That
Hyder, at the head of Portland Canal,
is destined to become a great mining
camp, is now a certainty,”
Send the Miner
to Your Friends
The approximate area of the unap
jortioned public lands in Alaska is
154,281,760 acres, and from authentic
sources it is estimated that fully one
ifth of the area is tillable and pasture
lands, capable of supporting a large
agricultural population.
William Dempsey, convicted of the
murder of Margaret Lavore at Anchor
age and Isaac Evans, deputy United
States marshall at Seward, will be
hanged in Valdez February 20.
Dr. H.J.McCallum, the pioneer Fair
banks physician, is spending the winter
in Idaho, and it is said at Fairbanks
that he may locate at Hyder.
TOOTH’S
SMOKE
SHOP
WILLIAM REID TOOTH, Proprietor
Soft drinks Solo Tables
Everybody Welcome
STEWART, B. C.
The
Portland
Bar
Soft Drinks,
Tobaccoes,
Cigarettes, etc.
Theresa O’Donnell
ALASKAN CIGAR STORE
Cigars, Tobacco, Soft Drinks
Mrs. M. HARRIS, Prop.
HYDER CIGAR STORE
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies and Refreshing Drinks
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MRS. A. MILLER, Proprietress.
WHAT YOU’RE DOIN’
SHIVERIN’—THAT’S WHAT!
YOU NEED WOOD
Get It From NELSON & FOY
F. L. LAKE
Launch SILVER HEELS and RED SCOWS
Speed - SERVICE
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The Stewart Trading Company an
nounces the opening of their new gen
eral store in Hyder and invites you to
come in and get acquainted. After
saying “how-do?” and absorbing some
of the heat from the big stove, if you
care to look around and maybe find
something that you like, it will give us
great pleasure to serve you, and at the
right prices.
We expect to make a living by giving you the
right kind of goods and the right kind of service. A1
though every boat will briug fresh supplies, we already
have a very complete assortment of everything that a
good general store should carry. Come in and get
acquainted.
STEWART TRADING COMPANY
G. E. AUSTIN