I'll ' Salmon River District i*
)t rveioualv ttich in Minerals
and Hydei is the Gateway in
C»nseqn‘nre of Which Hyder ia
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
HYDER ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska • British Columbia, Mineral Area
This Paper is Out to Publish aP
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VOL. 3. NO. 51.
HYDER, Alaska, Nov. 29. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
STOUR GROUP
IS BONDED B)
R, W, WOOD
The Stoner group, lying be
tween rhe Daly Alaska and the
{i r.iationv boundary line, which
v/H bonded last spring by the
F leral Mining and Milling Co.
and later relinquished, has again
been bonded, this time by R. W,
Wood, president of the Premier
(iold MininS Co. It is learned
from a reliable source that A. B.
Trites and W. R. Wilson, asso
ciates of Mr. Wood in the original
Premier syndicate and still heavily
interest- d in that property, share
the new venture with him.
The pioperty consists of twenty
claims, nine of which are owned
by il. B. Stoner, j, V. Clegg and
!Jaddv O’Rourke, the other eleven
being owned individually by Mr,
Stoner. The latter, when he
went south a few weeks ago, took
m option on his partners’ inter
ests, thus involving a deal within a
deal. The exact term* of the
bond just taken are not available
for publication, but it is known
ihat a substantial cash payment
ivas made and that the time ex*
tends over three years. Work is
to start as soon as practicable in
the spring and $5000 is to be ex
pended within three months after
commencing development.
lhe work thus far done con
sists only of annual assessments
but some fine surface showings of
ore have been disclosed, and the
position of the property, lying be
tween the Daly Alaska and the
Premier, gives it pre-emrnent pos
sibilities as a potential mine.
Mr. Stoner was here during the
stay of the Prince Rupert Sunday
conferring with his partners, leav
ing again 'he same day for Van
couver.
In the commissioner's court on
Monday morning, in the case of
Ernest Blue, plaintiff, vs J. K.
Green, defendant, Mr.. Blue act
ing as his own counsel and C. H.
Sundmacher appearing specially
jor Green, the latter filed a mo
on to dismiss suit for want of jur
s, diction. The C°urt held that
inasmuch as the plaintiff had charg
d fraud to land contract he could
not try the case, and would have
to sustain the motion.
NOTICE, YOU SHAVERS
Hereafter the regular closing time of
the Malamute barbering department will
y p. m., and on Sundays and holidays
* tty m.. Joe (jrashio,.
MOBILE MINES LTD
START DEVELOPING
HIGH GRIDE ORES
Organization of a company to
operate the Mobile group has been
perfected under the name Mobile
Mines Ltd., with a capitalization
of $700,000, a large part of
which has been subscribed in the
east. Work is to be prosecuted
all winter and is already under
way, with R. L. Clothier as sup
erintendent and Wm. Watson as
foreman.
The property is located on Gla
cier creek a short distance from
Stewart, Nevertheless consider
able difficulty was experienced in
getting work started, owing to the
early snowfall, but winter supplies
for twelve men are now on the
ground, this number being em
ployed in driving ahead an adit
tunnel on the main lead, which is
exceptionally well defined and has
been traced for several hundred
feet. Sufficient work was done
by the former owners, H. P. Gib
son and Louis Legge, to demon
j strate the presence of a large am
ount of shipping ore, some of
which runs up to 1000 ounces in
silver.
The lead is similar to those of
the Slocan district, where they can
be developed by adit tunnels and
ore stoped from the time the
ground is broken, ft is a practi
cal certainty that by spring there
will be a considerable tonnage to
be shipped from the Mobile.
FIRST STREET IS NOW !
CENTER OF ATTRACTION
The First street planking project
is commencing to assume definite
form, the piling being practically
all set and caps placed for a block
or more from Main street. With
the opportunity to obtain visual
evidence of the importance of this
street, s >:ne residents are now
wishing that they had been fore
handed enough, or early enough
residents, to secure lots along this
highway before they had all been
claimed. Some instances of lot
jumping have occurred aud there
may be a mix-up or two as a re
sult. The outcome of this cannot
now be predicted, as there are
legal questions as to proprietery
rights to be established. However*
one case of this kind has been tried
before a, jury in Ryder, involving
the building located at the rear
of the lot occupied by the Junction
building on Volunteer Drive. In
this case the building was awarded
;to the. lot claimant.
I
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to be
Found elsewhere try i
The Midget Emporium. '
1847 Rogers Silver at The Midget
Emporium.
Don’t forget the Pioneer hard
times ball tonight.
Mrs. Edgar Harris left Sunday
for a visit in Vancouver.
Mickey Nash has gone up to help
develop the Titan ore bodies.
And get ready for the First St.
Improvement dance Dec. 15.
Mrs. I. N. Hoguewood returned
Sunday from a visit in Rupert.
Goodrich Shupaks. The Midget j
Emporium.
Dick Inkster, an oldtimer of the
Interior, arrived this week from
Anchorage.
Jack Chisholm, broiher of Lee
Chisholm, arrived this week from
the Interior.
Walter Broad has been appointed j
customs collector for the wharf and
Hyder B. C.
W. F. Maxwell, an oldtimer of
the Hazelton and Cariboo districts,
is a recent arrival.
T. J. Shenton, B. C. mine inspec
ton arrived Sunday and has gone |
up to the Premier:
Niel Mathieson, an oldtimer of!
Alice Arm, who has been working
at the Premier, went south Sunday.
An extensive line of Stationery
appropriate for Chrisimas remem*,
branees at The Midget Emporium.
Lang Heaters—The Midget Em
poriam.
C. A. Banks, manager of the B.C..
Silver, accompanied by Mrs. Banks,!
left Sunday on a business trip to j
Vancouver.
The Crawford Transfer Cc. are:
now handling the Canadian Nation
al Express and money order busi-'
ness in Stewart.
James Lee, a pioneer blacksmith
of the camp, left Sunday to spend
the holidays at his home in South
I Port Mann, B. C.
Leather Goods at The Midget
Emporium.
Frank Nagel, who conducts a
transfer and taxi business here
during the summer months, left
Sunday to spend the winter with
relatives in Minnesota.
Garnet C. Watt, special agent of
the Mutual Life Assurance Co. of
Canada for British Columbia and
the Yukon, is again visiting this
eamp. He has just returned from
a trip through the interior.
Fountain Pens—Eversharp Pen
cils at The Midget Emporium.
The Chilcoot arrived Friday with
100 to ns. of coal for the Crawford
Transfer Co. and ten tons of ce
| ment for the Premier. On the out
i ward: trip she took 800 tons of Pre
| mier high-grade ore to the Tacoma
^untlter*
Toilet Sets in Pyralin Shell at
The Midget Emporium.
Elmer Kavanaugh, outside fore
man for the Premier, returned
Sunday from a visit with his fam
ily in Vancouver, during which the
stub of a fiinger recently amputat
ed by being caught in machinery
was given a chance to heal up.
Candy—Candy—Candy. Candy
in Baskets—Candy in Boxes—Can
dy in Bulk. Candy from every
State on the Pacific Coast—from
C alifornia—from Oregon—from
Washington all assembled in friend
ly conclave at The Midget Empor
ium.
Owing to non-delivery of films
due to a mix-up in the Ketchikan
boat service, there were no shows
in the Green Theatre Saturday and
Tuesday nights. The management
expects that there will be no repe
tition of this trouble and that next
Saturday night the house will re
sume giving pleasure to its patrons.
The Carmen took the regular
trip of the Prince of Wales from
Ketchikan, arriving Friday night
and leaving Saturday. The depar
ture was hurried owing to the ne
cessity of Marshal Beaumont to
reach Ketchikan in time to connect
with the Jefferson, which was south
bound with a number of prisoners
whom he was required to accom
pany.
Mrs L. Van Winkle, a recent ar
rival from Fairbanks, has leased
the Comer building in Hyder B. C.
for an office and residence. Mrs.
Van Winkle is an accomplished
pianist and teacher of that instru
ment as well as of vocal expression.
Interior and westward papers re
ceived contain flattering notices of
her piano recitals in a number of
Alaskan towns.
By striking a match near a can
of carbide that had become wet
j and was leaking, J. M. Corliss was
' severely burned about the face
' Monday morning at the tank now
under construction on the bluff
j above the Kyder B. C. wharf. Fear
j is entertained for his eyes. Dr.
; Chace rendered first aid and the
: injured man was tneu rushed up to
| Dr. Carson, the company doctor at
| the mine.
Governor Scott C. Bone has ap
j pointed Dr. H. L. Hed<?er as a mem
ber of the Territorial Board of Den
tal Examiners to succeed Dr. R. R.
Meyers formerly of Fairbanks and
Nenana, who has removed from the
Territory. Dr. Hedger is a pioneer
in the interior, and has been pract
| icing his profession in Fairbanks
j and either interior towns for a num
! ber of years, Dr. Lee Hedger,
who is practising dentistry here,
i&a saurof the new examiner.
A. M. AND M. PRESIDENT
PLEASED WITH OUTLOCK
i Grant Mahood, president and
managing director of the American
Mining and Milling Co., who con
trol the Fish Creek Mining Co. and
own the Betty and Daly-Sullivan
groups, returned Sunday from a
business visit of several weeks in
Vancouver. Since his return he
has been up to the Fish Creek
mine, and expressed himself last
night as well pleased with the man
ner in which development has been
pushed during his absence under
the supervision of Foreman Angus
McLeod.
I The merits of the property are
becoming well recognized in finan
cial centers, Mr. Mahood said, and
the first block of 100,000 shares of
I
stock placed on the market at par
value, has been over-subscribed,
with the result that the treasury is
in a stable condition and ample
funds are now on hand to guaran
tee work throughout the winter.
Ore shipments will commence as
soon as the Hyder dock is finished,
and the smelter returns should as
sist materially in caring for the
expenditures still necessary to be
made for milling the lower grade
ores and providing all equipment
needed in an efficiently operated
mine.
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
CLUB IS ORGANIZED
Organization of the International
Service Club, composed of ex-ser
vice men from both sides of the
line in this district, was perfected
last Thursday night at a meeting
held in the Hotel Stewart. So far
as can be ascertained this is the
only club of the kind in existence,
and like the recently organized
Moose Lodge, will do much to pre
serve the present friendly relations
i between residents of Stewart and
| Hyder. Meetings will be held al
ternately in the two towns and the
first social function will be a smo
ker on the night ©f December 7 in
the Lighthouse Rooms, Hyder B. C.
Officers of the club were elected
as follows: President, H. Scovil;
vice president, H. W. M. Rolston;
secretary, W. S. Orr; treasurer,
Fred Dorey; executive committee,
Messrs Blanton, Watson, Broad;
trustees, Messrs Bennett, Wilson,
Noel Traversy.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch at
the Ocean View.
For sale, eight spring cots and mat
| tresses. Enquire Miner office.
I _, •
Russian steam baths $L II. J. Scott.
Cabin* to rent. Btondy Charlton.
Lawrence, the Watchmaker,
I
MOOSE LODGE
ENJOY A FINE
DUTCH LUNCH
After the institution and instil
lation meeting Monday night in
their new hall in the Erickson buil
ding, which they have leased, the
Portland Canal Lodge of Moose ad
journed to the Ocean View Hotel,
across the line and away from the
blight of the Eighteenth Amend
ment, and enjoyed themselves at
a real old-fashioned Dutch lunch,
with row on row of the bottled nec
tar that made Milwaukee famous,
flanked by phlanexes of sandwiches,
cheese, dill pickles, ’u everything
The affair was in the nature of a
celebration over their successfully
organizing a branch of one of the
strongest lodges in the world, band
ing themselves together into a lo
cal body that knows no distinction
between American and Canadian,
a body that cannot but prove a
strong factor in more firmly cem
enting the already strong ties of
friendship existing between the
husky young mining towns at the
head of Portland Canal.
The festival was held in the ball
room of the hotel, where a hugh
T-shaped table groaned with good
things. The table did all the groan
ing that was done, the 46 masters
occupying themselves with zeal in
the business of satisfying their
innards and bandying words of wit
and wisdom around the boar-.h
Ernest Blue. District Deputy Su
preme Dictator, who organised the
local, furnished the heavy artillery
i in the speech making, reviewing
I the history of the Moose organize
j tion, recounting its achievements
and outlining its aims and ambi
tions. It was an address th t was
intensely interesting, especially u»
the many new members v ! o have*
joined the lodge here. Short talkie
were given by several othe rs, ai.u
some of the musically gift .i enter
tained with vocal s- lecti • s.
in all, the event was one of the
most enjoyable that has occurred
' in the complex life of the .undary
I dwellers in this mineral paradise.
NEW LIGHTINGPLAN f
NEARING COMPLETION
Lee Balch’s electric light plant
1 is almost ready to go into opera
tion, and will be supplying lights
j within the next few days, providing
; nounforseeir delays occur. The
, heavy maehinery arrived Friday
i on the Carmen and has been in
i
Istalled. Wires are being strung;
| throughout the three sectioua of
j the town.