Th- Salmon River District In
|r arvelouaj/ Rich in Minerals
>nJ Ryder is the Gateway in
Consequence pf Which Hyder is
the Kas:»Mt '^rowing Town in
the North.
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VOL. J. NO. 24.
HYDER, Aliuka, April 9. 1920
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
LET’S PULL TOGETHER
Every resident of Hyder, whethei
interested personally in mining, in
business, or in knocking out a daily
wage, should do his utmost for the
furtherance of a project suggested
by Joe Green at the last meeting ol
the Commercial Association and
enthusiastically endorsed by that
body, a project which, if brought to
a successful consummation, will
mean more for the upbuilding of
Hyder than anything else that
could be undertaken this year.
Briefly, the proposition is this:—
That the Alaska Road Commission
and the Alaska Forest Service be
induced to provide access to this
town with the money at their dis
posal instead of expending 4t upon
the improvement of a road which is
already built, and which was built
for no other purpose than to con
nect a Canadian mine with a Can
adian wharf.
The bridge across Salmon river
near the mouth of Texas creek is
now assured. This will give pros
pectors access to the mineral area
lying within the boundaries of Al
aska, and during the coining sum
mer the prospectors mray be depend,
ed upon to looate trails into the
Chickamfn and Unuk river districts,
doing exploratory work which
would cost the government thous
ands of dollars to do. Next year
the government can build roads and
trails over the routes which the
prospectors will determine.
But if Americans are to benefit
by the opening up of this hinterland,
if United States citieens are to profit
from the mineral discoveries already
made and to be made in this part
of Alaska there must be some mode
of entry into Hyder from the har
bor. The Commercial Association
is very much alive to the situation
and the committee appointed to take
the matter up with the government
is the strongest that could be found
because each member of the com
mittee is already thoroughly con
versant with the facts, and is in a
position to forcefully outline them
to the government officials.
But the committee desires, and
must have, the undivided support
of the entire community!
Some philosopher has said that
if anyone wants anything earnestly
enough he will eventually get iti
another, that all things come to hiifl
who waits; but neither wishing nor
waiting is going to make Hyder
headquarters fof the mining coun
try at the town’8 baofc dckJr. A front
door must first be provided so that
people may oome into the town;
Hyder must have a wharf; If thtj
government can be induced to bttild
an approach, private capital will be
forthcoming to do the rest:
Billy James and partners have located
good pay on Fourth' of July Hill on Fair
banks creek, fourth of Jiiljt Hiff discov
ery was made Ju1y_£ fd03,'
^go ffG to: FOR
Hyder Has
Close Call
From Fire
By being late this week the Miner
is able to report a fire which com
pletely destroyed a building owned
by Adolph Anders, the “Cannonball
Kid,” and for a time threatened the
total destruction of other buildings
of the piled area. It was only bv
the most heroic efforts on the part
of Hyder residents that the flames
were confined to the one building
and the partial equipment provided
by the Commercial Association
proved indispensable.
The fire occurred early Saturday
afternoon, and evidently resulted
from a defective flue. The house,
which was one of the first built in
Portland City, as Hyder was former
ly named, was occupied by Mrs.
Margaret Fern and Miss Edith Ber
ger, both of whom were absent
when the flames were discovered.
Mrs. Fern conducted a laundry there
and this was her second misfortune
of the week, her place having been
robbed two nights previously, She
managed to reach home in time to
save her household effects.
First Court Ever
Held in Hyder
Commissioner John T. Reed heard
his first case in Hyder this Friday
and released trom custody W. H,
Wheat, who had been arrested the
previous night on a charge made by
Margaret Fern, whose house was
busglarized while she was absent
and over $50 6tolen from ber trunk.
The commissioner deemed the evi
dence insufficient to warrant bind
ing the prisoner ove*\ Both oom
plainant and accused are colored,
Mr. Reed, at the close of the hear
ing, stated that the government is
determined that law and order shall
prevail in this community, and that
secret service men would be sent
here if necessary.
THE MIDGET EMPORIUM
By combining two names handed in,
or rather, making use of half of each,
H. II. Howard has secured a name which
suits him, and the Up to Date Store will
hereafter be known as the Midget Em
porium. Emporium was chosen because
the name suggests strength, and Midget
because the store is small. The prize
money of $20 is divided between Miss
Maud Bishop and W. It. Hull.
HOME LAUNDRY MOVED
Mr. and Mrs. .lack O'Connor Hare mov
ed their home laundry to their new resi
dence on Cottonwood between fourth and
Fifth streets and now have rofctn for a
greatty enlarged business. They have
made an unqualified success with their
laundry and have been compelled to se
cure help to handle the trade Which has
grown even beyond thelb original expec
tations.
Hanson in SteWart
Hftify ftiHiSon. the Prince Rupert plum
ber, is now iR SteWSrt and hfij already
Installed Hot water systbthS ih several
places, incliihihg the Northlfn’ (trill, Rid
ley's and Belle's restaitrbhi, the use .
of his coils he enable! .any stove 1
owner to have almost instantaneous hot ;
water ih any amount. Seeing is believ- j
Ing. snd Hyder folks have a chance to in- :
vestigate by making a trij> to Stewart
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
H. H. Howard hai considerably enlarg
ed his store.
Wm. Papke hag gone to work at the
Big Missouri.
D. J. McLean, a builder from Victoria,
is a recent arrival.
John Dahlberg. a hard rock man from
the interior. Is a recent arrival.
Bill McGrew has sent lumber to Eleven
mile for improvements on his cabin.
Dan McDonald, foreman of the Big
Missouri, was down early in the week,
•Billy Bthingtpn who has been cooking
at the Forty Nine, came down Wednes.
day,
L. A. Doyle, a building contractor of
Seattle, arrived this week and w|U go in
to business here,
Charlie Berg arrived Tuesday from An
chorage. He was a hard rock contractor
on the Alaska railroad.
Mrs. Nels Glantz, who had a barber
shop on Main street last summer, has re
turned from a trip outside.
i
C. M, Pratt, who wgs in business here
last summer, is back from Seattle and
Portland where he spent the winter.
Harvey Crumm, formerly of the build
ing contracting firm of Stevenson and
Crumm, Hazelton, has become a resident
of Hyder.
Wm. Fillier. former foreman of the
Lakeview, is back from Vancouver. He
has property up the Salmon and will
some work soon.
A1 Sweeney and H. A. Allen mushed
up to the Forty Nine Monday, the latter
taking his dog team along to haul some
wood for the camp,
Oren F. Hill, the druggist, returned on
the Prince of Wales Tuesday from Ket
chikan, having made a speedy recovery
from a touch of pneumonia.
Wm. Ilobill, who has been in most
camps in B. C.. and who took in the big
show in Franoe, Is here to. work with
Dalby B. Morkill, the surveyor.
The site of the Spider camp was reach
ed Wednesday by Superintendent John
Hovland and his crew of men and snow
shoed horses who are taking in supplies.
Wm. Bunting, one of the original loca
tors of the Premier and other Important
properties up the Salmon, has returned
to camp after spending the winter out
side,
Louis Watkins, one of the original own
ars of the Unicorn, and still heavily In
terested in mining property here, is bad
from Indiana where he spent the winte
with relatives.
Mrs. Dora Burnett, a mining wnmai
from the interior of Alaska, has arrive<
In Hyder to take a hand in the game hen
after spending, several months in the oi
fields of Texas.
Lon Doggett and F. W. Petrie whi
have a contract to drive 200 feet of tunne
on the Unicom, were down this week
They are now in 128 feet, and expect t<
finish next month.
Dalby B. Morkill, B. 0. land turveyoi
and publisher of the famous Morkill maj
of Salmon river district, has arrived t<
begin his season's work. He has opener
an office in Stewart.
Jack Lambert has purchased a powei
saw from Nelson and Heath and gone
into the wood business. He did this ai
an opportune time as the town was fac
ing a wood famine.
Captain A. M. Sobieralski, brother ol
Mrs. Wm. Gray, visited the camp this
week. He was in command of the patrol
boat that destroyed the German submar.
ine that sunk the Lusitania.
Harry Howson, superintendent of the
Forty Nine, has gone to Vancouver on
business. In his absence his position
will be filled by Wesley Warren, who re
cently arrived from Sidney Inlet,
W. R. Hannen, secretary and treasurer
of the Portland-Wyoming Oil Syndicate,
who are drilling In the Ferris field of Wy
oming, has been in Hyder this week. He
Is en route to Katalla to look that field
over for his company.
Mrs. Helen V Rstmere, for 18 years a
resident of Alaska, is putting up a room
ing house on the forest reserve which will
:nntaln 22 beds. Mrs. Estmere's husband
who was a mining and civil engineer,
lied in Juneau In 1917.
R. J. Suratt, Alaska field operator for
the Gaumont weekly plctoral service, has
Finished his work for the present in this
iectlon and will return to Wrangell. He
was fortunate in securing some very fine
pictures portraying the business and other
activities of the district.
W. A. Meloche, engineer in charge in
this district for the Algunican Syndicate,
went to Ketchikan Wednesday to meet
the vice-president of the syndicate who
is out from Belgium. They will go to
Rupert together, and Mr. Meloche will re
turn from that port on the next G. T. P.
Poat.
NOT 12 D CAPTAIN HKHK
Captain John Irving, one ot the best
known ship masters and mining men of
the Pacific coast, spent the week visitirg
with M. R. Jamieson. Captain John is
owner of a group of claims adjoining the
famous Engineer mine at Atlin and will
do considerable development this year.
He first brought a vessel to Sjtagway 47
years ago, His present home is Victoria.
AVERAGE YEARLY PRICE8
SILVER, COPPER, LEAD AND ZINC
1910 to 1919 Inclusive
Silver Copper Lead Zinc
Y««r Oz. Lb. Lb. Lb.
1910 . 54 .127 .044 .054
1911 ,53 .125 ,045 ,057
1912 .615 .165 .045 .069
1913 .604 .155 .044 .056
1914 ..,..., .553 .133 ,939 ,051
1915 .507 .175 .047 .124
1916 ,658 .272 .068 .184
1917 ..;814 .271 .087 .089
1918 :967 ,247 .074 .083
1919 1.110 .189 .057 .073
average Prices Silver, Copper, Lead
and Zinc During 1919
SilvSh Copper Lead
M8hth Oz
fatluary ,.;:;:101.12
FebHiary ....101:12
Vfkrch ...:...:::lbl.l2
ktfril ;;101.12
way ...:.:...:....ib7.23
iuhe .;.110.50
iuiy .:;:::106.36
tijgust ........111.35
September ..113.92
Igtober .119.10
November ..127.57
December !!l3li&2
Lb.
.204
:173
:150
452
.159
.175
.208
.225
.221
.216
Lb.
.056
.051
.052
.050
.053
1055
60
64
57
ZinB
j-b.
.074
.067
:065
.064
.064
.069
.077
.078
.075
.078
MINERS HOTELOPENING
The Mirers Hotel was given a real old
fashioned housewarming Monday night
in celebration of its being officially open
ed to the public. Mrs. Anna Weiss, the
proprietor, showed the true instincts of
hospitality, and the refreshments provid
ed were thoroughly appreciated. The so
cial amenities commenced immediately
following a meeting of the Commercial
Association held there, and that body, to
gether with numerous other visitors, agreed
in praising the manner in which the aff
air was conducted, and in admiring the
decorative effects produced by the hostess
and her capable assistants.
su“<S ™I!IVDER DR0G roR
STEWART • HYDER
STARE
, . . LEAVES
SteWaRt Hyder
a. m. 12:30 p. m.
2:30 p. m. 3:30 p; m.
Special trips arranged.
Ask Funds
On Dock
i
Approach
Letter from
Association
Committee
The following letter is self explan
atory.
Hyder, Alaska, April 7, 1920;
Major W.H.Waugh;
of Alaska Road Commission,
Juneau, Alaska.
Dear Sir—
At a meeting of the
Hyder Commercial Association held
at Hyder, Alaska, Monday, April 5,
the undersigned were appointed a
committee and instructed to com
municate with you in the matter of
road building in the vicinity of Hy
der, and we beg to present the mat
ter to you in the following light:
The citizens of Hyder have been
informed that the Alaska Road
Commission has a considerable sum
of money at its disposal to be spent
in road work Jn our section, and be
lieving that any information we
may be able to give ths Commiss
ion in regard to requirements which
will advance the upbuilding and
development of this section and the
Territory will be appreciated by the
Commission, therefore we submit
the following outline for your con
sideration, The present road lead
ing from Hyder to the mines of
both Alaska and Canada will not
contribute to tfae upbuilding of Al
aska unless proper connections are
made with an American dock built
on American territory. At present
all materials and supplies for this
section must pass over a Canadian
dock and through Canadian terri
tory. In other words it must go
out of American territory into Can
ada, pay Canada for that privilege,
and then return to American terri
tory. This condition is an enor
mous handicap on the Americans
in developing this section, and calls
for relief, »f relief be at all possible,
and with the cooperation of the Al
aska Road Commission can be made
an accomplished fact.
The way to relief is through the
building of a dock on the American
side, and have the road start from
that dock. The building of this dock
is a costly undertaking, and one
which capital will undertake with
extreme caution. It is made costly
©wing to the extreme length of ap
proach over the tide fiats necessary
to cohnect the dock with the road;
and any company putting in such
a dock under present conditions
Would be put to the expense of buii- J
ding considerable road to render I
their dock servicible. Owing to this
additional road work necessary to i
a dock, private capital hesitates to
undertake this much needed im- 1
provemfent: In view of this fact
we desire to suggest to your Com
tbUsion that they btlUd this *pp
That the most important road
building that could be undertaken
in this section this season consists
of an approach for a wharf will be
earnestly impressed upon the gov
ernment by the Hyder Commercial
Association, who held their regular
monthly meeting Monday night and
took action in this regard. The
meeting was one of the most inter
esting ever held by that body and
marks another step forwaed in the
business development of Hyder. A
committee was appointed to take
the wharf approach up with the gov
ernment, and the letter prepared by
them appears in another column.
Votes of thanks were tendered
Sam Estes who managed the street
improvement dance. Miss Arthur,
owner of the building, and Ed Jones
one of its occupants who prepared
it for the dance,
U.S. Deputy Marshall John Ronau
volunteered the information that
the construction of a bridge across
Salmon river is assured, and als,'
that steps are being taken for the
establishment here of a radio sta
tion, Delegate George Grigsby hav
ing taken the matter up with the
War Department and Signal Corps
roach, which tn all fairness can be
classed as part of the road work for
this section. We have received as
surance from one whom we believe
to be a reliable person that if the
Commission will build the approach
across a considerable part of the
tide flats that this party or others
will pul in a dock,
If such an arrangement were
made, thus assuring this much need
ed and absolutely necessary im
provement, we have no hesitancy
in saying that it will re&ult in ten
fold more benefits in developing
American territory than would the
expenditure of an equal sum of
money in any other way.
This is of vital importance to the
development of American interests
and will result in adding to Alaska
a community which in taxable
wealth will soon reimburse the Am
erican government many times over
for the expenditure that will be in
volved.
We foliy believe that here in Hy
der we have the nucleus of a com
munity that in a short while will
grow, if properly encouraged, into
one of the great industrial centeis
of Alaska.
In submitting to you* body this
question we feel that we will have
four earnest cooperation if we can
out show that our efforts are design
id for a proper purpose, and in that
■elptect we will say that anything
we can or may be able to do to aid
four body in giving this the earnest
consideration which We know you
viH give it, We hold burselvea ready
:o respond at your request.
J.K.Green
John Ronan
Sam Fitzgerald
P.RBaftkDS