,ie Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-clas3 matter
at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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An Independent Newspaper
Balancing the Budget.
Following a Federal deficit
of 2,472 million dollars last
year, it is estimated that the
deficit for the current fiscal
year will reach 1,146 million,
in spite of increased taxation
imposed by the last session of
Congress.
For weeks President Hoover
and his advisers have been
wrestling with the difficult
problem of making ends meet,
and in his annual budget mess
age to Congress recommendat
ions of a specific nature were
made.
Economies proposed by the
president would effect a sav
ing of some 500 million dollors,
some of the larger items being
a reduction of 127 million in
pensions and other allowances
to veterans, 180 million in road
appropriations, 148 million less
for public buildings, 55 million
less for Federal employees,
cuts in Army and Navy costs,
less money for the Farm Board,
Hoover Dam, and river and
harbor improvements.
But even these economies, if
approved by Congress, would
still fall far short of balancing
the budget, so the president
recommended the imposition of
a general sales tax of two and
one-fourth per cent, estimated
to raise 355 million. He made
no mention of the possibility of
legalizing beer and imposing a
tax thereon, as is being pro
posed by the Democratic lead
ers.
Whatever else happens, it if
certain that there will be a con
siderable increase in Federal
taxation this year, and the
manner of levying it will be the
subject of some lively contro
versies during the present sess
ion of Congress.
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Cost and Worth
What a thing costs is often
much higher or lower than its
real worth. This was illustrat
ed in a recent address by a
leading engineer who took as
an example the cost and worth
of that highly useful metal,
tungsten.
While tungsten costs only
about a dollar a pound, this en
gineer declared that its value
in reducing electric light bills
would make it reasonably
priced at $330,000 a pound for
use in electric bulb filaments,
instead of the old carbon fila
ment exclusively used up to
about 25 years ago.
The nation’s electric light bill
of approximately 800 millions
of dollars a year would be 2,
900millions if the same amount
of light were produced with
carbon lamps, a< the tungsten
filament gives about four times
as much light from a given
amount of current as was ob
tained by the carbon filament.
Through hundreds of scien
tific discoveries and inventions
we are enable ! to enjoy com
forts and luxuries which would
have been entirely beyond the
reach of the average person
i'.hout the patient research
me; experimentation which
have made tin m possible . t a
low price. When we are dis
posed to complain about the
•ost of some useful commodity
or . ervice it would be well to
r< f cct upc.* its worth as well
as it® cost.
Just for Fun
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Why not exchange our war
debts for some well secured
peace bonds?
Nearly everybody and every
thing has been debunked ex*
cept the debunkers.
We may have milk from con
tented cows, but Wall Street
gets no wool from contented
lambs.
About the only short cut to
knowledge that we know of is
found in carefully avoiding
short cuts.
When a girl warms up to a
fellow a bit he thinks he has
her “knocked cold.”
It may be that radio sermons
are popular because there is no
collection taken.
INTERESTING NOTES
One-third of the world’s pop
ulation suffers from malaria,
which causes 2,000 deaths ev-!
ery year.
Glass, unbreakable even un
der hammer blows, a non-con
ductor of heat and cold, is now
being made of wood in Port
land, Oregon.
A tower of steel and alumi
num twice as tall as the Eiffel
Tower of Paris is proposed as a
feature of the Century of Prog
ress Exposition in Chicago.
It was recently reported that
80 per cent of American manu
facturers are dependent on ag
ricultural products. k
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
December 19, 1922.
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Frank Nagel, pioneer taxi
and transfer man, left Sunday
to spend the winter with rela
tives in Minnesota.
Dick Inkster, an old timer of
the interior, arrived this week
from Anchorage.
Walter Broad has been ap
jointed customs collector for
.he wharf and Hyder, B. C.
Mrs. L. Van Winkle, late of
rairbanks, has leased the Com
>r building in Hyder, B. C., and
will give instructions in piano
playing and vocal expression,
in both of which she is an ex
pert.
By striking a match near a
.•an of carbide that had become
wet and was leaking, J. M. Cor
liss was severely burned about
the face Monday morning at
the tank now under construct
ion on the bluff above the Hy
der, B. C.. wharf. Fear is en
tertained for his eyes.
The First Street planking
project is commencing to as
sume definite shape. The pil
ing has been practically all set
and caps are in place for a
block or more from Main
Street. Some instances of lot
jumping have occurred along
the new thoroughfare and
there may be a legal mix-up or
two as a result.
Since development was re
sumed by A. G. Larson in the
tunnel on the Virginia group
driven by Wm. Bunting last
summer, the tunnel has passed
through a cross dike two feet
in thickness and at last reports
had been in a good grade of
milling ore for 8 feet beyond
the dike. Mr. Larson has both
the Virginia and Taurus groups
ynder bond.
The Stoner group, lying be
tween the Daly Alaska and the
international boundary line,
has been bonded by R. W.
Wood,, president of the Pre
mier Gold Mining Company.
It is reported that A. B. Trites
and W. R. Wilson, associates of
Mr. Wood in the original Pre
mier syndicate, are interested
in the Stoner deal.
Development work will start as
soon as possible next spring.
Organization of a company
to operate the Mobile group
has been perfected under the
name of Mobile Mines, Ltd.,
with a capitalization of $700,
000. Work is to be prosecuted
all winter with R. L. Clothier
as superintendent and Wm.
Watson as foreman. Sufficient
work has been done by the for
mer owners, H. P. Gibson and
Louis Legge to demonstrate the
presence of a large amount of
shipping ore, some of which
runs up to 1000 ounces in sil
ver.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA j
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