fW DIIMM Itir* Diattict it
Marvelously Rich in Mineral*
•nd Hyde* is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder ia
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
DPR ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
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VOL. 4. NO. If.
HYDER, Alaska. Mar. 28. 1923
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
UNIT SYNDICATE
FOR DEVELOPING
THE WASHINGTON
Adopting the successful plan
Introduced here by the Fitzgerald
Bros, to finance preliminary de
velopment on the Titan, the
Washington Mining Syndicate of
Alaska has been formed by R. E.
Lundvall and associates for the
purpose of continuing develop*
thent on the Washington group*
which is considered one of the
tnost promising properties in the
Marmot river section. The or
ganization holds 15,000 units at
$ 10 each and enough will be sold
to carry out a development pro*
gram already planned. R. E.
Lundvall, assayer, practical min
ing man and locator of the daims,
is chairman of trustees* his asso
ciates on the board being Donald
bonald* captain of the Prince
Rupert, Norman McLean, purser,
ftnd Malcolm J. Woods, of Bris
tol, Penna,
The group consists of seven
claims, 350 acres, situated on the
south fork of Marmot river, six
miles from tidewater and at an
elevation of 3500 feet. Eight
parallel veins have been located
bn the property, all of which may
be crosscut with 500 feet of tun
hel. Mr. Lundvall has already
driven 1 15 feet and at the face
Indications point to the first vein
being very close. The topogra
phy of the location is ideal for
economical mining, a foot in depth
being gained for every foot the
tunnel is advanced, and an easy
grade to the beach affording cheap
transportation, once a road is com
pleted. The first work to be un*
1 der taken this season will be the
■ construction of a permanent camp
a d providing transportation facil
ities.
On the surface the Veins have
been highly eroded and oxidized,
hut nevertheless good values are
obtained in various places where
open cuts were run, the ore in one
of these cuts carrying over 200
ounces in silver. Mining men an*
ticipate great activity in the Mar
| mot section this summer, a suffi
| cient amount of work having been
i done in the past on a number of
properties to prove lar^e quanti
ties of marketable ore. The sec
tion has been neglected somew! at
on account of the extreme interest
taken on the Salmon and the Bear,
but physical advantages and high*
grade ore showings will soon force
the Marmot into the limelight and
Secure for it the government assis
tance in road building to which it
is entitled.
'Usaitn steam baths SI. II. J. Scott.
I
REPORTED THAT
ENGLISH SYNDICATE
BOYS DALY ALASKA
A dispatch from Seattle says:
Sale of the famous gold and silver
mines of the Daly Alaska Mines
Company near Hyder, Alaska, on
an option to H. S. Denny, mining
engineer of London. England, was
announced Friday by Attorney
Maurice D. Leehey, representing
the Daly interests.
The proyerty adjoins the Pre
mier mine in British Columbia,
which was also developed by
Pat Daly. The Premier last year
paid $3,150,000 in dividends, ac
cording to Mr, Leehey.
The London interests have
shipped a considerable quantity of
mining machinery to the new pro
perty. They will operate under
an option to purchase the mine
for about $850,000.
FORTY NIKE MINE
IS ACQUIRED BE
BRITISH CAPITAL
M. R. Jamieson reports the sale
of the Forty Nine group, owned by
Sam Silvermau and associates of
New York, to an English syndicate.
A large amount of work, con
sisting of two tunnels, drifts, up
raises and Crosscuts, was done on
the property in 1919 and '20 under
the management of Harry Howson
and several shoots of high-grade
ore carrying native silver and ar
gentite were opened up, as well as
a large tonnage of milling ore de
veloped. The properly has lain
dormant since 1920 but it is un
derstood that the new owners in
tend undertaking extensive devel
opment work.
jeffersoFcalls AT
ROTH SIDES OF LINE
The Alaska Steamship Compa
ny’s passenger and freight carriei
Jefferson was in at midnight March
26 with one passenger for Hyder
and 120 for other Alaskan ports.
The ship calltti first at the Cana
dian wharf, having 40 tons of freight
to discharge there, principally oats
for the Premier, 'i bn ty-sevec tons
ware dischaiged at the Hyder
wharf for local merchants, and
the ship cleared for Ketchikan at
8:30 Tuesday morning.
Wood delivered $4.5'T per rick. See
Mooney, Srickson or McPhee,
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn’t to be
Found elsewhere try i
The Midget Emporium.
Dick Bell has left Ketchikan and
gone to Los Angeles.
John Erickson came down this
week from the Indiah.
Billy Black is cookihg on the
lighthouse tender Fern.
M. McLean and D. Fraser came
down Monday from the Premier.
Joe Green returned on the Jeff*
erson from a business trip to Se
attle.
Butterflies and bumble bees have
made their appearance, also a few j
mosquitoes.
Walter McDonald left Thursday j
for Alice Arm. where he has min
ing interests.
Markus SaVovich, manager of
the Golden Gate, returned Thurs
day from a trip Outside.
Harsy Smith, teacher of the pub
lic school in Stewart, went Outside
for the Easter holidays.
Emil Olson is back from Maple
Bay, having broken two ribs by
going over the dump with a car.
Harry Zeffert, the Stewart dry
goods merchant, returned Thurs*
Uily iruill cl UQ91UC93 111^ VSU191UV.
Bill Hall, one of the oldtiir.o
miners of the camp, mushed over
from Stewart this week for a visit.
Jas. Aitken, of the Dominion
telegraph service, reports that the
bears have oome out of their dens
Jake Hawkinson, proprietor of
the Exchatige Grill in Stewart, re*
turned Thursday from a business
trip to Vancouver.
Mrs. Marie Vincent has had the
street planked solid in front of the
Miners' Home and autos can now
turn there with no difficulty.
B. D. Clegg, representing the
Canadian Ingersoll Rand Company,
was a round trip passenger from
Vancouver on the Prince Rupert.
Jack Winn, in the customs ser
vice at Rupert, who has been re
lieving W. A. Noble at Silver
Heights, returned to his home
Wednesday.
J. A. McDonald. who has been
mining at the Mobile for more than
five months, came down this week
and intends making a trip to his
old home in eastern Canada.
Miss Elizabeth Pitt daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale L. Pitt, who has
been attending school in Rupert,
is spending the Easter holidays
with her parents at the Premier
mine.
Lee Baleh has a wire to the eff
ect that the Jeffersen. which was
to leave Seattle for Hyder April 7,
will not call here, but that the
Latouche will leave for this port
April 10.
Ice cream. Any quantity, at all timer,
Silver Grill,
The Hyder residents who had
been attending the court session
in Ketchikan returned Wednesday.
Deputy Marshal Mcbonald also
came over, but went back on the
same boat.
In front of the Golden Gate room*
ing house a slanting stretch of ice
caused a sled, heavily loaded with \
supplies for the Indian mine, in
cluding two ore cars, to slip from
the road and turn over, spilling
the load and breaking a large plate
glass window.
L. Jessen, of Boyle Bros. (Can*
ada) Ltd,, diamond drill contrac
tors, arrived this week on the Mat*
inion from Anfolc, Mr. Jessen has
been away since last fall, visiting
the Granby and Britannia mines
and the Cassidy coal mine where
Boyle Bros, have machibes Work
ing. He came here to inspect the
work at the Premier.
0. Besner, proprietor of the New
Knox Hotel in Prince Rupert, ae
eompanied by his wife and two
daughters, was in camp during
the dtay of the Prince Rupert
Thursday. Mr. Besner has great
faith in the future of this camp
and is figuring on going into busi
ness here. He is the kind of a live
wire who would be a valuable ac
quisition, should the town secure
him as a resident.
CONTRACT FINISHED
iN SUNSHINE TUNNEL
The Azurite, of the Granby Com
pany’s fleet, was in this week, pick*
ing up three miners for work at
the Maple Bay mine, and bringing
in E. J. Conway, field engineer for
the company, who returned to
Anyox on the Marraion. While
here Mr. Conway checked up the
work on the Sunshine, where the
contract for 150 feet of underground
work has been completed. The
tunnel cut a vein of good copper
ore, alongside of which a drift was
run, crosscuts being driven occas
ionally to determine the width of
the ore body, which was found to
vary i? om four feet to a few in
ches. Mr. Conway has decided to
do no more underground work un
til a considerable amount of sur
face prospecting by means of open
cuts c .n be done. The contrac
tors. -t ibert Peterson, Arved John
son und Olaf Stroe, have come
down to Stewart.
Cabin to rent. Bluntly Charlton.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch a
the Ocean View.
Large coal heater, now in Salmon
River Store, for aale. Em cat Blue.
30—30 U. S. rifle for aale, $20. North
ern Pool Hall
CM FORMED
TAKES CONTROL
OF TELLOWSTONE
Completing a successful trip of
several months' duration in the
east, M. R» Jamieson returned
Thursday. Pat Daly, who ac
companied him, is expected back
in about six weeks. In Pittsburg
they interested capital in the Yel
lowstone group and organized the
Daly Yellowstone Mining Com
pany, with a capitalization of
$2,000,000, incorporated Under
laws of Delaware and registered
in British Columbia. Develop
ment work and the establishment
of a permanent camp will be un
dertaken upon the return of Pat
Daly, which will be as soon as
supplies can be taken in.
The Yellowstone was located
by Wm. Murphy, and adjoins the
Forty Nine group on the west. A
considerable amount of surface
work consisting of open cuts has
been done, exposing a series of
veins carrying galena and grey
copper, with some native silver
and argentite visible. The new
company, with Pat Daly as man
ager, intends going after the ore
in a business-like manner this sum
mer and an extensive development
program has been mapped out,
PERMIT ISSUED
File Fiesi st,
IMPROVEMENT
Permission to complete the pub
lic improvement started last (all by
the Hyder Commercial Associa
tion, involving the planking of
First street and connecting it with
the government approach to the
Batch & Dorey wharf has been
received, as per the following tele
gram:
Juneau, March 28,
H. H. Howard,
Secretary Hyder Com
mercial Association:
Permit for proposed roadway
as requested in your application
of December 6, has been issued
on this date and will be forward
ed by the next mail, 6:1 5 p. m.
U. S. Engineers’ Office.
ASSOCItTHETIKG
A meeting of the Hyder Com
' mercial Assoiation has been called
i for Thursday evening, April 8, in
Moose hall. There will be an open
* discussion and everyone in the
Whole town is urged to attend,
MOOSE SMOKER
ENLIVENED BV
BOXING BOOTS
The local lodge of the Loyal
Order of Moose, on Monday, March
26, had installation ef officers, fol*
lowed by a smoker at the Ocean
View Hotel, which was the most
successful smoker staged here fot
some years. The retiring dictator,
Ernest Blue, made a very eloquent
speech on the principles of the
order. P. S. Jack, his succesfor in
office, also spoke, expressing the
hope that he would be able to keep
up the good work done by his pre^
decessor and maintain the high
standard of excellence set for him
In adoition to the usual song*
and jokes attendant at such g«th*
eiings, three exhibition sparring
matches were staged, with Win-,
Bunting officiating as referee. The
first match, between Arthur Bayn*
ton, affectionally known as “Old
Man Baynton” and Bobby Kerr,
eaused lots of hilarity. The floor
being rather slippery, neither con
testant wos able to keep his feet,
though both showed that they
knew their business. The second
match, between Nels Gunderson
and Harold Blanton, wes very good,
both contestants showing plenty of
class and keeping the spectators
on their tip-toes with excitement.
Blanton appeared to have a shade
the best of the argument, although
the referee's decision of a draw
was cheerfully accepted by the
crowd. The last match, between
Sam McNeill, runaef-up in the
Canadian expeditionary forces
championship, and V.R. Nicholson,
“Nick the Barber,” was a show
in itself. Both showed no mean
knowledge of the the game, but
Nick left the impression that he
would clown at his own funeral,
Messrs. Ridley and Cameron,
the jazzist and the artiste, both
officiated at the piano and gave
excellent renderings in their re
spective lines.
SUMMER SCHEDULE FOR
GRAND TRUNK BOATS
The Canadian National Railways
have issued their schedule for the
present season covering the coast
ship system. Starting April 16
either the Prince Rupert or Prince
George will call at Stewart every
Sunday at 7 a. m. until the sailing
north from Vancouver June 4,
when the summer schedule will
come into effeot, bringing a ship to
Stewart on Saturday mornings at
7 o’clock. In October the time
table will switch back to that used
| in the spring sailings.
I
Lawrence, the Watehtnaker.