LYONS’ MEAT MARKET
Our Goods “The Empire’s
Standard”
Meats kept in first-clas« cook r during the hot weather
Try Our SHAMROCK BUTTER, EGGS. LARD,
HAM and BACON. HOME-MADE PORK SAUSAGES.
J. O. Lyons, Manager
NORTHERN POOL HALL
“Where Good Fellows Get Together”
Robert C. Jeffery, Prop.
HYPER LUMBER CO.
Rough
Dressed
LUMBER
Rustic
Wainscotting
From a sliver to a cargo
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
The Healy Fiver Coal Corpora
tion has broken ground for a new
coal minte at Healy.
Tha new territorial assay office
for Mayo district wiill be at Minto
Bridge, about 12 miles from Mayo.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop has put up
$100 which will be paid to anyone
who can show a bona fide oil well
within ten miles of Anchorage.
Captain J.H.Cann, Lisianskl pen
insula mining operator, is taking
machinesy in to his mine. A crew
of 16 men under supervision of
Dan J. Williams are at work on the
El Nido property.
Good prospects of gold and silver
quartz have been discovered on
Zarembo island, about 20 miles
from Wrangell, according to Torn
Baker, veteran prospeotor, of Jun
eau. Samples assay $82 a ton in
gold and seven ounces In silver.
With headquarters at Biorbo Is
land in Sitka sound, native sealers
have captured more than 100 fur
seals. Natives are the only per
sons allowed to dfitHi fur seals in
Alaska, and they U9e spears in get
ting them, as they sleep on the sur
face of the water. Under normal
conditions the catch of Pur seals
Would represent a considerable am
ount of money, but it is said that
the market for them at this time is
exceedingly poor and the hunters
will not realize a large profit from
the sale.
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N.Ruthmacher has been appoint
ed postmaster at Iditarod.
E. R. Tarwater has been elected
cashier of the Bank of Anchorage.
The Alaska Road Commission
will build a road on Lisianski pen
insula from the beach to the min
ing property of Capt. J.H.Cann and
associates.
Paul Denhart and associates have
dosed a deal and wiil work the
property of the Crow Creek mining
company, at Girdwood, on Turn
again Arm, this season.
Casey Moran, formerly a well
known newspaperman of Dawson
and Fairbanks, a resident of Juneau
prior to going to the Klondike, is
in Tampico, Mexico. Moran gained
fame by towing icebergs into Jun
eau so he could have ice in his
cocktails.
A 25-stamp mill is being install
ed in the Girdwood district by the
Gold Jewel mining company. The
Girdwood has been a producer of
placer for the last ten years but
this is the first development of
quartz to be recorded in the imme
diate region.
Tom Kellogg, a prospector living
in a cabin at the Forks, on Twenty
mile creek, about four miles from
Hadley, hall his leg broken by a
tree he was falling. He crawled
two miles to his eabin, and after
Constructing a pair of rude crutch
es and binding his leg in a splint,
de made his way to town.
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO.
OF HYDER
Incorporated under thejlaws of Alaska
Capital Paid Up $15,000.00
Commercial ana Savings Departments
Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Money Telegraphed to all Parts of the
United States
Why not enjoy yourself?
Tie a can to Trouble and take an putihg at the
FISH CREEK ROADHOUSE
All the comforts of a home and the beat trout fishing in the district
Numerous other attractions.
. Chris Benson, Proprietor.
Regular Boarders Taken
$1.80 per day
BREAD & ALL KINDS of PASTRV
JIMMY CARTER « "OLD BILL'S PLACE11
HYDER PAINT SHOP
Traversy Bros.
SIGNS
Paint* Oils, Stains, Varnishes. Shellac, Wallpaper, Deadening Felt,
Cheese Cloth, Kalsnmine.
Sutherland Building. Main Street
HYDER, ALASKA
Gateway to the Great Salmon River Mineral Area
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine*
You Have to Come to Hyder to\
Reach the Mines
FASTEST GROWING TOWN IN THE NORTH