The Salmon River District is
Marvelously Rich in Minerals
•nd Hyder is the Gateway in
Consequence of Which Hyder is
the Fastest Growing Town in
the North.
RYDER ALASKA MINER
Published at the Gateway to the Salmon River, Alaska - British Columbia, Mineral Area
This Paper ia Out to Publish all
the Mining News. Keep Ytfiir
Friends Pasted by Sending them
the Paper after You Have Read
it. Boost for Hyder all the
Time.
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
VOL. 1. NO. 5.
HYIXER, Alaska, Nov. 21, 1919
Eyes of Eastern Capital
Focus on Salmon River
Purchase o' Inter
est in Grec Pre
mier Mine by the
Guggenheims Has
Advertised Port
land Canal.
—
Acquision by the American Smelting
& Refining Co., familiarly referued to
in the west as the Guggenhoims, of
mining interests in this section will
undoubtedly have a stimulating effect
on those weak sisters in the capitalistic
catalogue who are afraid to blaze trails
of their own, but prefer to wait for
someone with more contiden e to show
them the way.
And an influx of mining engineers
mining promoters and wouldbe mining
investors may be expected in the early
si ring that wi.l eclipse any incursion
of the kind ever witnessed in the north
west with the exception of tae Klon
dike placer rush. And a placer stam
pede cannot with justice be compared
with the steadier and more substantial
quest of lode metals.
As an indication that this increased
demand for prope ties in the district
has already commenced, it may be
mentioned that New York parties are
dickering with Pat Daly for the Inter
national which group lies between the
Big Missouri and the boundary line.
The International is owned by Pat
Daly, R. \V. Wood. W. R. Wilson ar.d
-A. B. Trites, the last three being the
associates of R. K. Neill in the Prem
ier mine, and Mr. Wood being still
president of the reconstructed com
pany. Pat is now trying to bring his
three partners into an agreement so
that a deal on the International may
be .perfected this winter, giving the
new owners a [good early- start in the
spring for getting camps established
and development work under way.
SHORTY ERNST
CHAMP. DIVER
By virtue of his having made the
longest and most graceful dive from
the streets of Hyder to the mudflats
below that was ever accomplished.
Shorty Ernst is now claim ng the pie 1
dency of the High Dive Club, aud there
is apt to be considerable high-class pol
itics pulled if he is defeated in his aspi
rations.
S orty was taking a stroll Wednesday
night to see whether the country was
safe for Democrats, when he stubbed
his toe, There was a half inch of slush
on the smooth planks, and when Shorty
landed on hi3 corporation he shot across
the walk, and out through space like a
meteor, lighting graeelully on his face.
Shortly after, the worst gale of the
season was howling, and folks are try
ing to form a connection between the
two occurrances. ,
TRACTOR AT
FAIRBANKS
Last August, Frank and Graham, the
big hydraulic men of Eureka, received
a tractor from the outside for work in
connection with their mining claims,
and it has worked fine.
It is described as short and compact,
has a very short wheel base and can be
maneuvered in very cramped quarters.
It has been a very great success in
hauling a scraper and scraper tailings
and they find new use for it constantly.
The crank shaft has an extensiop on
PACKING SCENE ON SALMON RIVER.
*
•Tilli) is a fine bit of summer scenery up the Salmon River
valley and shows how supplies are packed into the mines
and properties until such time as wagon roads could have
been built, Dn Linlebn'g who, with his brother Andy
discovered and opened up the Big Missouri mine, who was the
original owner of -the Ryder townsite, having taken up a
homestead at the mouth of Salmon River in 1905, and who is
stiil one of the heaviest mine owners in the district, is here
shown with a string of pack horses on his way to the mines.
The horses seem fat and satisfied, which is a commentary cn
the native forage of the district.
which is a small pulley, and they have
run with it a im II portable sawmill
which they have there, with which 'hey
have sawed several thousand feet of
lumber for their next season’s supply
cf ciffle blocks, and their wi ter’s fire
wood.
The tractor pulls a wagon loaded with
two tons of supplies from Hot Springs
to their claims, at a rate of five miles
an hour, and Messrs. Frank and Gra
ham contend that it is the best invest
ment they have made.—Fairbanks
^ ews-Miner.
SHANNAHAN’S
TRIAL ON JAN. 5
Paddy Shannahan. indicted for first
decree murper for the slaying of Steve
Ragan, late assistant prosecuting at
torney, will be tried in Ketchikan or
January 5, 1920. He was taken by U.S.
Marsha'l J. M. Tanner to Juneau tc
await trial.
Hyder Happenings
A week of cold rain has not made any
me shed his mackinaws.
Peta Lowe is crippling around with
an attack of rheumatism.
Ole Olsen, the sawmill man, has gone
to Rupert to gel rid of his neuralgia.
After this winter the values in the
Premier ore will go out in small pack
ages.
The big new heater in the rotunda of
the Bungalow is proving a popular at
traction.
Well, anyway, the snow made it eas
i *r hauling wood around the streets on
hand sleds.
“Do your Christmas shopping early.”
Send her the Miner and she wont he
able to keep away from here.
R.J. McDonel', oue of the Alaskan
Hotel proprietors, is on the outside on
the outride on a business trip.
Ed McLaren started this week on the
foundation of the Hyder Alaska Miner’s
permanent home on Nevada street.
Louis Watkins, one of the heavy
property owners of the district, is vis
iting at his old home in Walkersyille,
I ndiana.
C.R. Marshall, a veteran cf the Great
War, and apparently a live wire, has
arrived from the east and expresses £
determination to grow up with the camp.
Wm. A.Papke and Ross Ficklin, who
have been engaged in government wort
all summer, have gone outside for tht
winter. They will return in the spring,
With both of Lake and Green’s boats
out of commission, Jack Lambert has
been having a taste of the day ant
night shifts hauling passengers betweer
Hyder and Sthwart.
ocociy rau-erson nas nmsneu his ma
living quarters beside tlie building tha
h ,uses the Alaskan hotel lighting plsnt
Scotty will lide herd on the machinery
and wants to be close to his job.
Hugh McDougal, of the Hyder black
smithing firm of Small and McDougal
has gone to Anyox to stay until thi
sprinfi rush of business necessitates hi:
return. Meanwhile, Dob Small wjl
keep the home fires burning-- in thi
forge.
Attorney Sundmacher of Hyder i
fast becoming acclimitezed lo the ba
nuna belt after his many years in thi
north. He is now sporting a hran nev
pair of bridht red rubber boots. Sine
accumulating them he doesn’t stay ii
his office much,
Jack Stanier, a pioneer resident o
Stewart, who recently returned ther
from Victoria with bis family, visite
Hyder this week, and was so much im
pr.ssed with the town that he bough
some residential property near th
Lindeborg home.
Messrs McLehman, Grey and Olsen
the Hyder sawmill men, received a wir
early this week that the machinery fo
their new mill was shipped from Seal
t'e last Saturday night. It shonld ai
rive some time next week, and shortl
after will be buzzing away just a shoi
distance above the town.
| Teams are employed on the Premie
1 ore road keeping the snow packed dow
so that there will be a perfect road be
when ore shipments commence nex
month. The mine is in such shape ths
when, the management decides to con
i mence shipping, the high grade ore ca
be stuped out as fast as it can be take
away.
Mallard ducks are having a great lim
rustling free luncles in the mudflal
below Stewart. For awhile they too
no trouble to avoid the wjharf approac
but their confidence caused a few c
them to lose their lives, and now the
are more wary. Some of the Stewai
citizens took no stock in the yarn aboi
| ducks being fishjyat this time of yea:
Harry Gould, the Dawson and Fai:
banks dairyman, went out to Seatt:
this week and will return about tl
first of May with a herd of milk cow
of sufficient number to supply the d«
mands of both Hyder and Stewart. H
! stayed here long^enoguh to become in
j baed wHh the idea that this is to be tt
most prosperous mining district of tl
northwest for years to come.
Send the Miner out. Boost Hyder.
Pile Driver
I n Serious
Accident
TO BUILD BOCH
BEFORE SPRING
1 hat Hyder will have a deep watei
wharf by the first of next February is
the statement made by Jack Sutherland
‘ on Thursday. He did not divulge the
names of the men behind the enterprise
but said that they were Juneau capit
alists and that they had authorized him
to stake out a dock site. This he has
done, as well as arranging with Hydei
timbermen for getting out the piling.
Jack is going to Jnneau to report to'his
principal and will wire from there foi
wo k on the piliug to commence From
Juueau he wil go to Seattle, and wil
return to Hyder about Christmas time
when he expects the v. harf building tc
start.
The builders will incorporate unelei
the laws c.f Alaska as the Hyder Doeli
Company, and it will take about thirty
days for the legal forma ities to be gone
; through with.
The dock embraces an extension o:
Main street out to deep water, where
the outer edge of the structure wil
give a minimum depth at extreme low
tide of 30 feet. This will enable anj
: coastwise vessel to land there at ani
i hour of the year
I
: FIRST PREMIER
ORE STILL HERE
, Pat Daly, whose history in this cam]
s closely interwoven with that of thi
. , Premier mine, is authority for th
somewhat surprising statement that thi
' first shipment of ore to be made fron
1 this now famous property' is still ii
' Hyder. Pat took out this lot of or
1 under the terms of a lease which h
2 had from O. B. Bush in 1915, on a roy
alty basis, and sledded it dowir to Hy
• der, or Portland City, as the place wa
s then called, and has never done anythin]
r more with it. He says, however, tha
' as soon as he can get a handy boat h
■ will ship the ore out to a smelter an
V realize something out of it. The lo
1 consists of about eight tons and assay
! around $200 a ton.
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The mystery of mysteries now coi
fronting our local populace, hinges o
a water barrel —now hold on, C!aric<
you are ubout to remark that wate
barrels have no hinges, so be it sai
that this mystery lies concealed in
water barrel, or ratner, in the disaj
pearance thereof—oh where the dev
| is this story at, anyway? Howevei
! T. D. Smith had a water barrel and
1 has been swiped Smith has the ne’
restaurant in the rear of the Junctio
store, and washes his dishes, The ba:
i rel was to catch rainwater, and now
is swiped. Maybe it has been put 1
some ignoble chore, such as holding sa
salmon abdomens. It is sure swipei
the swipedest barrel ever seen neve
more in these parts. Not only that,
was accompanied in its surreptitioi
exit by a side of mutton and a salmoi
The concensus of public opinion is thi
the theif'+s a chechako. No oldtimi
around here would steal anything 1
keep water in.
Narrow Escape
From Plunge In
to Canal - Lives
of Crew In Dan
ger. _
Only by the narro vest margin did
thi pile driver on the ore highway es
cape a plunge infb the deep, wet salt
chuck Thursday morning when two of
| the bents of the br'dge upon which it
was resting slid out into the canal. The
big frame, with its engine and driver,
hung poised on a balance and it was
only by the mo3t careful manipulation
that it was hauled back to safety.
The accident will mean a delay of
about a week in the road construction
as it was necessary to have some spe
cial plates cut at the sawmill, 24 feet
: in length, which will be bolted to the
cliff beside the bridge, and will reach
out to some special -piling not specified
: in Engineer Carruthers’ plans, but
necessary to tne safety of the structure.
Practical road builders have all along
claimed that this bridge is a piece of
folly, as the road could have been built
along the rocks at a cheaper price and
making a permanent job. However, it
seems that the government engineer
would rather see a botch of a job go in
than admit that his first judgement was
in error, so in this instance the govern
ment will be aaddled with a temporary
1 piece of work, the public will have to
wait an extra month for the road io be
) finished, and only by a miracle were
i the lives of three or f 'ur workmen em
* ployed on and under the pile driver
! saved.
1 That the men escaped is a sonree of
i gratification to Superintendent Hugh
* McMillan, who says he would rather
? see the whole outfit in the bottom of the
- sea than have one of his men killed , or
- seriously injured.
Blue Sky Law Is
Not Very Popular
Advices from Washington indicate
that the House Judiciary Committee,
which recently held a series of hearings
has found the weak points in Congress
man Taylor’s national blue sky meas
ure. It is understood that while some
sort of national legislation may be nec
essary to protect reckle-'S or unintelli
gent investors, the Taylor bill will not
meet the situation with fairness or with
due regard to development of the nat
ion’s resources. Representatives of the
Investment Bankers’ Association ap
peared in opposition to the measure.
The bill is known as H.R. 188 and was
introduced ih the lower hou-e on May
19, 1919.
No word has yet been received from
the relatives of George Berry who was
drowned last month in the inlet, and
whose body has not yet been recovered.
Beside leaving considerable property
in st veral Alaskan towns he was admin
istrator of two estates in the third dis
trict, and his death will mean the em
ployment of consideaable legal mach
inery.
*• There are some great yarns being
spun around the office stove at the King
:r Edward hotel in Stewart these long eve
,0 nings. It is a comfortable hang-out.