The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Herald
Building, Second Ave., Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Sole Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the,
postoffice at Hyder, Alaska, under the
act of March 3, 18711.
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MARCCNED PROSPECTOR
LAUGHS AT HARDSHIPS
The story of almost incred
ible suffering and hardship be
hind the brief news report pub
lished last week concerning
Nels Nelson, aged Alaskan
prospector, who spent six days
aJ a castaway on a barren i
beach near Ketchikan, is re- j
vealed in a full account of the
incident published in t h e J
Kei chikan Chronicle. .
According to this account.
Nelson’s small boat was)
swamped near Foggy Bay,
while he was returning from a
prospecting trip to the Boca de
Quadra. He managed to
reach shore after kicking off
his boots in the water in order
to move more readily. As a [
result his feet were badly cut1
by shells and rocks on the;
beach and he was unable to;
travel but a short distance!
from the scene of the wreck.
Two days later he recovered
the sail of his boat and this
served him as a tent and bed,
but having no matches, he was
unable to build a fire. The on
ly water he could find was an
occasional bit that had seeped I
into small crevices.
His food was grass and wild
peas, as he described it. Nel
son. who is 72 years old,
claimed he did not eat much of
the grass and insisted that he
felt no acute hunger at any |
time. He also claimed to have
felt no weakness, despite the
absence of food and water.
Nelson claimed that his great- j
est bad luck was encountered j
when a cannery tender and !
piledriver, which were wi/thin 1
right of his camp, failed to
hear his halls for four days. He
finally was heard and picked
up by the tender, which',
brought him to Ketchikan.
Nelson has spent 46 years in
the Territory, prospecting fish- j;
ing and at other work and said '
he is going prospecting as soon !
a? he is recovered. i
The t otal value of furs j i
shipped out of Alaska during I
1931 was $1,770,324. 1
WHAT ALASKANS
BUY FROM THE STATES
Among the thousands of com
modities shipped from the
United States to Alaska annu
ally, tin cans far exceed in
number and also in total value
any other commodity. These
are used principally in the fish
and shellfish canning indus
tries, although large quantities
are used in home canning.
During 1933 a total of 47,
415,117 pounds of finished or
unfinished tin cans, valued at
$4,184,189 were brought to the
Territory. Similar shipments
for 1932 amounted to 39,408,
821 pounds, and for 1931, they
totaled 44,428,460 pounds.
The second most important
of all Alaska's importations in
1933 was also Connected with
the fishing industry and con
sisted of fish canning equip
ment valued at $724,913.
Third in line was gasoline,
nap'tha and other light pro
ducts, totaling 134,682 barrels,
valued at $688,155.
Tin plate, terneplate and tag
gers tin constituted the fourth
leading article, with imports
totaling 13,198,278 pounds in
weight and valued at $578,007.
Additional hardware com
modities imported by Alaskans
in 1933 included 3,753,444
pounds of wire, valued at.
5223,562. Shipments ol gal- j
vanized iron and steel plates
totaled 1,029,066 pounds;
welded pipe and fittings, 1,
349,861 pounds; wire nails,
927,631 pounds.
The value of mining and
quarrying machinery brought
to the Territory was $474,142,
while the value of structural
iron and steel imports was
$64,888 and included 659 tons
cf materials.
Gas and other fuel oil import
ations totaled 285,010 barrels
and were valued at $307,309.
Other oil 'products used by
Alaskans included 8,520 bar
els of illuminating oil (kero
sene) and 8,265 barrels of lub
ricating oil. The collective
value o.f these products, was
$213,163.
Importations of dynamite
amounted to 1,876,658 pounds
and were valued at $246,639.
The next article in the series
lealing with Alaska imports
•vill present interesting figures
-egarding imports of electrical
?oods, aut'omitive products,
medicines and drugs and a
wide range of additional com
modities.
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Drought Now Visiting Europe ,
After afflicting England with
•os,fly crop losses, (the drought
which has been creating havoc
ior weeks in the United States
ind Canada, has now hopped
)ver to Europe. Russia felt the
?rip lof the devastating blight
•ecently and this week France
was the principal sufferer re- .
oorted. Thermometers in Par
s registered 90 on Tuesday—
he warmest the French capital
las known 'in 30 years.
FIRST CANADIAN
MINING IN 1685
With Canada now one of the
leading mineral producing na
tions of the world, it is inter
esting to note that the first at
tempt at mining in the Domin
ion occurred in 1665. Al
though the journals of Jacques
Cartier reveal a somewhat un
certain knowledge of the pres
ence of minerals, based on
.statements made to him by
Indians at 'the time of his first
landing in what fe now Canada
in 1534, history records no min
ing endeaviors until 131 years
after that interesting event.
The first recorded mining
activities occurred in 1665 at
Gaspe Bay, when Jean Talon,
the “great intendant,” having j
heard of lead deposits in that |
locality, sent 60 men to mine
them. The men drove several
tunnels, one 32 feet in length,
and by the end of the summer
had extracted 9.000 “livres”
(of lead ore from the small veins
encountered. The ore was -sub
sequently taken to Quebec and
later to France. This ended the
first actual mining venture in
Canada.
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Mrs. Forrest J. Hunt Dead
Mrs. Forrest J. Hunt, wife of
former Territorial Senator F.
J. Hunt and pioneer Ketchikan
matron, passed away in the
Ketchikan hospital last week
after a brief illness due to high
blood pressure and complica
tions.
The deceased lady, who was
kniown to many Hyder resi- j
dents, was 69 years of age, and
had been a resident of Alaska
since 1898 and of Ketchikan
since 1900.
Until the time of her death
Mrs. Hunt remained an active
civic and social leader in the
First City. She is survived by
her husband, three daughters;
and other more distant rela
tives.
Her demise occasioned wide
sorrow in Ketchikan and busi
ness houses were closed during
the funeral services.
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