The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-09
. FRIDAY, JANUARY g, 1920
RYDER AND THE kLONDIkE

Reports and requests for informa tion from all parts of the United States, and even Great Britain, indi cate that the public mind is compar- ing the Hyder mining district with the Klondike. Photographic reports re- ceived from Seattle to the Chronicle said that J. L. McPherson, manager of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. in his annual report predicted that the Portland ca nal country would probably equal, if not exceed, the Klondike''
 If Mr. McPherson was correctly quoted, it is unfortunate, for there is, in fact, no comparison between the klondike country in it's balmiest days and the Hyder district, as far as shown by development to this time. There is no question that the Hyder camp will make a big showing, and eminent engineers are quoted as say ing that one property alone there will be the greatst mine in the world y But to compare it with the Klondike is to give the wrong impression. The Klondike was a placer proposition, shallow ground for the most part, while the Hyder camp is a quartz, hard rock country
 To compare the Hyder district to the Klondike is like comparing the pulp and paper possibilities of the Ketchikan district to the Dawson min- ing camp. The Hyder camp in all probability will produce more money and continue to be a well-settled com munity for manay years, permanently, and in the long run may produce more gold and other precious metals than did the klondike, but it will be by an entirely different method.
 The mining district at the head of he Portland canal will require years of serious, scientific prospecting, such as has been going on there on a few properties for years. And the pros pectors who do that work will be re- warded in time, some of them, while others will lose years of endeavor, but they will never be able to rush in, stake a claim and leave the same fall with hundreds of thousands of dollars, as was done in the K1ondike
 At the big mine which is expected to be operated on a large scale during 1920 and later, as number of miners will be employed, quite a large num- Der, it is reported Many others who own properties will either do more development work the coming season than they have done in years, while other owners have already or will give options to others who will do some ex- tensive prospecting, all of which will require considerable help. Then in town there will be the business houses, with their employees, to supply this number of men.
 Scientific prospectors, men who are used to going into hills, to plug along, month after month, picking blanks, and who often persist in their hunt until they do find it, will have ample opportunity in the mining district back of Hyder, as they will in the vicinity of Ketchikan Experienced miners will be able to find employment un- doubtedly in the spring, and there is small likelihood that there will be too great an thrush of these
 But if there is any great thrush from all over the States, Canada or Great Britain as threatens, scores and hun. dreds of them are going to be disap. pointed They are going to feel that they have grievance against the country, even though they do not fir in, and they are ultimately going to get out, knocking and. spreading mis. Information that will hurt in the long run.
 The Hyder country needs no mis. representation, if the reports of ex. perienced engineers and practical min ing men are to be accepted It will be a great country and needs no mislead-