Hyder Alaska miner., 1921-08-24

nearing completion, Ths company has just donated $500 to the Stewart hospital where its employees have been treated in the past.
 H.A.Guess and party of New York left Sunday for the south after spending a week at the Premier. They were brought down from the mine by Fred Dorey with his Dodge car
 The government trail building crew have completed the work for this season on Fish creek and are now working on lhe Texas Pass trail which will give access to the foot of Salmon glacier.
 Patsey Crogan caught halibut near his home at Maple Bay that was nine feet long. He took it to Swamp Point to have it weighed but they had no scales, and neither did the fish, However, they took it's photograph.
 Casey Williams, who steered the Taku safely into this port on many trip in the early history of the camp. renewed acquaintences here while the Carmen lay in the harbor on her last trip. Casey ap- pears to be eating regularly.
 Mir. and Mrs. HC. Shough went up to their new discovery near the head of the Salmon glacier yesterday. Harry has found float there that will assay up to $l000 per ton and is rather anxious to discover the lead from which it came.
 George Hardie. R. H. Davis and Arthur Herriwie have started for the Unuk river on trapping and placer prospecting ex- petition. They expect to put in the win : ter in that section. Hardie is thoroughly familiar with the country they are going into.
 Dan Lindeborg and John Rowland, members of the Hyder Alaska Mining Congress executive. left yesterday for the upper Salmon basin to obtain specimens from the Unicorn, Big Missouri, Spider and other properties for the American Mining Congress.
 About ten tons of ore from the Fish Creek Mining Company's property went south on the George Sunday. The trai up the mountain to the camp is ptacti' eally impossible for pack horses. and nc more heavy loads can be taken over il until it dries or freezes.
 W.BGaftney. retired business man oi Seattle. and pioneer of the west when pioneering meant taking a gamble on keeping ones scalp in place. is in Camp for the week. accompanied by his son Will. The latter started lp this morning with E,H. Bartholf to look at the Bromide group.
 E,H.Bartholf was down this week from the outland Silver Bar and says that the trial shipment of two and one-half tonl of S3s0 ore is sacked ready for packing across the glacier to the trail at the Her. cules. On account of the excessive cost of transportation it is not the intention tC ship any more ore until better facilities are available,
 W.R.Tonkin junior. who spent his sum. mer vacation at the Fish Creek Mining CompanV's camp and took q Uourse of lessons in packing ore under the tuition of Harry Reid, has returned to Seattle te resume his studies in school. When he gets into trisOnomstry he is going to fig ure Ous the answer to the question; "Why Is diamond hitOh7'
 HE. Gordon, who is cohnected with the Dominion telegraph service and lives al Maple Bay. was In camp the latter part of the week. On hiU way up he had c fine view of Do-callsd white bear. one of variety that is seldom seen and ia considered by some authorities as being an albino black bear. The animal wat q, Blue PoiD. and va ih f. :i via;v fo,