Hyder, an American town, scarcely a year old, probably will become an important mining center as a result of the discoveries, the report added. The natural outlet for the entire sections is through Hyder. Docks are being built at Hyder for ocean-going vessels and a railroad is planned to connect the town with the mines.

Dispatches received here from Ketchikan, Alaska, this week, said great bodies of ore had been found in the Portland canal country and that there probably would be a rush to Hyder in the spring. The dispatches added that millionaires as Hyder is not a "poor man's" camp and the ores are found only after long hard quartz work and not on the surface as in the Klondike.

LOADED FREIGHT CARS WERE BUMPED INTO BAY SEATTLE.
General freight valued at $100,000 was lost this morning when the steamer Queen of the Pacific Steamship company in a heavy rammed a barge carrying six freight cars off Alki Point, three miles west of Seattle. Five of the cars slid into the bay when the barge careened from the impact, but the sixth car and the barge were saved. The barge was kept afloat by the use of pumps.

The Queen was not damaged and sailed later in the morning on its regular trip to San Francisco. 