Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 11, 1896-Willis Thorp of the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company has returned from below and reports that the company will put in a second dynamo to provide electricity for 2,000 more lights. A steam plant will also be installed to furnish power at times of low water in Gold Creek.

MARCH 14, 1896-A great deal of passenger traffic is passing through Juneau these days. The City of Topeka on Monday brought 174 cabin and 20 steerage passengers, many of whom are going to either the Yukon or Cook Inlet. The Al-ki will hereafter run to Dyea with passengers and freight for the Yukon.

MARCH 18, 1896-The Nowell Gold Mining Company has taken over the entire interest in the Glacier lode claim on Sheep Creek. This ends litigation over the claim. The ore will go to the Silver Queen mill for reduction.

On the last southbound trip of the City of Topeka, M. McCauley shipped two tons of halibut to a Portland firm as an experiment. The fish were packed in glacier ice in large wooden boxes. They were caught in Icy Straight.

Local steamboats have been so busy of late that this week a crowd of eager Yukoners hired an Indian canoe and crew to take them to Dyea.

MARCH 21, 1896-The Alaska Steamship Company has been notified by the Post Office Department that it has been awarded a contract to carry mail from Seattle to Mary Island, Wrangell and Juneau. We should thus receive mail four times a month, twice on each of the Steamers run on standard time, but nobody else in this area does. When a steamer posts its sailing time as 12 o?clock that is generally 11 o?clock by Juneau time as shown by one jeweler?s clock or 11:15 by the clock in another jeweler?s window. The time kept by the Treadwell Mine is an hour different than Juneau?s at some times of the year and a half an hour different the rest of the year.