Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 1,1896-John T. Spickett, widely known as a burnt cork artist, arrived on the Al-ki and will fill an engagement at the Juneau Opera house.

The two-thirds interest in the Aurora mine on Silver Bow Basin, owned by the estate of William Bennett, has been sold at public auction to the Nowell Gold Mining Company on a bid of $10,000.

The bicycle craze has reached Juneau and several of our ladies may be seen daily on their wheels.

AUGUST 5, 1896-?Cordwood Jimmie? Borbridge and Joe McComb are in town from their Red Diamond group of claims and report good prospects.

AUGUST 8, 1896-Juneau is experiencing a coal famine but the British steamer Thistle is expected with 400 tons of British Columbia for the People?s Wharf. A new coal bunker with a capacity of 500 tons was recently erected on the dock.

The Guild of St. Veronica of the Trinity Episcopal Church will give a social in the new rectory on Wednesday evening.

AUGUST 12, 1896-A new hook-and-ladder house for the Juneau Fire Association has been erected at Third and Seward Streets, next door to the law offices of Johnson & Heid. J. P. Jorgenson had the contract to put up the 12 by 40 building. Cost was $230.

AUGUST 15, 1896-On Monday the new 60 stamps in the Mexican mill will begin dropping for the first time. This will more than double the capacity, from 6,500 to 14,000 tons per month. A new 400-foot tramway was recently completed to carry ore from the mine to the crushers. The new stamps are from Frasier & Chalmers in Chicago, made of chrome steel with Blanton?s patent cams and Challenge self-feeders. They weigh 1,020 pounds each, about 230 pounds more than those of any other mill in Alaska. Each stamp will pulverize about 4 tons of rock per day, about one ton more than the stamps at the Treadwell mill.

St. Nicholas Russian Church received a new bell on the City of Topeka to replace the one cracked last winter when it was rung during the very cold weather. That one came from St. Michael?s Church at Sitka. The new one is from the church on St. Paul Island and is one of the five that hung there.

AUGUST 19, 1896-Several local merchants made shipments to miners in Cook Inlet on the schooner Loyal which sailed for there this week.