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Clondyke Gold Rush Drains Juneau Population

News of the Gold Camp - 11/11/1980

JUNE 5, 1897-The lighthouse tender Columbine, Captain Richardson, came into port to pick up mail, then went up Lynn Canal to establish aids to navigation. There is a great deal more traffic on the canal since the Clondyke excitement began.

Douglas will soon have a first class variety company. Ohman?s Hall is being fitted up for the performers.

JUNE 12, 1897-A lively baseball game was played yesterday between teams of the Orpheum and Louvre clubs. The game took place on the sand flats below the cemetery and the Louvre won the game by a score of 33 to 27.

JUNE 26, 1897-A flag measuring 7 by 14 feet has now been planted on top of Mount Juneau. The pole is 34 feet tall, made of iron pipe, and is strongly braced. The post, amounting to $22.05, was raised by local subscription and many willing hands erected the pole.

At Douglas the St. Ann?s School is being moved back on the lot and a hospital will be erected where the school now stands.

Judge John R. Winn of Whatcom, Washington, arrived on the City of Topeka to become associated with John F. Malony in the practice of law. Judge Winn has been on the Superior Court bench of Washington for seven years.

Marshal L. L. Williams has commenced building his residence at the corner of Fourth and Gold Streets. It will be 38 by 24 feet, a story and a half high.

J. P. Jorgenson has received a shipment of 113,000 feet of lumber from the Wilson and Sylvester sawmill at Wrangell.

JULY 3, 1897-W. T. Iliff now has the Sheep Creek sawmill in excellent shape. It has a double circular saw, gang edger, two trimmers and a planer as well as a dry kiln. A large quantity of logs is now on hand from Seymour Canal. The mill has a capacity of 15,000 board feet a day and the dry kiln a capacity of 12,000 board feet. The mill employs eight men.

The cost of chlorination at Treadwell has now been reduced to $6.39 a ton, with only a five percent loss. E. J. N. Ott is in charge of the chlorination works.

JULY 10, 1897-Juneau is now very quiet. The Clondyke has made a fearful drain upon the town.