Digital Bob Archive

JULY 10, 1897-Bicycling is becoming very popular in Juneau as the planked streets are very nice to ride upon.

John F. Malony, Frank Bach and a number of other local men have headed for the Yukon. They will go in over the Dalton Trail.

George Miller, Juneau butcher and a partner in the Circle City Hotel with Lockie MacKinnon, has gone south to purchase 600 to 800 head of cattle which he will take to the Yukon. MacKinnon has gone north to scout the White Pass and Chilkoot Pass trails with a view to driving cattle over them, but it is believed that Miller will go in over the Dalton Trail.

JULY 17, 1897-A quart of pure, rich milk sells for ten cents at Douglas. The price is the same at both the Archer and Aamodt dairies.

The Sisters of St. Ann will manage the new hospital being built at Douglas.

A new vaudeville theater, the Alhambra, is being opened in the old Orpheum Building on the waterfront. A considerable company has been assembled for the opening performance.

A. T. Corbus of San Francisco, secretary of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company, arrived on the City of Topeka accompanied by his sons, J. P. and A. W. Corbus.

JULY 31, 1897-A new locomotive and an eight-drill compressor will arrive on the next steamer for the Silver Queen and Glacier mines at Sheep Creek.

The Treasury Department has made Dyea a subport of entry so vessels from Victoria and other Canadian ports may go there directly without stopping at Juneau.

AUGUST 14, 1897-Reports of local mining operations. The Alaska Treadwell ran 240 stamps for 28 days, 2 hours and 25 minutes, milling 21,373 tons of ore. The chlorination plant treated 404.8 tons of sulphurets. Total bullion production was $66,881.54 with expenses of $26,300. The average yield per ton of ore was $3.12. The Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Company ran 120 stamps 29 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes, milling 14,107 tons of ore and also treating 294.6 tons of sulphurets. Total bullion shipped was $26,189.71. Expenses were $18,180 and the yield was $1.85 per ton. On the Juneau side of the channel, the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company ran 35 stamps for 27 days, milled 3,808 tons of ore and shipped bullion worth $24,772.31. Expenses were $11,500 and the average yield per ton was $7.37.