Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 14, 1897-Local sawmills are working at full capacity and are unable to supply the lumber demands of Dyea and Skagway.

The new five-compartment shaft now being sunk on the Treadwell property has uncovered huge reserves of ore and in consequence the company plans to add at least 300 more stamps and perhaps more than that by the end of 1898. It is estimated that 2,960,000 tons of ore are now in sight.

AUGUST 21, 1897-The handsome new residence of William Ebner at Fourth and Franklin is being finished with lath and plaster. This is the second Juneau building to be so treated, the first being the Adsit Building.

Additional Canadian police officers have gone to the Clondyke. Twenty went up on the steamer Queen and 35 more on the Islander.

The new mill of the Aurora Borealis Mining Company at Yankee Basin is expected to be in full operation in about two weeks.

The U. S. S. Concord dropped anchor in the harbor on Monday. Governor John G. Brady and Collector of Customs J. W. Ivey were passengers on her from Sitka.

John Peterson, owner of the Montana Saloon, is now at Lake Bennett building boats. He reports that the price has gone up from $60 to $150 and they cannot build them fast enough to supply the demand.

The latest maps received here spell the name of the new Canadian gold fields Klondike rather than Clondyke and this paper will follow suit.

AUGUST 28, 1897-Webster & Jorgenson?s big pile driver has been towed to Skagway to build one or more docks there.

The captain of the U. S. S. Concord reports that about 20 of his sailors have deserted and presumably have gone to the Klondike.

Frank Bach sends words from Dawson City that he is doing well and will not return here until next spring.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1897-Professor John Muir was a Juneau visitor while the steamer Queen was in port. Muir was a visitor to Gastineau Channel long before the gold was discovered here.