Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 1918 - PART 1:

Mining was continuing at the Ready Bullion mine on Douglas Island. The Ready Bullion escaped the fate of the three other Treadwell mines which were flooded in April 1917. Ore was being hoisted from a depth of 2800 feet, the lowest level ever attained in a hard rock mine in Alaska. Before it flooded, ore was being blocked out at the 2700-foot level in the Mexican mine.

Charles Goldstein, well known Juneau fur buyer, began buying shark oil, shark skins and hair seal pelts. He was paying 40 cents a gallon for the oil; 8 cents a pound for shark skins over six feet in length and 6 cents a pound for smaller skins, and 75 cents to $1.50 each for hair seal pelts.

The Treadwell Gun Club was holding a series of trap shoots for the benefit of the American Red Cross.

A favorite steamer with Juneau travelers was the Princess Sophia of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She usually carried the largest number of Juneau passengers of any of the steamers calling here.

The canneries on both sides of the channel continued to be flooded with fish, and many Juneau men turned out to help process them. The \"extra\" list included lawyers, bankers, government officials, a legislator, merchants, miners and truck drivers. The Douglas Herring Packing Company was also active and had two seine boats fishing herring. The pack was being made aboard two barges recently purchased by the company.

J.J. Connors, automobile dealer, was selected to replace Charles Hansen on the City Council after Hansen resigned.

The Juneau Food Club, devoted to the use of substitute foods, at its regular meeting discussed wheatless cakes and cookies and tried out recipes for them.

E. Percy Pond, long an advocate of a Taku River road, received word that a party of Canadian engineers would soon make a reconnaissance of the route with a view to opening a road to Atlin.

Because the storage capacity of the Juneau Cold Storage is limited and is often filled to capacity, the National Independent Fish Company announced that it was considering building another cold storage. (Note: That plan was not carried out.)

A long time resident of Alaska, Patrick M. Mullen, died at Juneau on August 4 at the age of 70. He was born in Ireland and came to the United States as a young man. Before he came to Alaska he lived in Nebraska for some years and was elected as a Republican to several terms in the legislature of that state. Mullen came to Alaska as Receiver of Public Money in the U.S. Land Office, first at Rampart, then at Juneau, where he arrived in 1902. He was survived by three sons and and three daughters. One of the sons, J.F. Mullen, married Beatrice Behrends and for many years headed the B.M. Behrends bank.