Digital Bob Archive

3 November 1978 issue

JANUARY 4, 1894-Superintendnet Robert Duncan, Jr., of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company has purchased from I. B. Hammond the stamps and machinery of the Bear?s Nest mill on Douglas Island. It is the intention of the Treadwell company to add 100 stamps to its mill, making a total of 340 stamps. This will make it the largest stamp mill in the world.

MARCH 31, 1914-John Frost Henson is the new Douglas postmaster and took over the office at the close of business today from Richard McCormick. He will retain Miss May McCormick as his assistant.

APRIL 7, 1914-The famous old Bears Nest mill in Douglas, which has stood for more than 20 years, will soon disappear completely. It has been both an eyesore and a fire menace for a long time and last year the building was demolished. Now Mr. D. H. Ferris is having the last of the old machinery dynamited into pieces that can be hauled away to the foundry. Once the site is cleared, Mr. Ferris will build four four-room bungalows there.

MAY 16, 1914-G J. Dahl, who runs a chicken ranch and rabbit farm on Spuhn Island, was a Juneau visitor this morning. He brings eggs to town weekly and last year sold 300 rabbits. Mr. Dahl is also planning a fox farm on his island and has secured a fine pair of black foxes at a cost of $6,000.

NOVEMBER 16, 1916-The big freighter Valdez is making her first call on Gastineau Channel and brought 850 tons of coal and 100 tons of general merchandise for Juneau. The coal is consigned to the Alaska Supply Company, the City Dock, and the Pacific Coast Coal Company, Cole?s Transfer, and Femmer and Ritter. The Valdez was formerly the Burlington and plied on the Great Lakes. She was purchase by the Alaska Steamship Company last year. The vessel is 244 feet long with a measurement tonnage of 2,285.

JANUARY 9, 1917-Apartments in the new Spickett Apartments on Fifth Street near Franklin are now being occupied by tenants. Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Jenne were the first to move in and the building will soon be fully occupied. The apartments are owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Spickett, longtime Juneau residents.

JANUARY 10, 1917-Tuck Flaherty, a former Skagway liquor dealer, and E. Coffee, well known Juneau mixologist, will on January 15 reopen the Louvre barroom. The Louvre suspended business on January 2 after the manager announced that he had been unable to make it pay. A lock was put on the outer doors and S. Zynda of the Eagle Brewery, one of the largest creditors, assumed charge of the place and its stock. Mr. Zynda has arranged for Mr. Flaherty to come down from Skagway to reopen the business and manage it.

FEBRUARY 18, 1920-The halibut boat Emma, Captain Tom Ness, arrived from the banks last night with a capacity load of 9,000 pounds. The price here is nine cents for mediums, five cents for chickens and large, with most of the fleet tied up because of low prices. The depressed prices are caused by the anticipated railroad strike which will make it impossible to ship the fish east.

NOVEMBER 9, 1922-Approximately 600 tons of pulp are now on the dock of the Alaska Pulp & Paper Company at Speel River, ready for shipment south, according to Superintendent W. P. Lass. A new pulp storage warehouse with a capacity of 500 tons was recently completed at the plant.

JANUARY 3, 1925-The Canadian Pacific Railroad has announced its summer steamer schedule for Southeast Alaska. The Princess Louise, Princess Alice and Princess Charlotte will all be on the run between Vancouver and Skagway. The Louise and Alice, which have been on the run the last two summers, will start the season the first week of June. Later in the month the Princess Charlotte will be taken off the Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle route and placed on the Alaska run. She has 131 staterooms, two more that the Princess Louise.

MAY 24, 1926-The Juneau Fire Department baseball team swept the Victoria Day series at Whitehorse, defeating both Skagway and Chilkoot Barracks teams, according to word received from Whitehorse today. They will bring home the $100 prize. A total of 61 people left here on he 21st aboard the ferry Alma of the Juneau Ferry & Navigation Company for Skagway, enroute to Whitehorse for the Victoria Day celebration. Passengers included members of the Fire Department baseball team and a dance orchestra, the Alaskans, which played for a dance in Skagway that evening.

MAY 17, 1928-A tractor and drag line and other mining equipment as well as camp supplies are now on their way to Montana Creek where Harry Watson will carry on placer operations this summer. Virtually the entire creek will be worked if values prove high enough to justify it. The original location on the creek was made last year by Elliott Fremming and others.

JANUARY 29, 1935-A proposal for a unicameral legislature for Alaska, in the form of a resolution introduced by Rep. Joe Green, of Hyder, passed the House easily but hit a snag in the Senate today. The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended ?Do Not Pass,? with only one member, Senator Henry Roden not concurring. When the measure reached the floor of the Senate, it was voted down, only two votes supporting it and six against.