Digital Bob Archive

15 June 1979 issue

JANUARY 10, 1909-International Fisheries Company, which operates at Tee Harbor, plans to install a modern cold storage plant there this summer to handle halibut and salmon. In the past the company has salted salmon and iced halibut with ice cut in a nearby lake.

JANUARY 15, 1909-Andrew Merkel and Neil McCush, who look after the Treadwell Ditch, were forced to walk eight miles to Douglas from the north end of the island after their house burned. It was 7 degrees above zero and a wind was blowing at the time. The two men had returned from an inspection trip along the ditch to find the house in flames. It was a substantial building and well stocked with provisions and all was lost in the fire.

MARCH 6, 1913-Delegate James Wickersham has advised members of the First Alaska Legislature that in the closing hours of Congress the Senate reduced the amount of the appropriation for the Alaska session to $42,260. This is divided as follows: Salaries of members, $21,600; mileage, $6,500; salaries of employees, $5,160; rent of chambers $2,000; printing of session laws, $3,500; miscellaneous printing, $3,500.

APRIL 2, 1913-The Citizen?s Ticket swept the field in the city election yesterday, putting in office all seven members of the City Council. William S. Geddes was the high vote getter with 271, followed by Ed Hurlbutt, 267; W. S. Pullen, 264; W. H. Case, 262; H. J. Raymond, 260; Charles Carter, 249, and J. B. Marshall, 236. Defeated were C. W. Fries, who ran as an Independent, and all seven members of the Socialist ticket: John W. Noland, Dave Robinson, Grafton Coleman, Charles Hesin, Oscar Harri, Frank Oja and John F. Greene. Willis E. Nowell was unopposed for the School Board seat.

FEBRUARY 1, 1915-The Salmon Creek reservoir of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company is to be stocked with trout, according to a letter received yesterday by Bart L. Thane, general manager of the mining company, from Dr. E. Lester Jones, deputy U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. Thane recently applied to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries for a supply of lake and mountain trout and sent a photo of the reservoir and its exact dimensions. The reply from Dr. Jones promises that a liberal supply of trout fry will be immediately forthcoming.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1917-The Alaska Douglas Herring Packing Co. has been organized at Douglas and will make a pack of salt herring there. A thousand barrels were recently received by the company and two coopers are at work putting them together. James Cristoe is head of the new company.

JULY 11, 1924-Two men, one of them masked, held up Ole Jackson aboard his gasboat Jiggs shortly after midnight and escaped with $500 in cash. The Jiggs was at anchor in Pelton Cove in Auk Bay and Jackson had the cash aboard to purchase fish from trollers in that vicinity. One of the robbers took the hot shot battery from Jackson?s engine and threw it overboard. Luckily, Jackson has another battery but by the time he got the engine started the robbers had disappeared. He went to the Auk Bay cannery and phoned a report to town.

OCTOBER 22, 1924-Tom Cox is back home in Douglas after having completed several months of work with the Manning brothers on the Treadwell Ditch. The ditch has been recovered and put in shape for the winter. It supplies water for power generation at the old plant of the Treadwell Mine.

NOVEMBER 10, 1931-The Chamber of Commerce has launched a move for the filling of the flats along Willoughby Avenue from Femmer?s Dock to Gold Creek. The fill would be with waste rock and tailings from the Alaska Juneau mill and the cost, including a retaining wall, is estimated at $100,000.

OCTOBER 15, 1932-The new bridge over Lawson Creek, built by A. J. Dishaw and Son of Juneau, has passed final inspection and has been formally accepted by the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads.

AUGUST 8, 1934-Construction is now starting on the Forest Service trail from Echo Cove to Yankee Basin. A crew of six will do the work under Foreman Bill Fromholz. The crew was moved from Eagle River to Echo Cove by the Ranger IX, Captain George Sarvela.

AUGUST 18, 1934-The Perseverance ?road,? on which a Forest Service crew has been at work for several months, will be restricted to pedestrian traffic for most of its length, according to assistant Regional Forester Wellman Holbrook. Vehicular traffic will be possible only to the parking space and turn-around below Cape Horn.

JUNE 17, 1935-The Millaeger estate, consisting of the Home Grocery store on Willoughby Avenue, was sold today to John Hermle and Joe Thibodeau who will take charge of the business at 8 o?clock tonight. Alfred Zenger is the administrator of the estate. Both buyers are well known in Juneau where Hermle has been in the grocery business and Thibodeau has been employed at St. Ann?s Hospital for the past 13 years.

MARCH 29, 1938-Contracts will be let in a few days for a new transmitting station and radio tower for station KINY on the Alaska Juneau rock dump. The expenditure will be between $10,000 and $15,000, according to Vincent I. Kraft, radio engineer. KINY has been authorized to increase its power from 100 watts to 250 watts, and this change will put the station at 1430 instead of 1310 kilocycles on the dial. It is expected that the transmitter will be completed at the new site by June 1. Presently the studios and transmitter are in the Goldstein Building.

MARCH 6, 1939-Leota?s, the Juneau Sample Shop, is now open for business in the new Baranof Hotel building. An open house was held at the shop yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Leota Russell is proprietor of the Sample Shop.