Digital Bob Archive

JANUARY 19, 1887-The Douglas ferry, the little steamer Marion, was swamped the other day during the Taku wind. Too much spray blew aboard and froze into ice and down she went. She is now pulled up on the beach and will be back in commission in a day or two.

The corner lot at the southeast corner of Second and Seward streets has been purchased by Herman Hart and William McPhee for $1,000 cash. They have commenced the erection of a two-story business building to house Hart?s theater and a saloon. The building will be ready before summer and the theater will be known as Hart?s Opera House.

It is anticipated that from 15 to 18 placer locations will be worked in the Gold Creek Valley next season, from May until October. Forty or 50 white men and a large number of Natives will be employed there.

JANUARY 26, 1887-The Alaska Free Press, in its second issue, has these additional advertisers: Dave Martin, General Merchandise; W. F. Reed, General Merchandise; D. W. Walker, Hardware, Stoves and Miners? Supplies; The Arctic Lodging House; Mayflower Billiard Hall, Franklin Music Hall and Dancing Academy; Oscar Ohman & Bro., General Merchandise, Douglas; James P. Jorgenson, Carpenter and Contractor; Orton & Coburg, Billiard Hall; Steam Ferry Marion, Captain J. T. Martin; St. Ann?s Hospital Society; John G. Heid, John F. Malony, D. H. Murphy and Willoughby Clark, each separately in the practice of law; Dr. F. F. White, physician and surgeon; Dr. J. K. Simpson, physician and surgeon; G. W. Garside, U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor.

The Alaska Union Mining Company of Boston, Mass., T. S. Nowell, president, and A. C. Howard, treasurer, has concluded a contract with the Union Iron Works of San Francisco for a 160-stamp mill to be erected at its mines on Douglas Island. The company owns two claims 600 by 3,000 feet about a mile and a half northwest of Juneau. The deposit is said to be 400 feet wide and is estimated to contain 18 million tons of ore.

A petition is being circulated asking for money order service at the Juneau post office. It has the endorsement of Postmaster Jimmy Stitt.

There will be a meeting at the court house every Tuesday evening for the purpose of practicing for a choir.

A five-stamp mill is expected on the next steamer and will be taken to the mining area north of Berners Bay and placed on property owned by D. R. Price and Dick Johnson.