Digital Bob Archive

2 May 1980

JULY 12, 1888-William Mulcahy of the Workingman?s Drug Store has secured exclusive rights to manufacture Opeleka Remedy in Alaska and is also the Alaska agent for Moore?s Revealed Remedy.

Miss J. A. Ackerman, national lecturer for the Women?s Christian Temperance Union, gave talks at the court house on Sunday and Monday evenings, with large and attentive audiences. On next Saturday evening she will deliver a lecture titled ?San Francisco by Gaslight? at the Opera House. It will be free to all.

The steamer George W. Elder called here last week after stops at Sitka and Glacier Bay. She is in charge of Captain J. C. Hunter. She has a full list of excursionists and returned directly to Portland from Juneau. She is owned by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company and this is her first season on the Alaska route. She is an iron vessel built in 1874 on the East Coast, but has been on the Pacific Coast for a dozen years. People who have traveled on her claim she should be named the ?George W. Roller.?

Thomas Nowell?s property in the upper Basin is showing up exceedingly well. About 75 Indians are presently engaged in carrying lumber and other material to the site while a crew of miners is engaged in development work. A stamp mill has been ordered for the property.

Joe Juneau and party have gone prospecting up the coast.

The new 120-stamp mill at Treadwell is nearing completion and will double the company?s milling capacity.

Recent sales of mining property recorded here: The Bear?s Nest, $1 million; Taku Chief, $499,985; Julia, $150,000; Alta, $150,000; Excelsior, $700,000. The Alaska Gold Company has been formed in England with capital of $2.5 million and has purchased from M. W. Murray and other owners the Bear?s Nest claim on Douglas Island. This adjoins the Treadwell property and ore from it is said to run from $5 to $15 per ton. A new tunnel has been started and a 120-stamp mill will be placed on the property. Charles E. Been is head of the company.

Work on the Mexico claim on Douglas Island is being pushed under Superintendent C. F. Depue. A tunnel is now in 80 feet in good ore. Depue now owns the Sheep Creek sawmill and is keeping it busy supplying the Mexico operation with necessary lumber.