Digital Bob Archive

JULY 19, 1888-I. B. Hammond, mining engineer, is examining a number of properties at Berners Bay.

Richard Driver commenced washing a few days ago on the Carroll placer ground in the Basin. Coon & Company?s sidehill placer is yielding better this season than in any previous year. George Harkrader has 16 men at work on this placer round.

Stillman Lewis has gone to Montana Creek to build an arastra on his quartz claim, the Congress First.

Charles Barth?s cigar factory is busy turning out the favorite local brand, the Juneau City Enterprise.

Max Endelman has been appointed deputy U. S. Marshal for Juneau. He succeeds Phil Weittenheiller who resigned the office.

The Takou Union group of lode claims owned by J. D. Sagemiller, N. A. Fuller and Charles Wills, formerly worked by the Johnson Mill & Mining Company, has been sold for $50,000 to a new company, the Takou Consolidated Mining Company organized by J. W. Van Brocklin, G. W. Harris and C. Coulter, all of Seattle. They have put 40 men to work building a new road on the south side of Gold Creek to their mill site and have on order a 10-stamp mill. The Douglas sawmill is cutting timbers for the mill and some of the men who are now building the new Treadwell 120-stamp mill will erect this one.

William VanGasken, local businessman and president of the Mercantile and Packing Company, has returned from Idaho Inlet where he has been supervising the company?s fish packing plant. They got a late start but put up 120 barrels of salmon.

JULY 26, 1888-Some good ore is coming out of the Humboldt mine, owned by Webster Bros. and they will start up their 5-stamp mill soon.
-George Garside is surveying a tramway for the Nowell Company. It will run from the mine in the upper Basin to the mill site below Snowslide Gulch. It will be a wire tramway 9,000 feet in length. Ground sluicing to prepare the mill site will start soon.

Last week the Treadwell mill and mine shut down for a few days to make changes in the water power preparatory to starting up the additional 120 stamps. While the mill was down, all track in the tunnel and mine was taken up and replaced by much heavier iron rails.