Digital Bob Archive

DECEMBER 20, 1888-There will be a dance and supper Christmas Eve in the dancing hall in the Brady building on Second Street. There is no charge for the dance and supper will be $1.50 per couple.

The weekly newspaper, the Juneau City Mining Record, has moved from the Corcoran Building to the building known as the Club House. Charles Barth is moving his cigar factory into the Corcoran Building.

DECEMBER 27, 1888-The Bear?s Nest tunnel is now in between 400 and 500 feet and it is thought that the main ledge will be tapped in another 400 feet.

J. M. Rawn, who was associated with R. S. Belknap in the manufacture of candy, has purchased Mr. Belknap?s interest and will conduct the business henceforth.

JANUARY 3, 1889-A mass indignation meeting, attended by 300 men, was held to protest the Bonanza lode claim, filed by L. Nado, A. Goldstein, G. W. Garside and W. A. Sanders. The claim includes all surface rights and covers much of the downtown area of Juneau. A letter was read from the General Land Office in Washington advising that since the laws pertaining to townsites have not been extended to Alaska, the mining laws take precedence, but that when patent applications are filed for the mining claims the owners of surface improvements may enter protests. The lode claimants all asserted that they are not interested in the surface rights but only the lodes. A committee was appointed to try to get a patent for the townsite of Juneau. It was voted to assess each lot owner in the townsite $1 to defray the expense of the townsite title effort.

JANUARY 10, 1889-Sunday services are now being held regularly in the court house. The Rev. E. S. Willard conducted the services last Sunday.

With the continued mild weather, ground sluicing is being carried on by a party of miners about a mile and a half from town on the Basin Road.

The steam ferry Julia is now making two trips from Juneau to the Island in the afternoon instead of only one. P. Peterson has also placed a ferry boat on the route.

JANUARY 17, 1889-Juneau had its first snowfall of any consequence this season during the past week when about six inches fell. The weather continues mild.