Digital Bob Archive
Gold Creek Placers Have Yielded $1.5 Million
News of the Gold Camp - 05/20/1980
MAY 2, 1889-The thrilling border drama ?Davy Crockett? will open at the Opera House tomorrow night. Crystal and Monte Snow will play the parts of Becky and Bob Crockett.
MAY 9, 1889-Archie Campbell is making ready to start up the arastra on his Fuller First lode claim in the Basin.
Coon and Campbell received a large shipment of hydraulic pipe which they will use in working their placers in the Basin.
The Alaska Gold Company has 150 men at work on the Bear?s Nest.
A site has been secured in Douglas for the government school that is to be erected there.
The steamer George W. Elder arrived yesterday with 150 passengers and a large cargo. Among the passengers was D. S. Goddard who spent the winter in Massachusetts and is now ready to start working his placer ground in the Basin.
MAY 16, 1889-It is reported that a contract has been let to the Risdon Iron Works in San Francisco for a 120-stamp mill for the Mexican property on Douglas Island.
It is estimated that since the discovery of Silver Bow Basin in 1880, more than $1,600,000 has been taken from the placers along Gold Creek.
The Nowell Gold Mining Company will soon start putting up a tramway from their Basin property to the mill site near Snow Slide Gulch. The tramway will be about 11, 000 feet long and wire for it will arrive soon.
E. W. Weisner of the Friends Mission at Douglas has claimed 640 acres of ground for mission purposes and has had it surveyed. It starts about a mile below Sheep Creek and extends four miles south, being only 80 rods wide.
Willis Thorp and W. F. Reed are grading the hill on Second Street and using the dirt to fill in Franklin Street.
Greer, Faulkner and Heppner have ordered a lot of lumber for sluice boxes on their Specimen Gulch claims in Silver Bow Basin.
In Douglas, Hare and McLennan are fitting up the second story of their billiard hall with 10 comfortable rooms for lodgers.
Frank Bach has carpenters at work improving his store building in Douglas.
The Douglas sawmill is running full time cutting timbers for the big Bear?s Nest quartz mill.