Digital Bob Archive

2 June 1980

SEPTEMBER 12, 1889-W. A. Sanders, formerly in charge of the big mill at Treadwell, has been assisting Superintendent Depue in the building of the Eastern Alaska Mining & Milling Company mill at the head of the basin, and has added his own patented mercury and amalgam traps to the plant, and there are expected to increase gold recovery. An auxiliary water wheel has been put in to run the rock crushers. Jeff R. Heath, president of the company; W. H. Allen, vice president; and stockholder L. B. Royce, W. M. Ebner and J.G. Thorp have been inspecting the property.

I. B. Hammond, superintendent of the Alaska Gold Company, has closed down all work on the Bear?s Nest and has disposed of supplies on hand. The property will probably be involved in litigation between the sellers and the buyers for some time to some.

The Webster tramway is now in operation at the Humboldt on Gold Creek. The ore is dumped into a chute at the mine, slides down the mountainside into an ore bin from which it is carried by wagons to another chute leading to the bin at one end of the tramway. From there the tram cars convey it across Gold Creek to ore bins at one end of the mill.

About 10 tons of ore from the Sheep Creek mines will be shipped on the Elder to a smelter at San Francisco.

The condition of the graveyard on Chicken Ridge, near the top of Main Street is most lamentable. No fence exists to prevent the graves being trampled by horses and cattle. A subscription should be raised to build such a fence.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1889-Miss Cassia Patton, a sister of Mrs. John G. Brady of Sitka, has arrived to take charge of school No. 2. She will be paid $80 a month. Miss Rhoda Lee, in charge of school No. 1 received $100 a month.

The entire crew of the Bear?s Nest, including Superintendent Hammond, the steward, bookkeeper, civil engineer and locomotive engineer, have shaken the mud and dust of Alaska from the feet and headed south.

Mrs. H. E. Heppner?s art class is well attended and the pupils are having good success.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1889-Most of the placer mines in the Basin have closed down because of floods caused by heavy rains. The bridge across Gold Creek at the fork of the road has washed out and several slides have occurred near the old Johnson mill.