Digital Bob Archive

JANUARY 30, 1890-The Taku winds have been very fierce the past few days. The ferry Julia was unable to make the crossing for three days and the island was cut off from Juneau during that time. A good deal of damage has been caused on both sides of the channel. Goldstein?s warehouse, on the waterfront, was blown off its piling and landed on the beach. The building can probably be salvaged but there was an estimated $3,000 loss of merchandise. But Ed James? cabin on the waterfront, next to the Sitka Trading Company, disappeared completely and nothing has been seen of it since. Fortunately, he was not in it at the time. At Douglas the tall smokestack at the sawmill was blown down and a lumber storage shed was demolished. Piles of lumber were scattered, roofs were blown off and many windows broken. The Lucy, owned by the Treadwell mine, broke from her moorings and went on the beach.

Governor Knapp and Judge Bugbee this past week inspected all the schools of this area, including the new building being put up in Douglas by Contractor C. W. Young. The latter will be finished in a week or ten days.

Dr. H. J. Harrison arrived on the last steamer and has opened a dental office in the Hammell Building on Gold Street.

FEBRUARY 6, 1890-During the past week Indian hunters brought in a large number of deer which are selling at from six to eight cents a pound.

The other day a number of Juneau residents sought to beat the Taku wind, which was too strong for the ferry, Julia, by crossing to Treadwell on the steamer Elder. But Captain Hunter found the winds were too strong for him to dock his ship and they were all carried to Sitka.

FEBRUARY 13, 1890-On Monday Mrs. Adams opened the government school at Douglas with a good attendance. The building was just recently completed.

Joseph Shillaber of the Juneau City Laundry is now fitting up his plant with steam.

Work on the Silver Bow Basin Mining Company tunnel has been carried on all winter but at times the work has been handicapped by snow drifts that formed at the tunnel entrance.

Last May a contract was let to the Risdon Iron Works at San Francisco for a 120-stamp mill to be erected on the Mexican group of claims adjoining the Treadwell mine on the south. Development work has been carried on all winter and shows a vein 80 feet wide with satisfactory assays.