Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 7, 1890-The boat loaded with giant powder arrived on the channel this week and the welcome sound of blasting is heard again.

The steamer Queen with 200 tourists aboard was in port for 24 hours, then departed for Glacier Bay. Many of the tourists visited the mining operations at Silver Bow Basin.

St. Ann?s School will open on Monday, August 18. The school had a good attendance last year.

The Rev. Mr. King, resident missionary for Juneau, returned on the George W. Elder and will hold Sunday services at the court house.

AUGUST 21, 1890-Miss R. Scidmore, author of a very interesting and entertaining book on Alaska, is a roundtrip passenger on board the steamer Queen. The ship, with 160 tourists, is making her last trip of the 1890 season.

At Sheep Creek, a wagon road, corduroyed in many places, has been built from the beach up through the canyon to the basin. A wagon and team owned by Dr. Reynolds of the Silver Queen mine is now hauling ore and supplies over this road. In the basin, the hotel owned by Frank Bach of Douglas now has about 30 miners as steady boarders. These are men who work at the Silver Queen, Glacier, Hartford, Ascension and other lode locations. At the upper end of the valley are the Sheridan, Mamie, Golden Currie and other lodes. About 20 men are at work at the Silver Queen where the upper tunnel is in 150 feet and the lower tunnel about 200 feet, all of it timbered.

Captain David Wallace of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company has purchased several properties in Silver Bow Basin and has applied for an official survey.

John Wilson and Joseph Wood, who have been working placer ground on Montana Creek, are in town for supplies.

All rock work on the Granite Creek ditch has been completed by the Silver Bow Basin Mining Company.

Ben Hines of Juneau has challenged J. C. Ross of Douglas City to a fight to the finish with two ounce gloves, any rules, each side to put up $200 and winner take all.

Archie Campbell shipped several tons of sulphurets from the Fuller First lode on the Queen. They go to the smelter at Tacoma.