Digital Bob Archive

FEBRUARY 19, 1891-Thursday the wind was so strong that the ferry Julia could not make its regular trips to Douglas for the first time in nearly a year. This is our first Taku of the winter. The government school building is very unsatisfactory when the Taku blows. The stove does not draw properly and fills the room with smoke, requiring dismissal of the pupils.

Receipts of $130.25 were taken in at the entertainment put on by the ladies of Juneau and called ?The Japanese Wedding.? The money will be used in fitting up the old log cabin on Main Street, formerly used as a school, as a place of worship. The Rev. S. H. King hopes to hold services there in a week or two.

G. M. Landerking, who recently arrived from Sitka, has sold the launch Katy to Messrs. Gamel and Malony and has purchased the former assay office on the waterfront. This was operated by Mr. Fisk and stands next to the Sitka Trading Company. Mr. Landerking will open a photographic business there and is sending below for a complete outfit.

FEBRUARY 26, 1891-A large party last Sunday made the trip to Silver Bow Basin to inspect the new tunnel of the Silver Bow Basin Mining Company. The party reached the entrance to the tunnel about noon despite deep snow and enjoyed dinner at the company mess house. A three by four foot flume has now been built the entire length of the tunnel and granite riffle blocks 6 to 10 inches thick laid in it for much of its length. The flume furnished drainage so that it is possible to walk dry shod through the tunnel, where tracks will eventually be laid. Members of the party were furnished lanterns and walked some 3,000 through the tunnel, which is in solid rock. At the end of the tunnel they climbed ladders 91 feet and came to the surface of the Basin, an unbroken field of snow, surrounded by mountains. Hydraulic lines will be laid in the spring to wash the gravels of the Basin through the flume. At the same time, an aerial tram will deliver ore to the shaft where it will drop into ore cars which will run through the tunnel to the mill site near the boarding house.

Dr. F. S. Reynolds, owner of the Silver Queen mine, and his family will soon take up their residence at Sheep Creek.

The ?chicken dispute? at the Phoenix Music Hall Saturday night was well attended and the local sporting fraternity had considerable amusement.