Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 31, 1892-John Olds and Morris Orton are planning to build a three story hotel on the site of the Franklin Hotel on Front Street.

Dr. F. S. Reynolds has circulated a subscription and has so far raised $600 for the construction of a road from town to Evergreen Cemetery. The road will start at Fourth and Main Streets and run thence around the bluff below the B. M. Behrends residence.

APRIL 7, 1892-A brewery will soon be built in Douglas City by Robert Witz and Co. It will be near John Miller?s bakery.

Mr. Snow is painting new scenery for the play ?Colleen Bawn, a five-act drama to be produced in the near future.

G. W. Harris will be in charge of the Takou Consolidated Mining Co. operations this year instead of C. W. Coulter.

Mrs. M. W. Bruce has purchased the Ladies? Bazaar here and will have a first class dressmaker on the premises.

APRIL 14, 1892-Rufus Sylvester of the Wrangell sawmill has the contract to furnish the lumber for the new Franklin Hotel. Olds and Orton have leased the Phoenix Music Hall and will use it as an hotel while building the new Franklin. The old hotel is being torn down. It was one of the first buildings put up in Juneau, early in 1881, and was named for Howard Franklin who later went inside to the Fortymile and discovered gold on that creek.

During recent high winds Fire Chief Hare placed two extra night watchman on duty as a protection against fire.

G. W. Garside last Monday commenced surveying the exterior boundaries of the Juneau townsite. This is preparatory to obtaining a patent.

Easter services will be at the Log Cabin Church next Sunday afternoon and evening.

APRIL 21, 1892-The steamer Mexico brought up new machinery for the Nowell Gold Mining Company sawmill at Berners Bay.

APRIL 21, 1892-A crew is now at work on Basin Road, repairing bridges and removing slides that occurred over the winter. It is expected that the road will be opened to Silver Bow Basin by the middle of next month.