Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 4, 1892-First class fare on the steamer Chilkat from Juneau to Astoria is $30.

Fred Heyde has taken out some fine ore from the Sheridan mine on Sheep Creek.

The Rev. E. Otis Smith and Mrs. Smith are now residents of Douglas where they are mission workers for the Presbyterian Church.

AUGUST 18, 1892-The Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company reports a profit of $361, 980.16 for the year ended May 31, 1892. Total production was $707,017.37 with ore averaging $2.95 a ton. A total of 239,633 tons were mined. A total of $509,894.81 came from the mill and $193,604.71 from 6,176 tons of concentrates treated in the chlorination works. J. P. Corbus is now financial manager of the company and Robert Duncan, Jr., is superintendent.

The four-masted steam schooner Jeannie is in port, Captain Humphrey. She serves salmon canneries and at times makes voyages to the Arctic Ocean with supplies for the whaling fleet.

Archie Campbell of the Fuller First lode claim, the first claim staked in Gold Creek Valley, has purchased the original five-stamp mill used by John Treadwell in developing that property and is having it hauled to his mine in the Basin.

Dr. Schultz received a little steam-powered two-stamp prospecting mill on the Mexico and is having it hauled up Basin Road to the Bismarck Mine, a mile from Juneau.

AUGUST 25, 1892-William Ebner, superintendent of the Juneau Mining and Manufacturing Company, is putting in an electric plant which will furnish power to drive his air compressor. This is believed to be the first electric plant in Alaska solely for power rather than for lights alone.

George Harkrader has about 25 men at work on the old Cadman & Connelly placer ground now owned by T. S. Nowell. Some of the higher placer ground in the Basin is suffering from a lack of water as most of the snow has now melted and the rains have been light.

Archie Campbell?s five-stamp mill was starting up last Sunday on the Fuller First, which some people are now calling the ?Little Treadwell? because the mill came from there.

The city is deserted on weekends as all able-bodied, young and old, take to the hills to prospect.
Mr. Fountaine has leased the Juneau Mining and Manufacturing Company?s sawmill at the mouth of Sheep Creek and will cut lumber for the local market.