Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 23, 1893-J. F. Cryder who recently bonded the Ascension lode claim on Sheep Creek has now commenced work on the property.

J. P. Corbus has accepted the superintendency of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company mill in the place of W. T. Turner who has been several years in that position.

Phil Dubois has completed a miniature of the Log Cabin Church in exact detail and it will be sent to the World?s Fair at Chicago and placed on exhibit.

MARCH 30, 1893-Edward and William Webster have taken a contract to put in a flume to supply the Takou Mining and Milling Company with water.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Montgomery Davis returned on the last boat bringing with them an infant son born to them in California. Mr. Davis will resume his duties as manager of the Nowell Gold Mining Company affairs.

The local steamer Seaolin has been largely rebuilt at Sheep Creek this winter and now has a much roomier main cabin. The vessel this week went to Gambier Bay with a logging outfit for Sam Watson. With regard to her rather strange name, it is said that when it was originally built the owners decided to name her Sea Lion. The painter they hired to put on the name ?lifted? a few on his way to the job, with the present result.

Work has commenced on an addition to the court house which will contain a women?s ward, kitchen and dining room on the lower floor and two jury rooms above. C. W. Young has the contract. Water pipes will also be laid to the building in the near future.

Willis Thorp has 15 men at work on the Takou Mining and Milling Company property. John W. Irvin in the foreman.

A mill may be erected this season on the Dora claim purchased last year by William Ebner and M. Wadleigh from Dr. H. S. Wyman.

L. L. Williams, World Fair Commissioner for Alaska, left on the City of Topeka for Chicago.

The steamer Yukon sailed for Dyea on Monday with 25 men bound for the Yukon country.

Prisoners at the jail are kept busy digging stumps, clearing the grounds and building a road.

Lot owners on the crest of Chicken Ridge have caught the spirit of spring and are clearing ground and burning stumps.