Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 29, 1894-F. C. Hammond, deputy Collector of Customs at Juneau, is negotiating for the lease of the Silver Queen mine on Sheep Creek.

APRIL 5, 1894-Archie Campbell has returned after spending the winter below and will soon start the season at his mine in the Basin. He brought up a compressor and a Burleigh drill for his operations.

J. Avery is fitting up a fish market at the foot of Seward Street.

The Seolin, Captain McCormack, has gone to Dyea with 25 men who are enroute to the Yukon.

APRIL 12, 1894-A public meeting, attended by 200 people, was held at the Opera House Tuesday evening to discuss incorporation for Juneau. Emery Valentine was elected chairman and committee of three was appointed to draft a bill to be sent to Washington, D. C., to provide for the incorporation of the city. Several of those present want to wait until the final townsite patent is received from the Land Office but were voted down. A main concern of this present is fire protection and there was a demand for large water mains and more hydrants.

Koehler & James, local merchants, have let a $5,000 contract to Ellengen and Rudolph to enlarge their store built at Second and Seward and to put up a warehouse.

Property owners along Front Street are considering planking the street from the wharf to Main Street.

APRIL 19, 1894-An incorporation bill has been drafted and considered and approved by the public at a meeting here. It was voted to circulate a memorial to Congress, to be signed by citizens of Juneau and sent to Washington with Governor Sheakley. A subscription will be taken up to defray the expenses of the governor. It was also reported that a new water works company is being organized and that $11,700 in stock subscriptions have been pledged at $10 a share.

F. C. Hammond has secured a lease on the Silver Queen mine and has put five men to work there. He expected to increase this to 20 men later in the season.

Captain James Carroll has announced that he will build a new deep water wharf at the foot of Main Street rather that repair the present wharf on the south edge of town.

Richard Nelson and his wife are moving into their new house at Sixth and East Streets.