Digital Bob Archive

JULY 26, 1894-Half a dozen outfits are now at work along Sheep Creek.

School trustees John Heid and Karl Koehler, and District Superintendent W. A. Kelly have selected a site for the Native school. It is on the hillside above the Auke village, between the Calhoun ranch and town. The school house will be 24 by 34 feet. This is Block 32 on the town plat and was set aside by the government three years ago for school purposes. The teacher at the Native school this year will be Miss Elizabeth Saxman and S. A. Keller will teach the white school.

On Thursday night parties unknown ?borrowed? a sloop which was at anchor in the bay, broke into the Carroll warehouse and made off with a bale of bearskins worth $700. It belonged to Levy Bros. The thieves overlooked some more valuable bales of sea otter and silver fox skins.

A fire hydrant has been placed at Third and Seward Streets with pressure from the Lewis reservoir on Chicken Ridge.

The June clean-up at the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company amounted to $43,178 from the mill and $12,107 from the chlorination plant. Ore milled amounted to 19,331 tons, while 353 tons of sulphurets were treated in the chlorination plant. Estimated gross expenses were $21,661 for the month.

AUGUST 2, 1894-The Berners Bay Mining and Milling Company is now in operation under the management of Superintendent L. W. Getchell. T. S. Nowell is president of the company. The mine is reached by making a boat trip to Seward City near Point Sherman, then a nearly three mile ride on a narrow gauge railroad up a steep slope with four switchbacks. The mill building is three stories high with a ore bin of 500 tons capacity at the top. An aerial tramway carries ore from the mine to the bin. The battery of 20 stamps crushes from 50 to 60 tons of ore a day. Free gold is amalgamated in the battery and on copper plates and there are eight Triumph concentrating tables. The Pelton wheel which powers the mill is fed by a pipeline with a fall of 550 feet. The lower tunnel of the Comet mine is 1,600 feet above the mill and a Bleichert tramway 6,000 long carries the ore to the mill.

The Silver Queen mine on Sheep Creek has made several shipments of high grade concentrates to the Tacoma smelter.