Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 2, 1894-A three-rail track tramway is being built to connect the Ground Hog mine at Silver Bow Basin with the ore bin of the aerial tramway which carries the ore to the mill.

Ernest Hahn, who represents the interests of the Rothchilds and other European stockholders in the Treadwell and Mexican mines and who himself a heavy stockholder is visiting the properties and will remain here several weeks. It is reported that the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company has refused $16 million for its property. In all, about $800,000 has been spent in developing the mine and $300,000 more in experimenting with the chlorination works. The ore from the property averages $3 a ton and costs about $1.25 to mine and extract the gold. Some 600 tons are milled every 24 hours.

The Juneau water works crew is busy laying an 8-inch main down Gold Street from the Chicken Ridge reservoir. The pipe will eventually reach Front Street with a total length of 1,400 feet.

The steamer City of Topeka arrived on the channel Tuesday evening and tied up at Captain Carroll?s new wharf at the foot of Main Street, the first steamer to do so. The approach to the wharf measures 135 by 30 feet and the wharf itself is 50 by 100 feet.

C. W. Young is pushing the construction work on the People?s wharf.

J. J. McGrath, pioneer Juneau hotelman, has put up a $5,000 building on Front Street for store and office purposes. The building, with a 48-foot frontage, is 50 feet deep and was built by Ellengen and Rudolph.

AUGUST 9, 1894-Archie Campbell has a Burleigh drill at work on the Fuller First lode. His Ingersoll-Sargeant compressor is run by a Knight water wheel.

Dan Kennedy, his wife and their children have returned to Juneau from Cook Inlet where they spent the past three years. Kennedy is a pioneer of the camp and was for many years the town night watchman.

The Websters are building a bucket tramway from their Humboldt mine to mill on Gold Creek. This is the pioneer mill in the Gold Creek Valley.