Digital Bob Archive

5 September 1980

AUGUST 30, 1894-Richard Nelson, soon to become Juneau?s postmaster, announces that the office will be in the McGrath Building on Front Street.

Decker Bros. have purchased waterfront property at the foot of Seward Street and will put up a large new store building.

The Ebner Mill, leased by the men who are operating the Bennett mine this season, started up yesterday.

At a citizens? meeting at the Opera House Thursday evening a resolution was adopted calling for a general territorial convention to be held at Juneau on November 5 to consider the problems of Alaska. It was resolved that each settlement in Alaska be entitled to representation at the convention, with the following number of delegates: Juneau, 30; Sitka, 15; Treadwell, 10; Newtown, Douglas Island, 10; Wrangell, 7; Yukon Territory, 6; Killisnoo, 5; Seward City, Lynn Canal, 4; Chilkat, Kodiak, Unga, Unalaska, Wood Island and Simdum, 3 each; Klawak, Howkan, Loring, Yakutat, Sand Point, Hoonah, Ketchikan, 2 each; all other settlements, one each. The election of Juneau delegates will be held on October 6 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1894-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, C. S. Hamlin, was a Juneau visitor last week aboard the Revenue Cutter Rush. He had been on an inspection trip to the Pribilof Islands.

Karl Koehler has received a letter from Lockie MacKinnon, dated June 24 at Forty Mile. He states that he arrived safely but two of his party drowned at Five Finger Rapids on the Yukon.

J. Montgomery Davis has resigned as secretary of the Nowell Gold Mining Company and Berners Bay Mining and Milling Company and will leave soon with his family for the East. He plans to return to Juneau in the spring.

William Ebner has returned from a trip south and plans to build an aerial tramway approximately 1,000 feet in length from the Dora lode, also known as the Wyman mine, to the Takou Consolidated mill.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1894-The recently burned sawmill on Douglas Island is being rebuilt at a rapid rate and will be equipped with the latest machinery, greatly increasing its capacity over the former mill. Robert Purvis, lessee of the mill from the Treadwell company is overseeing the work.