Digital Bob Archive

SEPTEMBER 20, 1894-Silver Bow Basin is now brightly lighted 24 hours a day, with six powerful electric lights in the Basin itself and seven at the Ground Hog mine.

W. I. Webster and sons have five stamps running night and day on ore from their Humboldt mine. Ore is delivered to the mill by bucket tramway 800 feet long and the mill crushes about 10 tons every 24 hours.

James Winn at the Opera House Saloon and Harry Ash at The Hub have each contracted for a dramatic troupe to perform at their resorts this winter.

Juneau is now a metropolitan city since the advent of two large wharves and a very complete and satisfactory electric light system. The lights were turned on by the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company last Thursday and operated without a flicker. Officers of the company are Willis Thorp, president; F. D. Kelsey, secretary, and B. M. Smith, superintendent and manager.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1894-The Opera House now has 26 electric lights to dazzle the audiences. The Occidental Hotel has electric lights in the office, dining room and all sleeping rooms, 42 all told.

The Nowell mill is crushing 150 tons of ore from the Ground Hog mine every 24 hours.

Some four and a half boxes of giant powder exploded in the powder shed at the Takou Consolidated mine on Friday, but only one man received minor injuries. The shed was blown to atoms. The powder was being thawed at the time.

OCTOBER 4, 1894-John Gray of the Juneau Brewery has resumed business with a new license after being shut down for a year.

There was a three-foot fall of snow Saturday at the Ground Hog mine at the head of Silver Bow Basin.

OCTOBER 11, 1894-The clean-up at the Takou Consolidated mill after a 25-day run yielded $2,500 or an average of $100 a day. There are 27 men at work at the mine and expenses are $90 a day.

A total of 240 votes were cast in the election to name 30 local delegates to the territorial convention.