Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 25, 1895-Juneau is having a building boom. J. F. Malony has let a contract for the construction of four rental cottages on East Street. William Winn is building a cottage near end of a lot on Third Street recently purchased from O. Price and plans to build another on the same lot. Winn Bros. are enlarging the Opera House building by extending it 15 feet on the east side. J. J. McGrath will build a three-story hotel on Second Street and a two-story building at Third and Main by having the interior lathed and plastered. This is said to be the first plastered building in Alaska.

Winter & Pond have succeeded in getting very fine picture of Juneau by moonlight. The effect of the lights of town reflecting on the water is very pleasing and they have titled is ?Lights of Juneau.? The exposure took two and a half hours.

One by one, the Chinamen are returning to Juneau. For years Joe the Baker has been our only Chinese resident, but now one is cooking at the jail and another is living with Joe.

Sam Bonnifield, who has purchased an interest in mining claims in the Basin has returned from San Francisco.

APRIL 1, 1895-G. L. Rice and J. D. McDouglass have opened the Nevada Saloon next door to C. W. Young?s store on Front Street and a restaurant is to be added in the rear of the saloon.

Juneau businessmen have banded together to send C. E. Coon to Seattle to promote trade here and to make known to men bound for the Yukon that Juneau is the best and cheapest place to outfit.

The millsite for the new 30-stamp mill at the Archie Campbell mine has been located on the northwest side of Quartz Gulch. This will be the largest mill in the valley and the site is on the Fuller First claim, the first one staked by Juneau and Harris in the fall of 1880.

Parker Corbus, assistant superintendent of the Treadwell mines, and Miss Sarah Fyfe were married at Treadwell by the Rev. Livingstone Jones Thursday evening. She is a sister of the wife of the Superintendent Robert Duncan, Jr., of the Treadwell properties. Mr. Corbus is from San Francisco where his father is secretary of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company.