Digital Bob Archive

APRIL 18, 1895-The R. E. French Dramatic Company is presenting a number of plays at the Opera House this week and next.

A fire in Cohen?s brewery on the waterfront gutted the building and destroyed $500 worth of stock.

William Mulcahy is now operating the Flag of All Nations Saloon at the corner of Third and Gold Streets. It was formerly know as The Thistle.

Dan Kennedy is building a two-story seven room house at the corner of Sixth and Harris Streets and Gus Anderson is building a three-room cottage on the adjoining lot.

The steam schooner L. J. Perry, Captain Gillespie, has brought 42,000 feet of lumber from Wrangell for J. P. Jorgenson.

U. S. Commissioner and Mrs. Mellen will occupy a new cottage being built by J. M. Davis at Seventh and Seward Streets.

APRIL 22, 1895-Neil Ward has purchased a interest in the Bullion and Silver King lode claims on Sheep Creek from William McLernon.

Lovers of art should not fail to join Mrs. Rowena Nichols-Davy?s sketching class. She has her studio at the residence of Mrs. Lovely near the summit of Chicken Ridge.

Residents of Chicken Ridge are agitating to change the name of their area of town to something more euphonious. Gold Hill has been suggested.

APRIL 29, 1895-The Juneau Mining Company has 40 men at work on the Basin Road, 30 of them shoveling snow. The road has been cleared of snow as far as the Nowell mill and repair work is being done on the road in preparation for hauling machinery to the millsite. Some 40 men are at work preparing the foundation for the mill. The old steamship wharf and warehouses on the south edge of town are being used by the company as a supply depot and stable.

Seven tons of concentrates from the Silver Queen mine on Sheep Creek were shipped on the last trip of the City of Topeka to the smelter of Everett, Washington. There are now 22 men at work at the mine and they have driven the tunnel on the No. 2 level a distance of 450 feet. The company is taking out and milling 20 tons of ore a day.

William Ebner has 18 men at work breaking rock on the Takou group of claims.

Morris Orton is putting up a new building on Front Street next to the Hub Saloon. It will be occupied by the new B & M Saloon.