Digital Bob Archive

JULY 29, 1895-Harrison Bros. are putting up a new building 22 by 60 feet and two stories high for their bank. It will have a brick vault 10 by 12 feet with safety deposit drawers. The building is on Second Street between Seward and Main. The brothers deserve much credit for the enterprise they have shown in establishing the first bank in Alaska and the first building put up especially for bank purposes. The entire front of the building will be sheathed with pressed galvanized steel of an attractive pattern.

AUGUST 5, 1895-The new 30-stamp mill of the Juneau Mining Company at Silver Bow Basin is now crushing 110 tons of ore every 24 hours with each of the stamps dropping

AUGUST 10, 1895-Low & Jordan have opened a new sample room at Front and Seward Streets and named it The Elite. The free lunch is said to be excellent.

AUGUST 12, 1895-The tailings from the Nowell placer miner are fast filling up the channel north of Carroll?s wharf.

The Silver Queen ten-stamp mill is running five stamps on ore from that mine and five on ore from the Gould & Curry. Both mines are under lease to the Alaska Improvement Company which consists of Frank Hammond, Fred Nowell and J. F. Malony.

Owner Willis Thorp has announced that all accounts owed the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company by patrons must be paid in full between the first and the fifth of each month. Lights will be turned off at 6 o?clock p.m. on the 5th for unpaid accounts.

AUGUST 17, 1895-The 60 new stamps at the Mexican mill on Douglas Island are now in operation.

Juneau Hall is the name of the new resort which has opened in the McGrath Building at Second and Seward. Refreshments of all kinds are served.

The Pacific Coast Steamship Company coal bunkers at the Carroll wharf at the foot of Main Street are nearly completed.

A new three and a half foot ledge was struck at the Silver Queen mine yesterday and the ore is reported to be richer that any yet found here.

AUGUST 19, 1895-Adlai E. Stevenson, vice president of the United States, his wife, two daughters and two brothers are among those making a tour of Alaska on the steamer Queen. While the vessel was in port here they visited some of the mines and talked with residents.