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Treadwell Mine Employs Nearly 300
News of the Gold Camp - 11/28/1980
SEPTEMBER 14, 1898-A Kinetoscope exhibition was given at Ohman?s Hall in Douglas last evening and was a complete success. The views were many, excellent and varied. A similar show will be given at the Opera House in Juneau tomorrow evening.
SEPTEMBER 21, 1898-During the past year the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company has employed an average of 263 white men and 24 Indians. Average wages, including board and room, are $2 a day for laborers, $2.50 for miners, $3 for drillmen plus bonuses; $65 to $100 a month for millmen. Mechanics received from $4 to $6 a day and blacksmiths $4. Indian laborers are paid $2 a day without board or lodging.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1898-The new Matlock brewery, behind the old Log Cabin Church, is now in business.
The Alaska Electric Light & Power Company received on the Al-ki 15,000 bricks to be used as a foundation for its new Heine boiler.
At Douglas, a total of $205 has been raised by popular subscription for a cemetery fund. A site has been selected north of town and work of improving the site and building a road to it has started.
OCTOBER 5, 1898-Egan?s new brewery, on the beach at the north edge of Douglas, is under construction. His growing business made larger quarters necessary.
The old Cutter Building and bowling alley at Third and Franklin is being torn down and George Miller and Lockie MacKinnon will put up a two-story building there.
OCTOBER 12, 1898-D. A. Pettersen has succeeded John F. Gray as owner and manager of the United States Brewery.
There is presently no coal in Douglas and householders must make their purchases at the Treadwell bunkers.
C. W. Jorgenson, a brother of J. P. Jorgenson, arrived this week from the Klondike where he has been for the past year.
Shattuck & Company has been appointed local agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
OCTOBER 19, 1898-The new steam engine for the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company arrived on the Al-ki. An addition is being built on the power house to hold the engine and the coal bunkers are being enlarged to hold 400 tons.