. Alaska and the Klondike . ognised in these mines, the workbeing carried on day and night on all other days. Juneau, which is across the narrow channel from theTreadwell mine, is the centre of a region in which therewere at the time of our visit, 6,000 men engaged in min-ing and prospecting. New strikes and recent develop-ments in what are known as the Nowell properties, recentlytransferred to the Treadwell Company, have combinedwith other things to give Juneau something of a new developments on the Nowell properties in Ber-ner Bay, made during the summer of 1904, are said toopen a
. Alaska and the Klondike . ognised in these mines, the workbeing carried on day and night on all other days. Juneau, which is across the narrow channel from theTreadwell mine, is the centre of a region in which therewere at the time of our visit, 6,000 men engaged in min-ing and prospecting. New strikes and recent develop-ments in what are known as the Nowell properties, recentlytransferred to the Treadwell Company, have combinedwith other things to give Juneau something of a new developments on the Nowell properties in Ber-ner Bay, made during the summer of 1904, are said toopen a still larger and richer deposit of gold quartz thanthat found in the Treadwell mines, and possibly thegreatest gold-quartz deposit in the world. Juneau is an incorporated town of about 2,000 people,thrifty, attractive in appearance, and gives promise ofgrowth and stability. It is now the capital of Alaska, allthe territorial offices having been removed there from Sitkaexcept that of the governor, which remains at Sitka be-. 20 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE cause that is the home of the present governor. A changein the incumbency of the office would doubtless changethe location of that office to this very picturesque takes its name from Joseph Juneau, a prospector,who won the confidence of the Indians, and learned from
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